Features
Breaking Boundaries
Named the 2015 Ohio Professor of the Year, Laurie Anderson is on a quest to solve 21st-century problems. Her method? Engage students to be part of the solution.
Sidebar: U.S. Professor of the Year Award
Conventional Wisdom
No doubt about it—presidential nominations raise spirited debate. A century-plus tradition, Ohio Wesleyan’s Mock Convention brings its own political fervor every four years to OWU’s Gray Chapel.
Sidebar: Mock Convention and Real History
Art & Artifice
Retiring theatre professor Bonnie Milne Gardner and her former student—Anne Flanagan—reunite to showcase one last play. This time, it’s Flanagan’s award-winning “Artifice” that takes center stage at the Studio Theatre.
Sidebar: 2015 Grad Takes One-Man Show to New York Stage
Departments
Leader’s Letter
Civic – and Civil – Engagement
From the JAYwalk
OWU Earns Top-5 Finish in National Moot Court Competition
Ohio Wesleyan Education Department Earns National Honor
Ohio Wesleyan Faculty Develop Online Summer Courses
Ideas, Insight, and Imagination—in Three Minutes
OWU Timescapes
Gifts and Gratitude
Global Learning, First-Gen Experience Spark Giving
Lifelong Learning the Heart of Giving
Comfort Zones
Bishop Battles
Basketball, Track & Field Capture League Titles
Track & Field Coach Sets NCAC Career Record
Alumni Profile
Reimagining His Roots, East and West: Salman Toor ’06
Discovering Don Fausto: Gregory Watkins-Colwell ’91
Alumni Happenings
OWU Alums Celebrate the Holidays Coast to Coast
Faculty Notes
Musser Performs at Seoul Celebration to Honor Horace Allen
Class Notes
Spring 2016 Class Notes Photos
More Than 90 Years of Art Honored: Carol Kane Simerly ’47
OWU Alumni Celebrate 30 Years in Business Together: Ken Schlinger ’78 and Scott Bedson ’81
Upcoming 3rd Annual Maine Altzfest & OWU Reunion: David Hazard ’80 and Greg Altznauer ’81
The Final Word
The Music of Our OWU Times, by Paula M. Kalamaras ’76
Spring Break Service
Jess Choate ’17 (left) and Doug Gibson ’16 were among 56 OWU students who spent spring break volunteering as part of mission teams across the country and in Cuba. Jess and Doug’s team spent the week working in New Orleans with the Saint Bernard Project, a disaster-recovery foundation led by Zack Rosenburg ’95.
Elliott Hall at Sunrise
(Photo by Larry Hamill)