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Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Spring 2014 Communications & Marketing Gettysburg College Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine Spring 2014 Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Spring 2014 Communications & Marketing Gettysburg College Follow this and additional works at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag Part of the Education Commons Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Communications & Marketing, "Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Spring 2014" (2014). Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine. 1. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/1 This open access book is brought to you by The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The uC pola. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Spring 2014 Description Table of Contents: Agriculture the Aperture, Global the View (Rebecca Croog, '14) "What Is Your Passion?" Professor Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams What Makes A Great... Zoo? Anne Elefterakis ’99 First Academic All-Americans: Men's Soccer (Andrew Bellis ’14 and Devin Geiman ’14) Public Information Public History (David Fort ’00), Macy Collins '14 Sports Illustrated: 5 Questions for SI's Publisher (Brendan Ripp ’99) Leap of the Century (Howard Bostock ’18), Corey Jewart Students Research the Origins of Autism, Samantha Gagliano ’14 Lured by the Lore of the West, Kasey Varner ’14 Immersed in Environmental Policy East Meets West Gifts aTh t Made Gettysburg What It Is Today Working Space (President Janet Morgan Riggs ’77) What Makes Gettysburg Great Class Notes Keywords Alumni Magazine, Gettysburg College Disciplines Education Publisher Gettysburg College This book is available at The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/1 Spring 2014 East Westmeets Politics of the environment 14 • Our Gettysburg 20 • Peek at the President 26 From the president f you’ve perused a college Phage Biology, first-year students opportunities for conversation handbook or website isolate, purify, and sequence with faculty and staff, intellectual recently, you’ve probably DNA—conducting lab work here discussions outside the classroom, noticed some new buzzwords: at Gettysburg that contributes diverse peer interactions, and Engaged Learning. Community- to a national research project attendance at campus lectures and A full house greeted the Based Research. High-Impact on viral genomes. Recently, cultural events. Burg students also family of Cory Weissman ’12 Educational Practices. researchers found that Phage better understand Gettysburg’s (standing far right) at the world premiere of 1000 to 1: The These terms describe Biology improves both student academic and social offerings, and Cory Weissman Story, at opportunities that are already achievement and retention in they are more positive about their the Majestic Theater on familiar to Gettysburgians: one- science, technology, engineering, College experience. March 1. The movie is on-one research with faculty, and mathematics (STEM). Thus, Phage Biology and the available on DVD through the College bookstore, discussion-based seminars, study as industry leaders demand more Burg program exemplify rich Amazon.com, and abroad, career development STEM-trained graduates, courses opportunities for deeper selected retail outlets. experiences, or service-learning. like Phage Biology are putting learning that are possible in Photo by Eric Lee ’15 That’s because engaged learning Gettysburg students on this path Gettysburg’s residential liberal and high-impact educational and helping them succeed. arts context. As you read about practices have always been part Another program that the Sunderman Conservatory’s of the Gettysburg experience. enhances our students’ first- trip to China, EI’s Environmental Now, as technologies and year experience was launched Leadership Program, or Rebecca pedagogies change, we’re exploring on a pilot basis in fall 2011. Croog’s quinoa research, you’ll new ways to expand these Gettysburg’s Burg program see additional examples of Inside Volume 105 • No. 2 • Spring 2014 opportunities and make them houses first-year seminar students how engaged learning makes available to even more students. in residence halls devoted to Gettysburg Great. For example, in 2012 a common intellectual theme. 14 Immersed in environmental policy 2 News@Gettysburg Gettysburg received $1.3 million Students in these Burgs take Enjoy! Students in The Eisenhower Institute’s Environmental Leadership Program from the Howard Hughes field trips, screen films, sponsor go to great lengths—and depths—to understand environmental policy. 