University of Denver

The University of Denver (DU), a private research university founded in 1864 as the Colorado Seminary, sits on a 125-acre arboretum campus five miles south of downtown Denver in the US state of Colorado丹佛大学（University of Denver，简称 DU）是一所私立研究型大学，1864 年以「科罗拉多神学院」之名创办，主校区占地 125 英亩并被指定为树木园，位于美国科罗拉多州丹佛市中心以南五英里处。

• For the 2024-25 academic year it enrolled 12,813 students, of whom 6,613 were undergraduates and 6,200 graduate students, supported by 1,457 instructional faculty at a 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio, and it is classified as an R1 institution with very high research spending and doctorate production.2024/25 学年该校注册学生 12,813 人，其中本科 6,613 人、研究生 6,200 人，由 1,457 名专兼职教师支撑，师生比为 9:1；该校被归类为科研支出与博士学位产出极高的 R1 级研究型大学。

History

• John Evans, former governor of the Colorado Territory and an appointee of President Abraham Lincoln, founded the Colorado Seminary in March 1864 in the newly created city of Denver, which was then a mining camp, and at its founding it was non-sectarian and operated by the Methodist Episcopal Church.科罗拉多地区前州长、亚伯拉罕·林肯总统任命的约翰·埃文斯于 1864 年 3 月在当时还是采矿营地的丹佛城创办了科罗拉多神学院，该校创办之初不分宗派，由监理公会卫理公会运营。
• Evans lost his government post as a result of the November 1864 Sand Creek massacre, carried out by Colonel John Chivington, who was himself an early donor and member of the seminary's trustees, and a 2014 university committee found Evans culpable for the massacre.1864 年 11 月的桑德溪大屠杀导致埃文斯丢官，屠杀由约翰·奇文顿上校执行，而奇文顿本人正是该校早期的捐助人与董事会成员；2014 年，该校一个专门委员会认定埃文斯对这场屠杀负有责任。
• The institution struggled in its early decades, was renamed the University of Denver in 1880, and its first buildings stood in downtown Denver, but concern that the frontier town's rough atmosphere was unsuited to education prompted a move to the present campus, built on land donated by potato farmer Rufus Clark some six miles south of downtown.该校在创办初期数十年举步维艰，1880 年更名为丹佛大学，最初的校舍位于丹佛市中心；但人们担心这座边境城镇的粗犷风气不利于教育，遂迁至今校区，其土地由马铃薯农夫鲁弗斯·克拉克捐赠，位于市中心以南约六英里处。
• The university grew with the city and drew mainly on a regional student body before the Second World War, and after the war a large influx of G.I. Bill students pushed enrolment above 13,000, the highest in its history, and spread its reputation nationally.该校随城市一同成长，二战前主要招收本地学生；战后大量《退伍军人权利法案》学生涌入，注册人数超过 13,000 人，创下校史最高纪录，并使其声誉传播至全国。
• University Hall has served the university since 1890 in a Richardsonian Romanesque style, and the Chamberlin Observatory, opened in 1894 a few blocks off campus, is still a fully operational observatory open to the public twice a week plus one Saturday a month.大学楼自 1890 年起即为该校所用，风格属罗曼复兴式的理查森式建筑；建于 1894 年、位于校园外数个街区的钱伯林天文台至今仍在运行，每周二周对公众开放，另加每月一个周六。
• Other early buildings include Evans Memorial Chapel, an 1870s church moved from downtown Denver to campus in the early 1960s, and Buchtel Tower of 1913, which is all that remains of a chapel destroyed by fire in 1983.其他早期建筑还包括埃文斯纪念礼拜堂——一座 1870 年代的教堂，20 世纪 60 年代初从丹佛市中心迁至校内；以及 1913 年的布赫特尔塔，它是 1983 年被大火烧毁的礼拜堂仅存的遗存。
• The administrative offices occupy the Mary Reed Building, a former library of 1932 in the Collegiate Gothic style, while Margery Reed Hall, built in the same style in 1929 and named for Mary Reed's daughter, houses the Daniels College of Business undergraduate programme after an 8 million dollar renovation completed in early 2014.行政办公机构设于 1932 年建成的玛丽·里德楼，这是一座哥特复兴风格的旧图书馆；以玛丽·里德之女命名的玛格丽·里德楼建于 1929 年，同为哥特复兴风格，2014 年初完成 800 万美元翻修后容纳丹尼尔斯商学院的本科项目。
