Category Archives: Faculty Achievements

JANET ANTHONY, professor of music and George and Marjorie Olsen Chandler Professor of Music Anthony is the first holder of the new George and Marjorie Olsen Chandler Professorship in Music. The professorship was established with gifts from George Chandler ’51 and his late wife, Marjorie Olsen Chandler ’44.   MARCIA BJØRNERUD, professor of geology andContinue Reading

From move-in day and the annual Midwest Trivia Contest to Björklunden and Senior Experience, the weekly This Is Lawrence video series strives to highlight the people, programs and places that make Lawrence distinctive. One This Is Lawrence video, “The Compassion Project: Manhole Covers,” recently received a distinction of its own—a 2011 Pride of CASE VContinue Reading

They are responsible for helping students find their “aha” moments—those times when the proverbial light bulb goes off, and big ideas finally start coming together. The President’s Report annually spotlights Lawrence faculty members for the unique ways in which they are opening young minds to new methods of thinking. Whether in the classroom, in theContinue Reading

Professor of Music and Teacher of Cello Janet Anthony was named the first holder of the new George and Marjorie Olsen Chandler Professorship in Music. The Chandler Professorship was established with a gift from George Chandler ’51 and his late wife Marjorie ’44. Helen Boyd Kramer, lecturer of gender and freshman studies, received the CommunityContinue Reading

What Lawrence Faculty Are Doing … Besides Teaching Gustavo Fares, professor of Spanish, had two articles accepted for publication, “Identidades hispanas en Estados Unidos” by the Nueva Revista de Lenguas Extranjeras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, and “Los Estudios Fronterizos y sus descontentos: un manifiesto Posicional” by CLEUM (Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios Utópicos yContinue Reading

Marcia Bjørnerud Professor of Geology and Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies Thanks to a sabbatical in 2008-09, Marcia Bjørnerud published three articles: “Evidence for Grenville-Age Seismicity and Thick-Skinned Deformation in northern Wisconsin” (Journal of Geology); “Stratigraphic record of Neoproterozoic ice sheet collapse: the Kapp Lyell diamictite sequence, SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard” (Geological Magazine); and “RethinkingContinue Reading

Jeffrey Clark, associate professor of geology, published “Pore Water Flow Due to Near- Bed Turbulence and Associated Solute Transfer in a Stream or Lake Sediment Bed,” in Water Resources Research; “Comparison of Morphological and Biological Control of Exchange with Transient Storage Zones in a Field-Scale Flume,” in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Biogeosciences; andContinue Reading

Scott Corry, assistant professor of mathematics, published his paper “Galois Covers of the Open P-Adic Disc” in the journal Manuscripta Mathematica. James H. DeCorsey, associate professor of music, served as visiting faculty at the Lawrence London Centre during fall term. He attended meetings of the Elgar Society and the British Horn Society and performed withContinue Reading