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Lutheran Theological Southern Semi- nary President Marcus J. Miller will retire at the end of August 2012. Since 2006, Miller has led the Columbia, S.C.-based seminary, which will merge with Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C. “It is time for the seminary to have new leadership with a different set of gifts,” Miller said, “and it is time for me to move to a new chapter in life.” William B. Trexler, chair of Southern’s board of trustees, praised Miller for his “faith, wisdom and grace,” saying the president “will be fully engaged in the seminary’s mission until his final day of service.”
Two Gettysburg [Pa.] College pro- fessors received grants totaling nearly half a million dollars from the National Science Foundation. Sci- ence professor Cecilia Diniz Behn received $299,998 over three years to study the dynamics of sleep-wake regulation. She will collaborate with Victoria Booth from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on using math- ematical modeling to bridge gaps in current experimentation. Physics pro- fessor Michael Strickland received $141,000 over three years for research into the dissipative dynamics of the quark gluon plasma, an ultrahot state of matter that existed when the uni- verse was microseconds old. Physi- cists can re-create such temperatures in particle accelerators. Strickland and two students will use the funding to develop a theoretical method for obtaining dynamical equations that describe the plasma’s evolution and to host guest speakers at campus events.
Data structures and algorithms are what Jon Sandness, a second-year student at St. Olaf College, North- field, Minn., enjoys. Sandness is the co-creator of Symphonic Tower Defense, a free online game about an electronic symphony that’s getting rave reviews (
www.newgrounds. com/portal/view/576557). Joystiq, a
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video games news site, called it “the No. 1 game on Newgrounds … so wonderfully addictive, we can’t stop putting our fermatas in formation.” It took Sandness and his co-creator, artist Matt Ackerman, a year to create the game, which makes a small profit from sponsors and pregame ads. At presstime, Sandness was working with St. Olaf’s Association for Com- puting Machinery club on a new plat- form style.
For the first time in its 50-year his- tory, Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, will have a permanent home, thanks to the generosity of Westwood [Kan.] Lutheran Church, an ELCA congre- gation that closed last August. West- wood gave the proceeds from its property sale to LCM, ELCA Disaster Response, a free clinic, a food pan- try and a domestic violence shelter. LCM, the largest single beneficiary, will name its new facility “Westwood House” in honor of the congregation. Campus pastor Shawn Norris called it “the end of a long pilgrimage and the start of something new and exciting.”
Scott Koerwer resigned in November after serving 17 months as president of Newberry [S.C.] College. Koer- wer, 45, cited family and profes- sional issues. In addition to attending to family business, he said he will assist the college during the transi- tion and continue to serve on the faculty as a professor of business administration. Koerwer led the col- lege through a planning process that resulted in a strategy focused on stu- dent learning experiences. He also developed a new academic structure. In a statement, the Newberry board said the college had “made sig- nificant gains during Dr. Koerwer’s tenure” and looked forward to “a promising future.” John Hudgens, a former Newberry College president, will serve in the interim. M
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