May 30, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "D&M Music Studio presents a joint piano recital by three international artists -- Juyeon Kang and Sang Woo Kang from Korea and May Phang from Singapore -- at Goethe Institute on June 7 at 8 p.m.," reports China's Bangkok Post today. "A graduate of McGill University in Canada, the Singaporean pianist obtained her doctorate from Temple University in Philadelphia. She is assistant professor of piano at DePauw University," notes the report.

"A prize winner of several competitions in New York, Canada and France, May Phang has performed with orchestras such as the Banff Chamber Players, Singapore Symphony, Montreal Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra," adds the newspaper. "This time she will perform Mozart's Rondo in A Minor, K 511, Hummel's Rondo in E-flat major, Op 11 and Liszt's Sonnetto del Petrarch 123."

Access the item at the Post's website.

Learn more about Professor Phang in this previous story.

May 31, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Jay Moran, a 1990 graduate of DePauw University, is co-author of Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Potential. In the new book, which is published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley, Moran and co-author Jeffrey Cohn "share the same insights and ideas they use to help organizations make better choices," according to a synopsis.

"Revealing seven essential attributes of all great leaders, they offer a fresh and powerful evaluation technique anyone can use to assess leader potential. Through dynamic, first-hand accounts from the business world, entertainment, sports, politics, education, and philanthropy, the authors offer the ultimate insider access and reveal how top organizations find and choose the best talent."

The text includes interviews with legendary basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, among others.

"Inspiring, encouraging, and engaging, this book will help anyone who needs to make a truly important leadership decision," says Jerry Colangelo, chairman of USA Basketball's board of directors. "Hiring Mike Krzyzewski to lead our 2008 basketball team to the gold medal was the single most important decision I made as chairman of USA Basketball. I saw in Coach K all seven of the fundamental leadership attributes that Cohn and Moran vividly describe in this book."

Adds Facundo L. Bacardi, chairman of Bacardi Ltd., "Finding the best leaders is very tough. Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? explains why, and then offers key insight and nuance to help others meet the challenge. Any board member, human resource executive, or hiring manager who wants to solidify the company's leadership ranks should start right here."

Jay Moran is a succession planning expert, executive coach, and professor of leadership and international business at IES Barcelona. Moran formerly practiced corporate law with King & Spalding and taught international business at St. Louis University.

After graduating from DePauw, where he majored in economics, Moran earned a J.D./M.B.A from Emory University and M.P.A. from Harvard University.

Read more about Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? and order the book at Amazon.com.

May 31, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "A 'mashup' of classical and folk music, performed by some of Indiana's finest musicians, will open the seventh season of the 12-concert Greencastle Summer Music Festival this Wednesday at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church," notes the Banner-Graphic. The preview of the summer series notes that a number of the performers are members of the DePauw University School of Music faculty, and that the festival's organizer and founder is Eric Edberg, professor of music.

"All our concerts have been strictly classical music in prior summers," says Dr. Edberg. "While I've been in New York on sabbatical this spring, I've seen how many performers are combining, or 'mashing up,' music of different genres. So I've invited this summer's performers to include any kind of music they love, and to tell us in the audience why they love it. Most of our concerts will remain all-classical, but a few will include something different, including the folk music on the opening concert. Other concerts will include jazz influences, improvisation, and even some indie rock."

Tomorrow's opening performance will feature violinist Allison Edberg and other musicians "in a program exploring the relationship between Celtic ballads, Baroque "classical" music, and present-day folk music," notes the newspaper.

"Yo-Yo Ma, who will be visiting DePauw this fall, has been doing just this sort of thing for years," says Eric Edberg. "His Appalachian Waltz album with violinist Mark O'Connor and bassist Edgar Meyer, with whom Allison grew up, has been extremely popular. Joe Peters and Linda Hicks are extraordinary singer-songwriters -- true Indiana treasures. This is a great way to start this summer's festival."

Read more at the Banner-Graphic's website.

