Publishing is the academic currency of the scientific world and increasingly important for grad school applications, and Associate Professor of Biology Heidi Walsh’s student got an infusion of career building capital when […]
Faculty News and Notes
Professor Emeritus of English Warren Rosenberg was named an honorary alumnus by the National Association of Wabash Men during last fall’s Homecoming Chapel. Here’s the citation read to celebrate his joining the […]
Professor of Rhetoric Todd McDorman’s chapter, “#14 Forever: Nostalgia, Pete Rose, and the Cincinnati Reds,” appears in Reputational Challenges in Sport: Theory and Application, published by Routledge.
The first economist to give the LaFollette Lecture in the Humanities finds common ground between the disciplines. It may be no coincidence that it took nearly four decades for an economist to […]
Professor Emeritus of Classics Joe Day was the Haines-Morris Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville March 22 to 23, presenting a formal talk (Elegy into Epigram: Why Elegiac Meter became Dominant in […]
Associate Dean of Students Marc Welch ’99 presented “Learning to Laugh and Laughing to Learn in the L2” at The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 100th annual conference in Salamanca, […]
In his new book, Tobey Herzog dives into an award-winning author’s feints and contradictions and surfaces with a revelation for the literary world. The day after he retired, Professor of English Emeritus […]
A grant from the National Science Foundation is expanding Psychology Department Chair Karen Gunther’s research on color vision. Karen Gunther wanted to be an artist when she grew up. She made her […]
“I so enjoyed this process because it was a conversation throughout—like a little classroom or think tank.” Associate Professor of Classics Bronwen Wickkiser is talking about her latest book and her work […]
1. When reading took hold in Germany in the late 1700s, a group of German intellectuals warned that it endangers your body and mind. They believed that books, particularly works of narrative […]
Associate Professor of German Greg Redding’s article on Indiana’s Shades State Park has earned the 2017 Jacob P. Dunn Award from the Indiana Historical Society. “The Shades of Death: Joseph W. Frisz […]
Late last spring Richard Paige interviewed Associate Professor Michele Pittard, this year’s winner of the College’s highest honor for faculty—the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award. Some moments from their conversation: You were […]