DPU senior who did PCH drug project wins Walker Cup

Courtesy Photo Mark A. Fadel winner of the 2013 Walker Cup, received this award for his work with the DePauw community and Putnam County.

Senior Mark A. Fadel was honored Monday night as the 2013 recipient of the DePauw University Walker Cup.

Awarded to the senior who has contributed the most to the DePauw community during his or her four years on campus, the Walker Cup was presented to Fadel at DePauw's Academic Awards Convocation in Kresge Auditorium of the Green Center for the Performing Arts.

Fadel, of Cleveland, Ohio, has majored in biochemistry and is executive vice president of DePauw Student Government, a First-Year Mentor and a Presidential Ambas-sador.

The senior teaches science one day a week to fourth-graders at Tzouanakis Intermediate School in Greencastle.

Fadel also has used his science background to complete a drug research project for Putnam County Hospital and worked on a biochemistry project at DePauw in collaboration with Ohio State University's Jack-man Laboratory.

After graduation, Fadel plans to continue his studies at the University of Toledo College of Medicine.

A member of the men's swim team at DePauw, Fadel also served as a volunteer student coach and has been a swim instructor for local children.

As a DPU freshman, Fadel established a chapter of Up 'til Dawn, a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital program, that has raised more than $28,000 since September 2010.

Arezoo Nazari and Sara K. Scully were the other finalists for the Walker Cup.

"Mark is one of the most emotionally generous people I have ever met," DPU President Brian Casey said before presenting the Walker Cup to Fadel. "Mark scans the world around him and makes sure that everyone is okay, that everyone is being heard and that everyone has a part to play."

As a result of winning the Walker Cup, Fadel will speak on behalf of the senior class at DePauw's commencement on Sunday, May 19 at 10:30 a.m. in Holton Memorial Quadrangle.