DePauw Stories

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  Three Phi Delts win Lund Scholarships for 2025-26

  Three members of Phi Delta Theta, from the Indiana Zeta chapter at DePauw University, were recognized for their scholarship, campus, and community involvement through the generosity of fraternity brother Albert L. Lund ’48.

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  The First-Year Seminar

  Roughly three dozen first-year seminars take place throughout campus every fall term. Although each one looks different from the next, these small, discussion-based classes all play a crucial role in bridging the gap between high school and college. 

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  Winter Term in Full Color

  What do you remember about DePauw winter term? For many, this now 50-year-plus tradition of the non-traditional class is the source of some of our most vivid and beloved college memories.Winter term offers DePauw students the opportunity to make an intentional choice of one course on which to exclusively focus for three weeks.

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  Trusted Advisers

  DePauw’s three schools are doing more than expanding academic offerings for students and opening the door to unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration on campus. They’re also providing a crucial opportunity for alumni to give back in a new and meaningful way, something that several dozen alumni have embraced in their roles as inaugural members of the three recently formed school advisory boards.

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  Institute of Music

  The storied history of the DePauw School of Music lives on in its alumni. It lives in the current students diligently finishing their degrees from the original SOM model. And it will live on in all students joining the “Institute of Music” now and into the future. Because the beating heart of it hasn’t changed – it remains a rich education of musical excellence that aims to equip students with the tools they need to flourish in all their endeavors.

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  Black History Lecture given by Dr. Jennifer H. Mike, Global Studies Fellow

  On February 12, 2025, Dr. Jennifer Heaven Mike, Global Studies Scholar, Assistant Professor in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at DePauw University, and Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, delivered a keynote lecture for Black History Month. The event, titled Deconstructing Accusation and Domination in the Africana World: Building a More Inclusive ‘Ubuntu’ Future, was hosted by the African Studies Department and explored the enduring impact of accusations on marginalized racial communities, examining how these social constructs continue to perpetuate domination, exclusion, and inequality.

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