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Approximately 2,500 students, faculty, staff and community members visited Lewis and Clark Community College for the total solar eclipse Aug. 21, 2017, during the first day of the 20172018 school year. L&C handed out free eclipse viewing glasses as well as space-themed food and other giveaways. Two other events, the opening of the Celestial Narratives art exhibition and culmination of the Monticello Sculpture Gardens’ Solar Flair summer garden show, also coincided with the eclipse. (p. 6-7)

Planning to continue your education beyond L&C? These options might be for you: • Associate in Arts • Associate in Science • Associate in Engineering Science • Associate in Fine Arts – Art • Associate in Fine Arts – Music Performance

Transfer Degrees

Career Programs

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Members of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society recreate photos from the Monticello College archives. (p. 8) 2 - “Discover”

Want to get to work sooner? Although many do transfer, these programs are geared toward students who want to begin their career after L&C. • Accounting • Administrative Assistant • Architectural Technology • Automotive Technology • Child Development • Computer Graphics • Computer Network Security & Administration • Criminal Justice • Dental Assisting • Dental Hygiene • Drafting and Design • Education • Environmental Science • Exercise Science • Fire Science • Health Information & Medical Coding • Industrial Technology • Instrumentation and Control Systems • Machining • Management • Medical Assisting • Music Production • New Media Technologies • Nursing (ADN) • Nurse Assistant • Occupational Therapy Assistant • Paralegal • Paramedicine • Process Operations Technology • Radio Broadcasting • Restoration Ecology • Smart Grid Technology • Truck Driver Training • Web Design • Welding Technology

www.lc.edu/credit-programs

Letter From The President

We often say Lewis and Clark is

more than your average community college – and there’s a lot of evidence to back that up.

Not only do we offer many top-notch career training programs; we also attract some of the best and brightest transfer students in the community each year – and that number is on the rise. L&C usually welcomes an average of four area valedictorian and salutatorian scholars on full-ride scholarships annually, but this year we enrolled 12.

These students, among the best and brightest, chose to spend their first two years with L&C before transferring to another college or university for a plethora of reasons, but they all know they’re getting a quality education to start them off on the right foot.

A new opportunity this year, the L&C Honors College, expands the options available for our most outstanding students. Honors College students can pursue any transferrable degree they like, but they also earn honors credit through field work and participate in a culminating research symposium, both of which enhance their resumes and transcripts.

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society offers

another outlet for high achieving students to get involved on campus and off. PTK offers social opportunities and community building activities to engage our students. Read more about PTK’s recent history crawl event, a part of the group’s Honors in Action Project, on page 8.

Learn more about the L&C faculty, staff and partners, who continue to lift up our students – like Becky Gockel, our 2017 Emerson Electric Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, who innovates in the classroom and connects our students with valuable internship opportunities that build solid foundations for their careers; Head Soccer Coach Tim Rooney, who has empowered L&C athletes on and off the field for more than three decades, encouraging a strong work ethic and team mentality among his players; and partners like Werts Welding and Tank Service, which empower our instructors and students through investments in our programs, like the recent donation of a tanker trailer to broaden learning experiences for Truck Driver Training students.

We’re also excited to tell you about some of the projects taking place at the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center and the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities, which are not only unique educational assets for the college, but also ways to continue enriching our larger community’s experience.

By connecting research and education and using that data to derive solutions and affect policies and practices on a local, national and global scale, Lewis and Clark seeks to improve the quality of life of residents in our district and see that impact ripple outward to our larger community.

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Werts Welding Donates Tanker Trailer

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‘Celestial Narratives’ Complements Eclipse

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PTK Connects Community with the Past

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Ride for a World Free of MS

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L&C Launches Honors College

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Scholars & Donors Celebrate Empowerment

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Mapping the L&C District

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Tips for Staying Well

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NGRRECSM Innovates Water Quality Monitoring

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Rooney Announces Retirement

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TRAILBLAZER Rebecca Gockel

Paralegal Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Business Rebecca “Becky” Gockel is L&C’s 2017 Emerson Electric Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, chosen by her peers and colleagues.

In 2004, she began teaching full time, and in 2005, she helped develop the first Paralegal program at L&C, which she now coordinates. Gockel is also a circuit courtappointed mediator in Madison County’s family law division.

