Topic: Conference
Mike Sexton, dean of admissions, elected college delegate for PNACAC
Mike Sexton, dean of admissions for Lewis & Clark College, has been elected to the Executive Board of the Pacific Northwest Association for College Admission Counseling (PNACAC) as a college delegate. He will represent the regional association at the national (NACAC) conferences for the next three years.
Lewis & Clark hosts American Physical Society conference
In May, Lewis & Clark hosted the 10th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Section of the American Physical Society (APS). Thomas Olsen, associate professor of physics, served as local organizing chair and host of this conference. Olsen gave a presentation titled “Characterization and Control of Chaos” and was elected secretary-treasurer of the APS Northwest Section by members.
President Thomas Hochstettler opened the conference with remarks on science research and teaching in the context of the liberal arts. Dean of the College Julio de Paula opened the final day of the conference with a review of the history of science research at Lewis & Clark. Professor of Physics Herschel Snodgrass presented his paper titled “Large-Scale Convection and the Solar Activity Cycle.”
Graduating senior Christina Ketchum shared her paper on “Correlating Vertical Velocities of Ionized Interstellar Medium To Star Formation Rates In Nearby Face-On Spiral Galaxies,” which was a collaborative effort with Associate Professor of Physics Stephen Tufte. Tufte chaired the sessions on astrophysics and biophysics with Professor of Physics Bethe Scalettar. Scalettar presented a paper at the session titled “Elucidating Molecular Events Underlying Learning with Fluorescence Microscopy,” the product of joint research undertaken with graduating senior Mariya Chavarha and Janis Lochner, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Professor of Science. Graduating senior Adam Kowalski and junior Shelley Zhao each presented a poster at the APS conference.
Assistant Professor Kimberly Campbell discusses how to engage adolescent readers
Kimberly Campbell, assistant professor of language arts:
In April, Campbell served as a keynote speaker at the the Kansas Reading Association conference in Junction City, Kansas. Campbell’s presentation was titled “Less is More: Using Short Texts in Support of Adolescent Readers.”
In May, Campbell presented “Less is More: The Power of Essays to Engage Adolescent Readers” with Janet Allen and three YA authors at the International Reading Conference.
Assistant Professor Dorothy Aguilera examines language immersion models
Dorothy Aguilera, assistant professor of educational leadership:
In March, Aguilera presented “Restoring and Preserving Indigenous Languages: Three Indigenous Communities’ Successes with Language Immersion Models” at the American Education Research Association conference in New York. Aguilera’s presentation analyzed the language immersion models that are meant to revitalize and preserve the native languages of indigenous communities in grades K-12.
Jack Bogdanski scheduled to talk at the Taxation Conference in November
Jack Bogdanski, professor of law:
In November, Bogdanski will speak before the 55th Annual Taxation Conference of the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. The title of the talk is “Recent Developments in Federal Tax Valuation.”
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