University of Denver Spring 2024

50 Reasons to Love DU

# 27

WE’RE TURNING GREEN...

Unlike a famous frog once quipped, it is easy being green! At least, DU is making it look easy. Since 2006, we’ve reduced campus greenhouse gas emissions by 43%, and we’re on pace to cut our carbon footprint by more than 70% by 2026. The Center for Regenerative Futures educates students on how to live more sustainably while also contributing to a low-waste, regenerative campus community through the DU Thrift Store, the Food Pantry, the Green Garage and Move-Out/Move-In Day sales of gently used student items. Sustainability is everywhere you look, including the LEED-certified Burwell Center for Career Achievement and the Sturm College of Law building (the first law school in the nation to receive a LEED gold certification). And we can’t forget about an actual green feature on campus: The copper dome on the Buchtel Tower, which is more than a century old. The Kermit colored copper is 100% recycled and recyclable!

FEMALE LAWSTARS The first woman lawyer to be admitted to practice before Colorado’s United States District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals is alumna Mary Lathrop, who graduated from the then-named DU College of Law in 1896. And in 1941, DU broke gender boundaries again when it hired Helen Thorp, the first full-time female faculty member in the nation. 28 NO.

Mary Lathrop by Rose & Hopkins, 1886-1901. Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections H-6.