WHO: Valparaiso University’s student-run Science Olympiad team welcomes Michelle Ham, director of the International Space School Education Trust and former NASA astronaut instructor and flight controller. Ham spent 10 years working at NASA for a contractor primarily in International Space Station (ISS) Flight Control as an operations planner and astronaut instructor. During this time, Ham […]
Nearly 30 Valparaiso University students, faculty, and staff seized the opportunity to travel to Selma, Ala., during spring break to learn more about the civil rights movement of the 1960s. To highlight the trip, the group was fortunate enough to participate in the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee with thousands of marchers from across the country. […]
Allison Meyer found a muddy shoe. Another student found a garden trowel. Valparaiso University’s biology club members made several unlikely discoveries to expand on classroom knowledge while restoring the region’s rivers this spring. The club was working at the Elkhart Conservation Club property on Cobus Creek, five miles west of Elkhart, Ind., when Meyer found […]
The spring semester at Valparaiso University will feature plenty of opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and visitors to enjoy musical performances from our variety of the University’s groups and ensembles. All concerts are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Feb. 10: 12th Annual Epic Films Music Concert, 7 p.m., Chapel of the […]
Valpo Selected as Winner in 35th Annual Telly Awards The Office of Integrated Marketing and Communications at Valparaiso University is a Silver (the highest honor) and Bronze winner in the 35th Annual Telly Awards for their advertisement titled “Where Passion Meets Purpose.” There were nearly 12,000 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries. The […]
Dec. 14, 2023 – Valparaiso, Indiana – Valparaiso University invites the campus community and members of the public to attend the annual event to honor the memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, January 15, 2023. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Realizing the Dream Through Healing and Resilience.” Speakers at the […]
Another edition of the Valpo Magazine is here, now in its all-new, digital format at valpomagazine.com. In this inaugural online edition, you will meet the newest head men’s basketball coach, Roger Powell Jr. and learn about his plans for bringing Valpo athletics into a new era. Alumni will share their life-changing experiences, from saving lives […]
Bonded by their passion for service, Chris Weber ’04, Ellie (Goetsch ’05) Eichman, and Lisa (Holmes ’04) Zittergruen are currently working for Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, providing care to underserved locations in Milwaukee. Originally named the Health Contact Center, the name of the clinic was eventually changed to the Sixteenth Street Clinic in 1971, […]
Nearly 700 undergraduate and graduate students participated in Valparaiso University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 19, and more than 150 law students will graduate on Saturday, May 25. The ceremonies cap an academic year that has been filled with record enrollment, campus improvements, prestigious recognition and continuing advancement for Valparaiso University. “As another academic year […]
A family of penguins, police uniforms, kilts, and fire fighters were just some of the costumes that filled the lawn — and a chilly pool — outside of the Valparaiso University Athletics-Recreation Center on Saturday, Feb. 9, for the third annual Polar Plunge. Valpo is one of six colleges to host the Polar Plunge, which […]