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Morillo Lectures at NKU Wednesday
History Professor Stephen Morillo has been invited to give a lecture on the world history of piracy as part of Northern Kentucky University’s Military History Lecture Series on Veterans Day, November 11.     more >>>

What’s Happening at Wabash College in November-December
This monthly calendar is for the purpose of letting you know What's Happening on campus of Wabash College.       more >>>

Kicking the Leaves with Jud Scott ’80
Jud Scott ’80, one of only two registered consulting arborists in Indiana, shows us one of his favorite trees—the 134-year-old Benjamin Harrison Oak in Indianapolis.      more >>>

What's Happening at Wabash in October
This monthly calendar is for the purpose of letting you know What's Happening on campus of Wabash College. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.     more >>>

Hollowell's "Allah's Garden" a "Powerful Narrative"
Growing up in tiny Gessie, Indiana, former Peace Corps volunteer Thomas Hollowell ’00 has parleyed his English major and liberal arts education into adventure, a writing career, and his first book, "Allah's Garden."      more >>>

What’s Happening at Wabash College September 2009
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Celebrate the Arts 2009-2010!
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Alumni Storytelling Effort Launches New Website
Wabash Stories, the grassroots story-gathering effort begun earlier this year by a group of Wabash College alumni, has launched a new Web site to make it easier for more Wabash men to share their stories.     more >>>

Let the Stories Begin
Professor and Dean Emeritus Vic Powell H’55 got the 2009 Big Bash off to an early start Thursday as he sat with Archivist Beth Swift as the first guest of this year's Scarlet Yarns, the College's project to record on digital video the stories of Wabash alumni from their days at the College. The Big Bash officially begins today.     more >>>

2009 Division III Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes
Division III (The Social Sciences) has announced the following awards given at a recent Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel held at the College.     more >>>

Vasquez, Students Visit Ropkey Armor Musuem
Dr. Paul Vasquez recently took a group of his students to Crawfordsville's Ropkey Armor Museum. Know Indiana Funds helped make the trip possible. See photos here of the class visit.     more >>>

Hickerson ’09 Published in Traces Magazine
Senior rhetoric major Derek Hickerson’s article about one of Indiana’s earliest African-American legislators has been published in the Winter 2009 edition of Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History.     more >>>

FYI: Reynolds Offers Different Taste on World History
Distinguished professors, authors, and other notables make their way to Wabash College throughout the academic year. Northern Kentucky University's Jonathan Reynolds shared his research Thursday night on food and world history.     more >>>

What's Happening at Wabash College in April
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Johnson Shares Insight Into National Intelligence Agency
Dr. Loch Johnson spent an hour Tuesday, while visiting Wabash classrooms Tuesday and Wednesday, enlightening students, faculty, and staff on the vast reach, responsibilities, and failures of the CIA.     more >>>

Drood by Simmons ’70 Another Bestseller
Dan Simmons' historical novel about Charles Dickens' final years has earned bestseller status, but the writer of Drood continues hard at work on his next book.     more >>>

Stewart Gordon to Give Talk at Wabash
Wabash College History Department will host Stewart Gordon who will lecture on “Networks of Trust: From a Seventh Century Buddhist Monk to Facebook.” His talk will take place at 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 25, in Lovell Lecture Room (101) in Baxter Hall.     more >>>

Immersion in Italy — St. Francis of Assisi
Tim Cheek — We even saw the tomb of St. Francis in a chapel under the lower church. It was a very humbling experience to think of the religious pilgrims whom traveled such great distances to see what we were seeing.     more >>>

Immersion in the European Union — Belgium/Germany
With their immersion trip over, several students reflected on learning about the European Union first hand.     more >>>

Immersion in the Baroque — Spain
Miguel Aguilar — The fact that he plays with the viewer by making the viewer part of the painting and pointing the attention to the audience creates the illusion that Velazquez is painting you. The illusion the painting creates has led it to be known as one of the best paintings of Western Europe.     more >>>

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