Professor Edberg's work in classical music improvisation was featured in a November 28, 2008 article in the Wall Street Journal.

Yo-Yo Ma will be the featured artist of "DePauw Discourse 2011: Empowering Society Through the Arts," scheduled to take place September 29 - October 1. Details can be found in this previous article.

May 31, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning financial reporter and author and 1973 graduate of DePauw University, is scheduled to appear tonight on Comedy Central's Colbert Report. Stewart will discuss his new book, Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America -- From Bernie Madoff to Martha Stewart.

The program airs at 11:31 p.m. (EST).  Stewart's appearance is noted on the Boston Globe's website.

Tangled Webs, released on April 19, was previously featured on NBC's Today Show and lauded by Business Week magazine and the Washington Post, among others.

A member of DePauw's Board of Trustees and former chair of the group, James B. Stewart received a Pulitzer Prize for Wall Street Journal articles on the 1987 stock market crash and the insider-trading scandal. Stewart's books include Blood Sport, DisneyWar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom; as well as Den of Thieves; Blind Eye; and Follow the Story. He received the George Polk Award in 1987 and Gerald Loeb awards in 1987, 1988 and 2006. The San Francisco Examiner called Stewart, who served as editor of The DePauw while a student in Greencastle, "the journalist every journalist would like to be.

Jim Stewart was the recipient of DePauw's Young Alumni Award in 1988, an Alumni Citation in 1988, an honorary Doctor of Journalism degree in 1989, and the Old Gold Goblet in 2009. 

He recently joined the New York Times as a columnist.

June 1, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Cas Mudde, Nancy Schaenen Visiting Scholar in Ethics at DePauw University, contributes an essay to the June 2011 issue of Leadership magazine, which is published in South Africa. "The financial crisis that has swept across European economies since 2008 is having profound political effects," notes the publication's introduction to the article, which is headlined "European integration: after the fall."

The text adds, "It is time to face the new realities and discuss the options they present. More than ever there is a need for an open debate on European integration - but this time a debate that explores all options, including the return to a less integrated European Union, writes Cas Mudde."

Also a part-time visiting associate professor of political science at DePauw University, Mudde writes, "For decades European integration was an elite-driven process supported by a 'permissive consensus' of the population as a whole. While the populations of European states were hardly involved in shaping the process of integration, and were almost never asked for their explicit approval (in elections or referendums), the elites could count on a basic level of unexpressed support. The rise of so-called 'Euroscepticism', at least since the signing of the Maastricht treaty in 1992 - which transformed the mainly economic European Community into a much more political and social European Union -- has meant that this permissive consensus is no longer a given. In fact, with recent popular revolts, such as the rejection of the European convention in referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005, some commentators have started to speak of a 'constraining dissensus'. There is increasing evidence that this dissensus exists beyond the level of public sentiment."

Access the complete piece at Leadership's website.

Dr. Mudde has published widely on topics such as political extremism, democratization in Eastern Europe, civil society, and Euroskepticism. His book Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research and was named a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title."

In February, Professor Mudde was quoted in a Newsweek story on "Europe's Extreme Righteous".  Learn more in this previous article.

June 2, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — According to Lee H. Hamilton, veteran statesman and 1952 graduate of DePauw University, "Citizenship requires both knowledge about government and the ability to be involved in governance. It means knowing how to identify and inform yourself about issues, explore and evaluate possible solutions, and then act to resolve problems. It demands that you know how to interact respectfully with others. And it asks that you accept responsibility for meeting your community's and the nation's challenges."

In a newspaper op-ed, the Democrat who served 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives observes, "This is asking a lot of citizens in our divided and contentious modern democracy. That's because the prevailing winds blow hard against using these skills. The Pew Research Center for People and the Press recently released a report noting that a majority of registered voters 'prefer elected officials who stick to their positions' over those willing to compromise with people with whom they disagree -- even though accommodating various points of view is a requirement for making our large and diverse republic work."

