Winter 2018 ART illumes SCIENCE From the president Volume 109 • No. 1 • Winter 2018 As we enter the final months of our classrooms, providing lectures integration of scientific perspectives Inside Gettysburg Great Campaign—and online for students to view on their in the pursuit of solutions to strive to surpass our $150 million own time and using class time challenging research questions. goal—many alumni, parents, and for problem-solving, discussion, This spring students and 12 The best of both worlds 2 News@Gettysburg Internships while studying abroad build cross-cultural and job-related skills. friends I’ve encountered have and group work. Technology has faculty will have the opportunity to 10 Conversations inquired about what’s next for enabled students at Juniata College experiment in our new Innovation Gettysburg College. to join students at Gettysburg for and Creativity Lab, developed by 14 Metamorphosis 28 Do Great Work My response to that question Arabic language classes, and some Vice President of Information After 300 years, the art and science of Maria Sibylla Merian re-emerge. 30 Bulletins focuses on our strategic plan, of our faculty have experimented Technology Rod Tosten ’85 and which was adopted by our Board with summer course offerings that his IT team. The lab will feature 20 Our endowment and why it matters 31 Class notes of Trustees in the fall of 2016. provide both in-person and online 3-D printers, a laser cutter, and The College’s endowment is a long-term investment rooted in who we are. 46 In memory The implementation of this plan opportunities for learning. a virtual reality system. (Just the is already having positive impact Support from our alumni, other day, I had the opportunity 24 Hope is in the genes on the Gettysburg student parents, and friends has to experience a rocket lift-off using For more than 35 years, geneticist Louis M. Kunkel ’71 has led trailblazing experience. You can find a progress enabled us to launch a new this system!) medical research. report for the first year at www. Entrepreneurial and Social While we value the rich Cover: from Maria Sibylla Merian: Metamorphosis gettysburg.edu/plan/fall2017. Innovation Initiative, under the traditions of a residential liberal Insectorum Surinamensium, photo courtesy of the Our plan focuses on preparing direction of Entrepreneur-in- arts college, we understand that the National Library of the Netherlands students for lives of impact in Residence Drew Murphy ’84, way we advance our mission must Editor: Sue Baldwin-Way communities and workplaces P’20. This initiative will build evolve to meet the needs of today’s Contact [email protected] Address changes: Communications & Marketing, that are increasingly diverse upon our Summer Entrepreneurial students and to prepare them for Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., and in a world that is globally Fellowship program, allowing the future. Box 422, Gettysburg, PA 17325 interconnected. The pace of change more students to be exposed to In the words of Abraham Gettysburg College assures equal employment and prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, in that world requires creative entrepreneurial thinking Lincoln, “As our case is new, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, thinking and innovative approaches through the entrepreneurial so we must think anew and act sexual orientation, or disability. to complex problems. That is why start-up experience and the anew.” There’s no doubt our world Printed in U.S.A. the third theme of our strategic opportunity to talk and work with needs leaders with fresh ideas © Gettysburg College 2018 plan focuses on Innovation. successful entrepreneurs. and innovative approaches to the For additional content related to this issue, visit www.gettysburg.edu/links Although some might infer In addition, our students are challenging issues we face—and that the traditions of the residential provided with the opportunity to here at Gettysburg College, we are liberal arts college slow down do research supervised by faculty focused on preparing those leaders. innovation, a look at what’s going mentors from their first year on Wishing you all the best this on here on campus makes it clear campus. Research is no longer an winter season! that things are changing fast. activity reserved just for seniors! Pedagogy has evolved rapidly over Thanks to our generous donors, we Sincerely, the last few years. Our classrooms have a growing number of students are equipped with technology who spend the summer on campus that allows our faculty to teach doing high-level research with in new ways and to connect the faculty across all disciplines. In Janet Morgan Riggs ’77 classroom to the world and the addition, we now have an active President world to the classroom. Some cross-disciplinary science program of our faculty have flipped their (X-SIG), which encourages the News Gettysburg Prof notes Associate Provost for Academic Technology Initiatives & Faculty Development and Dean