
Paige Stoyer
The Global Press Institute (GPI) found its missing link in University of Denver alumna and professional photographer Paige Stoyer...
Daniel Ritchie
Chancellor Emeritus Daniel Ritchie has donated more than $27 million to build the Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, which will be named for his father...
Margot Gilbert Frank
Margot Gilbert Frank (BA ’71) has done so much for the University of Denver that it would be easy to imagine that she does nothing else...
Allison Grenney
Allison Grenney (BA ’10) believes in the power of girls. She also believes in the value of an education...
Rachel Armstrong
Rachel Armstrong (JD ’12) didn’t plan on becoming a lawyer. The founder of Farm Commons, a nonprofit legal-services firm, and the recent recipient of an $80,000 fellowship from a global entrepreneurship foundation had something more pastoral in mind...
Nicolas Benedict
Online education is allowing thousands of people across the country to earn or finish degrees, but there are still bugs to work out. It’s easy enough for the English major to read a poem online, but what about the chemistry student who still has to find a way to do experiments?
Robert Clemens
The late Robert Clemens (BA ’81) bestowed $1.3 million of his estate to liberal arts academics at the University of Denver...
James Mulligan, Joan Burleson, Doug and Mary Scrivner
$2.25 million gift will help Denver Law transform the very way law is taught...
Aaron Huey
A feature in the latest issue of National Geographic features the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota. Featuring striking photography by Aaron Huey (BFA ’99)...
John Moye
The University of Denver celebrated a longtime collaboration with Denver attorney John Moye on Aug. 23, naming the new campus home of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System in his honor...
John Capozzola passed up acceptances to the University of Chicago Law School, the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, a joint Tufts-Harvard program and the Fletcher School of International Law...
The Madrid Six
Four decades had passed when Linda Brown Cromwell decided to look for her old friends using the Internet and through the alumnae network at what is now the Women’s College of the University of Denver...
Fred Hadley
When Fred Hadley (BS engineering ’52) was a senior, he walked around the University of Denver campus with his 16mm camera shooting nearly 38 minutes of black and white footage...
Terry Meyer
Meyer, a digital cartographer, and two associates approached a prison official about volunteering to teach gardening classes and establishing a garden in the facility...
Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard is a tangible, personal embodiment of the University of Denver’s vision of contributing to the greater good of the community...
Emmit McHenry
When McHenry gained success in the “real world,” one of the first things he did was pay the University back for its financial support...
Tony Singer
Everett Anton “Tony” Singer (BA ’70) doesn’t consider his job work. Retired co-owner of the print business Four Seasons...
Phoenix Jackson
Jackson (BSBA ’08) is so dedicated that the busy mom, mentor and marketing CEO started an inner-city health initiative in her “spare time.”
Floyd Johnston
Johnston, 89, first plugged in decades before Generation Y came along, even before the birth of the World Wide Web...
Elliot Martin
Famed Broadway producer and Tony Award winner Elliot Martin, who attended the University of Denver from 1943–46, was inducted into...
Moses Brewer
Moses Brewer is an institution in Denver and around the country, a one-name brand not unlike Beyonce, Plato, Bono and...
Jim Wishmier
“I gotta go watch plays,” says Jim Wishmier, sounding like a theater critic anticipating another night of drama
Jerry Blann and Jim Kemmerer
Though they both earned BSBA degrees from DU in 1970, the top executives at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Jerry Blann and Jay Kemmerer, never met on campus during their undergraduate years.
Rupert Jenkins
Defining the art of photography in an age where nearly everyone is armed with a high-quality cell phone camera is now a way of life for Rupert Jenkins (MBA ’07).
Ben Funk
Retired U.S. Air Force Major Gen. Ben Funk, a commanding officer in World War II...
Mary Pat Mueller
Growing up in Corpus Christi, Texas, DU alumna Mary Pat Mueller (BA ’83) learned how to upholster a simple story...
Crimson and Gold
Crimson and Gold team joins forces with Cruiser Ride for new Club 404...
Lauren Garan
Former Pioneers gymnast returns to Denver to talk about fight with colitis...
Anna Boiardi
You won’t find recipes for Beefaroni or canned lasagna in Anna Boiardi’s new cookbook, Delicious Memories...
