HIGHLIGHTS of 2008 - 2009

• Chapel publishes VIA, Valpo InterAction, a student publication that serves as a forum for those who have traveled abroad and wish to discuss social justice issues.

• LIVE sponors Cinco de Mayo celebration: Saturday, May 2

• French Club sponsors Foire aux Fromages Cheese Tasting Event on April 27

• Dr. Eric Johnson, Brandt professor of engineering, discusses Valpo's international engineering programs in the story "U.S. Engineering Students Venture Overseas," published in the March issue of PE Magazine.

• IECA students to present research projects on security issues on April 27

• VU and area high school students perform at French and German Theater Festivals

• April 8 gallery talk: "Potters of Antiquity: Bronze Age Pottery from the
Dead Sea Plain"

• Nominations sought for the 2009 Spanish Service Award

• April 20th archaeology talk sponsored by AIA

• Upcoming events for Chinese and Japanese

• Lecture on Colombia:  March 25

• AIA illustrated lecture on the beginnings of the Calumet: March 26

• German House sponors exhibit and film highlighting German writers

• Plans announced for new Spanish House

• Upcoming events for Classics students Janus & Dramathon

• World Banquet to take place February 7

• Chinese New Year celebrated January 27

• New Location for French House beginning fall 2009

• Spanish Professor Carlos Miguel-Pueyo publishes book on Romanticism

• Classics Professor Mark Farmer to direct Cambridge Center

• German Professor awarded grant to study Günter Grass

• French Engineering program launched

• Melissa Brown (French, '92) highlighted on Valpo Feature Stories