Valparaiso University has announced Erica Patton as its 2012 recipient of the Realizing the Dream award. Each year, the Realizing the Dream award honors a sophomore who best represents an outstanding first-generation college student. The Independent Colleges of Indiana sponsors this annual $2,000 award. Patton, a chemistry major, represents Valpo students’ values of leadership, scholarship, […]
Kelli Chavez has wanted to attend Valparaiso University since eighth grade when her middle school class from nearby Merrillville, Ind., visited the campus. When she applied, Kelli also got asked to join Christ College, The Honors College. She knew that CC would help her prepare for Law School and her future within Criminology. After her […]
Drew Groth found a home in a place he never thought possible. “When I took a tour of Valparaiso University that gut feeling happened and it felt like the place for me,” Drew said. “Valpo felt like my home in Indiana even though I had never even been here before. I think that’s what really […]
Dennis Cimbaljevich ’04 did not have to travel far from his hometown of Portage, Ind., to attend Valparaiso University, but his experiences as a student prepared him for a career that takes him around the world working for the United States Department of State. “Wherever I am in the world, I still look back and […]
When Kelsey Fader ’16 first stepped foot on Valpo’s campus, she had no idea just how her passions would collide. But that is exactly what happened soon after she began her academic journey, and along the way, she made some unexpected discoveries. A recipient of the Donna and Lonnie Dodge Endowed Memorial Scholarship Fund, Kelsey […]
WHAT: Valpo’s Geography and Travel Club will host an Earth Day Tree Planting Dedication. Zach Mahan, club president, will speak on the everyday importance of Earth Day. Re-established in fall 2012, Geography Club (now Geography and Travel Club) hosts activities and events such as the annual Geography Bowl team competition, Geocaching, Free Food for Finals […]
Valparaiso University’s Institute for Leadership and Service announces its spring 2018 Pathways to Purpose speaker series, featuring speakers and topics that generate momentum for engagement, learning and change. The speaker series welcomes exemplary practitioners of leadership and service and alumni who respond to the deepest challenges of our time and help to expand student imagination […]
Valparaiso University will host TEDxValparaisoUniversity, its third community-inspired TEDx event, on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, 4–9 p.m. at the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts. This student-driven event is themed “Why Not Today.” This year’s TEDx event is designed to explore the power of creation and innovation to bring together a diversity of people, cultures […]
Each year, Valpo students, faculty, and staff host a variety of holiday events to unite the campus with the greater Valparaiso community, as together they join in celebrating the season. December 2017 events include: Annual Tree Lighting, Thursday, Nov. 30, 5:30–7 p.m. Visit Santa, enjoy caroling and refreshments, and watch as the tree is lit […]
Valparaiso University will continue its tradition of honoring the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 15, 2018, with its 28th annual celebration, centering on the idea of “Why We Can’t Wait.” Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come alongside sanitation workers fighting […]