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Theatre Performances Announced
Otterbein College Theatre ends its season with a production for the young and the young-at-heart with the beloved classic Peter Pan. The production will run May 22-25 and 29-31, in the Fritsche Theatre in Cowan Hall, 30 S. Grove St., Westerville. More information.

Summer Theatre has announced its summer theatre schedule. Performances include Indian Blood (an Ohio premiere), Proof, and My Way, a musical tribute to Frank Sinatra.

Photo of the staircase of an abandoned apartment

Abandoned Apartment, Buchenstrasse, Dresden, Germany. 2005.©Fredrik Marsh 2005.

Otterbein Art Lecturer Fredrik Marsh Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
Photographer Fredrik Marsh, a senior lecturer at Otterbein College, is the recipient of a 2008 fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Marsh is the first Guggenheim Fellow in the history of Otterbein College.

Commenting on the project that he proposed, Marsh said "My project is Vanishing Voices, Disappearing Neighborhoods: The Price of Modernization in China, and will involve photographing older neighborhoods of Guangzhou in the wake of their inevitable imminent destruction as the Chinese government continues their massive modernization through 'Smash the old; Build the new,' despite the loss of culture and displacement of entire neighborhood populations." Press release.

Artist's rendering of the new science facility

Nationwide Foundation Awards $700,000 to Otterbein College
The Nationwide Foundation recently awarded a gift of $700,000 to Otterbein College for funding a classroom/laboratory suite within the new science center that will serve both the College and the Central Ohio community.

Otterbein began construction in June 2007 on a $20 million project to modernize and expand the current science facilities and equipment. The science programs are housed in two buildings: McFadden Hall, built in 1919, and Schear Hall, constructed in 1970. The renovation of McFadden Hall is now complete (see photos of the finished structure here). Construction on Schear Hall is ongoing (see monthly updates here).