• Since 1880 the university has been headed by a chancellor working with a board of trustees, and by 2026 it had been led by 19 chancellors, with gaps in the sequence marking periods run by acting chancellors.自 1880 年起，该校由校长与董事会共同治理；至 2026 年共历经 19 任校长，任期序列中的空缺表示由代理校长主政的时期。
• Its headquarters stood in downtown Denver at 14th and Arapahoe before 1890, and University Hall, built in lava stone from nearby Castle Rock and laid out in an H plan, then housed the chancellor's office, a chapel, two recital rooms, the library, two student societies, the school newspaper, a chemistry laboratory and a girls' gymnasium.1890 年之前，学校总部位于丹佛市中心第 14 大街与阿拉帕霍街交界处；以附近卡斯特尔罗克出产的熔岩石建成、呈 H 形布局的大学楼，则容纳校长办公室、一座礼拜堂、两间排练厅、图书馆、两个学生社团、校报、化学实验室与女生体育馆。
• The Chester M. Alter Arboretum was founded in 1999 in honour of a chancellor who served from 1953 to 1967 and expanded the campus from 75 to 125 acres, and today holds about 2,100 trees across 427 species.切斯特·M·奥尔特树木园始建于 1999 年，以 1953 至 1967 年任校长、期间把校园从 75 英亩扩展至 125 英亩的奥尔特命名，如今园内约有 2,100 株树木、涵盖 427 个种类与品种。
• The university opened the William E. Williams Memorial Tower in 2006, its gold-topped bell tower rising 192 feet with a 65-bell carillon, a late addition made by Chancellor Daniel Ritchie so that it could be lit when the hockey team won.学校于 2006 年启用威廉·E·威廉斯纪念塔，这座金顶钟楼高 192 英尺、设有 65 口的钟琴，是校长丹尼尔·里奇后期增建的，以便在冰球队夺冠时点亮塔身。
• Chester Alter aside, the chancellor's line also includes Ben Cherrington, chancellor from 1943 to 1946 and an author of the United Nations Charter, whose name is borne by the Cherrington Commons, and Daniel Ritchie, chancellor from 1989 to 2005 and 16th in the sequence.除奥尔特外，校长序列中还包括 1943 至 1946 年任职、参与起草《联合国宪章》的本·切林顿，其名用于切林顿共享空间；以及序列中第 16 任、1989 至 2005 年任职的丹尼尔·里奇。
• Under Ritchie the university promoted its athletics to NCAA Division I, expanded study abroad and established the International Human Rights Advocacy Center, and in June 1994 Ritchie himself gave 15 million dollars by selling 19,600 acres of his ranch, with the remainder of the ranch later bringing the university more than 50 million dollars.在里奇任内，学校把体育推向 NCAA 一级、扩展海外学习并设立国际人权倡导中心；1994 年 6 月，里奇本人出售名下 19,600 英亩牧场向学校捐赠 1,500 万美元，日后牧场余产又为学校带来 5,000 万美元以上的收益。
• Chancellor Robert Coombe, who served from 2005 to 2014 after rising through the ranks as professor, dean and provost, established the Cherrington Global Scholars programme as provost and increased tenure lines, while Chancellor Rebecca Chopp, in office from 2014 to 2019, authored the DU Impact 2025 strategic plan and the Denver Advantage Campus Framework Plan.2005 至 2014 年任校长的罗伯特·库姆此前是教授、院长与教务长，他在教务长任上创设切灵顿全球学者项目并增加了终身教职名额；2014 至 2019 年任校长的丽贝卡·乔普则主持制定了「DU 影响 2025」战略规划与「丹佛优势校园框架规划」。
• Chancellor Dwight Smith, appointed for a two-year term in 1984 amid a financial crisis, sold the law school's downtown campus, named the university's first provost and established the core curriculum that every undergraduate completes before graduation.1984 年在财务危机中被董事会任命为两年任期校长的德怀特·史密斯，出售了法学院在市中心的校区、设立了该校首位教务长，并创立了所有本科生毕业前须修完的核心课程体系。
• F.W. Olin Hall opened in 1997 as the first campus building built to a new design standard emphasising load-bearing masonry and timeless architecture, and the Daniels College of Business completed its own building in September 1999 at a cost of 25 million dollars.F·W·奥林楼于 1997 年启用，是校园内首个按强调承重砌体与恒久建筑美学的新设计标准建造的楼舍；丹尼尔斯商学院自己的教学楼于 1999 年 9 月竣工，耗资 2,500 万美元。
