Today marks Tom Runge’s last day as Director of Alumni and Parent Programs at Wabash and the beginning of a deeply-deserved retirement and third career into what will likely be an even fuller […]
Archives: March, 2016
“There are always twists and turns in life,” Dennis Dean ’73 told students and faculty Tuesday in Hays Hall as he delivered the Haines Lecture in Biochemistry. “Some of your worst experiences […]
A landmark book Kirkus Reviews calls “a thorough look at the dissension that tore the country apart,” Daniel Crofts’ Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of […]
Richard Paige—Professors Joyce Burnette and Ethan Hollander may not have won their respective races Crawfordsville City Council last fall, but both learned a great deal about themselves and their community. They hope […]
In an era of climate change, disease outbreaks, and rapidly advancing technology, understanding science is more important than ever. Yet scientists and the general public often don’t seem to speak the same […]
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility, written by Gregory Clark with Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Daniel Diaz Vidal, Yu Hao, and Neil Cummins, won the 2015 […]
Byron K Trippet Assistant Professor of Philosophy Matt Carlson‘s paper on “Logic and the Structure of the Web of Belief” was published in the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. The main […]
BKT Assistant Professor of History Sabrina Thomas presented her paper, “An American Responsibility: Pearl S. Buck and the Amerasian Homecoming Act,” at the Pearl S. Buck Historical Symposium in Zhenjiang, China, in […]
In November, Professor of Classics Emeritus Joseph Day joined three other senior Classicist speakers to address a one-day symposium at Washington University in St. Louis celebrating the retirement of Professors Robert Lamberton and […]
Associate Professor of Spanish Jane Hardy’s recent research has studied the effects of the Extensive Reading (ER) approach to second language acquisition, and she presented “Student Created Reading Materials in University Spanish […]
It will still take quite a while for Cubans to see the change Obama waxed about. But before his visit it really did seem to most of them that their only option […]
Luke Zinsmaster ’12 married Rachel Geer on October 17, 2015, in downtown Indianapolis. Groomsmen were best man, John Holm, John Pennington, Andrew Swart, Jeremy Coons, and David Hauck. Luke and the groomsmen […]