Ferrum College

And then they do all their little activities and other stuff.

Anyway, because it's basically white, the sweatshirt that I have on today, I wore my Ferrum College sweatshirt, right? So I didn't expect to get any reaction from anybody over it, but I thought about it ahead of time.

And I'll go into what I was thinking.

I will say that one other teacher I work with spotted the sweatshirt and actually yelled down the hallway to me, what do you know about Ferrum College? Like, what? What is that? And I said, I graduated from there.

He said he actually almost got a job there before he got – His first teaching job.

He wanted the teaching job, but he applied to Ferrum College as a backup and got the teaching job.

I thought that was kind of interesting.

So anyway, here's what I was thinking of ahead of time, and this is what I was trying to set up.

For nearly 70 years, searchers have tried to prove it holds the petrified remains of Noah's Ark.

In an essay published earlier this month, Eric Vanden Eichel, associate professor of religious studies, Ferrum College, examines why believers keep returning to this spot.

Listen for how a single aerial photograph from 1959 sparked a relentless hunt for physical proof.

A team of researchers from Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey is investigating a long-standing claim that a boat-shaped geological formation in the country's east contains the remains of Noah's Ark.

We'll discuss some of their proudest and most ambitious projects and explore the most effective ways in which they'd help to improve and elevate their students' experience.

In this episode, we're joined by Dr. John DeBolle, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs at Ferrum College, to discuss how fronking out of college as a freshman shaped his approach to supporting students on academic probation.

We explore how the STAR program is lifting GPAs and retention for students on probation and why STOIC principles like resilience and focusing on what you can control sit at the heart of it.

Want to find out more? Let's get into the episode.

And I am Emily Strand, director of campus ministry and adjunct faculty in humanities at Ohio Dominican University, and I also write stuff in a nerdy way.

Joining us today is fellow Harry Potter nerd, Dr. Lana Whited, professor of English and Williams distinguished teaching professor in the humanities at Ferrum College.

Lana edited, I think, the first scholarly anthology of Harry Potter essays, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter, which she followed up some 20 years later with her recent anthology, The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond, in which both Emily and I are delighted to have essays.

She has also written many other analyses of everything from Hun- Hunger Games to true crime, and we are fortunate to have her with us again on the podcast, this time to discuss that most witchy of holidays, Halloween.

But anyway, that was a good show.

I just remember my friends left without me to go back to Ferrum College, and I had to get someone to drive all the way to Blacksburg to pick me up because I didn't know what to do.

Yeah, good job, Mike.

Thank you.

However, I'm actually from Franklin County originally.

My father was a professor at Ferrum College there when I was a kid.

And so I thought the Appalachian Trail doesn't run anywhere near Floyd County or Franklin County.

And because I had this Franklin County connection, I thought, well, I'll just hop down into that rabbit hole for a minute and see what's down there.