• The university opened the 70 million dollar Robert and Judi Newman Center for Performing Arts in 2002, housing the Lamont School of Music, and in the autumn of 2003 it opened a 63.5 million dollar facility for the law school after a 20 million dollar gift from Donald and Susan Sturm.该校于 2002 年启用耗资 7,000 万美元的罗伯特与朱迪·纽曼表演艺术中心，内设拉蒙特音乐学院；2003 年秋，在唐纳德与苏珊·斯特姆捐赠 2,000 万美元后，耗资 6,350 万万美元的法学院大楼启用。
• Residential and academic construction accelerated after 2020, with the Dimond Family Residential Village and the Burwell Center for Career Achievement both opening in September 2020 as the first structures completed under the Denver Advantage Campus Framework Plan.2020 年之后该校加快住宅与教学设施建设，迪蒙德家族住宅村与伯韦尔职业成就中心均于 2020 年 9 月启用，是「丹佛优势校园框架规划」下首批落成的建筑。
• In October 2021 the university announced the James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus, built on 724 acres acquired for 11.25 million dollars in Larimer County with a 26 million dollar gift from alumnus James C. Kennedy, the largest gift ever made by a DU alumnus.2021 年 10 月，学校宣布设立詹姆斯·C·肯尼迪山地校区，该校区位于拉里默县、占地 724 英亩，以 1,125 万美元购入，由校友詹姆斯·C·肯尼迪捐赠的 2,600 万美元支持，这是丹佛大学历史上校友捐赠之最。

Academics

• The university comprises six undergraduate colleges and schools, namely Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Daniels College of Business, the Sturm College of Law, University College and the Morgridge College of Education, plus five graduate schools.学校由六个本科学院与学部组成，即艺术人文与社会科学学院、自然科学与数学学院、丹尼尔斯商学院、斯特姆法学院、大学学院与莫格里奇教育学院，另有五个研究生院。
• The graduate schools are the Graduate School of Professional Psychology, the Graduate School of Social Work, the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, the Lamont School of Music and the Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science.五个研究生院分别为职业心理学研究生院、社会工作研究生院、约瑟夫·科贝尔国际关系研究生院、拉蒙特音乐学院与丹尼尔·费利克斯·里奇工程与计算机科学学院。
• Instructional staff numbered 747 full-time and 704 part-time faculty in 2024-25, of whom 91% of full-time faculty hold a terminal degree, and the largest undergraduate enrolment units were Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences with 2,276 students, Business with 2,199 and University College with 2,111.2024/25 学年共有专任教师 747 人、兼任教师 704 人，其中 91% 的专任教师拥有最高学位；本科人数最多的单位是艺术人文与社会科学学院的 2,276 人、商学院的 2,199 人与大学学院的 2,111 人。
• On the graduate side the biggest units are the law school with 935 students, engineering and computer science with 954 and international studies with 517, and among degrees awarded in 2023-24 master's degrees led at 2,476, ahead of 1,517 bachelor's degrees, 264 Juris Doctor degrees and 138 doctorates.研究生方面规模最大的单位是法学院 935 人、工程与计算机科学 954 人、国际关系 517 人；2023/24 学年授予的学位以硕士 2,476 个居多，其后是学士 1,517 个、法学博士 264 个与博士学位 138 个。
• The Korbel School's master's in international studies ranked 12th in the world in 2024 in Foreign Policy magazine's survey, and its undergraduate programme ranked 20th in the United States, while the Sturm College of Law is a top-100 law school with six top-25 ranked programmes.2024 年《外交政策》杂志调查中，科贝尔国际关系学院的国际关系硕士项目列全球第 12 位，其本科项目在全美排第 20 位；斯特姆法学院位列全美百强法学院，拥有六个进入前 25 的项目。
• The Graduate School of Social Work ranked 12th among US schools of social work in 2025 in U.S. News, and the university's psychology programme ranked 79th among undergraduate psychology programmes in the same table.2025 年 US News 排名中，该校社会工作研究生院列全美第 12 位，同一榜单中其心理学本科项目排第 79 位。