What's also needed, writes the man who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group, is "a willingness to seek out media sources with which we don't agree. It is possible these days to limit your reading and viewing solely to news and analysis that reconfirm what you already believe. True citizenship asks us to be willing to hear what a broad range of thinkers and arguers have to say, so we can learn from them, come to our own conclusions, and work to build solutions."

The column was spurred by the recent release of a National Assessment of Educational Progress "report card" on civics education in the United States. It found "an alarming percentage of eighth graders proved ignorant of such core constitutional notions as checks and balances, and majorities of 12th graders could not identify the use of the Census or knew which level of government to approach in order to influence public policy," writes Hamilton.

He concludes, "Only by spending time with people who think differently, learning how to listen to them and to seek common ground, do we truly learn what it takes to make a diverse republic work. It's only part of the equation to learn about the structure of government and civic involvement in school. To fulfill the role of citizen we must take personal responsibility for deploying our civic skills to make our neighborhoods and communities better places to live. 'The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen,' Justice Louis Brandeis once said. True, but only if we use our civic skills to deserve it."

You'll find the complete essay at the website of Ohio's Hillsboro Times-Gazette.

Now the director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University, Lee Hamilton returned to DePauw on March 15 to address "The U.S. Role in the World After Afghanistan and Iraq" in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture.  A summary including video clips can be accessed here.

Also available is this recent story.

June 2, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — John Jakes, bestselling author and 1953 graduate of DePauw University, has been elected to the Van Wezel Foundation's board of directors.  Based in Sarasota, Florida, the foundation's mission is "to enrich lives of members of the Gulf Coast community, with an emphasis on children, through the performing arts while supporting the needs of the Van Wezel -- the region's premier performing arts hall."

News of Jakes joining the board is noted in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

John Jakes has been called America's "godfather of the historical novel" by the Los Angeles Times. He has sold more than 50 million books, including 18 consecutive New York Times bestsellers and became the first author to have three books on the Times' list of top-selling books in a single year with The Kent Family Chronicles. His other books include On Secret Service, American Dreams, Savannah and the North and South trilogy, which was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning television miniseries in 1985.

In 2008, he received the South Carolina Art Commission's Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Governor's Award for the Arts for lifetime achievement.

"DePauw's goal, it seems to me, is to provide the best possible four year liberal arts education, but also an awareness of how much more there is to learn," Jakes said in the commencement address to DePauw's Class of 1995.  Learn more in this article.

June 2, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. —  Ernest J. "Ernie" Ford Jr., a respected journalist and former member of the DePauw University faculty, passed away yesterday. He was 70 years old.

Ford was born on June 7, 1940, in Salt Lake City, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Utah. After a lengthy career in print and broadcast journalism, Ford came to Greencastle in the spring of 1992 when he was named executive director of the Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ). The organization, which was founded by student-journalists at DePauw University as Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) in 1909, is the nation's most broad-based journalism organization. SPJ had its national headquarters in Greencastle in the 1990s.

"Ernie Ford was selected because of his strong management experience in broadcast and print journalism," said Georgiana Vines, assistant managing editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel and chair of the search committee, when Ford's appointment was announced.

Ford had served as SPJ's national president during 1991-92 before taking a paid post with the organization. He became a member of SPJ's national board of directors in 1984, when he was elected Region 9 director, and served as chair of the Ethics Committee, Publication Committee, and the Legal Defense Fund.

A regular lecturer to students in journalism classes and members of the DePauw Media Fellows program, Ford served as a part-time instructor in University Studies during the 2001-02 academic year. Ernie Ford and his wife, Linda, who survives, are also known to a generation of DePauw students as owners of the Fine Print Bookstore, which they operated on Greencastle's square for 15 years.

He also served as an adjunct instructor at the University of Utah, Brigham Young University and Utah State University. (photo, l-r: Ford and David Bohmer '69, director of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media Center and Media Fellows Program, with former The DePauw editors Eric Aasen '02 and Andrew Tangel '03)

"Ernie was a great teacher who helped his students understand the media industry and journalism," recalls Andrew Tangel, a 2003 DePauw graduate and former editor of The DePauw who now a reporter at New Jersey's Bergen Record. "A former investigative reporter himself, he seemed to relish asking tough questions at public meetings on campus and in town. He passed along tips to student journalists and encouraged them to be aggressive, hard-nosed reporters."

