Lawrence Today magazine, Spring 2006
Science students share summer findings. Each summer, a number of Lawrence
students are provided the opportunity to conduct sophisticated “hands
on” research in collaboration with or under the supervision of science
faculty members.
On August 16, 2005, 20 students presented their research in an all-day symposium
before an audience of peers and professors in Science Hall. Topics ranged from
the physics of non-uniform strings and the study of inflammatory processes
involved in rhinovirus-induced exacerbation of asthma, to the effects of zebra
mussels on the aquatic ecosystems of local waterways and the use of scanning
tunneling spectroscopy for imaging single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Descriptions of the 20 projects are available here.
Researchers
begin nutrition study at high school. Mark
Jenike, associate professor
of anthropology, and five of his students are participating, along with faculty
members from UW-Fox Valley, in a pilot project to assess the dietary behavior
and nutritional culture at Appleton West High School. Initiated by Dr. John
Mielke of Appleton, the purpose of the study is to scientifically evaluate
the impact of the Appleton Area School District’s innovative Education
for Healthy Kids program. The Lawrence portion of the program has two goals:
to assess the actual dietary intake of students at Appleton West and to describe
the cultural model of nutrition that underlies the dietary and exercise behavior
of students. Pictured (from left): Appleton West High School social studies
teacher Amy Loritz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Mark Jenike, and Kate
Enoch, ’06,
in Appleton West’s cafeteria
Two ensembles featured at state music conference. The Lawrence University Jazz
Ensemble, under the direction of Fred Sturm, C’73, Kimberly-Clark Professor
of Music, and the Lawrence University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of
Andrew Mast, assistant professor of music, were selected to perform during
the 2005 Wisconsin Music Educators Association annual conference in Madison
in October.
“It is both a great honor and a great opportunity for our students to
play at the state conference,” Sturm says, “and a really wonderful
way to showcase our talented student musicians to educators from around the
state.” More.
Adler is guest-in-residence. Internationally acclaimed composer and author
Samuel
Adler, in November, participated in a week-long guest residency at the
Lawrence Conservatory of Music that included a pair of concerts, one featuring
student soloists and ensembles, as well as the five-member Lawrence Brass,
performing several Adler compositions, and the other a concert by the Lawrence
Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band at which Adler served as guest conductor.
Adler has given master classes and workshops at more than 300 universities
around the world and has taught at virtually every major music festival. In
addition, he is the author of the books Choral Conducting, Sight Singing, and
The Study of Orchestration. More