• The Cherrington Global Scholars programme offers every undergraduate the chance to study abroad at no extra cost beyond normal tuition, room and board, and DU ranked eighth nationally in study abroad participation in the 2024 IIE Open Doors survey.切灵顿全球学者项目让每一位本科生都能在校外学习，且学费、住宿与伙食费之外不加收费用；据国际教育协会 2024 年「开放之门」调查，该校海外学习参与率列全美第八。
• Admission was selective in 2024-25, with 18,364 first-time first-year applications yielding 1,337 enrolments at a 77.8% admission rate, while the average enrolled first-year had an SAT evidence-based score of 668, an ACT composite of 30 and a high school GPA of 3.76.2024/25 学年招生较为严格，本科新生申请 18,364 份、录取率 77.8%，最终入学 1,337 人；入学新生平均 SAT 循证读写 668 分、ACT 综合 30 分、高中平均绩点 3.76。
• Four-year graduation for the fall 2019 cohort was 65.3% and six-year graduation for the fall 2017 cohort was 75.5%, with first-year persistence at 88.9%, figures the university publishes in its institutional quick facts.该校公布的数据为：2019 年秋季入学届四年毕业率 65.3%、2017 年秋季入学届六年毕业率 75.5%，一年级留存率 88.9%。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 28,685 works and 1,405,110 citations for the university, and the 2025-26 U.S. News Best Global Universities listing gave it 1,117th place overall with 289th in Psychiatry and Psychology.OpenAlex 收录该校 28,685 篇研究成果与 1,405,110 次引用；在 US News 2025-26 年度全球最佳大学排名中，该校总榜列第 1,117 位，精神病学与心理学分项列第 289 位。
• Its endowment stood at 1.15 billion dollars in 2025, and the university opened a 1 billion dollar capital campaign called The Denver Difference in April 2024 to fund scholarships, faculty research and new programmes.该校捐赠基金 2025 年为 11.5 亿美元，并于 2024 年 4 月启动名为「丹佛优势」的 10 亿美元资本筹款计划，用于支持奖学金、教师科研与新项目。
• More than 70% of DU graduates choose to make Colorado their home, and the university offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and programmes alongside more than 200 master's, doctoral and certificate programmes on a quarter system.超过 70% 的丹佛大学毕业生选择留在科罗拉多州发展；学校以学季制提供 100 多个本科专业，以及 200 多个硕士、博士与证书项目。
• Its teaching model is branded the 4D Experience, integrating intellectual growth, well-being, character and careers or lives of purpose, and the Ricks Center for Gifted Young Children, founded in 1984, enrols 270 children from age three through eighth grade.该校的教学模式称为「四维体验」，整合智力成长、身心康健、人格品格与事业或意义人生四个维度；1984 年创办的天才儿童中心招收 3 岁至八年级的 270 名儿童。
• Among university-based research centres, the Institute for the Study of Earth and Society, the Korbel School's Center for China-U.S. Cooperation and the Estlow International Research Center for Journalism and New Media are the most prominent, the last gaining formal research-centre status in 2025.该校主要的校级研究中心包括地球与社会研究所、科贝尔国际关系学院的美中合作研究中心，以及埃斯特洛国际新闻与新媒体研究中心，后者于 2025 年获正式研究中心地位。
• Bill Daniels, the father of cable television who built the first microwave-based cable system in 1952, pressed the business school in 1989 to build ethics and leadership into the core business curriculum, one of the first programmes of its kind in the country.比尔·丹尼尔斯是有线电视之父，1952 年建成首套基于微波的有线传输系统；1989 年他推动商学院把伦理与领导力纳入商业课程核心，成为全美最早同类项目之一。
• Benjamin Cherrington, chancellor from 1943 to 1946, was an author of the United Nations Charter, and the commons inside the Sie International Relations Complex is named for him while the School of Law carries the name of Donald Sturm, an LLB of 1958 who donated 20 million dollars in 2004.本·切林顿于 1943 至 1946 年任校长，并参与起草《联合国宪章》，西国际关系综合楼内的共享空间即以其命名；法学院则以 1958 届法学学士唐纳德·斯特姆命名，他于 2004 年捐赠 2,000 万美元。
