Wabash On My Mind

Wabash On My Mind is the Wabash College podcast, and host Richard Page runs it as a rotating portrait of the campus. The format is simple. Page brings one guest, or several, into the studio and keeps the questions plain and personal. Athletics is one strand. Jim Peeples arrived as athletic director in August 2025 after ten years in the same role at Piedmont University in Georgia, where he also spent 15 seasons as head baseball coach. In his conversation he reviews his first year in charge and explains that his passion for developing young people, plus a friend's story of what Wabash had meant to him, was all he needed to hear. The 'Fall Sports Preview 2024' episode strings together separately recorded interviews with cross-country runners Will Neubauer, Braden Kernett and Justin Santiago, whose team entered that fall as defending North Coast Athletic Conference champions, and soccer player Bryce Kinnaman. Asked whether the title adds pressure, the runners wave it off and talk about taking the season day by day. The classroom is another strand. Nathan Ellenberger, a philosophy major and managing editor of The Bachelor, discusses his series 'Wabash in the Age of AI'. His view is measured: AI is bound to take away many entry-level opportunities, he says, but that does not make a college education worthless. He points to his interviews with President Feller and Dr. Carlson, and to the skills he says Wabash teaches, among them critical thinking, judgment, communication and teamwork. 'Tenured Faculty 2026' gathers the four newest Wabash faculty members to earn tenure, among them Eric Dunaway from economics, Matthew Gorey from classics and Joe Scanlon from chemistry, to talk about reaching that point and what comes next. One of them credits the college with the room to take up tennis, electric guitar and Japanese, and would like to offer an immersion course someday. Students and alumni round out the picture. 'Celebration of Student Research 2026' was recorded live in Detchen Center at an event the Wabash community has held since 2001, with afternoon classes canceled by faculty vote so everyone can attend. Eight presenters appear, including a student whose research on social rejection grew out of being teased in middle school for being adopted. Jason Kwon, class of 2011 and now a principal research scientist at AbbVie, returns to give the 21st annual Haynes Lecture in Biochemistry. He calls graduate school the place where he really locked in, and he is quick to share credit with his parents and his Wabash professors. For a first listen, the Ellenberger conversation carries the broadest stakes, while the student research episode packs eight voices into one installment. On the production side, student editor Caden Polson and Adam Phipps are credited. Episodes sign off with an invitation to email suggestions to the college's communications address and a nudge toward Chapel Talk at Wabash College.