Phi Beta Kappa Prize
Each year the Wabash Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa awards a prize "to that undergraduate who is judged to have produced the most original and meritorious piece of work, whether artistic or analytical." The terms of the prize specify that it was "established to encourage work of high creative and scholarly merit, as distinct from proficiency in normal course work." Many winners have done their work on their own, in collaboration with a faculty member or another student, or as part of an extracurricular activity. Work completed as part of a course is also eligible, but the committee has usually expected work that transcended normal course requirements. Merely an "A" paper is not sufficient. This prize has been awarded to work as varied as published research, research projects, collections of poems or paintings, theatrical or musical performances, original musical compositions or films, public deliberation, and student journalism.
- Bryan Cherry and Aiden Orcutt
- Research leading to co-authorship of the paper, “Comparison of Double Casting Methods for Microfluidic Device Fabrication” under review for publication in the journal Nanomanufacturing
- Logan Weilbaker
- Crossword puzzles in the Bachelor.
- Adam Berg
- Founding student member in an interdisciplinary project entitled LOCKR combining biochemistry and animal research.
- Noah Miller, Abraham Wade, Benjamin Sampsell, Seth Kirkpatrick, and Jacob Talbert
- This team led a WDPD deliberation in October 2021 on the “Wabash History of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”.
- Hunter Seidler
- Essay entitled “Amateurism’s Death in Chicago: The Supreme Court’s Conservative Views of Antitrust in NCAA v. Alston.”
- Daniel Cuevas
- Choral arrangement of the African-American spiritual “O Freedom” and original music composition for jazz combo entitled “Su encantamiento”
- Andrew Freck
- Research paper “Rising Tide Migrations: The So-Called ‘Climate Refugee’ as Hannah Arendt’s ‘Scum of the Earth’”
- Quinn Cavin
- Original film "Rain Dance" pictured above with Professor Himsel
- William Kelly
- Research paper “The Lessons and Legacy of War: Remembering Vietnam”
- Anthony Douglas, John Janak, Michael Lumpkin, and Macallister Norton
- Public deliberation project “Economic Opportunities in Leslie County”
- Thien Minh Quan
- (Published physics research
- Immanuel Mitchell-Sodipe and Ben Cramer
- Creative work related to South African immersion trip
- Aaron Wirthwein
- Physics research "String Analog to the Mach-Zehnder Interferometer"
- Cameron Dennis
- Physics research "Negative Refraction in Meta-Strings and Meta-Membranes"
- Joe Mount
- MacBeth performance and related research presentation
- Wes Hauser
- Published research on the distribution of Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo in Australia
- Peter Santa Maria and Weston Kitley
- Chemistry research project
- Geoffrey (Gus) McKinney
- Staged reading and theater performances
- Tuan Nguyen
- Published biology research "The inner membrane protein, YhiM, is necessary for Escherichia coli (E. coli) survival in acidic conditions"
- Patrick Stroud
- Paper on Esperanto “La Lingvo Internacia”
- Michael Trevino
- Research project “Induction of Oral Development in Regenerating Nematostella vectensis.”
Spencer Elliott