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  • TV experience informs alum’s debut crime novel

    It took only a glimpse at DU’s recruiting materials for James Conway to know he’d found his future alma mater.  read more…

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  • Alumni couple take an around-the-world adventure

    In November 2011, one year and four months after their wedding, Michael (BSBA ’08) and Amy Chamberlain-Torres (BS ’09, MBA ’09)  read more…

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  • Alumnus Max Ben-Hamoo builds a better water bottle

    It may surprise Max Ben-Hamoo’s former classmates to learn that he recently launched a bottled-water company, given his opinions about  read more…

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  • Daniels Fund Scholarship helps a freshman’s college dream come true

    Jen Newman says it was the best day of her life. It was April 26, 2011. She was about to  read more…

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  • Alumna Kristi Denton Cohen helped bring cult novel to the screen

    When Thomas Cohen bought the film rights to David James Duncan’s 1983 cult novel The River Why in the mid-’80s,  read more…

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Latest People News

Graduate music student embarks on cultural journey

May 15, 2012 — By day, pianist, composer and conductor Jon Parker (BA ’08) is a master’s degree student in musicology and a graduate  read more...

Alum to receive posthumous Patient of Courage award at event for melanoma research

May 14, 2012 — Gregg Stracks (PsyD ’04) of Boston died Jan. 10, after a five-year battle with ocular melanoma (OM). He was 40  read more...

Freshman battles brain injury to attend DU

May 8, 2012 — Cole Moriarty drove 40 hours last August in his 2007 Chevy Trailblazer from his home in western Massachusetts to start  read more...

TV experience informs alum’s debut crime novel

May 7, 2012 — It took only a glimpse at DU’s recruiting materials for James Conway to know he’d found his future alma mater.  read more...

Alumni couple take an around-the-world adventure

May 1, 2012 — In November 2011, one year and four months after their wedding, Michael (BSBA ’08) and Amy Chamberlain-Torres (BS ’09, MBA ’09)  read more...

Alumnus Max Ben-Hamoo builds a better water bottle

April 30, 2012 — It may surprise Max Ben-Hamoo’s former classmates to learn that he recently launched a bottled-water company, given his opinions about  read more...

Three Questions: Ray Suarez on religion and the 2012 election

April 25, 2012 — Ray Suarez brought his unique political perspective to the DU campus on April 24, when he spoke as part of  read more...

Daniels Fund Scholarship helps a freshman’s college dream come true

April 24, 2012 — Jen Newman says it was the best day of her life. It was April 26, 2011. She was about to  read more...

Alumna Kristi Denton Cohen helped bring cult novel to the screen

April 19, 2012 — When Thomas Cohen bought the film rights to David James Duncan’s 1983 cult novel The River Why in the mid-’80s,  read more...

Alum’s charter school aims to prepare kids for college

April 16, 2012 — In July, James Cryan’s application to open a charter school in Denver was approved by the Denver Public Schools (DPS)  read more...

Pioneers Top Ten

Most popular declared majors for first-year students:

  1. Biology
  2. Psychology
  3. International Studies
  4. Engineering
  5. Political Science
  6. English
  7. Music- Performance
  8. Economics
  9. Environmental Science
  10. International Business