Robert Mac West '63 was awarded the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award. Mac West is the founder and president of Informal Learning Experiences, Inc. The Washington, D.C.-based company, started in 1992, promotes science learning throughtraveling exhibitions. It also offers consulting services to organizations and agencies involved in informal and recreational learning, ranging from the National Geographic Society and the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation to the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Energy. West also has spent more than three decades working for and consulting with museums around the country. He is the former director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and served as curator of geology at the Milwaukee Public Museum. During his career, he has written widely on paleontology museum science and has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Adelphi University.
Lawrence Today magazine, Summer 2009