“I enjoy watching paralegal jobs and opportunities for my students continue to skyrocket in our district as a result of employers hiring students and graduates, seeing how skilled and valuable they are and continuing to want more in their law offices,” Gockel said. “This program’s rapid growth and the Metro East employers’ response to it has been my best professional success story by far.”

Each year, the Emerson Electric Excellence in Teaching Awards recognize more than 100 educators in the St. Louis metropolitan area – from kindergarten teachers to college professors – who are examples of excellence in their field. This is the 24th year Lewis and Clark has participated in the recognition program.

Gockel earned her Master of Business Administration from Webster University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Illinois State University, where she also earned a political science minor in legal studies, which is American Bar Associationaccredited.

She began her professional career in 1991, working as a corporate paralegal for Motorola, Inc., then as an employment law paralegal with Ralston Purina, and then in corporate staffing/recruiting at Energizer. In 2001, Gockel began teaching business and career development courses at L&C, and served as a part-time career development counselor for the MBA students at Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business and SLU School of Law.

Paralegal Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Business Rebecca “Becky” Gockel is L&C’s 2017 Emerson Electric Excellence in Teaching Award recipient.

www.lc.edu/program/paralegal

Hear the Future of Radio on

WLCA Substations Every August, WLCA 89.9-FM and the L&C Radio Broadcasting program welcome local high school students to the studio to prep for their own on-air debuts. This year, Civic Memorial (shown left) and Marquette High School students toured the station and participated in “radio boot camp.”

Check out 89.9-2 to hear live broadcasts operated by students from Alton and Civic Memorial High Schools, or 89.9-3 to hear Marquette and East Alton/Wood River students on air. Listen now at www.lc.edu/WLCA_Radio.

For more information, contact Radio Broadcasting Program Coordinator and WLCA Station Director Mike Lemons at (618) 468-4940 or mlemons@lc.edu.

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Werts Welding Empowers

Trucking Program with Tanker Donation

With the donation of a 9,200-gallon tanker trailer, Werts Welding and Tank Service, Inc., of Wood River, is enhancing an already strong Truck Driver Training program at Lewis and Clark.

“The trailer extends the capabilities of our current program to provide unique training and experience in a trucking segment that requires specialized skills in hauling liquid materials,” said Truck Driver Training Coordinator Harry Nelson.

L&C’s Truck Driver Training program prepares individuals with little or no commercial driving experience for a career in tractor-trailer driving. Since the program’s inception in 201415, Truck Driver Training has a 100 percent pass rate for CDL licensure and job placement.

The trucking industry is currently facing a critical shortage of

On Aug. 31, 2017, Werts Welding & Tank Service, Inc., of Wood River, donated a 9,200-gallon tanker trailer to L&C’s Truck Driver Training program. Pictured above are L&C Program Coordinator Harry Nelson, Werts Welding President and CEO Dwight Werts, L&C President Dale Chapman and Trailer Salesman Nick Werts. qualified professional drivers.

“Werts Welding and Tank Services has always been a big supporter of this program,” said company President and CEO Dwight Werts. “This donation is our way of assuring Lewis and Clark has the equipment needed to help the entire industry in our region.”

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Faces of Fall Fest L&C Student Activities hosted Fall Fest 2017 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, on the lawn outside the Enrollment Center on L&C’s Godfrey Campus. Fall Fest and Spring Fest, each held annually, offer opportunities for students to mingle and learn about opportunities to get involved in campus clubs and organizations.

www.lc.edu/campus-life Women’s soccer players (L-R) Samantha Eckert, Cerita Smith and Senate Letsie serve food during Fall Fest 2017.

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‘Celestial Narratives’ Michiko Itatani Exhibition Complements Solar Eclipse Celestial Narratives, featuring the art of Chicago-based artist Michiko Itatani, opened with the arrival of the Great American Eclipse Aug. 21, and ran through Sept. 22 in L&C’s Hatheway Cultural Center Gallery. The show was curated by Curator and Art Professor Jim Price.

Through her large scale paintings, Itatani transported viewers into an ethereal universe of possibilities, fittingly coinciding with not only the eclipse, but also the culmination of the Monticello Sculpture Gardens’ cosmic-themed summer garden show, Solar Flair.

