Moments
Reunion
Arun Muralidhar ’88
photo by Kim Johnson
Pension fund innovator and AlphaEngine Global Investment Solutions co-founder Arun Muralidhar ’88 returned to campus to meet with students and present a talk on Social Security reform. He was welcomed back not only by students and his former teachers, but by Judy Schmidt and several other Community Friends who hosted him as a student.
McLain-McTurnan-Arnold recipient Professor Jim Brown is congratulated by IAWM Student Athlete and Pete Vaughan Award winner Kevin McCarthy ’12 following Awards Chapel.
Physics Rocks!
John Hinz ’95 He was a guy who dedicated his life to this College—an excellent professor who made the whole Wabash experience a package; it wasn’t just about biology. When Tom Cole ’58 I left Wabash and went to graduate school, it was the first time I ever got a 4.0 GPA, because I had been pushed so hard here. That wasn’t true for many of my grad-school classmates.”
—John Hinz ’95, assistant professor at Washington State University, remembering his Wabash teacher, Professor Tom Cole ’58. Hinz was a speaker during last spring’s Thomas Cole Lecture Series. Zach Hampton ’12
Whether in the form of lecture, a serendipitous conversation on the mall, in the Scarlet Inn, on Jim Brown and Kevin McCarthy ’12 immersion trips to Mexico, or in classroom discussions, this highly esteemed Wabash teacher seems ever preoccupied with the big questions, some might say the cosmic questions. One student quips: “That’s what I love about this guy; he asks all the right questions.” “The best ones,” this teacher says, “always seem to start with ‘How?’ or ‘Why?’ I try to model this in the classroom…I hope my students develop a sense of curiosity.” —Dean of the College Gary Phillips, describing Associate Professor of Physics James Brown, this year’s winner of the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Award for Excellence in Teaching. Awards Chapel proved a banner night for the physics department—Brown’s colleague, Associate Professor of Physics Martin Madsen, was named the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar.
P L AY I N G G A M E S Professor of History Stephen Morillo, Associate Dean of Students Will Oprisko, and Associate Professor of Chemistry Lon Porter joined more than 25 students and other guests for the eighth annual Wabash Dorkstock, an afternoon of fun playing games with lots of directions to read and eating snacks whose labels you’d be better off not reading at all. Dorkstock 2012 marked the debut of the Dork Club’s new Sons of Wabash space marine army!
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