Jonathan Kim
It’s not often that undergraduate students get their work featured in peer-reviewed journals, but...
Marcia (Moritz) Gallagher
When Marcia (Moritz) Gallagher (BA psychology ’73) received an offer for a full academic scholarship...
Mark Condon
Mark Condon is focused on making putting greens even greener....
Wayne Guerra
Fred Ricles was running errands last spring when the vision in one of his eyes became blurry....
Keenan Gates
Keenan Gates (EMBA ’01) credits the degree he earned at DU’s Daniels College of Business with his success...
Martha Symko-Davies
Martha Symko-Davies (PhD ’97) had a memorable May 20....
Suzanne Wilson and Ben Focht
It’s not easy starting a business in one of the worst economies in history....
Carolyn Francis and Dean Dormady
Carolyn Francis (MBA ’10) gained 60 pounds when she got pregnant with her first child. Dean Dormady...
Megan McDowell
Megan McDowell’s life has never been the same since Sept. 11, 2001 — it has been transformed...
Ruth Purkaple
Ruth Purkaple did not conform. She came of age possessed of a discerning mind and a wanderlust...
David Zimmerman
David Zimmerman graduated from DU with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in June 2011 and he’s wasted no...
LoAn Vo
LoAn Vo surveyed the scene of endless golf tournaments and saw no need for another. She...
Rob Jordan
For a while there, Rob Jordan had a pretty cushy lifestyle. He was living in Bellingham, Wash., where he worked...
Jason Barton
If you were to meet Jason Barton at a party and ask what he did for a living, he’d probably..
Patrick P.J. Glavey
It’s one of life’s ironies: Those who are able to tell the most riveting stories of personal experience are often...
Alan Frosh
Alan Frosh (BA political science ’05) can’t remember a time when words like “philanthropy,” “service” and “community engagement” weren’t in...
Fred J. Martin
Fred J. Martin (BA, history, '54) returns to campus this May to dedicate a classroom in honor of his favorite DU professor, the late Allen D. Breck...
Zak Kadison
Most college graduates count themselves lucky if they land a job in their major field. Few find their dream job...
Ignacio Jimenez and Tina Rice-Jimenez
Ignacio Jimenez and Tina Rice-Jimenez launched their import business a little more than a year ago. Although the specific moment...
Mary Peace Finley
Mary Peace Finley has milked a trout, traveled the Santa Fe Trail in a wagon and eaten buffalo cooked in...
Bill and Ann Stolfus
Bill Stolfus (BSBA 1956, MBA 1964) and Ann Richardson (BA 1956) met as members of DU's concert and marching band in the fall of 1952. Today they unite in a fanfare to the institution and the art form that brought them together.
Roy and Ruth Klein
Roy (BFA '52, MA '55) and Ruth (MA '55) Klein used their University of Denver educations to help others see the possibilities—he in oils and acrylics; she within the covers of books.
Frederic and Jane Hamilton
Frederic and Jane Hamilton have donated $250,000 to the University of Denver in order to strengthen the link between DU’s School of Art and Art History and the Denver Art Museum.
Robert Roche '88
A $3 million gift from the Roche Family Foundation and Robert Roche will establish the Roche Family International Business Transactions Program at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
Dennis Erik Markusson '92
Alumni bequest will help other students with special needs.
Jim Kennedy '70
A conversation with Cox Enterprises Chair Jim Kennedy.
Mike St. John ’81
In a way, Mike St. John’s work on behalf of the University of Denver mirrors his professional life.
Ann Spector Lieff ’74
Ann Spector Lieff (BA ’74) grew up the daughter of an entrepreneur. Her father, Martin Spector, owned Spec’s Music—record shops that were a staple in the Miami music scene.
Cydney and Tom Marsico
Within Ruffatto Hall — the stunning new home of the Morgridge College of Education — there will be a new center dedicated to advancing the research and results of early childhood education.
Craig Harrison ’03
Craig Harrison (BSBA ’03) sits in his Cherry Creek North corporate office, the window behind him offering a stunning view of the snow-frosted Rockies, discussing one of several companies he’s launched…