Before coming to Indiana, Ford's journalism career which included stints as managing editor of KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, assistant news director of KDFW-TV in Dallas, assistant city editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, wire editor of the Idaho Post-Register in Idaho Falls, and general assignment reporter for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City. He collected numerous journalism awards, including a 1980 Sigma Delta Chi award for broadcast public service, regional Emmys, the Eudora Welty Award and the DuPont Award. A strong advocate for the First Amendment and the rights of journalists, Ford testified before Congress in support of the Freedom of Information Act and organized a a petition drive that led move the U.S. Supreme Court to permit still cameras in the courtroom.

In 2006, Ford was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Daily Utah Chronicle, the University of Utah's student newspaper, where he cuts his reporting teeth as an undergraduate and later served as faculty adviser.

Ford served on the boards of the Putnam County Humane Society, Great Lakes Booksellers Association, served of president of Main Street Greencastle, and was a longtime supporter of the Putnam County Playhouse.

A celebration of Ernie Ford's life will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Putnam County Playhouse, 715 South County Road 100 East, Greencastle.

An obituary is accessible at the website of Greencastle's Banner-Graphic.

June 2, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — A new partnership between the Indiana cities of Marion and Kokomo designed to attract companies to the region "shows a level of collaboration and coordination, which businesses like to see," says Mitch Roob, Indiana's secretary of commerce and 1983 graduate of DePauw University. "They don't see borders between countries, let alone communities."

An Associated Press report on the Midwest Automotive Loop partnership notes, "General Motors Co., Chrysler, Delphi Electronics and Safety and Dana Holdings Corp. all have facilities in one or both of the cities in neighboring counties north of Indianapolis."

"We want to create the environment that if you're in the auto industry, this is the place to be," Marion Mayor Wayne Seybold says.

Read more at Bloomberg/Business Week's website.

E. Mitchell Roob Jr. provided the silver anniversary address to fellow members of the Class of 1983 at 2008's Alumni Reunion Weekend. A summary, including an MP3 file of Roob's speech, can be found in this story.

June 3, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Steven Rales, a 1973 graduate of DePauw University, is among the producers of an upcoming film, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Starring Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand, the film is currently in production with Lorene Scarfia directing. 

According to Variety, "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World explores what people will do when humanity's last days are at hand. Can one man find his greatest love at the worst possible time?"

The publication notes that Rales' production company, Indian Paintbrush, is also in production on Moonrise Kingdom, a Wes Anderson-directed picture which will starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, as well as an still-untitled film featuring James Gandolfini, Brad Garrett and Bella Heathcote.

Read more here.

Rales, the co-founder and chairman of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), previously produced The Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr. Fox, a film in which he also provided the voice for the character "Beaver."

A major gift by Steven Rales made possible DePauw University's Richard E. Peeler Art Center, which was dedicated in 2002.

June 3, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — In an Indianapolis Star summary of the area's high school graduation ceremonies, the preview of tonight's event at Park Tudor High School notes, "Fun fact: DePauw University President Brian Casey will speak at commencement." The school will award 104 diplomas at the 6 p.m. event. (photo: Dr. Casey, at right, talks with students on the DePauw campus)

Access the item at IndyStar.com.

Also available is this story from February.

Brian W. Casey was named DePauw's 19th president in 2008. He came to Greencastle from Harvard University, where he served as associate dean for academic affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Prior to that, he was assistant provost at Brown University.

In October 2010, Dr. Casey received the University of Notre Dame's Harvey G. Foster Award for his distinguished involvement in civic and university initiatives.

