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What could make finals week a bit less stressful? Yoga or a run might do, but for faster relief, how about a few minutes petting an adorable canine like Zeppo? Undergrads and law students now have the opportunity to access time-tested “dog therapy” during breaks between finals. But they can’t get too attached — the stress-relieving pups are only on loan from Willamette professors and staff.
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Cherry trees on the Willamette campus. Japan's Fuji Television Network donated 150 of them in 1992 in honor of the university’s sesquicentennial.
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3D fractal — an object with a pattern that repeats infinitely, at all scales.” Math enthusiasts know the 3D fractal as Sierpinski’s carpet, just one of Menger’s contributions to the field, along with co-founding distance geometry. Together with cubes from 19 other sites around the
Law Alumni Make Their Mark in Oregon Willamette law grads held their own this winter when the Oregon State Bar gave out its annual awards for outstanding work in the legal profession — four Willamette alumni earned recognition.
Left to right: Edward J. Harri, Renée E. Rothauge, Liani JH Reeves and Kim Sugawa-Fujinaga.
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A Level 4 Menger sponge sounds like a monster you might face at the end of a Dungeons & Dragons quest. Size-wise, you wouldn’t be far off. For several weeks last fall, students, faculty, staff, their families and friends folded business cards in Ford Hall. And folded and folded. Their goal? To create a Level 3 Menger sponge — a 5-foottall fractal cube weighing 160 pounds and comprising nearly 70,000 cards. “Menger was an AustrianAmerican mathematician,” says Josh Laison, chair of the math department and leader of Willamette’s MegaMenger team. “He described this interesting
Fun with Fractals
Edward J. Harri JD’73 and Renée E. Rothauge JD’90 took home the President’s Membership Service Award for contributions to the profession. Harri, assistant dean for student affairs at Willamette’s law school, has been teaching legal research and writing since 1986. Rothauge, a trial attorney for Markowitz Herbold PC in Portland, cofounded the Rothauge & Kaner Women’s Trial Academy to help women litigators build trial skills.
Liani JH Reeves ’98, JD’01 and Kim Sugawa-Fujinaga JD’05 won the President’s Diversity and Inclusion Award for helping increase minority representation in the legal profession. Reeves, former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber’s top legal advisor, earned the Department of Justice Outstanding Service Award in 2008. Sugawa-Fujinaga is an associate at McEwen Gisvold LLP in Portland, where she practices creditor’s rights, business and commercial litigation.