• Its four schools of professional and graduate study are supported by dedicated buildings, among them Craig Hall, reopened in August 2005 for the Graduate School of Social Work after a renovation and expansion, and the Sie Complex of May 2016 that gave the Korbel School a home on campus.该校四所研究生院各有专门楼舍支撑，其中包括 2005 年 8 月经翻修扩建后重新启用、供社会工作研究生院使用的克雷格楼，以及 2016 年 5 月落成、为科贝尔国际关系学院提供校内科大门的西国际关系综合楼。
• Denver's climate and its 250-plus sunny days a year are integral to campus life, with the Rocky Mountains an hour away and more than 70% of graduates staying in the state, while the university notes that its urban campus sits at the foot of the Rockies.丹佛的气候与每年 250 多个晴朗日子是校园生活的一部分，落基山脉距此约一小时车程，超过 70% 的毕业生留在本州发展；学校也强调其城市校园正位于落基山脉山麓。
• A first-year programme called First Ascent and periodic 4D Wellness Weekends at the Kennedy Mountain Campus form part of the university's orientation for new students, alongside a university-wide core curriculum that every undergraduate completes before graduating.名为「首攀」的迎新项目与在肯尼迪山地校区定期举办的「四维康健周末」，构成该校新生入学教育的一部分；此外还有所有本科生毕业前须修完的全校通识核心课程。

Campus

• The 125-acre main campus lies in the University neighbourhood south of downtown Denver and is a designated arboretum, about five miles from the city centre, with a light rail stop on the W Line connecting it to downtown.占地 125 英亩的主校区位于丹佛市中心以南的「大学」社区，是已被指定为树木园的校园，距市中心约五英里，W 线轻轨在学校设有站点可直达市中心。
• University Hall, the longest-standing building, dates from 1890 and stands in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, and the campus core also holds the Mary Reed Building of 1932, Margery Reed Hall of 1929 and the Evans Memorial Chapel moved here in the early 1960s.作为在校时间最长的建筑，大学楼建于 1890 年，属理查森罗曼复兴风格；校园核心区还集中着 1932 年的玛丽·里德楼、1929 年的玛格丽·里德楼，以及 20 世纪 60 年代初迁来的埃文斯纪念礼拜堂。
• In the 2010s and 2020s the university added the 40,000 square foot F.W. Olin Hall of 1997, the 47,000 square foot Sie International Relations Complex of May 2016 and the 130,000 square foot Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science of 2016.2010 年代至 2020 年代，该校先后建成 1997 年启用的 4 万平方英尺 F·W·奥林楼、2016 年 5 月启用的 4.7 万平方英尺西国际关系综合楼，以及 2016 年落成的 13 万平方英尺丹尼尔·费利克斯·里奇工程与计算机科学学院楼。
• Residential life centres on Nelson Hall of 2002, a LEED building for sophomores, Dimond Family Residential Village of 2020 for first-years, and Nagel Hall of 2008, a five-storey 150,000 square foot building with a tower topped by a 12-ton copper cone that was certified Gold under LEED standards in 2012.住宿体系以 2002 年启用、获 LEED 认证的二年级生宿舍纳尔逊楼、2020 年启用的一年级生迪蒙德家族住宅村，以及 2008 年落成的纳格尔楼为核心，后者为五层、15 万平方英尺，塔顶覆以重达 12 吨的铜锥，并于 2012 年获 LEED 金级认证。
• Sports facilities include Magness Arena, a 6,000-seat ice hockey venue and the showpiece of the Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness, the Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium opened in 2005 as the first lacrosse-only stadium built for that sport, and the Ciber Field Soccer Stadium of 2010.体育设施包括可容纳 6,000 人的冰球馆 Magness Arena，它是里奇体育与健康中心的标志性建筑；2005 年启用的彼得·巴顿长曲棍球体育场是该运动项目首座专用体育场；以及 2010 年落成的 Ciber 足球场。