June 4, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — The New York Choral Artists, directed by Joseph Flummerfelt, a 1958 graduate of DePauw University, will among the performers heard in a national and international broadcast of The New York Philharmonic This Week on June 23.  The program will feature the New York Philharmonic Orchestra's production of Leoš Janácek's opera, The Cunning Little Vixen, which is being staged at Avery Fisher Hall, June 22-25.

An announcement of the radio program can be accessed here, with more information on the production here.

Joseph Flummerfelt, a 1958 graduate of DePauw University, has been called "the greatest choral conductor in the world" by Leonard Bernstein and was named 2004 "Conductor of the Year" by Musical America.  He's currently conducted the Spoleto USA production of The Medium, which opens tomorrow.

Flummerfelt returned to his alma mater in the spring of 2005 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor.

June 5, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "I just continue to be inspired by the efforts of students and young people who continue to respond and exceed expectations every time," says Steve Setchell, of the Putnam RISE School Challenge. The program honors schools for energy conservation efforts.  Setchell, director of corporate and foundation relations at DePauw and 1996 graduate of the University, is chairman of the Greencastle Sustainability Commission, which oversees RISE.

Local school corporations were honored at an event Friday which featured a speech by U.S. Senator Richard Lugar. "Cloverdale Community Schools won the challenge, cutting energy bills by 20 percent, or $12,731, during March and April," writes Jared Jernagan in the Banner-Graphic. "Greencastle Schools, which started an energy savings program five years ago, won the savings per square foot challenge, at $.14 per square foot." (photo below, l-r: Greencastle Mayor Sue Murray listens as Sen. Lugar addresses a crowd at The Inn at DePauw)

"This is one of the meaningful moments of connection between what we're doing in the community and the most important issues that we're facing in the world," Setchell tells the Banner-Graphic. "It's certainly an honor to have the recognition of Sen. Lugar, who came to make those connections and to recognize how our efforts match up with his aspirations for an energy efficient community, state and nation."

Read the complete story at the newspaper's website. Setchell is also quoted in the Evansville Courier & Press.

Setchell's efforts to make Greencastle "greener" were noted in an April 8 Bloomington Herald-Times article.

June 6, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and 1981 graduate of DePauw University, will be among the featured speakers at Web 2.0 2011. The theme of this year's event, which will take place October 17-19 in San Francisco, is "The Data Frame."

The sessions will focus "on the impact of data in today's networked economy," according to the event's website. "We live in a world clothed in data, and as we interact with it, we create more -- data is not only the web’s core resource, it is at once both renewable and boundless. Consumers now create and consume extraordinary amounts of data. Hundreds of millions of mobile phones weave infinite tapestries of data, in real time. Each purchase, search, status update, and check-in layers our world with more of it. How our industries respond to this opportunity will define not only success and failure in the networked economy, but also the future texture of our culture. And as we're already seeing, these interactions raise complicated questions of consumer privacy, corporate trust, and our governments' approach to balancing the two."

Read more here.  Also available is Meeker's online biography.

A psychology major at DePauw, Mary G. Meeker was a technology analyst and managing director at Morgan Stanley before joining Kleiner Perkins in November 2010. After earning a B.A. from DePauw, where she majored in psychology, Meeker received an M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University. She also holds an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from DePauw.

Her recent presentation on the nation's financial condition, "USA Inc.," "brought fresh thinking and new urgency to the nation's fiscal straits," noted a March 21 Christian Science Monitor editorial.

At the last fall's Web 2.0 conference, Meeker discussed the state of the Internet.

Meeker spoke at the Symposium for DePauw Entrepreneurs on October 6, 2001. A story which includes video and audio clips from that presentation can be accessed here.

June 6, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "Ken Owen, executive director of media relations at DePauw University and former WISH and WRTV news anchor/reporter, will emcee the June 15 ceremony" at which Carl Henn is honored as the 2011 "Indianapolis PR Legend," reports Inside Indiana Business. Owen, a 1982 graduate of DePauw, is a member of the Indianapolis Public Relations Society, which presents the award, and serves on IPRS' board of directors. (pictured at left: Ken Owen; below right: Carl Henn)

Henn is a World War II veteran who served as a journalist with the now-defunct Indianapolis Times and went on to a lengthy career in communications and public relations. Now 89, he remains active as executive producer of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis.

