Bestselling author and 1977 DePauw University graduate Barbara Kingsolver discussed her new novel, The Lacuna, on National Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show today. Released this week, the book is Kingsolver's first novel in nine years.
"It's been a year of firsts for the DePauw University football team," begins a story in today's Banner Graphic. "It defeated Trinity for the first time in school history two weeks ago. It defeated Millsaps for the first time in several years and on Saturday, with a little luck, it will earn its first playoff bid in the Division III tournament in program history. If the Tigers defeat Austin and Trinity wins(over visiting Centre), DPU will get a piece of the SCAC championship and the conference bid," writes Dan Shelton.
Grammy Award-nominated rapper Fabolous will come to the campus of DePauw University to perform a concert on Friday, November 13, on the eve of the 116th Monon Bell Classic. The show will begin at 9 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium of the Performing Arts Center (doors open at 8). Asher Roth will also perform.
Angie Hicks, the 1995 DePauw University graduate whose entrepreneurial idea right out of college led to the creation of Angie's List, was honored today with DePauw's Robert C. McDermond Medal for Excellence in Entrepreneurship . Hicks was presented with the McDermond Medal this afternoon as she delivered a lecture to Management Fellows at her alma mater.
Tom Chiarella, visiting professor of creative writing at DePauw University and fiction editor for Esquire magazine, will be among the presenters at this week's Sanibel Island Writers Conference. Hosted by Florida Gulf Coast University, the event will take place November 5-8 at BIG ARTS (The Barrier Island Group for the Arts) on Sanibel Island.
"Wonder what a gym top circa 1927 looked like? Want to see a photo of the DePauw University 1914 freshman class? Now, it can happen with the click of a mouse," reports today's edition of the Banner Graphic. The Greencastle newspaper notes, "DePauw University's library has launched a digital library, which currently contains more than 30,000 photographs, publications and other artifacts spanning the history of the University, Putnam County and Indiana United Methodism."
The galleries at DePauw University's Richard E. Peeler Art Center and the DePauw Percussion Studio join in their annual collaboration, Percussion @ Peeler, on Wednesday, November 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Art Center. This year's event, part of ArtsFest 2009, will feature solo and small group works for percussion performed in a non-traditional format in the gallery, encouraging the audience to move around the space and enjoy the exhibition as well as the concert.