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Ides of August Presented on Friday
Wabash College’s annual Ides of August program will be presented in Hays Science Hall, Room 104, Friday, August 22. The Ides of August is the College’s traditional forum for faculty and staff members to discuss their recent projects.     more >>>

2008 Division I Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes
Division I (The Sciences) has announced the following awards given at a recent Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel held at the College.     more >>>

2008 Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes: Division I
Division I (The Sciences) has announced the following awards given at a recent Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel held at the College.     more >>>

ChemPhys Demonstration Roaring Success
Chemistry and Physics professors and students took time during dead week to show the campus community why they enjoy science. If it could freeze, explode, break, glow, or heat up the room it found its way into the demonstration.     more >>>

Liberal Arts Inspires "Entrepreneurial Spirit"
Twenty Wabash entrepreneurs who believe that their liberal arts education was the best preparation for the work they love are interviewed in the new issue of Wabash Magazine.     more >>>

Basic Chem and Physics: All You Need to Know
Meeting the world’s long-term energy needs won’t necessarily require brilliant science, according to Dr. Sarah Keller of the University of Washington. Keller, the 2008 Haines Lecturer in Biochemistry, told a lunchtime crowd that the decisions that will have to be made with regard to energy sources are much more difficult.     more >>>

Haines Lecture in Biochemistry Given by Sarah Keller
Sarah L. Keller will give the Haines Lecture in Biochemistry on April 3 and 4.     more >>>

Energy Class Experiments with Wind Power
On a day when others were scampering out of the cold, students in the Chemistry and Physics Departments' Alternative Energy class were out on the Wabash mall testing the wind generators they built.     more >>>

Pat Millikan, Steven Rhodes Earn Top Honors
An All-Conference lineman taking an unconventional route to medical school and an award-winning chemist who worked for the National Institutes of Health have been presented with the College’s top honors for graduates.     more >>>

Ecologist Strives to Protect, Restore Chesapeake Bay
Run-off from land development is even more destructive to water quality than agriculture, says Smithsonian Environmental Research Center ecologist Dennis Whigham ’66.     more >>>

Scientist Cites Ethical Imperative for Modified Crops
Considering their benefits and safety in a world increasing in population, Dr. Gary Bannon claims "an ethical imperative" to expand the use of genetically modified crops.     more >>>

Bannon ’76 to Give Haines Biochemistry Lectures
Gary Bannon ’76, one of the College’s most acclaimed biochemists, will return to his alma mater today to give two public lectures as part of the Haines Biochemistry Lecture Series.     more >>>

Ramachandran Lecture CANCELED
One of the nation’s most esteemed and popular neurologist and neuroscientist, Vilanayur Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., was scheduled to give a lecture on campus Monday evening. Due to health problems, Dr. Ramachandran's visit has been canceled.     more >>>

Indiana Seeking to Become Bio-Fuels Leader
Reynolds, Indiana is positioned squarely at the intersection of state highways 24 and 43. Through the years the hamlet of just 547 people really hasn’t been known for much – except Solly’s Steakhouse, perhaps. But if Indiana agricultural and energy leaders are right, Reynolds could become a model town for villages and cities around the world.     more >>>

Wabash Student Releases CD
Wabash student Taz Ahmed and his band Ajob have released their debut CD.     more >>>

Science Students Intern at Nation's Top Research Centers
Six Wabash Students are spending their summers immersed in fascinating science-related internships. We've asked those students to tell us about their summer learning in a new academic blog, "Summers in Science."     more >>>

Mackintosh Fellows Named at Awards Chapel
The George Lewes Macktintosh Fellows were named at a recent Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel held at the College.     more >>>

Science Department Names Honorees at Awards Chapel
Division I (The Sciences) has announced the following awards given at a recent Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel held at the College.     more >>>

Geoffrey Coates '89 Earns Professor Status at Cornell
Geoffrey Coates, ’89, and his Cornell University research team have found a way to produce plastics using oranges and carbon dioxide. We have several new profiles of students, faculty/staff, and alumni to post to our website over the next few weeks. We are debuting some of those profiles on our homepage.     more >>>

Scott Feller Receives Part of Nanomedicine Research Grant
Imagine a future where you take a capsule filled with tiny devices that can diagnose your illness. Or you’re battling cancer and doctors use a microscopic device to deliver medicine only to the cancerous cells. Wabash College Asociate Professor of Chemistry Scott Feller is a member of a team of researchers that recently received a five-year, $6.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health.     more >>>

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