• Libraries include the Anderson Academic Commons, which reopened in spring 2013 after a 32 million dollar renovation of the 41-year-old Penrose Library, and the university library holds special collections on the Rocky Mountain West.图书馆方面，彭罗斯图书馆历经 3,200 万美元翻修后于 2013 年春以安德森学术共享空间之名重新开放；校图书馆还收藏落基山西部专题特藏。
• Beyond the urban campus, the James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus in Larimer County covers 724 acres of pine-dotted land at an elevation of 8,000 feet, with more than 25,000 square feet of existing housing, miles of trails, ropes courses and winterised cabins, and it is funded entirely by philanthropy.除城市校区之外，位于拉里默县的詹姆斯·C·肯尼迪山地校区占地 724 英亩，松林遍布、海拔 8,000 英尺，拥有 2.5 万平方英尺以上的既有住房、数英里步道、攀绳设施与可过冬的小木屋，其运营完全由慈善资金支持。
• The campus is connected to the city by the W Line light rail, and its arboretum designation means the tree canopy is managed as a teaching resource as well as a landscape feature.校园通过 W 线轻轨与城市相连；树木园的官方认定意味着校内林冠既是景观要素，也被作为教学资源加以管理。

Reputation

• The university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval, having stood at 951-1000 in the 2026 edition.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间（并列），而 2026 版曾列于 951-1000 区间。
• It stood in the 651-700 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and in the 901-1000 band of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 651-700 区间，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列 901-1000 区间。
• It was ranked 1,105th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 list, and it did not appear in the 1,117th position given to it in the 2025-26 edition of the same table, its position having moved with each edition's recalculation.该校在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1,105 位，而在同一榜单 2025-26 版中为第 1,117 位，其位次随各版榜单的重新计算而变动。
• Within the United States it ranked 121st in the 2025 U.S. News Best Colleges national universities list, up three places on the year, and also placed 79th for best colleges for veterans in the same table.在美国国内，该校在 2025 年 US News 最佳大学全国大学榜单中列第 121 位，较上年前进三位，并在同一榜单中以第 79 位入选「最佳服务退伍军人大学」。
• It has been described as the premier private R1 research university in the Rocky Mountain West and is a member of the Association of American Universities, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Independent Universities and Colleges Association and the NASA Space Grant Consortium.该校被称为落基山西部首要的私立 R1 研究型大学，是美国大学协会、美国高校与大学协会、独立大学与学院协会以及 NASA 太空拨地联盟的成员。
• The 2024 Princeton Review placed it first nationally in the category Their Students Love These Colleges, a ranking drawn from a survey of 168,000 students, and it also placed in eight further top-25 categories that year.2024 年《普林斯顿评论》在校内调查 16.8 万名学生后，将该校列为「学生最爱大学」类别全美第一；同年该校还在另外八个类别进入前 25。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 28,685 works and 1,405,110 citations, and its research standing is underpinned by an endowment of 1.15 billion dollars in 2025 and a 1 billion dollar capital campaign launched in April 2024.OpenAlex 收录该校 28,685 篇研究成果与 1,405,110 次引用；其科研地位以 2025 年 11.5 亿美元的捐赠基金与 2024 年 4 月启动的 10 亿美元资本筹款计划为基础。
• Its graduate School of Social Work ranked 12th in the US News 2025 list, and its law school ranked 64th among US News's best graduate law schools for 2013-2014, with the part-time programme 12th, showing the contrast between its national law standing and its global band.其社会工作研究生院在 2025 年 US News 榜单中列第 12 位；法学院在 2013-2014 年 US News 最佳研究生法学院榜单中列第 64 位，其非全日制项目列第 12 位，显示该校法学院在美国国内排名与其全球区间排名之间的落差。

