The Lamont School of Music is expanding its horizons with a new world music concert and lecture series. The mission of the new initiative — titled “Expanding Horizons” — is to bring greater understanding and appreciation of world cultures and performing arts to DU and the Denver community through performances, […]
Arturo Sarukhan, Mexican ambassador to the United States, outlined a plan for continued partnerships by the two countries during a March 13 visit to the University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies, calling for more trade, more border security and a focus on energy initiatives. Sarukhan was in […]
Thirty students in DU’s Global Medical Brigade program will travel to Honduras March 18–25 to help operate a mobile medical and dental clinic in the town of Danlí. A chapter of Global Brigades, the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization, the DU student group was founded in […]
An audience at DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts considered billiard balls and LEGO sets Thursday evening as Bridges to the Future featured speaker Anne-Marie Slaughter talked about changes in international relations spanning the Kennedy presidency to the modern day. The Princeton University professor of politics and international affairs […]
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University professor of politics and international affairs, continues DU’s Bridges to the Future lecture series on Feb. 2. The theme for this year’s series is “Undercurrents of the 2012 Election.” Slaughter’s talk will stream live at www.du.edu/bridges. Slaughter will talk about the fundamental and far-reaching changes that […]
Hanson’s presentation was part of DU’s lead-up to the first 2012 presidential debate, scheduled for Oct. 3 in Magness Arena at the Ritchie Center for Sports & Wellness. For more debate-related events, visit DU’s 2012 Presidential Debate website. Have questions or a debate-related event you’d like to add to the […]
It all started with 9/11. Except it didn’t. Visiting lecturer Edward Curtis IV, who serves on the religious studies faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, spoke at the University of Denver Jan. 25 as part of the Marsico visiting scholar program. In a lecture titled “The Black Roots of American […]
The DU-based Edward W. and Charlotte A. Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media bestowed its 2012 Anvil of Freedom award on the nonprofit organization Ushahidi at a ceremony on Jan. 12 at Davis Auditorium in Sturm Hall. Around 75 people attended the award presentation, including Edward and Charlotte […]
Dubbed as the week that “changed the course of history,” former President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in February 1972 opened the door to the establishment of relations between the People’s Republic and the United States. The historic visit is chronicled in Assignment: China – The Week That Changed the […]
The Commission on Presidential Debates has selected the University of Denver as the host site for the first 2012 U.S. presidential debate. The debate will be held on Oct. 3 in Magness Arena at DU’s Daniel L. Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness. “The University of Denver is excited for […]
A leading global publication covering legal issues in the field of energy and natural resources law will now come with a Denver perspective. The Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, a product of the International Bar Association, has a new home at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of […]
Sharon House Orlopp grew up knowing about hatred and intolerance. Her parents — who were from very different religious and socioeconomic backgrounds — faced animosity even within their own families. “Both sets of my grandparents were not happy that my parents married,” says the University of Denver alumna (BA ’81), […]
It’s not often that undergraduate students get their work featured in peer-reviewed journals, but Jonathan Kim wasn’t an ordinary undergraduate student at DU. Kim, (BA ’10), pursued a double major in public policy and political science and was part of DU’s Honors Program. To graduate with honors in political science, […]
DU is third in the nation in the percentage of undergraduate students who study abroad from U.S. higher education institutions, according to the 2011 Open Doors report, which was released Nov. 14 by the Institute of International Education. According to the report, 824 DU undergraduate students — 69.7 percent of […]
Seth Masket, an associate professor in DU’s Department of Political Science, teaches classes on local, regional and national American political issues, including election campaigns and parties. Masket has been with the University of Denver since 2004. He is the author of No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations […]