University of Denver Spring 2024

50 Reasons to Love DU

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SONGS THAT HEAL Music helps us express and understand our emotions, thoughts and experiences—and it can also help restore us. Through the Lamont Voices Making Impact program, voice majors work on community service projects, including a partnership with Children’s Hospital of Colorado, in which they perform for hospitalized children and their families. Read more about the Lamont Voices Making an Impact program at du.edu/voicesmakinganimpact. And the Spirituals Project, a community choir open to all, is charged with revitalizing the sacred songs created and first sung by enslaved Africans in the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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COMMITTED TO COMMUNITY Our faculty and students are committed to improving the lives of Colorado residents and communities, from the Ready for American Hospitality program for newly arrived refugees and University College’s Business Development certificates for immigrant entrepreneurs to mutual aid for migrant families organized by the Graduate School for Social Work and the partnership between the Center for Housing and Homelessness Research and the Denver Basic Income project to boost the financial stability of the unhoused.

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CELEBRATING 60 The world has changed a lot in the last 60 years, and the students, faculty and staff of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies have been there to witness it all. Korbel was founded in 1964 by Josef Korbel—father to the late Secretary of State Madeleine Albright—under whose leadership the field of international studies was changed forever. Notable alums include the first U.S. ambassador to the African Union, Cindy Courville, former Chief of Staff of the United States Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has said that she and Albright shared the same “intellectual father” in

Josef Korbel, 1957. Credit: DU Special Collections.

Korbel, who mentored her during her time at DU. The Korbel School is home to 13 unique research institutes, centers and clinics, including the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures: A Research Institute and the Scrivner Institute for Public Policy—two internationally renowned research and policy hubs.