Student life

• The university motto is Pro Scientia et Religione, Latin for "For Knowledge and Spirit", which pairs intellectual pursuit with spiritual or ethical life in the Methodist tradition from which the institution grew.该校校训为拉丁语「Pro Scientia et Religione」，意为「为知识与精神」，将学术追求与精神及伦理生活并置，这与其发端的卫理公会传统一脉相承。
• Residential students live in University College houses and in purpose-built residence halls such as Nelson Hall, Nagel Hall and the Dimond Family Residential Village, and the university has hosted fraternities and sororities for more than 130 years.住宿学生住在大学学院的宿舍楼以及纳尔逊楼、纳格尔楼、迪蒙德家族住宅村等专门建造的宿舍楼中，该校拥有兄弟会与姐妹会已逾 130 年。
• More than 100 student-run organisations span outdoor adventure, arts, academic and service activities, and Hockey Night Lights, a season-ticket promotion built around the Magness Arena ice hockey schedule, is a fixture of campus life.学生自主运营的社团超过 100 个，涵盖户外探险、艺术、学术与服务四类；围绕 Magness Arena 冰球赛程推出的「冰球之夜灯」季票活动是校园生活的固定节目。
• The Denver Quarterly, a literary quarterly, was founded in 1966 by the novelist John Edward Williams, who also established the university's creative writing doctoral programme, and the University of Denver Magazine is now published quarterly.文学季刊《丹佛季刊》由小说家约翰·爱德华·威廉姆斯于 1966 年创办，他也同时创设了该校的创意写作博士项目；《丹佛大学杂志》现按季出版。
• Athletic teams are known as the Pioneers, fielding 18 Division I varsity sports, and the nickname has been in use since 1925 after the school was previously called the Fighting Parsons or Fighting Ministers between 1919 and 1925.校队统称「先锋队」，现设 18 个 NCAA 一级项目；这一昵称自 1925 年起使用，此前 1919 至 1925 年间该校队名为「战斗的帕森斯」或「战斗的部长们」。
• The mascot has moved through Pioneer Pete from 1925 to 1968, Denver Boone from 1968 to 1998 and Ruckus the red-tailed hawk from 1999 to 2007, with no official mascot since 2008 after a 2013 task force failed to build support for a jackrabbit, elk or mountaineer option.吉祥物历经 1925 至 1968 年的「先锋皮特」、1968 至 1998 年的「丹佛布恩」以及 1999 至 2007 年的红尾鵟「拉克斯」，自 2008 年起不再设官方吉祥物——2013 年的工作组曾推出兔子、麋鹿或登山者三个方案，但均未获得足够支持。
• The Pioneers moniker itself has drawn sustained protest since 2016, with the Native Student Alliance launching the NoMorePios campaign in October 2017, and a 2020 student group Righteous Anger! Healing Resistance! joining the cause after a 2014 committee report found the university's founder John Evans culpable for the Sand Creek massacre.「先锋队」这一昵称自 2016 年起持续引发抗议，2017 年 10 月原住民学生联盟发起 NoMorePios 运动；2020 年学生组织「正义之怒！疗愈与抗争」加入这一诉求，此前 2014 年的委员会报告认定创校人约翰·埃文斯对桑德溪大屠杀负有责任。
• Chancellor Jeremy Haefner has defended retaining the nickname, and the university has also opened more than 100 academic and cultural events to the city, including performances at the Newman Center and public nights at Chamberlin Observatory.校长杰里米·海夫纳为保留这一昵称进行辩护；学校还向丹佛市开放了一百余场学术与文化活动，包括纽曼艺术中心的演出与钱伯林天文台的公众之夜。

Notable people

• John Evans, the founder, was governor of the Colorado Territory from 1862 to 1865 and later governor of Washington Territory, and Rufus Clark, whose farmland became the present campus, was a potato farmer whose donation determined the university's location.创校人约翰·埃文斯于 1862 至 1865 年任科罗拉多地区州长，其后出任华盛顿地区州长；而如今校园所在的农地属于马铃薯农夫鲁弗斯·克拉克，正是他的捐赠决定了校址。
• John Chivington, who led the Sand Creek massacre, was an early donor and trustee of the seminary, and the 2014 John Evans Study Committee Report found Evans culpable, recommending that the Pioneers moniker be retired.领导桑德溪大屠杀的约翰·奇文顿是神学院早期的捐助人与董事会成员；2014 年《约翰·埃文斯问题委员会报告》认定埃文斯负有责任，并建议弃用「先锋队」这一昵称。
