The Wave

Susan Brashaw has won the first annual Faculty Excellence Award for LSC Online for FY07. This award is tied to the annual Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Technology given at the annual International Conference on College Teaching and Learning hosted by Florida Community College at Jacksonville. Susan will make a presentation in April at the conference and receive her award. Accompanying Susan to the conference will be the two runners-up for the award: Victoria Hutson and Hanna Erpestad. Also nominated for the award were Theresa Hornstein, Cherie Hamilton, and Lawrance Bernabo.

LSC student Joe Atol organized a LSC hockey team this fall. The remainder of the season includes a Jan. 7, 9 p.m. DECC Arena game playing the Gilbys/ACES/Sammys team; a Jan. 14, 10:15 p.m.DECC Arena game playing the Greenmill/Slumberland team; Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m. DECC Arena playing the T-BONZ team and Jan. 28, 7:45 p.m. in Pioneer Hall playing the ACES/Grizzlys team.

LSC Student Life is sponsoring two teams of LSC students to play in the U.S. Pond Hockey games held at Barker’s Island in Superior, Wisconsin on Jan. 26-28. (Above photo from Minnesota Historical Society) For more information on pond hockey, check out www.uspondhockey.com

For more information on the LSC hockey team, contact Joe Atol at 218/390-5284 or 525-3075.

The Northshore Mining Company in Silver Bay, Minnesota recently donated fire bricks to Lake Superior College’s art department. The bricks will be used to build or update kilns for LSC’s ceramics program. “We were thrilled to receive about 26 pallets of bricks. The brick will be used to restore existing kilns and to build new wood fire kilns,”? said Dorian Beaulieu, ceramics instructor at the college. The bricks will help complete a wood fire kiln now under construction and be used in a kiln building course to be offered fall 2007.

The fire bricks donated by Northshore Mining were no longer used in the taconite production process. “We were happy to donate these materials to Lake Superior College,”? said Warren Lind in Materials Handling for Northshore Mining. “We know they’ll be put to good use.”? This is the third materials donation LSC has received from Northshore Mining in the last decade.

Pictured in photo: studio assistant Jacob Haydon,( l), with ceramics instructor Dorian Beaulieu,( r).

Dancing, drumming, singing, food, workshops and displays were all a part of a popular two-day diversity fair hosted by the Inter-Cultural Club in LSC’s Atrium Dec. 11-12. Pictured left to right: LSC students Yasrein Ahread, Jacqueline Alinda Hbuga from Tanzania and Amarpreet Kaur from India.

Team Trinity members (left to right) Robert L’Heureux, Alex Johnston, Matt Hjelden and (not pictured, Jim Little), designed the winning robot for the Integrated Manufacturing robot competition.

Lake Superior College Integrated Manufacturing students demonstrated the robots they built as part of a class assignment in the Commons.

The Duluth News Tribune covered the event, too. Read it at: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=31092&section=homepage

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Happy holidays from the faculty, staff and students of Lake Superior College. To share with others, direct them to www.lsc.edu/greetings/.

The LSC Art Club hosted a workshop by ceramic artist Ernest Miller. Miller lectured on Tuesday, December 12, and conducted hands-on clay demonstrations and a workshop on Wednesday, December 13.

The events, which were open to all enrolled students, were also supported by Student Life and the ceramics faculty.

Pictured at left: Ernest Miller conducts a wheel throwing demonstration.

Miller’s work is noted for its crystaline glazes on porcelein clay bodies. Visit Miller’s web site for examples of his work.

The December issue of The Review, the Office of the Chancellor’s monthy newsletter, is now available. Highlights include:

• Government Relations division gears up for 2007 legislative session
• Become a FAN of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
• Software being test-piloted to help colleges plan academic programs
• System magazine’s second issue focuses on film
• Too much paper?
• ISEEK Training and Outreach
• Minnesota Online sponsors Noel Levitz Priorities Survey

http://www.thereview.mnscu.edu

LSC PTA Student Jessica Schultz is in the news again. She’s featured in the November issue of Minnesota Monthly as their College Athelete of the Month. Schultz was a member of the U.S. Olympic Women’s Curling team and Team USA. She continues to compete at a world class level, while attending classes at LSC.

Read the Minnesota Monthly story at: www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/November-2006/November-2006-College-Athlete-of-the-Month-Jessica-Schultz/

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