“Tommy was fantastic in this class,” says Trey Proctor, professor of history. In his most recent course, “Environmental History of Latin America,” the classroom discussions were around conceptions of nature and how humans have interacted with nature throughout history. It also contains glimpses of real stories that are almost more amazing than anything fiction could produce.” While McMaster is completing a pre-med curriculum so he can enter medical school, he’s majoring in history because “it shows that a lot of things have changed, but also that we might not be as different from people in the past and other parts of the world as we would sometimes believe.

I want to be a lifelong learner - and a lifelong teacher.” “Part of it is that there’s so much to learn. Now I have my own passion for the work,” he says.

“Watching my dad interact with people, and seeing how appreciative they were, inspired me. The son of a doctor, he saw how his father impacted people, and also how he continually learned the latest medical information to keep up-to-date for his patients. For McMaster, the idea of being a lifelong learner was implanted at a young age. One of the tenets of a liberal arts education is to nurture a curiosity that will last through adulthood. It’s worth unpacking his story a bit to see how this process unfolds. A history major who was accepted to the University of Toledo Medical School while in his junior year in college a skilled lacrosse player and captain of his team an avid reader who has also learned to love writing and a talented comedic actor with the college’s improv troupe - it would be safe to say there is only one student like him.īut how McMaster combines all of these interests into one person – that’s pretty much the definition of a typical student at Denison. Admittedly, Tommy McMaster ’19 is a one-of-a-kind student.

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