By name alone, the University of Denver’s mission to take on “Grand Challenges” sounds like a daunting proposition. Yet the year-old initiative, fostered by the Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and …

After a quiet summer quarter, the arts scene at the University of Denver is in full swing with the arrival of fall. Across campus, concerts, theatrical productions, art exhibits and more offer an embarrassment of riches for arts lovers.

Each day, in celebration of Denver Startup Week, the DU Newsroom is featuring a Pioneer alum who embodies the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. Check back each day to meet someone new!

The University of Denver today announced a $14 million gift from longtime friends, Doug (JD ’77) and Mary Scrivner of Los Altos Hills, California, in support of public policy and to lay critical groundwork for creating and growing leadership …

The University of Denver is committed to living our values of diversity and inclusion. We recognize that our community and institutional success is dependent on how well we engage and embrace the rich diversity of our faculty, staff, …

A recent $687,000 gift from the Arnold & Porter Foundation to the University of Denver will create two new endowed scholarships at the Sturm College of Law to support outstanding students with a demonstrated commitment to civil liberties and …

No way was Nicole Good coming to the University of Denver. There was just nothing new and exciting about it. For one thing, it was too close to Greenwood Village, where she had grown up. The gymnastics meets she had once watched with her mom, …

What does park maintenance and packing school supplies for youngsters have to do with law school? Everything when you are a new student at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. Incoming first-year law students, graduate …

Three outstanding staff members and one department have been named as winners of the 2018 Staff Awards. The winners embody the dedication and forward-looking spirit that drive DU to be its very best. On Oct. 17, the winners will be recognized at …

New provost Jeremy Haefner comes to DU from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he served for 10 years as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Haefner, who also worked at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, talks …

This week, the University of Denver’s Class of 2022 began the first chapter of its college experience. Through move-in, Pioneer Passage and Discoveries Week, each of the 1,500 first-year students is starting to fill the pages with a …

In literature and in life, a toolbox signifies problem solving and resourcefulness. At the building housing the Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, a vintage red toolbox, displayed on the lower level, also calls to …

Following the call of a microphone, 30 University of Denver students flock to the front of the room, huddling around a figure who could easily be mistaken for a proud mother. “Congratulations!” says a beaming Nina Sharma. …

At the University of Denver’s summer Commencement ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 18, a sea of family and friends came together in Hamilton Gymnasium to celebrate the accomplishments of 620 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students ready to …

Sitting atop the desk in the University of Denver’s new Video Creation Studio is a button just begging to be pushed. It’s shiny, comically large and framed in a ring of blue light. Enticing though the button may be, the real fun comes …

In a move to provide more support for students recovering from substance use disorders, the University of Denver will open a Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC) at the start of the fall quarter during Discoveries Orientation and Welcome Week. …

A new entry in Arcadia Publishing’s campus history series offers a 127-page jog down Memory Lane. Via the hundreds of photos in “University of Denver,” nostalgia buffs can stop by professor Herbert Alonzo Howe’s 1889 …

The Morgridge College of Education (MCE) is working toward addressing educational disparities in rural and underserved communities by implementing ECHO DU, a revolutionary distance education program originally developed by the University of …

The University of Denver’s Center for Professional Development, in collaboration with Colorado Women’s College and University College, will launch a 24-week Women’s Coding Boot Camp on Sept. 10. This is the first time the …

Michelle Baird (BS ’14) was so engaged in coaching DU students in app development at Mentor for a Moment that she stayed with them far beyond the official end of the event. A product manager at Twitter’s Boulder campus, she relished …

It’s been more than a decade since the University of Denver received an 11-ton gift from the Lloyd Shaw Foundation. For years, flashy jackets, frilly dresses and shiny belt buckles have filled the archives of DU’s Carson Brierly …

Seven faculty members have been chosen as recipients of DU’s faculty awards, including the new Distinguished University Professor Award. Faculty were selected based on their impressive work and the recommendations of colleagues and …

Thanks to the generosity of more than 19,500 supporters, the University of Denver celebrated one of the most successful years of fundraising and engagement in its 154-year history as alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents and friends …

A low, slow note oozes out of the cello onstage. It’s almost “Jaws”-like in its effect, drawing the listener in closer, within reach of the jarringly off-key interjections from the horns and woodwinds. Then, silence takes over. …

Beginning today, the University of Denver is the first in Colorado to pilot a new service provided by Chariot shuttles. Subsidized for all students, faculty and staff by DU IMPACT 2025 funding, Chariot will provide rides along two …

In 75 years on this earth, Richard Quine will say he’s only really been one thing. His teenage years in a TV repair shop, his college degree, the pair of patents he holds all show the 40-year University of Denver professor is an electrical …

The University of Denver is welcoming three new members to its Board of Trustees, as a new chair begins her term July 1. Ryan Heckman, Nancy Phillips and Dan Caruso have been elected to four-year terms, as Denise O’Leary ascends to the …

Cathy Grieve — known campus-wide for her inexhaustible service to DU — has separation issues. She says she plans to retire. At the end of July. Or maybe a couple of weeks after that. Certainly not until she conscientiously dots and …

The University of Denver today announced that it will lease space in the new Catalyst Healthcare Technology Initiative (Catalyst HTI) located in Denver’s RiNo district. A cross-disciplinary consortium of five DU schools will use the space: the …

All eyes in Colorado’s political sphere gazed upon the University of Denver this week, as the institution’s Center on American Politics hosted Republicans and Democrats vying to become the state’s next governor. On June 18, …