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Alumni Events
Attending events is one way to stay connected with your alma mater and catch up with fellow alumni. Check this page often for a list of activities or online events and engagement opportunities that are open to all CU Denver alumni. To view and explore all CU Denver events, view the university event calendar.
College of Architecture and Planning Lecture Series: Lydia Kallipoliti
Thursday, September 21 | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | CU Denver Building, 2nd Floor Gallery
Criminal Justice Series: Addressing Gun Violence and Its Intersections—Examining School Shootings
Tuesday, September 26 | 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Lawrence Street Center, Terrace Room
Join the School of Public Affairs for a panel discussion that includes an academic expert, as well as school-based professionals who can speak to the factors that contribute to school shootings, how schools and other institutions are working
to prevent and respond to school shootings, and what individuals and communities can do to address gun violence in schools.
College of Architecture and Planning Lecture Series: Elisa Silva
Monday, October 2 | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | CU Denver Building, 2nd Floor Gallery
Elisa Silva is the Founder and principal of Enlace Arquitectura and Enlace Foundation. She is Associate Professor at the Wolfsonian Public Humanity Lab and the Dept. of Architecture at FIU and was previously Assistant Visiting Professor at Princeton University, Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto, Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD, and Assistant Professor at Simon Bolivar University and the Central University in Venezuela.
The Art of Managing Up
Wednesday, October 4 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. | CU Denver Business School, Jake Jabs Event Center
Join the Business School Alumni Network for keynote speaker Pattie Money, Owner & CEO of Pinnacle Leadership. She'll share the importance of managing up and how to effectively provide feedback upward, speak truth to power, and ask for what you need from your boss in order to be successful. Get real life examples as Pattie moderates a panel of alumni business leaders who will share their effective practices in building stronger working relationships.
First Fridays with SPA: State and Local Partnerships—Affordable Housing and Development
Friday, October 6 | 8:30 a.m. Check-In, 8:50 – 10:00 a.m. Program | Lawrence Street Center or Zoom
Moderator
- Rick Garcia, Executive Director at Colorado Department of Local Affairs
Reframing the Landscape: Lanny DeVuono and Yoshitomo Saito
August 21 – October 7 | Emmanuel Art Gallery
College of Arts & Media Internship & Job Fair
Tuesday, October 10 | 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | King Center
Mark your calendar for the College of Arts & Media job fair open to CU Denver alumni. Sign up as an employee and connect with current students or attend as a job seeker and explore opportunities. Registration link coming soon.
Herrick A. Roth Community Seminars on Democracy: Democracy and the Colorado Constitution—Success Story or Cautionary Tale?
Thursday, October 12 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Lawrence Street Center, Terrace Room
From TABOR, to water rights, to marijuana, Coloradans have used their constitution to expand rights beyond those offered in the U.S. Constitution. As public attention shifts from the U.S. Supreme Court to the states, what can Colorado’s constitutional experiments teach the nation – and what are the challenges facing Coloradans?
College of Architecture and Planning Lecture Series: Charles Birnbaum
Thursday, October 19 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. | Denver Botanic Gardens, Strum Auditorium
Join the College of Architecture and Planning for a lecture by Charles Birnbaum. Olmsted-designed landscapes are more than just picturesque scenery and public grounds for society’s use and enjoyment. This presentation draws on 40 years of professional practice – incorporating big ideas and anecdotes and lifting the veil on those in Olmsted’s practice and his successor firms from 1857-1979, beyond those named Olmsted.
College of Engineering, Design and Computing Internship & Job Fair
Wednesday, October 25 | 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Lola & Rob Salazar Student Wellness Center
Mark your calendar for this year's engineering job fair open to CU Denver alumni. Sign up as an employee and connect with current students or attend as a job seeker and explore opportunities. Registration link coming soon.
Criminal Justice Series
Tuesday, October 31
Join the School of Public Affairs for the 2023-2024 Criminal Justice Series. Topic, panelist information, and registration link coming soon.
First Fridays with SPA
Friday, November 3 | 8:30 a.m. Check-In, 8:50 – 10:00 a.m. Program | Lawrence Street Center or Zoom
College of Architecture and Planning Lecture Series: Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda
Monday, November 6 | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | CU Denver Building, 2nd Floor Gallery
Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda are principals and founders of the internationally recognized architectural practice. Founded in 1997 as a collaborative platform to investigate the intersections between architecture, culture, and nature, the practice has evolved into a research-based design practice focused on contemporary urban, technological, and cultural challenges. Intensely committed to the development of methodological disciplinary processes, amid.cero9´s projects combine constructive precision with conceptual clarity uncovering the specific opportunities and special nature of each context, cultivating an approach to the contemporary notion of space that enlists sociology, technology, media, and politics.
College of Architecture and Planning Lecture Series: Daniel Opazo Ortiz
Thursday, November 9 | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | CU Denver Building, 2nd Floor Gallery
Universidad de Chile
Researcher and Educator, Architecture and Urbanism
College of Architecture and Planning Lecture Series: Chris Leong
Monday, November 13 | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | Denver Art Museum, Lewis I. Sharp Auditorium
Herrick A. Roth Community Seminars on Democracy: An Evening in Conversation with Deanne Criswell MPA '06, FEMA Administrator and Chancellor Michelle Marks, Ph.D.
Monday, November 20 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Lawrence Street Center, Terrace Room
Herrick A. Roth Community Seminars on Democracy: A Conversation with Senator Michael Bennet— Artificial Intelligence, Governance, & Public Policy
Friday, December 1 | 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Lawrence Street Center, Terrace Room
2023 CU Denver Alumni Awards Celebration
Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Tivoli Turnhalle