University of Denver Autumn 2025

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I’d be lying if I said that hockey wasn’t part of the reason I chose to attend DU. My sophomore year, I reached out to the media team about photographing a game. I remember being up in the press booth feeling like I had made it. Every time I photograph a sports event as the official photographer,

I can’t help but be thankful that Magness was my launching point. Stephanie Tyson (BA ’16)

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During my time at DU, the Korbel School was my second home. Countless hours were spent here studying, collaborating with classmates, and diving deep into the work that shaped my grad school experience. The Sie building was still being completed, and the excitement of a brand new facility as a space to learn and gather elevated our experience. Later that year, Madeleine Albright gave a commencement speech here, which was really a special moment! Rose Groves (MA ’17)

In 1986, I was a doctoral student of poetry and literature, newly married, newly arrived in Denver, newly unmoored. The old English Department offices had bathtubs attached to them. But we were surrounded in this old seminary with stone and wood and the deep mysteries of altars. Of course, I found my way back to the chapel that neighbored us and found not only this window, memory perhaps, but a water lily, too, this day blooming.  Kathryn Winograd (PhD ’89)

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UNIVERSITY OF DENVER MAGAZINE | AUTUMN 2025