FACULTY AND STAFF AWARDS
T.A. Abbott Award for Faculty
Excellence Dr. Clifton Potter ’62, professor of history, has received the T.A. Abbott Award for Faculty Excel-
lence from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Division of Higher Education and Leadership Ministries. This recognition is the most
Top Row: Shirley E. Rosser Award for Excellence in Teaching — Dr. Lesley Friedman, professor of philosophy; Thomas C. Allen Award for Excellence in Academic Advising — Dr. David Freier, associate professor of bio- medical science; James A. Huston Award for Excellence in Scholarship — Dr. Scott Amos, assistant professor of history; Elsie Ervin Bock Award for Excellence in Citizenship — Dr. Todd Olsen, associate professor of health and physical education; C. Raine Sydnor Sr. Professorship Award for Teaching Excellence in Business in the School of Business and Economics — Dr. Stefan Nicovich, associate professor of marketing.
Bottom Row: Susan M. Nichols Memorial Service Award — Christie Rapp ’83, administrative assistant, Office of the Chaplain; Minnie Johnson Campus Service Support Award — Donald Walker, Dining Services, and Danny Tyree, Environmental Services; Lois Daniel Office/Administrative/Technical Support Award — Deborah Brown, Student Activities; Iva Burford Administrative/Managerial/Leadership Award — Carol Key, senior ac- countant, Business Office
prestigious given by the Christian Church to members of faculties of the colleges and universities affiliated with the church. Recip- ients are recognized for inspiring students toward excellence; for continuing to grow and learn in his/her academic discipline; and for manifesting a personal faith. Dr. Potter’s research interests
Creating wetlands
Environmental science students have been working on creating wetlands at Elon Elementary in neigh- boring Amherst County. Students in Dr. Brooke Haiar and Dr. Tom Shahady’s classes teamed up with third-graders in the class of Melissa Busse, a 2007 graduate of LC. The project had a dual purpose: educating the
students and helping clean the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Wetlands work to temporarily trap and purify water. The site for the wetland project is a high-banked basin, hidden by trees and surrounded by vines and thorn bushes. LC students pulled out non-native and weedy plants growing on the spot and replaced them with such wetland plants as cat- tails, river birch, red maples, and ash trees. The school’s PTO is pitching in for the cost of the plants. LC students hope that their hydraulic work will
result in water naturally filling the basin over time rather than draining out quickly as it has in the past. If their first plan doesn’t work, future students could come back to make modifications, Dr. Shahady said.
include the Elizabethan Age, with a special emphasis on the use of art as propaganda, Eng- lish history, modern Europe from 1700 to the present, and the history of Central Virginia. His most recent book, Victo-
rian Ambivalence About Eliza- beth I: The Political History of a Royal Reputation, was published by the Edwin Mellen Press (July 2010), whose editorial board acknowledged the publication’s
“distinguished contribution to scholarship” by awarding the book its own Adele Mellen Prize. Dr. Potter is the seventh LC
professor to receive the award. Past recipients are Dr. John R. Scudder Jr., Dr. G. Kenneth West, Dr. Phillip Stump, Dr. Michael Santos, Dr. Elza Tiner, and Dr. James H. Price.
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