12 Conversations Medical Institute to enrich speakers, and hold discussions our science curriculum with that merge coursework, current 18 East meets West 28 Do Great Work an innovative, interdisciplinary events, and personal interests. Winds to the East: the Sunderman Conservatory of Music’s Wind approach (see the fall 2012 issue While this concept seems Symphony had its first international performance tour. 30 Bulletins of Gettysburg). In one of the simple, the outcome is striking: Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 grant’s foundational courses, Burg participation increases President 20 Gifts that made Gettysburg College what it is today 31 Class notes Gifts—whether strategic or seemingly serendipitous—have helped propel the College along a distinctive path. 46 In memory 26 The President’s office 48 Parting shot Peek into Penn Hall, third floor west. Cover: Kelly Ann Hagerty ’14, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, shops in a market in Shanghai. Photo by Miranda Harple. Editor: Sue Baldwin-Way. Contact [email protected] Address changes: Communications & Marketing, Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Box 422, Gettysburg, PA 17325 Gettysburg College assures equal employment and prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. Printed in U.S.A. © Gettysburg College 2014. The President is the high jumper and that’s Ed Riggs ’77 to her left as a group from the Wind Symphony celebrates the sights and sounds of Shanghai. See more photos online and on pages 18-19. For additional content related to this issue, visit www.gettysburg.edu/links • Contact [email protected] News Gettysburg Agriculture Photo by Eric Lee ’15 the aperture, global the view “I think it’s important to get out in the world and understand the effects of global systems.” ebecca Croog ’14 was said Croog. “I eat quinoa almost every looking for an education day. I wanted my research experience and experience. in Bolivia to be an opportunity to do The environmental studies what most quinoa eaters cannot—to and Latin American Studies double discover the other side of my daily major said she chose Gettysburg portion of quinoa.” She focused her because she “wanted an academic senior capstone project on the experience that cultivated curiosity.” worldwide quinoa boom and “What is your passion?” During her first year, Croog the history of agriculture in decided to learn Spanish by going Bolivia, shown through one Office hours Prof. Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams to Guatemala for the summer. community’s experience. She learned about U.S.-Central While in Cuba, Croog American relations and spent time became interested in urban in farming communities. “I realized agriculture, an interest that finished my undergrad studies This is the story I share with In my classes, I often ask agriculture was a way I could bring she brought back to a project at a liberal arts college with students often to encourage them students, “What is your passion?” my two majors together,” she said. about Baltimore’s urban a 3.94 GPA and a psychology to know that often in life we have With keen interest, I watch many When she returned, Croog agriculture. She hopes to minor, yet I did not know what I to fight for the alternative visions wriggle in their seats, trying to and a friend found a farm near the continue urban agriculture wanted to do thereafter. I began we have crafted. figure out what answer I am College where they could join in a research in a graduate voraciously consuming everything This is my second year at seeking. But by the end of the work-share program—volunteering program. “I will have to keep I could find on Gandhi while I Gettysburg College, and I am semester, they realize what one of labor in exchange for vegetables. exploring these research worked in after-school programs having the time of my life. I teach mine is: teaching, co-constructing By the end of the summer, she questions in different ways,” in New York City. One day, courses on globalization, the knowledge, and interrogating knew she wanted to study abroad Croog said. “That element of I literally Googled the words intersections of postcoloniality and the status quo. Hopefully, they for an entire year. She spent the experiential learning—getting “education” and “peace” online and race, gender and identity, human have realized that I am in the fall of her junior year in Bolivia your hands dirty—that’s what found a peace education program rights, and education for social business of inciting within them and the spring in Cuba. I look forward to. In the at Columbia University. That was change. I share my experiences an excitement for learning and “I went to Bolivia because I was United States, we have our my “aha moment.” I wanted that about growing up as a very poor a fire for social justice. fascinated by their current political ideas of what development program and nothing else! kid in Trinidad and Tobago, and social transition, but once I got and progress should look like. After being turned down clinging to the only possession there, I realized a direct personal Some of these places with three times for the doctoral no one could take away: my Prof. Williams earned his BA from St. connection that I wanted to rich histories of protest and program, I finally got accepted. education. It is this positionality Francis College, MA in International research further,” said Croog. mobilization show you the flaws Through the rejections, I kept a that fostered in me an insatiable Educational Development, MEd That personal connection? in systems and ways to improve.
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