“A total solar eclipse is awe inspiring and rare – thus is the talent of Michiko Itatani, who reminds us of the aspirational instincts intrinsic in all of us,” L&C President Dale Chapman said.

Itatani was born in Osaka, Japan. After she received her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1976, she returned to her alma mater to teach painting and drawing. She has received the Illinois Arts Council Artist’s Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is collected in the Museum of Contemporary Art, U.S.; Olympic Museum, Switzerland; Villa Haiss Museum, Germany; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada; Museu D’art Contemporani, Spain; and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea.

“For me, to be an artist is an intellectual choice and a carefully chosen commitment,” Itatani said. “There is no intoxication.

My painting is a painted diagram of possibilities within my inconclusive fictional universe. It is incomplete, fragmented and under inquiry.”

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(Top Left) Curator Jim Price and L&C transformed the Hatheway Gallery into a unique space for the exhibit.

(Top Middle) Guests view the large-scale paintings in Itatani’s Celestial Narratives exhibit at L&C. (Top Right) “Cosmic Wanderlust” is seen reflected in the surface of a bookcase that was built into the center of the Celestial Narratives exhibition.

(Bottom Left) Artist Michiko Itatani mingled with guests and spoke during the opening of Celestial Narratives, Aug. 21.

Dazzles Garden Visitors The Monticello Sculpture Gardens’ fifth curated summer garden show, Solar Flair, celebrated light, energy, lunar cycles and how plants connect with the cosmos. This year’s theme was influenced by the solar system and the unique experience of the first total solar eclipse to touch the continental U.S. since 1979 and the first to cross from coast to coast since 1918.

The Starry Night Living Wall garden, one of 10-themed pocket gardens in Solar Flair, reflected and complemented the color palette used by Artist Michiko Itatani throughout her Celestial Narratives exhibition within the Hatheway Cultural Center.

www.lc.edu/solarflair

Guests walk through the Rivers of Color garden, which featured Sun, Moon and Bloom – bright purple, red and silver plants with lunar names – as part of Solar Flair. www.lc.edu - 7

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L&C’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Eta Psi, invited students and community members to experience the past firsthand during the PTK History Crawl Sept. 23.

Historians Cathy Bagby and Nancy Alexander, also known as The History Chix, led guests on an adventure in local history, which included stops at the Confederate Cemetery, Lincoln Douglas Square, Scott Bibb Center, Lovejoy Monument and other historic locations.

“When we first came up with the idea for this project, we wanted to find out how one’s perception of history shapes his or her sense of reality,” PTK Co-President Robyn Scott said.

“Our purpose behind hosting a history crawl was to educate the public about the historical significance of the area and then inquire about the impact it has on one’s sense of civic pride.

Interviews conducted after the tour with attendees provided proof that we accomplished our mission.”

The History Crawl was a part of the PTK students’ Honors in Action Project.

PTK is a national honor society, and membership requires a minimum GPA of 3.5 as well as the completion of at least 12 transferrable credit hours at L&C. Students who meet these requirements receive an invitation to join.

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(Top) Right, PTK students use costumes and photomanipulation to recreate an original photo, left, of Monticello College students with the J.L. Mott fountain.

(Above) John Meeham, who is portraying Captain Benjamin Godfrey, poses with (back row, from left) PTK Vice President Katherine Schoeberle, PTK Advisor Elizabeth Grant, PTK Co-President Maddie McKenzie, (middle row) Elizabeth Hall, PTK CoPresident Robyn Scott, (front row) PTK Secretary Regan Goldasich and Jessica Hall, before the History Crawl.

Ride for a World

Free of MS!

L&C’s third year hosting the Bike MS: Express Scripts Gateway Getaway Ride was the best yet, with Team Trailblazers topping their fundraising goal at more than $9,100 toward the fight against multiple sclerosis.

This year’s team was 16 members strong, mostly comprised of L&C faculty, staff and friends – although anyone is welcome to ride with the Trailblazers.

Walter “Joe” Pfleger did just that. He’s participated for the last four years, and has ridden with Team Trailblazers for the last three.

For him, this event is personal – Pfleger’s oldest daughter and one of his aunts have multiple sclerosis, which results in nerve damage that disrupts communication between the brain and the body.

