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( Valparaiso University)
Valparaiso University, known colloquially as Valpo, is a regionally accredited[2] private university located in the city of Valparaiso in the U.S. state of Indiana. Founded in 1859, it consists of five undergraduate colleges, a graduate school, and a law school. Valparaiso University is owned and operated by the Lutheran University Association, a non-profit corporation, and is the largest independent Lutheran university in the United States. Valparaiso is located an hour southeast of downtown Chicago and is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is also 15&_160;miles (24&_160;km) south of Lake Michigan and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The 320-acre (1.3&_160;km2) campus as well as its main entrance are located off U.S. Highway 30 on the south side of the city and is the site of over sixty buildings and a number of academic resources. The Old Campus of Valparaiso University is both adjacent to and a part of the historic downtown district of the city. Old Campus is the site of the School of Law, which is made up of Wesemann Hall and Heritage Hall. Heritage was the oldest remaining building on the campus, and was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In 2009, the school started a restoration project, only to tear down the building down and then rebuild it. The school's fraternities, the Martin Luther King Cultural Center, and the Kade-Duesenberg German House and Cultural Center are all also located in old campus. The city and the University have grown together over a century and a half. Beginning in the 1950s, the school expanded eastward to occupy what is now known as New Campus. It is part time home to thousands of students living in nine residence halls. The campus is not laid out in a vehicular grid as the rest of the city, but as a pedestrian campus of winding walkways and distinctly landscaped areas. At the center of campus is the Chapel of the Resurrection, a 98-foot (30&_160;m) high building which is the home of Valparaiso University's many worship services and convocations. Built on the highest elevation of land on the university's campus, it has been a Northwest Indiana landmark since 1959. The Neils Science Center was erected in 1974 and includes an astronomical observatory, greenhouse, and a sub-critical nuclear reactor which helped the facility receive an Atomic Energy Commission citation as a model undergraduate physics laboratory. The newly built Christopher Center Library houses over 350,000 books and numerous video and audio resources. The Valparaiso University Center for the Arts (VUCA) offers multiple performance facilities, which are most notably used by students to produce full scale theatrical performances every year. The performances and exhibits in the Center for the Arts are always open to the public, and the Center houses the nationally renowned Brauer Museum of Art. The school also hosts WVUR-FM, the university's student-run radio station. The new Kallay-Christopher Hall, adjoined to the Schnabel Hall communication building, is home to the Department of Geography and Meteorology. As of the summer of 2006, it has an observation deck and large weather lab facilities, and plans to complete installation of a Doppler weather radar by January 2007. The radar is currently operational. The College of Engineering has both a 16-inch (410&_160;mm) computerized reflecting telescope to aid in NASA research and VisBox-X2, a virtual reality system used to immerse students in a visualized three dimensional image. The College of Nursing uses SIMMAN, a robotic patient simulator used to train students in real life treatment.
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