- VU Announcements
- Staff Changes
- VU MBA Entrepreneur
- Student/Alum Research
- Law Student Volunteers
- Summer Camps at VU
- Engineering Professor is Editor
- Three Receive Fulbrights
University Announcements: A $200 million campaign to support Valparaiso University will serve as the capstone of the 20-year leadership of University President Dr. Alan F. Harre, who will retire at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year. Plans for the campaign, the largest in University history, were announced at a news conference June 26th where Dr. Harre also announced that he will retire June 30, 2008. He said he is committed to ensuring the success of the campaign, which is scheduled to end in 2009 during the University's sesquicentennial celebration. Read the press release at http://www.valpo.edu/news/
Church Relations Changes: Dr. William Karpenko, VU '61, retires this week after serving as Valparaiso University's Director of Church Relations for 8 years and Assistant to the President for 5 years. The Rev. Dr. Lukas Bouman, a Lutheran pastor from Texas with experience as a stewardship leader and mentor for students interested in church vocations, has been named director of church relations at Valparaiso University effective July 1. Dr. Bouman is a 1982 graduate of Valparaiso who currently leaves his position as senior pastor at Tree of Life Lutheran Church in Conroe. Learn more about Dr. Bouman in the University's press release.
VU MBA: A 25-year-old entrepreneur in Valpo's MBA program prepares to shake up the music industry with a new Web site that will help fans discover new music and better connect musicians with fans. Read more here!
Pre-Med Researcher: A Valparaiso University pre-med student is working with a medical researcher this summer on a study exploring whether a widely used pharmaceutical drug can be used more effectively to help patients recover from surgery. Nina Kiselinova, a biology and chemistry major from Hobart, will collect information on hundreds of patients for the study of heparin - a drug used to stop the formation of blood clots - during her 11-week research experience at the University of Colorado Hospital, where she is working with a VU graduate. Leading the research is Dr. Paul Wischmeyer, a 1992 VU graduate and award-winning researcher in the area of intensive care medicine and critical care nutrition. Read more here!
VUSL: A group of Valparaiso University law students headed to New Orleans in May, helping the public defender's office with a backlog that left minor offenders in jail for months before their first court hearing.
Summer Camps: A wide variety of athletic camps, educational events for youth, religious retreats and other events will draw hundreds of visitors to Valparaiso University's campus this summer. More information, including registration details, about summer events being hosted by VU is available online .
VU Professor Named Editor: A Valpo engineering professor who is one of the world's leading solar energy researchers is appointed associate editor of the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. Dr. Robert Palumbo ('80), Jenny professor of emerging technology, will oversee selection of research papers in solar energy fundamentals and theory. The Journal of Solar Energy Engineering publishes research of permanent interest in all areas of renewable energy and energy conservation, as well as discussions of policy and regulatory issues that affect renewable energy technologies and their implementation. The editorial board is composed of many of the world's leading experts in renewable energy technology and conservation.
Fulbrights Awarded to Three: China, South Korea and Germany are the destinations for three Valparaiso University students who have won prestigious Fulbright awards for international research and teaching , placing VU among the leading master's level institutions in Fulbright winners in the past three years. Honored were Carl Boschert, a Chinese and Japanese studies and history major from Jackson, Miss.; Jeremiah Dost, a history major from St. Louis; and Lorrine Hoffmann, a chemistry and secondary education major from Crystal Lake, Ill. Dost won a teaching fellowship in South Korea and Hoffman will have a teaching fellowship in Germany. Boschert received a research fellowship in China and will spend a year doing intensive research on globalization and its impact on Chinese society.