Lawrence Today magazine, Fall 2003
Rachel Bittner, ’03, St. Paul, Minn., earned first-prize honors at the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association’s Badger Collegiate Piano Competition in May, the second straight year a Lawrence piano student has won the competition’s top prize. Nicholas Towns, ’03, Princeton, Ill., and Erin Grier, ’04, Woodside, Del., earned honorable mention recognition. All three are students in the studio of Anthony Padilla, associate professor of music.
Marcia Bjørnerud, professor of geology, has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. A specialist in tectonics and structural geology, Bjørnerud also directs Lawrence’s environmental studies program and is the author of the nontraditional introductory geology textbook Guide to the Blue Planet. She becomes the fourth Lawrence faculty member to be recognized as a GSA Fellow, joining John Palmquist (1970), William Read (1952), and Rufus Bagg (1896).
The Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, by David M. Cook, professor of physics and the Philetus E. Sawyer Professor of Science, first published in 1975 and reprinted in 1981, has been issued in a new edition by Dover Publications.
James S. Evans, professor of computer science and chemistry, and Gregory Trimper, ’92, principal of Viika Technology Consulting in Appleton, are the authors of Itanium Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-bit Processors and EPIC Principles, published by Prentice Hall in the Hewlett-Packard Professional Books series.
Amy Garbowitz, ’03, Three Lakes, Wis., won one of three Best Student Paper awards at the annual Institute on Lake Superior Geology, competing with more than 20 other student presenters, many of them graduate students from research universities. Her talk, an extension of her senior thesis project, was “Paleostress inferences from fault slip vectors in the eastern part of the Wisconsin segment of the Midcontinent Rift.”
Bertrand A. Goldgar, professor of English and the John N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities, wrote the Afterword for a new book, Plagiarism in Early Modern England, edited by Paulina Kewes and published this spring by Palgrave Macmillan in London. Other contributors include Christopher Ricks, Stephen Orgel, and Ian Donaldson.
Derek Katz, assistant professor of music, and Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry, were initiated this spring as honorary members of Lawrence’s Iota Chapter of Mortar Board, the national honor society for seniors. They are the first faculty members in the organization’s 81-year history to be recognized in this way. Sarah Krile, ’03, student president of Mortar Board, said that both professors “fully exemplify and promote the three ideals of Mortar Board: the pursuit of academic excellence, the encouragement and practice of leadership, and commitment to service.”