Lawrence Today magazine, Spring 2005
Lawrence juniors Nathaniel Douglas, Aditya Goil, Duncan Ryan, and Rupesh
Silwal will represent the college in a student-designed and student-built rocket competition
sponsored by the Wisconsin
Space Grant Consortium and funded by NASA. Each
team receives $1,000 in seed money, two motors, a tri-axial accelerometer,
and an altimeter and is required to fabricate a two-stage rocket that safely
deploys its second stage and lands safely under an operating chute. The competition
will culminate with a rocket launch at the Bong Recreational Area in Kenosha
County in April. John Brandenberger, the Alice G. Chapman
Professor of Physics, is the team’s faculty mentor.
Peter Glick, professor
of psychology, has been named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association,
the world’s
largest scientific and professional organization. Cited for “outstanding
contributions in the field of psychology.” Glick joins a select body
of psychologists who have attained APA Fellow status. Only three percent of
the Washington, D.C.-based association’s members have been recognized
as Fellows. He also is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Alisa
Jordheim, ’08, soprano, was named one of four “Level I” national
winners in the voice category of the Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS)
program in January. She received a first-place prize of $3,000 and is eligible
for a $10,000 ARTS Gold Award, which will be announced later this year. At
the age of 18, Jordheim, who has studied in the voice studio of Lawrence Associate
Professor of Music Patrice Michaels the past eight years, has already compiled
an impressive resume of musical accomplishments, including three consecutive
first-place finishes in the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition.
In addition, she has performed with pianist Christopher O’Riley at the
International Young Artists Music Festival, sung as a soloist at the Xian Conservatory
of Music in China, performed on Public Radio International’s “From
the Top,” singing duets with Bobby McFerrin, and been featured in McGraw/Hill’s
latest eighth-grade music textbook.
Emily
Klosiewski, ’05, from South Milwaukee, a student of Lawrence
photography instructors Julie Lindemann and John Shimon, received a 2004 Photo
Marketing Association International North Central Division Photography Scholarship.
Patrick Murray of Murray Photo and Video, Inc., in Appleton, who is president
of the PMA’s North Central Division, presented the scholarship, which
is intended to encourage students to pursue careers in the field of photography/fine
art.
Karen Leigh-Post, ’79, assistant
professor of music, has published American Art Song for the Sacred Service, an anthology of 24
contemporary songs for medium-high voice by 21 American composers, available
from Classical Vocal Reprints.
Brigetta
Miller, ’89, associate
professor of music and director of music education, is the author
of an article, “Added Punch with PowerPoint: College Students Combine
PowerPoint and Multicultural Music,” in the October 2004 issue of Teaching
Music magazine. The article describes a project in Miller’s elementary
general music methods course in which students created projects for elementary-age
students that focused on a culture group different from their own.
Mojmir Povolny, professor
emeritus of government, delivered an address, “Edward Benes: Democracy
Today and Tomorrow — After
65 Years,” analyzing the former Czechoslovakian president’s lectures
at the University of Chicago in 1939, at the University of Nebraska in October.
The lecture was sponsored by a grant from the Czech Foreign Ministry to the
Nebraska Chapter of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Komensky Club, which was celebrating its 100th
year.
John Shimon and Julie
Lindemann, instructors
in the Lawrence art department, are the authors of a new photography book,
Season’s
Gleamings: The Art of the Aluminum Christmas Tree, published in time
for Christmas by Melcher Media. Articles on the aluminum trees, originally
manufactured
in
Manitowoc, Wis., where the two photographers have their home and studio,
have appeared in USA Today, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle and
as a segment of National Public Radio’s “All
Things Considered.” Their photos of the trees, made with an 8x10 view
camera, were described by The Times as portraying “twinkling
limbs presented with deadpan cheer against mostly brightly colored backgrounds.”
Richard Warch, retired
president of the university, received the Campus Compact Presidential Civic
Leadership Award in September at the second annual State
Superintendent of Public Instruction’s PK-16 Institute on Service-Learning
and Citizenship. Warch, who was cited for “his strong advocacy for liberal
education and private higher education, both local and nationally,” served
on the executive committee of Wisconsin
Campus Compact, a group of presidents
of Wisconsin colleges and universities committed to developing relationships
between students, faculty, and the community.