The Boulder
Diversity & Inclusion
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Biology Student Wins Scholarship to Study in Peru
A DePauw University junior has won a highly competitive scholarship that will enable her to study in Peru during spring semester.
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100 Years Later, Student-Created Website Gives Julian His Due
A hundred years since he graduated from DePauw University as class valedictorian, 84 years since his alma mater denied him a tenure-track faculty position and almost 40 years since it named its science and math building after him, Percy L. Julian ’20 is being recognized at DePauw for his considerable accomplishments as a chemist.
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Deonna Craig ’04
A job as a production assistant on The Jerry Springer Show turned her off from her planned career in television. A career investigating insurance fraud followed.
But Deonna Craig ’04 needed something more.
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Rafael Toro-Quiñones ’96
Music was a big deal in the Puerto Rican household in which Rafael Toro-Quiñones grew up. So was aviation.
“All my brothers, all three of them, had something to do with airplanes and something to do with music,” he said. “It was kind of part of the family, honestly. The difference is, I’m the only one who took it professionally.”
And that explains why today he is a major in the U.S. Air Force and commander/conductor of its Heritage of America Band, based in Virginia, and its Heartland of America Band, based in Nebraska. He spends off-duty hours flying little airplanes.
But there’s more to the story.
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Joshua Thompson ’04
It took several years and a circuitous route before Joshua A. Thompson ’04 said, “I got over myself and my insecurities and my fears and put myself back out there as a performing artist.”
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Pharez Whitted ’82
Pharez Whitted ’82 grew up in a household steeped in music, overflowing with musicians, marinated in jazz.
“For us, music is a part of your life,” he said. “It’s a part you don’t really get away from it. You don’t think of it in terms of separate.”
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