“Riding in Bike MS has taught me just how many people have MS and shown me the devotion of those who are trying to find a cure,” Pfleger said.

This year, he raised an impressive $1,100 and rode 100 miles on the first day of the event and 50 miles on the second day.

According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, this year’s event saw about 1,800 riders that have raised a total of $1.6 million so far toward finding a cure.

“I enjoy seeing all the teams and how much fun they have while focusing on such a terrible disease,” Pfleger said. “I recommend participating in Bike MS because it is great exercise and fun to ride with friends. If you want to join the event, you should commit by registering now. You do not have to be an athlete to ride, but you should plan on some training rides next spring.”

The fundraising minimum for each registered rider is $300 and you must be at least 12 to ride.

(Top) Spectators cheer as cyclists cross the starting line Saturday morning.

(Above) Howard Jenkins, of Team Trailblazers, rides out Saturday morning.

The Bike MS: Express Scripts Gateway Getaway Ride 2018 will take place on L&C’s Godfrey Campus Sept. 8-9, 2018.

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(Left) Members of the 2017-18 L&C Honors College pilot cohort are (L-R) Lillian Callahan, Allison Klaas, Madelynn Clevenger, Grace Zachary, Abby Krieb and Tristen Nichols.

(Above) Honors College Coordinator Jen Cline meets with the pilot cohort during their fall orientation.

L&C Launches

HONORSCollege

The L&C Honors College provides an opportunity for students with outstanding potential to complete their first two years of a four-year degree in any area of study, while saving thousands of dollars and taking advantage of other benefits offered by a community college, including small class sizes and faculty mentorship opportunities.

The program enhances students’ college experience through honors courses, service and social opportunities, field work and a culminating research symposium. Honors students move through the program on their own academic paths, but share one humanities course per term with the members of their cohort and Program Coordinator Jen Cline.

“The Honors College is a great opportunity for students to not only earn honors credit on their transcripts, but use their courses to build a portfolio of field work that will be influential when it comes time to apply for scholarships or admission into their four-year school of choice,” Cline said. “It’s also a chance to take advantage of social opportunities and build relationships with fellow honors students that can last a lifetime.”

Lewis and Clark is still recruiting members of the pilot cohort, to begin the program at the start of the Spring 2018 semester.

The L&C Honors College, affiliated with the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities, is a selective admissions program.

Applicants must submit a 500-word essay on “how your surroundings have helped shape your identity and your sense of place” as well as two letters of recommendation, and then undergo an interview process to be selected.

For more info, contact Cline at (618) 468-4762 or jacline@lc.edu.

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Scholarships Available Beginning

Nov. 11

The application period for scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year at Lewis and Clark will open Nov. 11. There are more than 125 available, totaling around $350,000.

The process is simple. Visit lc.edu/scholarships and click “Apply Now” to access our online scholarships database. Within this site, students can search, browse and apply for scholarships with ease – all you need is a Blazernet username and password.

(If you’re a prospective student or previously took dual credit courses in high school and you don’t know this info, contact helpdesk@lc.edu).

Just log in and fill out a single application. Our system will match you to all eligible scholarship oppprtunities. Scholarships are available for people of all ages, abilities and academic levels of performance. The deadline for most applications is March 3, 2018.

For more info, contact Alex Ruiz at (618) 468-2011 or aruiz@lc.edu.

www.lc.edu/scholarships

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TRAILBLAZER Madelynn Clevenger

Madelynn Clevenger, 18, of Piasa, Illinois, is the first ever student to enroll in the new L&C Honors College program.

A true Trailblazer, Clevenger decided to enroll in the Honors College in its inaugural year to help shape the program and push herself academically on her way to becoming a pediatric geneticist.

“I always strive to push myself to the limits academically, and I didn’t want my college experience to be any different,” she said. “My drive is knowing that someday, I could be the monumental change that saves a child’s life – and just one life makes all the work ahead of me worth it.”

Clevenger plans to study nursing at L&C before transferring to Iowa State University to earn a bachelor’s degree in genetics and complete her pre-med courses.

