Stereotypically, creative writing, like art history or flute performance, is one of those disciplines that gives parents heartburn, especially when they imagine the artist’s life straight from the pages of La Boheme. Presented with the announcement that their undergraduate has decided to study writing, even the most liberally educated parents will be tempted to pose […]
“Suppose you had to evacuate a significant portion of Denver,” Deborah Thomas, associate professor of geography, asks her students. “Where would you evacuate Denver to?”
The answer to that unthinkable question depends on the answers to a whole range of other questions. Why do we have to evacuate Denver in the first place? How much time […]
Summer 2007: 13 students and two professors from UC Denver are awakened in the middle of the night by noises normally only heard in a zoo. Although many lie awake in their tents, one among them sleeps peacefully.
Charles Musiba, assistant professor of anthropology, was born in Tanzania, Africa, and now directs UCD’s Tanzania Field School. […]