Valparaiso University will offer “Kinder lernen Deutsch”, a German language and culture program sponsored by the Kade-Duesenberg German House and Cultural Center, to elementary school students during the academic year. Children will learn German through fun activities, songs, and games taught by Valpo undergraduate students and supervised by Professor Sarah DeMaris. Two classes will be […]
Fifteen minutes. That’s 900 heartbeats and 180 breaths. It’s also the amount of time it takes students to board a bus at Valparaiso University and arrive at the gates of the Westville Correctional Facility for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program. Stepping off the bus to attend class inside prison walls, students prepare themselves for the […]
Sterling Summerville ’13 is a busy man. Take his time at Valparaiso University: He studied international service and gender studies, played running back on the football team, volunteered with a local organization that supports teens, participated in at least four student organizations, and worked in the Multicultural Programs office. But he’s not busy for busy’s […]
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 […]
The Institute for Leadership and Service at Valparaiso University has named 20 Valpo students and recent graduates CAPS Fellows for summer 2015. Recipients are selected from a competitive pool of applicants and will complete internships with organizations dedicated to service and leadership for eight to 10 weeks during the summer. The CAPS Fellows Program helps […]
A short documentary by Valparaiso University Assistant Professor Liz Wuerffel, recent graduate Saddam Al-Zubaidi, and digital media graduate student Sarhang Sherwany is an official selection of the Redlands Film and Beer Festival in Redlands, Calif., Oct 22–25. The three filmmakers traveled to Kurdish Region, Iraq, in 2014 to film “Kawergosk: Home Made of Cloth,” which […]
The United States Department of State granted Kathleen Salter ’19 a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Chinese this summer. The CLS Program’s objective is to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Salter is one of approximately 560 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a CLS scholarship in 2016. […]
Valparaiso University student Teshurah Lee ’18 was one of 150 students worldwide selected for the prestigious “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Proficiency Competition held recently in China. The “Chinese Bridge” Proficiency Competition recognizes and showcases the Chinese language in several rounds of competition. Lee competed against 150 other students in Changsha, China, after winning the U.S. Midwest […]
Nathaniel Griewe ’18, a Valparaiso University German and secondary education major, has been awarded an illustrious German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. The DAAD is the German national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. DAAD programs support the collaboration between the German higher education system and academic institutions around the world to foster […]
With a love for chemistry, the first time Brian Weaver ’17 stepped foot on campus was to attend a scholarship day hosted by the chemistry department. Brian met professors and saw a brief glimpse into the uniqueness of the Valpo experience. Now, that day is a distant memory as Brian is fully embedded in the […]