Mosby Tyler is founder of The Equity Project, LLC, an organization designed to support groups and communities in building diversity, equity and inclusion strategies. She is the former senior vice president and chief inclusion officer for Children’s Hospital Colorado and the former executive director of the office for human resources for the City and County of Denver. Mosby Tyler is the first African American woman to hold both positions.
Discover a thriving entrepreneurial culture invigorated by a flourishing economy as well as one of the nation's strongest metropolitan arts scenes. If the outdoors are your thing, there's no better place to live than Colorado. The Rockies form a tapestry of adventure, waiting for you to explore. Whether you're into hiking, skiing or virtually any outdoor activity, there's plenty of fresh air and open space to inspire your spirit—now a built-in part of the DU experience at our James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus.
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
The University of Denver's PhD program in molecular and cellular biophysics provides students a core foundation in biophysical theory and practice, along with flexibility and individualized attention. Participation of faculty from the departments of biological sciences, chemistry and biochemistry, and physics and astronomy enhances the strength and breadth of our program by incorporating cross-disciplinary and collaborative approaches to research. Areas of research include super resolution microscopy, developmental dynamics, protein folding, protein network analysis, signal transduction cascades, single molecule biophysics, cellular physiology and the development of novel imaging techniques.
Students with strong quantitative undergraduate backgrounds in fields such as physics, chemistry and mathematics who desire to apply these skills to biological problems are encouraged to apply, as are those with backgrounds in cell or molecular biology and solid foundations in mathematics and physics. We particularly encourage projects in the traditional disciplines of physics, biology and chemistry, as well as those using methods of mathematical analysis and computer modeling.
Daniels College of Business
The Executive MBA at the Daniels College of Business is the perfect place for a seasoned business leader seeking change-a new opportunity, career advancement or the skills to launch their own venture. Designed for professionals with significant experience, the program allows students to earn an MBA while maintaining their careers and family lives. Over 18 months, you'll come to understand how the nine building blocks of business are interrelated, develop a sustainable business model and create a market-ready pitch suitable for investors, a board of directors or senior-level executives.
The program begins with your entire cohort experiencing a team sail weekend in San Diego Bay. The unforgettable experience will help you gain insights and sharpen your leadership skills.
Daniels faculty and staff also put together a customized global trip for students. Students help select the country or countries they want to visit. This process is highly unusual and differentiates the EMBA from other executive programs.
Your professors will be a combination of research faculty and practitioners with experience in the business world and a passion for teaching.
Daniels College of Business
The Denver MBA at the Daniels College of Business offers students a challenge-driven experience, where they encounter real-world situations each quarter. What you learn in the classroom, you'll apply almost immediately in the four core challenges:
In addition to the challenges, the Personal Growth Agenda helps you grow as a leader, with help from career services, academic advising and executive coaching. Leadership and career coaching will be specific to the career trajectory you choose.
With the Denver MBA, you can pick from five concentrations or customize your own. Concentrations consist of accounting, business analytics, finance, marketing, real estate and the built environment, and sustainability.
College of Professional Studies
Learn how to develop web-based applications from start to finish while advancing your skills at software design and programming. Through hands-on instruction, you'll gain experience in object-oriented methods and programming, learning a spectrum of languages such Java, C#, PHP and Python within frameworks such as J2EE, .NET and Ruby on Rails. Whether working in a traditional client-server architecture or more contemporary cloud-based architecture, you'll learn how to apply fundamental client-side and server-side constructs. The software design and programming program prepares you to generate program code, create database queries and compare integrated development environments (IDEs).
Along with technical skills, you'll have the chance to develop perspective on the business needs of today's companies. You can earn your MS in information and communications technology with a concentration in software design and programming entirely online or in the evenings on campus through the University of Denver's College of Professional Studies. Beyond the coursework dedicated to software, you also can choose electives from other IT areas, including web design, security and database design.
College of Professional Studies
Explore the components of a successful project and the tools, techniques and technology that help take a project from the planning phase to completion. Learn to apply agile concepts while ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. You'll assess risk, come to understand the legal issues associated with projects, and pick up essential skills related to budget development and contracts.
Expand your professional network and grow as a leader through the MS in organizational leadership with a concentration in project management, offered entirely online or in the evenings on campus through the University of Denver's College of Professional Studies. You can also pursue this program through the MS in information and communications technology program. The curriculum has been developed to align with the Project Management Institute's (PMI®) "Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide) and prepares students to take the PMI® Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Exam.
College of Professional Studies
The MA in professional poetry writing offered through the College of Professional Studies will give you the opportunity to refine skills as you learn to ground your passion for writing in the evolving creative tradition. You'll take part in close readings to assess and understand the key elements of poetry, and you'll apply those fundamentals to your own work. You'll also learn about the habits and routines necessary to sustain your creative efforts, and you'll have the opportunity to find audiences with whom your work resonates.
As you move through the program, you'll develop sophisticated editing skills that will be of great use in evaluating and improving your own work, your peers' work and professionally published writing. You can earn your MA in professional creative writing with a concentration in professional poetry writing entirely online or evenings on campus through the University of Denver's College of Professional Studies. Beyond the coursework dedicated to poetry, you also can choose electives from other creative writing areas, including dramatic, fiction and nonfiction writing.
College of Professional Studies
Share your story, explore the art of writing fiction, and take the opportunity to develop your own unique, authentic voice and style by pursuing the professional fiction writing program. From short stories to novels, you'll analyze the key elements found in the best fiction and use that analysis to develop fundamental writing techniques. Explore and refine your own approach while cultivating the skills and habits necessary to sustain your creative efforts.
Not only will you hone the skills required to write fiction professionally, you'll also receive a great deal of experience editing and analyzing your work and the work of others. These skills can easily carry over to any career where writing is a key element. You can earn your MA in professional creative writing with a concentration in professional fiction writing entirely online or evenings on campus through the University of Denver's College of Professional Studies. Beyond the coursework dedicated to fiction, you also can choose electives from other creative writing areas, including poetry, and dramatic and nonfiction writing.
College of Professional Studies
Create the change you wish to see at your organization with an MS in organizational development. The organizational development program explores ways to improve organizational performance and manage change. You'll gain insight into the history, roll and challenges of organizational development (OD) across a variety of organizational sizes, types and sectors. Get hands-on experience devising diagnosis plans, synthesizing data and communicating findings, and develop and defend a personal philosophy around OD. Along the way, you will come to understand the varying models of change.
You can earn your MS in organizational leadership with a concentration in organizational development entirely online or in the evenings on campus through the University of Denver's College of Professional Studies. Beyond the coursework dedicated to organizational development, you also can choose electives from other leadership areas, including philanthropy, strategic innovation and human capital. You can also choose to pursue this master's concentration through the MA in communication management.
