#350: Rudolph Scholars 2023

This episode features two founding professors and two student participants in a course featuring Spring Break travel ahead of the journey to the European Union, anticipating language barriers, primary source research, and other hidden benefits to immersion learning (Episode 358).

This episode features student presenters on-location at this year’s Celebration of Student Research, broaching a broad range of disciplines from financial remittance patterns, food insecurity, Ghostbusters, and custom rocketry (Episode 357).

This episode features the professor and two students of the Governing at Wabash political science course, tracing the history of decision-making at the College over key traditions like mandatory Chapel and the recurring debate over co-education (Episode 356).

This episode features the current live broadcast director for the Wabash College Video Network, Don Silas ’24, discussing his reflection on senior comps, what it takes to produce a live broadcast, and his extensive internship work in Appalachia (Episode 355).

This episode features partners of Wabash’s Global Health Initiative based out of Peru during a visit to campus, discussing their observations about Wabash students, how the partnership began, and their hopes to expand the program in the years to come (Episode 354).

This episode features Angelo Pizzo, the screenwriter behind the classic sports film Hoosiers, as he describes growing up in Bloomington, accidentally becoming a filmmaker, making a director’s cut, and what he loves about basketball (Episode 353).

This episode features entertainment and intellectual property lawyer Robert Meitus ’88, discussing his earning the Lilly Scholarship to attend Wabash, his musical ventures out-of-state, and his return to Indiana with wife and singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer (Episode 352).

This episode features Dr. Derek Nelson, the 43rd LaFollette Lecturer, discussing the relationship between woodworking and theology and a funny thing about productivity (Episode 351).

This episode features Ethan Brown ’24, Jesus Monrroy ’24, and Calvin Pawlowski ’24, recipients of this year’s Kenneth Rhys Rudolph Memorial Scholarship for European summer study abroad. The three students discuss their travels in Belgium, Germany, and Spain, and the advice they would give to others aspiring to study abroad (Episode 350).

This episode features members of the cast and crew of the Fall 2023 Wabash Theater production titled Something Rotten!, a farce set in the Renaissance featuring down-and-out playwrights facing off against Shakespeare with a hoped-to-be hit musical about eggs (Episode 349).