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Wabash science faculty and summer interns shared their summer research with prospective students and their families Friday as the College hosted a Summer Science Day.
Prospective students joined physics professors and their interns in Goodrich Hall during the group’s weekly meeting to discuss the progress made, problems encountered, and questions being asked concerning the various projects.
Then it was on to Hays Science Hall to meet with biology and chemistry interns and professors. Prospective students learned quickly that as Wabash students they would be full partners in the research they perform—interns did much of the teaching during the sessions with their campus guests.
Above, Austin Drake ’11 explains his research project with Chemistry Professor Walter Novak to high school students considering Wabash.
Photos by Steve Charles 

Austin Drake ’11 discusses his research with prospective students during Friday's Science Visit Day.

Prospective students gather around the computer to see some of Austin Drake's research with Professor Walter Novak.

While some of the chemistry interns explained their work to the high schoolers, others continued with their summer work. More than 80 Wabash students have remained on campus as interns or involved with other summer programs. 

Assistant Professor of Biology Patrick Burton discusses his work with prospective students.

Assistant Professor of Biology Rebecca Sparks-Thissen offered students a close-up view of her research with viruses.

Patrick Garrett ’12 is interning this summer with Professor Amanda Ingram, but took time out to escort prospective students through the various labs. Here he listens attentively to Professor Sparks-Thissen's explanation of her research.

"The cool thing about research is that you get to figure out something that no one before you has figured out," Professor Sparks-Thissen told prospective students. She pointed out one such discovery that a student had made just this summer. 

Professor Sparks-Thissen told prospective students that as majors in the sciences at Wabash, they would be not only conducting research, but would be partners in that research with Wabash faculty. "That means when a paper is published, your name is on it, too," she added. 

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Walter Novak work in x-ray crystallography, a method of determining the arrangement of atoms within a crystal. 

A prospective student looks through a microscope at a crystal that Jordan Hoerr ’13 has been studying.

Hoerr explains x-ray crystallography as a prospective student peers through the microscope at an iron-dependent regulator protein that causes farmer's lung, an allergic disease caused by breathing in the dust from moldy hay.