In collaboration with the Thackurdeen family Swarthmore’s most recent piece of outdoor sculpture, a memorial to Ravi Thackurdeen ’14, was dedicated in June 2015 and given by his family.
The result of close collaboration between artist Kurt Wulfmeyer and the Thackurdeens, the 5-foot-diameter sphere is intended to “glow from the inside,” as the family requested. It is made of bronze plate cut in the shape of actual botanical samples that Ravi had enjoyed collecting for a course.