About Your 4D Peer Mentor
All new DU students are paired with a 4D Peer Mentor, a current DU student who specializes in supporting new student college transition through mentorship and fostering a sense of belonging and community during your first year.
Your 4D Peer Mentor along with other DU staff and faculty will aid in your college experience to advance your intellectual growth, pursue a career and life of purpose, promote well-being, and explore your character – the 4D Experience.
Your 4D Peer Mentor will help you to:
- Learn about student expectations and responsibilities of becoming a DU community member
- Explore & access resources and opportunities that support student's academic, social, and wellness goals
- Develop skills centered on self-awareness and engagement with the diverse identities, perspectives, & experiences of others
- Foster a sense of belonging and connection to the DU and the greater Denver community
- Have fun while sharing your love for DU!
You will be introduced to your 4D Peer Mentor in person at Discoveries Orientation. To find who your 4D Peer Mentor is, look at the chart below!
4D Peer Mentors support Discoveries Orientation, FSEM courses, First Ascent experience and first-year programming.
4D Peer Mentor and FSEM Course Groups
FSEM Faculty | FSEM Course | 4D PM |
| Luc Beaudoin | The Trouble with Gender | Laura Nickson |
| Brad Benz | With and Without Nature | Jack Gustavson |
| Bud Bilanich | Thinking 101 | Pia Vela |
| Maria Calbi | Science at the boundary: A look into the nanoworld | Eva Flood |
| Jennifer Campbell | Using our BRAINS: An Interdisciplinary Study of Zombies in Popular Culture | Joey Uyemura |
| Angelo Castagnino | Disability in Fiction | Anna Lanning |
| Alejandro Cerón | The Right to Health in Theory and Practice | Vanessa Udo-Obong |
| April Chapman-Ludwig | Fracturing Fairy Tales: Moving Beyond a Simple Story | Sophia Stillion |
| Catherine Chauvin | The Art of the Book: the art, the making, the story | Bloom Welliver |
| Lynn Clark | Can TikTok Change the World? | Riley McCarthy |
| Christy Cobb | Dystopian Futures: Gender and Religion in Literature and Film | Gavin Byrne |
| Christy Cobb | Dystopian Futures: Gender and Religion in Literature and Film | Lorenzo Diomedes |
| Patrick Cottrell | Queer Contemporary Literature | Chloe Pittard |
| David Daniels | Poetry and the Public | Mikolaj Kowal |
| Mike Daniels | The world is out there, and you belong in it | Aderyn Ketchum |
| Elizabeth Escobedo | Mexican American History and Culture | Zoe Lopez |
| Rafael Fajardo | LatinX Futurism(s), SciFi, and Interactive Fictions | Megan Doherty |
| Xin Fan | Physics of Smartphone Sensors | Allie Metzler |
| Kelly Flaherty | The Heart of Mathematics | Yakov Glenn |
| Lydia Gil Keff | [Im]migrant Stories: Theirs and Ours | Juliet Mendik |
| Robert Gilmor | Memory: Self/Public/Community | Payson Gutt |
| Hava Gordon | Youth Cultures: Inequalities, Resistance, and Empowerment | Kaysha Westgard |
| Michael Greenberger | Creating a New American State | Melina Miller |
| Madoka Hammine | Island Fantasies - from Okinawa to the Pacific, from Legend to Paradise | Maddox Riley |
| Jennifer Hoffman | The Milky Way in Motion | Sydney Seltzer |
| Barbekka Hurtt | Art and Observation in Healthcare | Charli Carr |
| Jason Jeffries | Religion and Hip Hop Culture | Maanasi Gowda |
| Megan Kelly | Trash & (Zero) Waste in a Disposable World | Julia Atwood |
| Michelle Knowles | You are what you eat: A course in Food Chemistry | Aven McCall |
| Alison Krögel | Im(possible) Worlds: The Fantastic Short Story in the Américas | Abi Newell |
| Janice Lacek | Seeing Through Clothes: Topics in Clothing/Dress/Costume/Fashion and Culture | Ainsley Jessen |
| Frederic Latremoliere | The inner workings of 3D graphics | Katie Nelson |
| Amie Levesque | Constructing Sexualities: Identities, Intersections, and Inequalities | Nina Truog |
| Rachael Liberman | Media, Power & Sexualization | Ian Jackman |
| Mamadou Moustapha Ly | Resistance in the African Diaspora | Jack Sanda |
| Sergio Macias | Exploring Latinx Migrant Stories through Pop Culture | Lilou Cabrol |
| Polina Maksimovich | European Masterpieces: “The Alienated Hero: In Search of Self” | Kira Frey |
| Heather Martin | Design Your DU: A 4D First-Year Seminar | Nico Clapp |
| John McHugh | Intro to Graph Theory | Charlotte Gelwick |
| Daniel McIntosh | The Psychology of Thriving | Hugh Mangold |
| Poupeh Missaghi | Reading, Writing, Translating, A Triptych | Abby Walpert |
| Kathleen Novak | Leadership Lessons The Richmond Way | Brooklyn Hagen |
| Alfred Owusu-Ansah | Language and Identity | Sofia Nguyen |
| Sarah Pessin | Interfaith Civics | Noura Ali Abid |
| Bill Philpott | History of Colorado | William Wayne |
| LP Picard | True Crime Media: Journalism, Justice, or Just Entertainment? | Brayden Roe |
| Yan Qin | Biotechnology and Me | Ciara Enright |
| Ping Qiu | American Dream and Asian American Experience | Kyla O'Leary |
| David Riche | Tabletop Games: Define & Design | Jocelyn Scanlon |
| Christy Rossi | Paying Attention to Attention | Owen Lewis |
| Christy Rossi | Paying Attention to Attention | Nako Thong |
| Angela Sowa | Language Politics | Maddie Weiser |
| Geoffrey Stacks | Reading Maps: Literature, Culture, and Cartography | Harry Harwood-Matthews |
| Elizabeth Suter | Communicating to Connect: The Art and Science of Communication in Relationships | Aryika Roy |
| Matthew Taylor | REVOLUTION AND REVOLUTIONARIES IN LATIN AMERICA | Genesis Cabrera |
| Tamara Trafton | Women's Work | Anja Kraunz |
| Nicole Turnipseed | Writing Across Media | Sophie Kolb |
| Michele Tyson | Exploring Higher Education Environments | Justin Walker |
| Michele Tyson | Exploring Higher Education Environments | Izzy Grove |
| Bethany Waddington | Gaming for Change: Strategy, Inclusion, and Critical Thinking | Rylee Kingham |
| Susan Walter | Coming of Age: a Personal and Literary Journey | Sophia Ferretti |
| Chinn Wang | Art, Symbols, and Visual Literacy | Emily Tran |
| Aleysia Whitmore | Musical Theft | Chloe Puckett |
| Kate Willink | The Art of Slowness: Living, Thinking, Being First-Year Seminar | Amelia Echols |
| Alena Wolflink | Food Politics | Eli Barbour |
| Mei Yin | An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling | Naomi Penner |
| Barry Zink | Stuff Matters: What makes up our world, how did it get that way, and why do we care? | Cooper Peterson Antin |
Transfer 4D Peer Mentors
Ryan Bouchard |
Ben Merson |
Neva Reseska |
Arlo Frost |
Lea Flores |
Manuel Goico |
Gabby Ishaq |
Grace Lanigan |
Alex Wong |