• Andrei Kutateladze, John Evans Professor of chemistry and Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics since 2012, holds a PhD from Moscow State University and the National Science Foundation Career and Distinguished Scholar awards, and took the university into the dean's post in 2015.安德烈·库塔特拉泽自 2012 年起任自然科学与数学学院院长、约翰·埃文斯化学教授，他拥有莫斯科国立大学博士学位与美国国家科学基金会职业奖与杰出学者奖，2015 年出任该院院长。
• Douglas Clements and Julie Sarama, both Kennedy Endowed Chairs in the Morgridge College of Education, were the inaugural recipients of the university's Distinguished University Professor award in 2018, its highest faculty honour, and Clements has drawn more than 20 million dollars in external research support.莫格里奇教育学院的道格拉斯·克莱门茨与朱莉·萨拉玛同为肯尼迪冠名讲席教授，2018 年成为该校最高教师荣誉「杰出大学教授奖」的首批得主，克莱门茨另已获得 2,000 万美元以上的外部科研经费。
• Alan Chen, Thompson G. Marsh Law Alumni Professor at the Sturm College of Law, received the Distinguished University Professor Award in 2025 and co-authored Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century, published in 2023.斯特姆法学院的汤普森·G·马什法学校友讲席教授艾伦·陈于 2025 年获「杰出大学教授奖」，并与他人合著 2023 年出版的《真相与透明：二十一世纪的卧底调查》。
• Suisheng Zhao, professor and director of the Center for China-U.S. Cooperation at the Korbel School, won the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2025, is the founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and wrote The Dragon Roars Back in 2023.科贝尔国际关系学院教授、中美合作研究中心主任赵声胜于 2025 年获「杰出学者奖」，他是《当代中国期刊》的创刊主编，2023 年出版了《巨龙回响》一书。
• Henry T. Lynch, an alumnus, is a cancer geneticist counted among the fathers of cancer genetics, and Donald Menzel, who studied at the university, was one of America's first astrophysicists and later director of the Harvard College Observatory.校友亨利·林奇是癌症遗传学家，被誉为癌症遗传学奠基人之一；在该校求学的唐纳德·门泽尔是美国最早的天体物理学家之一，后任哈佛大学学院天文台台长。
• Harold Agnew, a physicist who studied at the university, worked on the Manhattan Project and directed the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1970 to 1979, while Arnold Kramish, another alumnus, was a Manhattan Project nuclear physicist who survived a radioactive explosion.在该校求学的物理学家哈罗德·阿格纽参与了曼哈顿计划，并于 1970 至 1979 年主持洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室；另一位校友阿诺德·克拉米什则是曾从放射性爆炸中生还的曼哈顿计划核物理学家。
• Condoleezza Rice, who graduated from the university in 1974, became the 66th US Secretary of State and the 19th National Security Advisor, and Michelle Kwan, who graduated in June 2009, won Olympic figure-skating medals in 1998 and 2002 and later served as US ambassador to Belize.1974 年毕业于该校的康多莉扎·赖斯出任美国第 66 任国务卿与第 19 任国家安全顾问；2009 年 6 月毕业的行关银珊在 1998 与 2002 年两届冬奥会夺得花样滑冰奖牌，后来担任美国驻伯利兹大使。
• Among political alumni are John Arthur Love, the 36th governor of Colorado, Gale Norton, the 48th US Secretary of the Interior, George W. Casey Jr., the 36th Chief of Staff of the US Army, and Ruth Handler, who invented the Barbie doll and led Mattel.政界校友包括科罗拉多州第 36 任州长约翰·阿瑟·洛夫、美国第 48 任内政部长盖尔·诺顿、美国陆军第 36 任参谋长乔治·W·凯西，以及发明芭比娃娃并领导美泰公司的露丝·汉德勒。
• Also among the university's graduates are James C. Kennedy, the former chairman of Cox Enterprises whose 26 million dollar gift created the mountain campus, Elrey Jeppesen, the aviation charting pioneer, and the singer Hansi Hinterseer.该校的毕业生还包括前考克斯企业董事长詹姆斯·C·肯尼迪——其 2,600 万美元捐赠促成了山地校区的设立；航空图表业先驱埃尔雷·杰佩森；以及歌手汉西·因特尔泽。