“I decided to attend Lewis and Clark because of the closeness to home and the

great programs available,” she said. “Merely 20 minutes from home, I have the opportunity to attend classes taught by some of the best professors in the country – not to mention I will be participating in one of the top rated Nursing programs in the area.”

As a student at Jersey Community High School, Clevenger excelled both academically and in a variety of extracurricular activities from theater and music performance to Student Council, National Honor Society, and many others. She also participated in Girl Scouts all through high school.

Clevenger has earned many awards and accolades over the years and is a 2017 L&C Foundation Distinguished Scholar.

This fall, she was the recipient of the St. Louis Regional Chamber’s Gateway Game Changer Award.

www.lc.edu/spotlights

Scholars and Donors Celebrate

Empowerment

Scholarship recipients for 2017-18 pose for a group photo during the Scholars and Donors Recognition Dinner Oct. 5, 2017.

www.lc.edu/foundation_scholarships

The L&C Foundation honored its 2017-18 scholarship recipients, alongside the donors that make the scholarships possible, during its annual Scholars and Donors Recognition Dinner Oct. 5 in The Commons.

More than $265,000 in Foundation scholarships is helping 68 students pursue their academic and career goals this year, thanks to the generosity of donors to the L&C Foundation.

“Often, donors start a scholarship in memory of someone they loved,” said L&C Foundation Development Director Debby Edelman. “It’s a meaningful way to create a legacy.”

Starting a scholarship is easy, just contact Edelman at (618) 468-2011 to get the ball rolling.

Every fall, both scholars and donors are invited to the Foundation’s annual event to be recognized.

“It’s a heartwarming event,” Edelman said.

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Mapmaking and Storytelling: Getting to Know L&C’s District

(Left) Dr. Shawn Dalton brainstorms with a group of faculty and staff at the Lewis and Clark Community College MJCH® during a visit in July 2017.

(Right) Dr. Michael Pasquier

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Dr. Dalton is currently using a series of maps and statistics to identify, locate and explain relationships within and between communities and ecosystems at different scales, using variables like age, education, health, income and more to identify patterns in our communities.

- L&C President Dale Chapman

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One of the key strategic initiatives of L&C’s Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities involves humanities research – assembling world class scholars to conduct large scale projects, the result of which will be improved quality of life for disenfranchised people, both locally and globally.

One breakthrough humanities research approach is the creation of the Mannie Jackson Humanities Index (MJHI®).

Principal Investigators Dr. Shawn Dalton and Dr. Michael Pasquier will combine quantitative and qualitative data sources to improve human understanding of the relationships between people and the places they inhabit, helping to inform policy, planning and management of regional development and resources to address humanities issues.

The MJHI® begins with a community characterization of L&C’s district, which comprises more than 220,000 people and reaches into seven counties.

“Dr. Dalton is currently using a series of maps and statistics to identify, locate and explain relationships within and between communities and ecosystems at different scales, using variables like age, education, health, income and more to identify patterns in our communities,” said L&C President Dale Chapman. “Dr. Pasquier, a historian and ethnographer, will use multimedia storytelling to project a human element onto the data, giving those who interact with the project’s storymaps a complete and personal understanding of what’s at stake for those living along the river.”

This new, deeper understanding of L&C’s district will help the college, along with local planners and decision makers, better target resources and programs to improve the quality of life of local residents. On a larger scale, the MJHI® model will be built for potential applications in other communities across the country and worldwide.

Tips for Staying 1. Keep MovinG

Well

Whether taking a bathroom break, standing up to stretch, refilling a water bottle or stepping away from a desk, try to take a movement break every hour. Standing up seems so minor, but the increased blood flow improves creativity, productivity and energy.

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2. Eat Less

Reducing daily food intake by just 20 percent can help with steady weight loss. Instead of scarfing down lunch, put the fork down and leave behind just a little bit of food that would have normally been eaten.

3. Drink More Water

Drinking more water is a healthy habit that can help with weight loss. When chronically dehydrated, people may feel hungrier and turn to food instead. Carrying a reusable water bottle can create a domino effect that breeds other healthy habits.

4. Avoid Food Fads

Kale! Seaweed! Goji berries! When people hear about a food that curbs this disease or that condition, they may want to dive right in. If some is good, more must be better, right? Not so fast. The right amount of the right types of foods is great, but don’t overdo it or choose the wrong kinds. If so, efforts can backfire. Since every healthy food has its limits, focus on the big picture.

