Dear Alumni and Friends,
Greetings from Greencastle and happy Women's History Month! There are so many good things happening this month as we celebrate the contributions of women on campus.
In honor of International Women's Day on March 8, the Women's Center and |
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International Student Affairs organized a student panel discussion on growing up in a gendered world. Our student panelists shared their experiences from six countries including Vietnam, South Africa, Brazil, Japan, Pakistan, and the United States.
Another way we are elevating women's voices on campus is through Conversations with Women Leaders, a new program from the School of Business and Leadership in partnership with the Women's Center and in collaboration with several programs and departments across campus. The initiative includes a series of live events and a podcast that highlight and amplify women's accomplishments. You can listen on all of the major podcast streaming platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.
Looking ahead, we will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the DePauw Women's Center on September 24, 2024, with a very special Conversations with Women Leaders panel discussion featuring President White and members of Cabinet. To stay up to date on what's happening on campus, follow us on our brand new Instagram account.
Tiger Pride,
Sarah Ryan, Women's Center Director
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Students presented a panel discussion on International Women's Day. |
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Summer Is Calling. Where Will You Be This June? |
Registration is now open and the schedule is live for your Bold and Gold Alumni Reunion Weekend. Join us on campus June 6-9 to reminisce, connect, and celebrate. |
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Make a Gift, Get Your Eclipse Shades! |
We have just a few pairs of DePauw-themed eclipse-viewing glasses as a gift for alumni and friends who donate $20.24 or more to our DePauw DeClipse campaign by Friday, March 15.
Please consider joining the tradition of generosity that keeps DePauw flourishing for current and future generations. |
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Reflections on a Vintage DePauw Eclipse Experiment |
On April 8, a solar eclipse will grace Greencastle and the DePauw University campus as the path of totality crosses the globe. Not so many years ago in 1970, several students and faculty members were also preparing for a total solar eclipse in true DePauw fashion – through critical thinking, applied science, collaboration, and ingenuity. |
Steve Koob ’71 was one of the students who worked under physics professor Paul Kissinger and mathematics professor Joseph Corbett to build a 30-foot parabolic wooden dish reflector to capture radio signals emanating from the sun during the total solar eclipse. Koob, who had skipped a few grades in school to enter as a 16-year-old first-year student, followed his music major brother to DePauw. His interest was in becoming an archaeologist, but that didn’t deter him from pursuing several other passions and curiosities, including a love of astronomy. |
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When he found out about the project to construct the radio dish reflector during Winter Term, the Greek and Latin major jumped at the chance to participate and became one of the main contributors. Other students involved in the project were Wally Hunt ’70, Bob Reiner ’70, and Joe Ting ’70. |
There was such a buzz on campus about the project, even the Air Force ROTC program director, Lt. Col. Bill Hendrickson, got involved and arranged for the transport of the disassembled reflector, faculty, and students via a military C-47 aircraft to Seymour-Johnson Air Force base in Goldsboro, North Carolina, where the experiment would unfold. The Air Force also became a critical partner in the process of unloading and reassembling the reflector.
The objective of the project was to create a radio map of the sun’s surface. According to Professor Corbett, the project succeeded on March 9, 1970, in recording the moments at which three different sunspots were covered and uncovered as the moon obscured the sun’s surface, the instant at which totality occurred, and the moment at which eerie “shadow bands” swept across the Air Force base and the baseball field where the dish was erected.
“It was really a terrific adventure. There's nothing in your life that is the same as seeing a total eclipse of the sun,” Koob said from his home in New York where he has been the Chief Conservator for the Corning Museum of Glass, the world’s largest glass museum.
Throughout his career, at the Smithsonian Institution and later the Corning Museum of Glass, Steve worked extensively in archaeological conservation, spending most of his summers for 30 years on archaeological sites in Greece and Turkey. He says his career was certainly initiated and directed by his studies in the Classics Department at DePauw.
Since his retirement in 2020, he is now Chief Conservator Emeritus. He has also volunteered his expertise on archeological glass conservation in Lisbon, Portugal, and Beirut, Lebanon, where he helped recover the archaeological glass damaged in the 2020 harbor explosion.
For additional insight to his expertise, we noted some years back in the DePauw Magazine that he published a book, Care and Conservation of Glass Objects, 2006, Archetype Books, in Association with the Corning Museum of Glass.
This April 8, he plans to stay close to home, where he can see the total eclipse, just an hour away in Geneseo, New York. |
Black and white photos courtesy of DePauw University Archives and Special Collections. |
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Tenzer Technology Center open house.
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DePauw Opera presents "The LIttle Prince."
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Alternate cast of "The LIttle Prince."
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Ernest R. Smith Professor of Geosciences and Chair of the Geology and Environmental Geosciences Dept. Tim Cope and Science Research Fellows experiment with drone flights at the DePauw Nature Park.
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NOMINATIONS CLOSE SOON!
Click here to nominate a Tiger for the Old Gold Goblet, Young Alumni Award, or an Alumni Citation before March 31, 2024. |
Calling all DePauw alumni from each decade to join the ride and compete for the coveted title of our Little 5: Tour DePauw champion! |
Pedal down memory lane and support the legacy of DePauw University with Tour DePauw -- a biking, social media, and fundraising campaign leading up to the annual Little 5 bicycle race on April 20, 2024!
Watch for updates via email and on Facebook and Instagram. |
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Dennis Trinkle '91 to receive global leadership award |
TechPoint Vice President Dennis Trinkle '91, who last month made a presentation on artificial intelligence at the DePauw Alumni Indy Downtown Lunch Series, will recieve the Internet 2.0 Conference Outstanding Leadership Award for his contributions to technology and education. |
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