March 09, 2017
DeKalb High School students, from left, Jarrett Reese, Garrett Newhard and Reed Hansen perform Thursday, March 9, in Wells Theater inside Taylor Hall on the Trine University campus. The students in DeKalb High School English teacher Diedre Van Straten’s Senior Seminar class wrote one-act plays based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Trine University students and faculty provided an audience as the students presented their plays in reader’s theater format. (Photo by Dean Orewiler)
Mitch Daniels, former governor of the state of Indiana and former president of Purdue University, shared advice with graduates he said were entering a world he described as “the most promising and most uncertain and treacherous” as Trine University held Commencement ceremonies on May 2.
Michaela Doiron hopes to one day design prosthetics for children or veterans, and the Trine University biomedical engineering major has made two big strides toward that dream.
Trine University’s annual Trine Day, a celebration of the university as well as an opportunity to support its mission, set records for number of donors and funds raised, bringing in more than $160,000 for scholarships, academic and athletic needs, and student organizations.