of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs Paths and pivots I majored in English literature at Clarion University, and I was required to take two courses in linguistics. I found dialects to be really interesting and liked the idea jennifer of looking at different dialects as a way of understanding what language can tell us about society. I completed my master’s and PhD degrees in linguistics at the University BLOOMQUIST at Buffalo, where my research was in semantics, language acquisition, and category theory. The program there is well-known for grammar and syntax. In 2002, I was hired by Gettysburg College to teach Introduction to College Writing in the English department. I later taught in and became chair of Africana Studies. Research I became interested in studying and mapping the regional dialect of urban and African-American speakers in the Lower Susquehanna Valley. Through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and fieldwork Anatomage 3-D imaging, pictured with students, I was able to study and map patterns in here at the Mayo Clinic, is in use at the regional dialect. We collected more than 300 hours top medical and educational institutions. of interviews. Now I am working on a book for Oxford University Press called From Dumbo to Donkey, looking Photo provided by Anatomage at minstrelsy in children’s animated films and how race is constructed through voicing. VIRTUAL DISSECTION TABLES Impact VIRTUAL DISSECTION TABLES I am very proud of the Stoles of Gratitude [pictured] that I have received from TOTO ENHANCEENHANCE STUDYSTUDY OFOF ANATOMYANATOMY students. Mine are from students who were my advisees and attended graduate schools for linguistics. Although we The Anatomage Table is the most any depth—to reveal anatomical course I enjoyed the most was don’t have a linguistics program here, technologically advanced 3-D features in exacting detail. taught by Prof. Robert Barnes students can build an individual major interactive dissection table in the The Anatomage Table in embryology,” said Truex. “He around language and culture. They medical world today. Gettysburg serves as a valuable teaching and was such an inspiration to me, and have been accepted at very competitive College is gaining two of them assessment tool at top medical the Anatomage Table does exactly graduate schools, such as Georgetown for use in health sciences—or institutions around the globe, what his course did for me in University, the University of Texas– perhaps areas like archaeology or including Stanford University, terms of understanding the human Austin, the University of Hawaii, and art—when an understanding of the University of Michigan, and body. It’s fantastic.” the University of Indiana. anatomy is critical. the Mayo Clinic. “I was blown away by the This innovative technology The tables are gifts from technology,” said Seygal. “For allows students to virtually explore Ray Truex Jr. ’63, P’94, retired our students to engage with these Prof. Jennifer Collins Bloomquist served full-sized human and animal spine and brain neurosurgeon tables so early in their careers as chair of the Africana Studies program bodies in a way once accessible and a medical director at the is tremendous. They typically as it marked its 30th anniversary in 2017. only through traditional cadaver Pennsylvania Medical Society, wouldn’t get this kind of exposure She was co-chair of the Linguistic Society of dissection. With a simple swipe and Gail Seygal ’67, a retired until graduate school, so I hope America’s Committee on Ethnic Diversity in of a finger, students can rotate the occupational therapy coordinator. it awakens the interest of our Linguistics, and her work has been published simulated patient 360 degrees and “I had a wonderful experience students across disciplines.” in First Language, Journal of Pragmatics, dissect in any direction—and at as a student at Gettysburg. The Multilingua, Southern Journal of Linguistics, and American Speech. 2 3 The 411 Allison Meckley ’05 LIFE’S LESSONS LEARNED Psychology major and education minor • MA in organizational psychology fr m sp rts & science from Fairleigh Dickinson U–Madison (NJ) • Alumni relations coordinator Problem solving premier competitors in the region. for Leadership York • G’burg Alumni For Sarah Hansen ’17, her With Hansen leading the way, Board of Directors • Class President, problem-solving abilities as a the Bullets captured four straight Orientation leader, First-Year physics major and member of the Centennial titles and advanced Experience intern, Student Conduct women’s golf team played a pivotal to the NCAA Division III Review Board • lives in York, PA role in her quest to join the United Championship each year. States Navy after graduation. After graduating, Hansen What makes G’burg special “In physics, the first thing entered the Navy’s Nuclear The people! The friendships I’ve formed through Gettysburg you do to solve a problem is list all Propulsion Officer Candidate College and the Alumni Board are some of my most treasured.