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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.
Special Lecture | Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and Hindu Nationalism in India
Monday, April 22 | 5:00 — 7:00 p.m. | Student Commons Building, Room 1500Discussing his recent book, Composing
Violence, Dr. Moyukh Chatterjee will explain how highly visible acts of political violence against India’s Muslim minority in the state of Gujarat catalyzed radical changes in law, public culture, and power. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media, and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. Both state and civil society’s responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the ways violence itself has become a constitutive feature of modern democracy, in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a vilified minority and a triumphant majority. Dr. Chatterjee’s examination of Hindu nationalist violence in India has implications for the ways we understand rising religious nationalist violence in democracies throughout the world today.
2024 Economic Forecast: National and Regional Insights with Ellen Zentner '95 and Kate Watkins
Wednesday, April 24 | 11:30 a.m. — 1:00 p.m. | Jake Jabs Event Center
Join the CU Denver Business School for an informative presentation by Morgan Stanley's U.S. Chief Economist Ellen Zentner '95 and regional economist Kate M. Watkins, who will share their views on 2024 key economic themes including rate cuts, housing affordability, job growth and more.Moderated by: Chris Schmidt, Managing Partner, Deloitte
Criminal Justice Series | Suicide Among Veterans: A Growing Problem in Colorado
Tuesday, April 30 | 5:00 — 6:30 p.m. | Lawrence Street Center, Terrace Room
Join the School of Public Affairs, and the Center for Community Safety and Resilience for a public panels to explore and address gun violence and its intersections.
According to the Colorado Health Institute, almost 2,600 veterans in Colorado have died by suicide between 2004 and 2017—nearly 200 veterans per year every year for over a decade. Veterans in Colorado are disproportionately impacted by suicide, as they comprise 9 percent of the state’s population and 20 percent of suicides in the state. Veterans in Colorado are also almost twice as likely to die by suicide than the national average (52.1 per 100,000 compared to 30.1 per 100,000).
According to the VA, almost two-thirds (64.7%) of Colorado veteran suicides are by firearm. Suicide among veterans is preventable.
Issues like barriers to mental health care services, a lack of community-level initiatives (particularly in rural areas), and a shortage of coordinated strategies to address veteran-specific needs need to be addressed to lower the suicide rate among veterans.
Check-in and hors d’oeuvres: 5:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Programming: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
2024 CU Denver Alumni Awards Celebration
Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Tivoli Turnhalle
CU at Alumni Trivia Night
Thursday, May 16 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. | Raices Brewing Company, Denver
Celebrate our new graduates and connect with other CU Denver alumni for a fun night of trivia. At our next alumni gathering, you can test your knowledge of your alma mater with Denver Trivia League, a CU Denver alumni-owned business.
Trivia starts at 6:00 p.m.
Space is limited.
CU Night at the Colorado Rockies
Friday, August 16 | Coors Field
Join fellow CU alumni, staff, students, and fans to cheer on the Colorado Rockies as they go against the San Diego Padres on Friday, August 16!
Ticket link coming soon.