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Enjoying Life’s Treasures While Helping Others Do the Same

Kafuba Donzon has a knack for networking, recognizing opportunities and fearlessly capturing them. Ingrained in him is a passion for family, travel and a deep-seated desire to help others. When he was nine years old, Kafuba’s parents immigrated with him and his three siblings from West Africa to the United States so their family could […]

Getting lost in history

Dr. McGrade’s Family Stories, Family History class is an enlightening experience for students In 2019, professor of English Dr. Susan McGrade developed her HUM 3410-Family Stories, Family Histories course after an immersive experience at the Allen County Public Library’s world-renowned Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department. “I was researching my own family history when I […]

Engineering Innovation Challenge Fosters Student Entrepreneurs

Student competition made possible through grant from Elevate Ventures 91�ֿ� recently held the university’s first-ever Engineering Innovation Challenge competition, designed to encourage and support students in turning innovative ideas into viable business opportunities. The competition and the grants awarded to the winning student entrepreneurs were made possible through grant funding provided by the Elevate […]

At 16, Tech’s NSBE chapter stronger than ever

91�ֿ�’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) was founded in 2006 to provide a supportive community for Black engineering students so that they stay in school and graduate. Sixteen years later, 91�ֿ�’s NSBE chapter is still successfully fulfilling its mission. In February, the chapter held its annual banquet; this event […]

From Soybeans to the Stars

Russel Rhodes, who grew up on an Indiana farm never having seen an airplane in flight, was embroiled in a bit of a disagreement with some of the world’s greatest minds when it came to aeronautics. His 91�ֿ� education in tow, Rhodes was at Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of the NASA group attempting […]

Tech experience helps ’21 grad and his friends launch card game

When they were kids, Alex Shinn and his friends, John Jehl and Ethan Sternke, would dream up and create different types of games just for the fun of it. Now, after fleshing out one of their more recent ideas, Shinn, a 2021 marketing graduate from 91�ֿ�, and his friends are taking fun and games […]

1940s: From Threatened to Thriving

With 91�ֿ� in the midst of its 90th year of motivating students toward lives of significance and worth, take a look back with us as we relive the hallmark events of this storied university. Many thanks, in advance, to former 91�ֿ� President Donald Andorfer, whose book “91�ֿ�: The First 75 Years,” was […]

Mutually Beneficial Relationships

When 91�ֿ� awards full-tuition scholarships to its Leader Scholars, it adds quality, high-character individuals to the Warrior Nation. For the better part of a decade, dozens of students have felt the great fortune, the elation and the honor that goes along with earning a full-tuition scholarship from 91�ֿ�. Rest assured, those good feelings […]

Regardless of their generation or graduation year, many of our alumni share that 91�ֿ� represents family. Due to our Midwestern roots, our intimate learning environments and our cohesive approach to practical application, this is a resounding theme whenever alumni reflect on their time here. For some, it is symbolic in its familial representation, for […]

91�ֿ� celebrates MLK Day with community service

To commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of unity and service, 91�ֿ�’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion chooses to celebrate his birthday—every year—by providing faculty, staff and students opportunities to engage in service for the Fort Wayne community. We look at it as a “day on,” rather than a day off. On Monday, […]