DePauw University

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DePauw University is a private university in Greencastle (Indiana), in the Midwestern United States. The University was founded in 1837 by the Methodist Church under the name of Indiana Asbury University had (named after Francis Asbury, the first American bishop of the Church ) donated and renamed in 1884 in honor of the entrepreneur Washington C. DePauw, the large sums of money to the University. The student population was 2,398 during the spring semester of 2008. As a so-called " liberal arts college" ( with restriction to undergraduate studies ) DePauw offers only bachelor's degrees, the academic focus is in addition to the humanities on journalism and music. The university has one of the oldest music schools in the United States and a journalists' association was founded in 1909 on the campus (Society of Professional Journalists ). From the journalism program at the University of numerous U.S. far successful journalists and newspaper entrepreneur Eugene C. Pulliam emerged.

DePauw University is home to the first fraternity for women ( sorrority ) in the USA and even today approximately 70 percent of all students are organized into fraternities. The football team ( the Depauw Tigers ) contributes annually since 1890 against the adjacent Wabash College one of the oldest local rivalries in college football from ( the Monon Bell Classic). The women's basketball crew was 2007 U.S. champion in college sports Division III.

The German Chancellor Willy Brandt spoke in 1990 as part of a traditional lecture series at DePauw. Well-known graduates of the University in addition to several journalists including the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1998 Ferid Murad, the former Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle, and the former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Deputy Chairman of the Commission of Investigation on the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 Lee Hamilton. Furthermore, the Administrator of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Karen Koning Abu Zayd, space shuttle astronaut Joseph P. Allen, President of the U.S. Department of coffee chain Starbucks, Jim Alling, soprano Pamela Coburn, the suffragette Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, as well as the chemist Percy Lavon Julian. Well-known journalists who studied at DePauw, include the Pulitzer Prize-winner James Bennett Stewart, the correspondent in the White House for the U.S. television network Fox News Channel Brett Baier and John McWethy, who worked at the television station ABC.

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  • Statistical data from the University of the University website
  • Historical data from the University website
  • Pictures for University History from the University website
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