DePauw News & Stories

The heavy storms that rolled through Greencastle on the final day of Little 5 week might have altered the race schedule and added a few puddles to this year’s course, but they didn’t dampen the spirit of one of DePauw’s most anticipated annual traditions.

Four 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.

Greencastle, Indiana – April 7, 2025 – Monday morning, the Greencastle community gathered at Music on the Square for a heartfelt celebration of National Main Street Day, hosted by Main Street Greencastle and Growing Green and Gold Together (GGaGT). The Downtown Business Breakfast brought together entrepreneurs, city officials, and community leaders for a morning of connection, reflection, and exciting announcements.

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. 

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.

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.