How often do you think about the intricacies of the building you work in – or the road you drive on every day? Civil engineering student Todd Wagner ’26 does the thinking so you don’t have to. As only a second-semester sophomore, Todd has already made great strides to build and protect the infrastructure of […]
Valparaiso University’s College of Business is known for its continuing legacy of academic excellence and dedication to providing students with a comprehensive education that places them on the ground running after graduation. The supply chain management major gives students the opportunity to partake in one of the fastest growing job markets in the nation and […]
Photos provided by Adam Stepanek, VUSIT Convective Field Studies Valpo’s renowned meteorology program annually graduates budding weather experts, but they’ve hardly spent all their time in classrooms. Earlier this year, the Valparaiso University Storm Intercept Team (VUSIT) had an up-close look at a series of tornadoes that touched down in northern Illinois, including a deadly funnel […]
Michael Seger initially marveled as the storm developed in what the 2005 Valparaiso University graduate referred to as “textbook” fashion. Later, he watched in awe as a majestic tornado spun from the dark, low-hanging clouds and dropped from the sky, beginning a slow and eerie dance across the horizon. But as the twister grew, churning […]
2013 MLK Award Holly SinghWhen Moninder “Holly” Singh speaks to an international student about life in the United States or life on the Valparaiso University campus, Singh speaks from personal experience. The director of international students and scholars at Valparaiso University, Singh came to the United States more than 20 years ago from New Delhi, […]
Valparaiso University offers programs and facilities often only found at much larger institutions. With all of that come opportunities that are hard to match. Kyle Hansen has taken advantage of those opportunities, as he talks about in his video. Kyle, an engineering major from Rochelle, Ill., not only benefited from one-on-one faculty mentoring in the […]
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, […]
For centuries, humans have used stories to connect with each other, and often, these stories have the power to spark emotions, create understanding, educate people, and change perspectives. So in summer 2014, when Professor Liz Wuerffel and two digital media graduate students, Saddam Al-Zubaidi and Sarhang Sherwany, traveled to Kurdish Region, Iraq, to film a […]
The Valparaiso Independent Robot Team (VIRT) competed in the 25th Annual Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 10 and 11. Fourteen Valparaiso University College of Engineering students attended the competition, where they participated with three robots that they designed and manufactured: Blue Bot, Blood Bot, and Wheelzilla. […]
“I knew that with our engineering students, we could take the idea of an aerial photography device to a new level,” said Wuerffel, who immediately contacted Valpo’s College of Engineering. Jeff Will, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, loved the idea, and asked Wuerffel to pitch her idea to his senior design class – […]