Faculty News and Notes

Professor Nate Marshall’s first book is “testament to home, to struggle, and to survival . . . a reminder of the places most people would rather forget.” VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of English […]

Read More - Marshall Wins Poetry Prize, Lauds for First Book

In this first of a series of illustrated excerpts exploring the vocations and talents of alumni, faculty, and staff, Professor Martin Madsen tells the Wabash On My Mind podcast when and how he first knew […]

Read More - Early Leanings: Physics Professor Martin Madsen

In a candid, relaxed, and light-hearted conversation with Rich Paige, a Wabash Pep Band veteran, a current student, and a Classics professor/alumnus talk about the resurgence of the Wabash Pep Band. “I […]

Read More - “Playing Our Hearts Out”

An interview with Wabash LaFollette Professor of the Humanities Emeritus Raymond Williams H’68 is featured on PBS this Valentine’s Day Sunday as Religion and Ethics explores the National Geographic Sacred Journeys exhibit […]

Read More - Williams and Sacred Journeys on PBS

The artist’s boyhood best friends drove in from California and Wisconsin. Former students came from as far as Washington State and as close by as Marion, IN. His mother was there, and […]

Read More - Calisch’s 35 Retro: An Artistic Homecoming

A textbook published in October by three Wabash professors and a former teacher at the College offers a new approach to public speaking that ties it directly to civic engagement and participation […]

Read More - “Taking Responsibility for Communication”

Wabash College Dean and Professor of Chemistry Scott Feller was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in June to study a protein involved in the initial steps of vision. The five-year, […]

Read More - NSF Grant Funds Dean Feller’s Continuing Research

Professor of Religion Robert Royalty’s book The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity was published in paperback in June. Originally published in hardcover in […]

Read More - “The Origin of Heresy”

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Jeff Drury presented “The Rhetoric of Rogue Ethos: Chris Christie’s Swing from ‘Boss’ to ‘Bully,’” at the Central States Communication Association Convention in Madison, WI in April. The presentation mirrored […]

Read More - “From Boss to Bully”

Trying to Understand the Fundamental Rules Governing Our World The 36th LaFollette Lecture October 30, 2015 by Dennis E. Krause I’m deeply honored to be speaking this afternoon.  I was surprised and […]

Read More - Grappling with the Quantum

To mark his retirement from the Wabash classroom, Professor of Chemistry Richard Dallinger delivered a farewell lecture on October 23—which chemists celebrate as “Mole Day” from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. to […]

Read More - Standing O for a Master Teacher

“Banning books is one of the most absurd of human pursuits,” poet and Wabash Professor Emeritus Marc Hudson said Monday during a Banned Books Week reading at Indianapolis’s Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. […]

Read More - Celebrating the Right to Read