"The Indy PR Legend Award was first presented in 2008 to James R. Hetherington, long-time Indianapolis journalist and public relations executive. The 2009 honoree was Robert L. Gildea, senior vice-president of Sease, Gerig & Associates, and Myra Borshoff Cook, principal of Borshoff, was last year’s recipient," notes the article.

Formed in 1949, the Indianapolis Public Relations Society is a limited membership organization comprised of senior level public relations personnel.

Read more at Inside Indiana Business.com.

Ken Owen returned to DePauw in 2001 after two decades in TV news. Along his responsibilities to raise the University's external visibility, he coordinates the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series and the annual Monon Bell telecast. His efforts to make pieces of DePauw's past more relevant and accessible include the recent restoration of a 1941 admission film, and he has created "Monon Memories" of every football game between DePauw and Wabash College for the Monon Bell since the rivalry began in 1890. The video vignettes were the subject of features in the Chronicle of Higher Education and during HDNet's telecast of the 115th Monon Bell Classic in November 2008. (at left: Owen with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Oscar Arias outside of Asbury Hall; December 8, 2010)

A communication major and Rector Scholar at DePauw, where he delivered broadcasts over WGRE, Owen has taught journalism at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis and presently co-chairs the Annapolis Group communications committee.

Learn more in this recent article.

June 6, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "During a series of trips to Africa last year, Tim Solso had a realization: China was beating him at his own game," begins a story in today's Wall Street Journal. "So the chief executive of Cummins Inc., a maker of truck and machinery engines, vowed to catch up. He plans to quadruple the company's sales in Africa to about $1 billion within five years, investing $15 million annually to train staff and build sales offices from Johannesburg to Casablanca."

You'll find the full story -- "U.S. Companies Race to Catch Up in Africa " -- at the Journal's website.

Theodore M. "Tim" Solso, chairman and chief executive officer of Cummins Inc. and 1969 graduate of DePauw University, delivered the principal address to DePauw's Class of 2011 at the University's 172nd annual commencement on May 22. A summary of his address, "What Will Be My Contribution?," including links to video and audio clips, can be found here. The entire speech is available on YouTube.

Solso is the U.S. chairman of the U.S. – Brazil CEO Forum and serves on the board of the Initiative for Global Development, Earth University and the Earth University Foundation. Along with Bill Gates and other leading U.S. business executives, Solso is a member of the American Energy Innovation Council. He is a past member of DePauw's Board of Trustees. (at right: President Brian W. Casey presents Solso with an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree; May 22, 2011)

Solso was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2008, was honored in 2007 with the Anti-Defamation League's "Man of Achievement Award," as well as the 2007 International Executive of the Year award from the Academy of International Business (AIB), the 2007 Six Sigma CEO of the Year Award, and the American Business Award for "Best Chairman," and in early 2009 was awarded the William R. Laws Human Rights Award by the Human Rights Commission of Columbus, Indiana, where Cummins is headquartered.  In 2010 Barron's listed Solso as one of America's "30 Most Respected CEOs" and he was one of five finalists for MarketWatch's "CEO of the Decade."

June 6, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "DePauw freshman Paige Gooch (Beechwood) was named the National Golf Coaches Association Division III Freshman of the Year," reports the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Gooch was also named both the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Player and Freshman of the Year after posting six top-10 finishes in 11 tournaments."

Access the item at the newspaper's website.

Coach Vince Lazar was named the Division III Coach of the Year by the NGCA for the third time in his career after earning similar honors in both 2002 and 2004. Junior Taylor Beaty was named to the NGCA Division III All-America First Team.

DePauw's women's golf team finished fifth at the NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships, which took place in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. It was the Tigers 10th appearance at the tournament.

Learn more here.

