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Volume 11, Issue 9
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
October 21,1997
Prof. Kender honored for service
Joseph P. Kender,
professor of education and
human services and longtime director of the reading
program in the College of
Education, was given an
award for Outstanding
Service to the college at its
annual Alumni Day on
Saturday at lacocca Hall.
"No pleasure is greater
than having taught students that are also colleagues," said Kender, who
received a standing ovation
from the audience upon
accepting the award.
Ron Yoshida, dean of
the college, said Kender was
recognized for "his outstanding mentoring of many
doctoral and master's
degree students. When you
talk about the reading
program, that's Joe Kender."
Lisa E. Nyce, an instructional support teacher
in the East Penn School
District, who graduated
from the college with a 4.0
grade-point average,
received the Matthew W.
Gaffer Academic Excellence
Award.
Also honored was
Richard Zinck, principal
of Strayer Middle School in
Quakertown, who received
the Lloyd W. Ashby Out
standing Dissertation
Award. Four elementary
school teachers received
the college's 1997 Outstanding Teacher Award.
Elizabeth Keegan Colley
Joe Kender meets
with John Manni,
former faculty
member in the
College of Ed.
Teachers must fight
public schools' poor
image, author says
It is time for American teachers to
stand up and defend their school
systems, educator David C. Berliner
said Saturday at the College of
Education's annual Alumni Day.
"We are a passive profession," said
Berliner, who is interim dean of the
College of Education, regents professor of educational leadership and
policy, and professor of psychology in
education at Arizona State University. "Too often we let others do the
talking."
Berliner called on teachers to
"bombard" radio talk shows and other
media with facts about the quality
offered to America's students.
Berliner was given the college's
award honoring outstanding service
to the field of education. He is the
author, along with Bruce J. Biddle, of
the 1995 book The Manufactured
Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack
on America's Public Schools.
At Alumni Day, Berliner said that
intentional misstatements, myths
and lies propagated by a small group
of uninformed ideologues have been
too readily accepted by lazy public
leaders and a compliant press. The
Please see Public Schools on page 5
The world sends its best for Gunton's 60th birthday
The big day was marked in March, but friends
and colleagues of James D. Gunton have waited
until this week to throw him a 60th birthday party
with a professional theme.
Gunton, professor of physics and former dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences, is being honored
with an international symposium titled "Current
Issues in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
and Materials: In Honor of Prof. James Gunton on
the Occasion of his 60th Birthday."
The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday (Oct. 24) and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, in Room 308 of the University Center, with a
banquet at 7 p.m. Friday in the Asa Packer Dining
Room.
Scientists and researchers are coming from the
U.S., Japan, Europe and Canada to deliver papers.
Sessions will be devoted to kinetics of phase
transitions; pattern formation and non-equilibrium
statistical mechanics.
Gunton said scientists in his field seek to
understand the properties of complex systems,
especially systems undergoing liquid-to-gas, solid-
James D. Gunton, professor of physics, will be
honored with a symposium.
to-liquid or other phase transitions.
Water cooled so fast that it remains a liquid
below 32 degrees F. is one example of a non-
equilibrium process, he said. Another example is
a snowflake, which is a supercooled liquid
turning into a solid. Stripes forming on a zebra
and spots on a leopard are biological non-
equilibrium processes.
Gunton, a theoretical physicist, uses
supercomputers to solve non-linear partial
differential equations, some of which are too
complex to solve analytically. He also uses
computers to study physical phenomena such as
the chaotic patterns in heat transfer, and to
simulate, sometimes in 3-D, mathematical
renditions of this behavior.
"I don't count the fact that we can solve
equations [on a computer] as a theory," Gunton
said. "That's not a theory; that's a numerical
solution. A theorist tries to discover fundamental
new laws to explain what happens in the lab.
"I have always tried to explain what experimentalists are seeing or to predict what they are
going to see. That is my role."
Gunton sees himself as a computational scien-
Please see Gunton on page 2
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