Valparaiso University’s 10th annual Tree Lighting on Tuesday, Dec. 3, offers an opportunity for community members to take a picture with Santa, enjoy caroling and refreshments and watch as the tree is lit. Santa will visit the Harre Union’s Grand Lounge before and after the Tree Lighting, 4:30–6 p.m. New this year, the University’s sustainability […]
Carlos Miguel-Pueyo, professor of Spanish and head of the Spanish section at Valparaiso University, has been invited by the Royal Spanish Academy of Language to serve as one of two correspondents from the United States for a newly created international initiative. “This is a distinctive honor and brings recognition to Valparaiso University and the Department […]
WHO: Valparaiso University presents the annual Advent Christmas Vespers service, this year combined with the annual Christmas Concert. The service will feature the Kantorei Choir of the Chapel of the Resurrection, the Chorale, Women’s Choir, Men’s Ensemble, the Resurrection Ringers handbell Choir, Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Concert Band. WHAT: The annual service of lessons […]
Valpo’s Department of Music will expand its degree offerings with the development of a cutting-edge music therapy bachelor’s degree program that integrates the art of music with the science of healing. The program is projected to begin in the fall of 2019. “We’re excited to build on the success of Valpo’s music programs with the […]
The Valparaiso University SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) team was named a Regional Champion at the SIFE USA Regional Competition on March 28 in Chicago. The event is one of 12 regional competitions being held across the United States in March and April. Valparaiso University is one of nearly 600 SIFE programs in the nation, […]
WHO/WHAT: Sponsored by Valparaiso University Veterans Services and Army/Air Force ROTC, the Veterans Day program includes patriotic music courtesy of the Valparaiso University Chamber Concert Band conducted by Jeffrey Scott Doebler ’87 M.M., Ph.D., professor of music. This year’s invited speaker is Dan Pelzel ’18, ’19 M.S., a combat deployed veteran of the U.S. Army […]
WHO: Valpo welcomes L. DeAne Lagerquist, the Harold H. Ditmanson Professor of Religion and chair of American studies at St. Olaf College. Trained as a historian of Christianity, Lagerquist has long been interested in the interaction of religion and culture. Her graduate work focused on Christianity in the United States, with particular attention to Norwegian-American […]
Three Valparaiso University seniors and one recent Valpo graduate have been honored by Tau Beta Pi, the world’s largest engineering society. Alumna Casey Main ’19 has been named a 2019 Laureate of the Tau Beta Pi Association, one of just four students across the nation to be recognized this year and joining a prestigious group […]
Seven Fulbright grants have been extended to Valparaiso University recent alumni. Through the Fulbright Program, these recipients will have the opportunity to meet, work, live with and learn from people of their host country while teaching or continuing their studies. “We are very pleased to see the hard work and dedication of these fine young […]
A lifetime of passion and commitment toward the sport of tennis has become something bigger for Bob Modesto. A household name on the Northwest Indiana tennis scene, Modesto has been hired to take over as the head coach of the Valparaiso University women’s tennis program. “I’ve been involved in the sport of tennis for over […]