The NEW VOE Podcast is an extension of Voices of Experience, the signature speaker series at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. Hosted by Kristal Griffith, Jake Jensen and Amber D’Angelo from the Daniels Office of Communications and...
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Making Space to Innovate
Q&A with Michael Caston, associate professor and executive director of DU’s Innovation Labs Michael Caston has been with the University of Denver for nearly five years. He joined DU in 2016 as program manager of the Innovation Labs, an interdisciplinary makerspace...
Alumna Empowers Female Entrepreneurs in Russian Hometown
Approximately 5,885 miles west of Denver, nestled just below the Oglahty mountains in south Siberia, sits little Minusinsk, a Russian town that’s probably not on most people’s minds, but is certainly on the mind of Katerina Arzhayev. Arzhayev (BA 2016, MS 2018) was...
The Unintentional Entrepreneur
What Ronnie Pollard gained from doing the unexpected Although death and taxes may be the two best-known certainties in life, Ronnie Pollard (BS 2007)—and all of the unintentional entrepreneurs out there, for that matter—would probably like to add one more to that list...
Engineering Innovation: Robots Providing Social Support
Q&A with Mohammad H. Mahoor and Josh Lane of Dream Face Technologies, LLC Mohammad H. Mahoor received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Miami in 2007, where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow and received the Marino Autism...
Department of Management Honors 3 Alumni With New Awards
Daniels’ Department of Management has unveiled winners of three new awards for alumni in leadership, achievement and engagement. Charles Dhanaraj, professor and chair of the Department of Management at Daniels, said the department decided to create the awards because...
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Andy Levine
All Andy Levine (BA 1992) wanted to do was ride his bike. So the day after he graduated from DU, he got on a plane to France to do just that, not thinking about what he’d do next or dreaming up future business plans. He was just another American kid looking to bike...
Spotlight on Entrepreneur Kevin Wilhelm
Kevin Wilhelm (MBA 2001) had zero desire to become an entrepreneur, and growing up, he wasn’t an environmentalist. So, it’s kind of strange that Wilhelm is now one of the nation’s leading sustainability experts, writing best-selling books, teaching classes at Harvard...
A Q&A With Macey Smith
Macey Smith is a senior from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, graduating in March 2021. She’s studying management consulting and has completed a thesis on nonvisible disabilities in the workplace. Why did you choose to come to DU? I never thought I would go to DU, but I...










