Higher education
Living wages, health insurance and fair working conditions are some of the things Alexia G. Salvatierra, a recipient of California Lutheran University’s first-ever Peace Prize, helps low-wage workers gain. The Thousand Oaks school presented the ELCA pastor with the award on Jan. 19. Salvatierra is executive director of an interfaith alliance called Clergy and Laity United for Economic Jus- tice of California. She’s no stranger to justice work. As a pastor in Fresno, she started a gang-prevention pro- gram for at-risk immigrant youth. In Oakland, she integrated her congrega- tion with block parties, a community
computer center and a garden where elderly members taught at-risk youth to grow produce. In Berkeley, she helped found the Berkeley Ecumeni- cal Chaplaincy to the Homeless.
About 400 frozen fish from areas in the Gulf of Mexico affected by the 2010 BP oil spill made it into classrooms at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn. Students dissected the fish, collecting tissue samples for Gus- tavus assistant professor of biology Joel Carlin. He is studying whether the oil spill affected genetic diver- sity, part of his partnership with the National Oceanographic and Atmo- spheric Administration. In the past, that partnership has allowed Gusta- vus students to do research aboard the NOAA research vessel, Oregon II.
Best in the nation. That’s what Wit- tenberg University’s History Journal was recently judged by the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society. The Springfield, Ohio, school’s 2010 vol- ume, “Commerce, Culture and Con- trol: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Past” (Vol. 39), received the soci- ety’s Gerald D. Nash History Journal Prize based on scholarly merit, variety of papers, layout, design and cover artistry. Senior Adam Matthews, a stu- dent contributor, said being published helps motivate him to pursue a doc- torate in medieval history. “I would like to one day hold a faculty position at an institution like Wittenberg,” he said. “The recognition our journal has received is further validation of the effectiveness of this element of our institution, and the dedication [of] our students to historical scholarship.”
More than half of the 22 artists selected as 2011 Emerging Iowa Artists by the Des Moines [Iowa] Arts Festi- val are students or alumni of ELCA- affiliated institutions. Eight are stu- dents and alumni of Grand View Uni-
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versity, Des Moines: Jolynn Ander- son, Becky Arkema, Nicole Creason, Jenn Saak, Senid Tabakovic, Kindra Wisniewski, Melissa Kos (’09) and Marshelle Smith (’09). Five are stu- dents of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa: Rick DeVoss, Spencer Knapp, Tim Mundell, Jacob Otte and Jon Shrader. View their work at www.
desmoinesartsfestival.org/artists/ emerging_iowa_artists.php.
A Fulbright Scholarship enabled Karla Kelsey, assistant professor of creative writing at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., to teach in Buda- pest, Hungary, this spring. Kelsey will combine instruction in creative writing with coursework in American Studies and journalistic ethics. Each year the Fulbright Scholar Program sends about 800 U.S. faculty and pro- fessionals to 140 countries to lecture, research or participate in seminars. It also allows 800 foreign faculty to come to the U.S.
At Roanoke College, Salem, Va., school-related spending boosts the local economy by more than $90 million a year. That includes nearly $358,000 via the college’s Maroon Card, an identification and debit card for Roanoke students and staff.
Take that, Newton. Defying gravity for the fourth year in a row, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wis., will send another student team to Houston’s Johnson Space Center this March. Part of NASA’s Systems Engineer- ing Educational Discovery (SEED) program, students will experiment with microgravity fluid vessel quan- tity measurement using noninvasive PZT technology. And they’ll do this during the roller coaster-like dips and climbs of NASA’s Weightless Won- der microgravity aircraft. See a video from 2010 at
www.carthage.edu/ physics/microgravity/video. M
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