June 7, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "The Greencastle Summer Music Festival continues Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church with a performance by DePauw School of Music faculty members Anne Reynolds (flute), Randy Salman (clarinet) and Leonid Sirotkin (oboe)," reports Greencastle's Banner-Graphic. "There is no admission charged but donations will be accepted." (photo: Professor Sirotkin)

The piece notes, "Salman is principal clarinetist with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra and currently serves as University Professor of Music and director of jazz studies at DePauw University. Reynolds studied flute with William Kincaid and performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra while still in high school. She is on the faculty of DePauw University where she is a member of the DePauw Woodwind Ensemble. Sirotkin is assistant professor of oboe at DePauw University and oboist with Fort Wayne Philharmonic."

Learn more about Wednesday's concert at the newspaper's website.

Founded in 1884, the DePauw University School of Music is one of the nation's oldest private institutions for post-secondary music instruction and the longest-running in Indiana. Learn more here.

June 7, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "The connection between the ocean and the brain 'is poorly studied and a tricky territory of discussion among scientists,' said Wallace J. Nichols, a noted sea turtle biologist and research associate at the California Academy of Sciences who organized the Bluemind Summit," notes a story in California's Santa Cruz Sentinel. Nichols, a 1989 graduate of DePauw University, is interviewed in connection with a recent conference.

"Among the connections considered were the similarity in chemical composition of the brain, body water and seawater, and the physical similarity of the flat expansive sea and the flat grasslands," writes Suzanne Bohan. "Considering the worldwide appeal of the ocean throughout the ages, it confounds Nichols that it has taken so long to take a serious scientific look at its neurological effects."

"The neuroscientists haven't thought about the ocean, remarkably," Dr. Nichols tells the newspaper. "Considering the ocean is three-quarters of the planet, it's kind of a big miss."

Bohan writes, "(Nichols) and other scientists described how the ocean instills a sense of safety, with its flat horizon that allows humans to spot any oncoming threats such as lions or warriors, and unlimited supply of water that's so essential to life. 'To the evolving mind, it's the cleanest savanna ever experienced,' said Nichols."

You can access the complete article at the newspaper's website.

Nichols, who goes by his middle initial, is responsible for pioneering research on the migration of sea turtles. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Scientific American, TIME and Newsweek, and he was seen in Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary, The 11th Hour. He returned to DePauw last spring to deliver the principal address to the University's Class of 2010, "You Are Lovers and Fighters."

June 8, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. —  A new sustainability initiative at DePauw University has been selected as a 2011 winner of the Ball Brothers Foundation Venture Fund competitive grant program. The $15,000 award will be used at DePauw to institute a first-of-its-kind program at an Indiana college, placing two student "Eco Reps" in each first-year residence hall to connect individual behaviors to environmental stewardship, promote environmentally-sound living, and act as liaisons to the greater DePauw and Greencastle communities.

DePauw is one of five Indiana independent colleges selected as recipients of the 2011 grants, which provide seed funding for start-up initiatives to stimulate creativity and innovation and foster competition and collaboration among the state’s 31 independent campuses. 

Established by the Ball Brothers Foundation (Muncie) and administered by Independent Colleges of Indiana, the Ball Brothers Foundation Venture Fund has disbursed more than $850,000 for 39 innovative initiatives on ICI campuses over the past thirteen years. The 2011 recipients were chosen by a panel of judges from a field of 26 proposals submitted by 15 ICI colleges and universities.

Read more at Inside Indiana Business.com.

Independent Colleges of Indiana, Inc. (ICI) is a nonprofit association that represents the state's 31 private nonprofit colleges and universities. ICI member institutions enroll more than 87,000 students (approximately 20 percent of all students statewide) and annually produce 35 percent of all bachelor's degrees in Indiana. For more information, click here.

DePauw University led the way in two categories in the nation's first real-time, nationwide electricity and water use reduction competition, Campus Conservation Nationals 2010.

Learn more about DePauw's sustainability initiatives here.