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Associate Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair Laura Wysocki began this year's Ides of August faculty research presentations with her talk, “Tell Me What Happened! Oral Lab Reports in Organic Chemistry.”

Associate Professor of Political Science and Department Chair Shamira Gelbman asks some follow-up questions after Wysocki’s presentation.

The Ides of August is a decades-old tradition that brings Wabash faculty together at the end of the summer to discuss their personal scholarship and research.

Faculty appreciate the chance to hear about their fellow teachers' latest research and scholarship.

Associate Professor of Economics Peter Mikek presented “Flipped Classroom Pedagogy in Macroeconomics.” His research concluded that the flipped classroom model, which is a type of blended learning where students are introduced to content at home and practice working through it in class, does not improve students’ academic performance and grade outcomes.

Professor of Physics and Department Chair Dennis Krause presents “When a Part is Larger than the Whole: A Tale from the Forbidden Region.”

Nikolai Jones ’24 attended Ides of August, and watched Krause’s presentation. Jones interned with the physics professor this summer and explored the consequences of a quantum particle being in the forbidden region of a potential.

Research and Instruction Librarian Beth Daniel Lindsay listens closely to her colleagues presentations before giving her own talk titled, “Open and Affordable Educational Resources at Wabash.”

James Proszek, Visiting Instructor of Rhetoric and WDPD Program Associate, spoke of how teaching the students about the process of civic mapping are skills connected to community building in his talk, 'Building Healthy Communities Through Civic Mapping.'

Professor of Chemistry Wally Novak and Erika Sorensen-Kamakian, Assistant Professor of Biology, presented in tandem, 'LOCKR: Using De Novo Designated Protein Switches in C. elegans.'

Neil Schmitzer-Torbert, Professor of Psychology, gets a better angle on one of the visuals presented, as Wabash President Scott Feller looks on (rear).

In the NSF-sponsored research effort, Sorensen-Kamakian mentioned that 19 students are assisting with the project and those students gave 18 presentations on the topic on and off campus last year.

'Research is a journey of discovery,' said Professor of History and Religion Bob Royalty in his presentation, 'Stonehenge, the Camino del Norte, and World History.'

Joyce Burnette, Professor of Economics enjoys a light monent during the presentations.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Mollie Ables presented 'Martin Luther, J.S. Bach, and Michael W. Smith: Exercises in Comparative Hymnody.'

It was a workshopping effort for Ables, who is preparing to present this material to class soon.

Professor of Biology and Global Health Initiative Director Eric Wetzel presented '(in)Equality & (in)Justice in Global Public Health: Classroom Changes & Global Partners.'

Wetzel stressed, 'We need to talk to people in those communities.'

Assistant Professor of English Julian Whitney listens intently.

Karen Quandt, Assistant Professor of French, delivered 'What's French Got to Do With It? Social Justice and Its Transatlantic Reverberations.'

As she was processing this material, one driving question is how do students go out in the world?

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Jeffrey Gower presented 'The Theory/Practice Divide in Theory and in Practice.'

He stressed an importance to being, meaning, and language.

Gower was the last of 10 presentations of faculty members to their campus colleagues.