Bluffton University will host its annual Academic Awards Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 24, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Students to be honored include graduating seniors in the Honors Program, C. Henry Smith Scholars and Pi Delta inductees, as well as departmental award recipients, who are recognized as distinguished senior scholars.
Denise Durenberger, assistant professor of business at Bluffton University, will host a panel discussion on entrepreneurship and business incubation on Friday, April 20. Free and open to the public, the colloquium will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
The Bluffton University Gospel Choir will present "A Night of Praise" beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 21, in Yoder Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public; a free-will offering will be taken during intermission to help offset concert costs.
The 65-voice choir, which comprises campus and community members, will be accompanied by 21 instrumentalists. Among them is drummer Wesley Sellers, the brother of Dr. Crystal Sellers, the assistant professor of music at Bluffton who formed the choir in 2010 and remains its director.