The University of Denver kicks off its 153rd Founders Celebration on Wednesday, March 1 and concludes with the Founders Gala on Thursday, March 2. The celebration — whose theme this year is Finding our Founders — will include faculty forums and panels, community festivities featuring Lamont School of Music alumni band The Wash Park Band, and the annual gala, which this year will honor DU alumna Condoleezza Rice and generous DU supporters Ralph and Trish Nagel.
DU will Celebrate Two Visionary Leaders at Annual Founders Gala
Ralph J. and Trish M. Nagel will be awarded the Founders Medal – the University’s highest honor – presented to those whose transformative leadership and engaged philanthropy represent the pinnacle of the University’s values.
Colangelo named first Ralph J. Nagel Dean
$5 million gift establishes endowed deanship in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
The word design is derived from the Latin designare, meaning to choose or to appoint. It suggests not only creation, but also a particular way of engaging the world. An artwork, a building, a process, a relationship — all can be the result of careful, considered design.
Over the last 10 years, Carmon Colangelo has shepherded the formation and growth of Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. On Nov. 18, Colangelo was installed as the inaugural Ralph J. Nagel Dean of the Sam Fox School.
Ralph and Trish Nagel: Cultivating Creativity
Ralph and Trish Nagel can spot opportunity even if it’s buried under sod and trampled by short-cutting pedestrians.
Witness the School of Art and Art History’s new Nagel Art Studios, an annex made possible by a $2.3 million gift from the couple. Clad in limestone and copper, the structure rises from a small plot of land once covered by grass and overlooked by students on their way to the Coors Fitness Center.
DU to Open New Residence Hall
Nagel Hall, a new $40 million residence hall, officially opens at the University of Denver on Thursday.
The residential building includes 356 beds in furnished apartments, each of which includes a kitchen, living room and four bedrooms.