The Bluffton University women's soccer team snapped a string of six straight setbacks with a 2-1 victory at Oberlin College on Tuesday, Sept. 25, under the lights. Aimee Whitmer's (Grand Rapids/Otsego) first score of the season came just four minutes after Oberlin knotted the contest early in period two and the Beaver defense made it hold up as Bluffton moved to 2-6. The home team stayed winless at 0-8-1.
How social media can affect every aspect of a person’s life will be Tiffany Sellers’ topic for a Bluffton University Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, in Bluffton’s Founders Hall.
Her presentation, “How Technology Impacts the Pieces of Me,” is free and open to the public.
“Art and Soul: A Collaboration of Spirits,” a collection of drawings by 1989 Bluffton alumna Joanne Von Sossan, will be on display beginning Monday, Oct. 1, in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of the university’s Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The exhibit is free and open to the public through Oct. 26. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. A reception with the artist will be held from 9:30-11 a.m. Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 13.
Tickets are still available for the next performance in the 2012-13 Bluffton University Artist Series, by the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Rehearsals for Bluffton University’s 117th performance of Handel’s “Messiah” will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesdays, beginning Oct. 2, in the Gilliom Room of Mosiman Hall. Anyone interested in singing, from high school students to adults, is welcome to join the rehearsals, which will lead to the traditional Advent-season performance at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, in Founders Hall.
Bluffton University’s Homecoming weekend, Oct. 12-14, will feature the dedication of the newest campus building, the Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education.
The 60,000-square-foot Sommer Center, which will offer enhanced facilities for all students when it opens later this fall, will be dedicated during a short ceremony beginning at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.