Subscribe to L&C’s New

Health Blogs:

Living and Loving Life

https://livingandlovinglifeot.wordpress.com/ Living and Loving Life is a blog developed by L&C Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) students and reviewed by OTA instructors Ashley Harris, MSOTR/L, and Debbie Witsken, MSOTR/L. The blog aims to provide information about the world of Occupational Therapy and the OTA program at L&C. Follow these students’ journey and share their passion for helping others live more purposeful, meaningful and independent lives.

The Student Body

https://lcstudentbody.wordpress.com/ The Student Body blog, managed by L&C Family Health Clinic staff, focuses on helping readers be the best versions of themselves. The blog covers everyday physical and mental health topics, designed to give readers simple tips and advice for keeping themselves healthy and happy.

College Hosts Annual

Wellness Fair

L&C’s Annual Wellness Fair took place Oct. 11 in The Commons and featured everything from chair massages and essential oil samples to nutrition info, insurance info, dental screenings, yoga demonstrations, a blood drive and more. Shown above, L&C students gather around a therapy dog, Samson the Newfoundland.

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NGRREC Aims to Improve

Water Quality Monitoring

The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRRECSM), in cooperation with Riverside Research, has launched a comprehensive, long-term initiative to monitor water quality via nanosatellites.

The effort, known as WaterLens, aims to create an effective and comprehensive system to measure and track water quality in rivers and streams using specialized cameras that not only produce an image, but measure the intensity of light across the visible spectrum, called hyperspectral imaging (HSI). These cameras are often mounted to satellites or airplanes so they can cover large areas. This type of measurement, called remote sensing, to date, has been directed to large bodies of water, but those efforts have not been scalable to streams and rivers like the Mississippi because of the challenge of measuring flowing water using this technology.

A rigorous pilot project conducted this past summer on the Clark Bridge in Alton showed that remote sensing using hyper-spectral John Ploschnitznig and Dietrick Lawrence speak with L&C President Dale Chapman imagery, combined with rigorous analysis, can about the hyperspectral imaging camera and the water data that was collected by the indeed be applied to rivers and streams with WaterLens team during the pilot project in June on the Clark Bridge in Alton. Rather turbid or muddy water like the Mississippi. than taking a standard image, this special camera measures the intensity of different In coming months, NGRREC will begin to wavelengths of light reflected or absorbed by the water of the Mississippi River. coordinate follow-up efforts in the field station’s mesocosms to further advance the HSI technologies and related scientists up and down the river make this an ideal location to do analytical capability for turbid, flowing waters. this work.

If continued efforts prove to be effective on a large scale, the “Although WaterLens is initially focused on the Mississippi application of this technology, combined with traditional water River Watershed, any technology successfully developed and sampling techniques, has the potential to enable water quality applied here will quickly scale to rivers and watersheds in other scientists to better understand large-scale dynamics of river settings,” said NGRREC Senor Scientist Dick Warner. “We have systems, especially related to movement of sediments, nutrients the opportunity to have a global impact in developing more costand other environmental contaminants. NGRREC’s location at effective solutions to monitoring and improving water quality.” the confluence of three major rivers and its relationships with

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Water Fest Fun The L&C National Great Rivers Research and Education Center held its 15th Annual Water Festival Friday, Sept.

29 on the college’s Godfrey campus. Hundreds of fifth graders and their teachers came out for a fun-filled day of educational activities and interactive demonstrations.

L&C Nursing Student and Volunteer Julie Hickerson helps Illini Middle School students Karson Price, 10, and Payton Carter, 11, look for macroinvertebrates in the water they collected from the pond.

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Rooney Snags Win 400

Honoring the Bucks

Announces Retirement at End of Season L&C Soccer Coach Tim Rooney led the Trailblazers Men’s Soccer team to a 6-0 victory Thursday, Aug. 31, over Lincoln Land Community College, marking his 400th win with the men’s team.

“This whole thing is due to the strength of the players who have helped get me to this point,” Rooney said. “Without the players, there is no win No. 400.”

Rooney reached 400 with the women’s team last season, when they defeated Lincoln 9-0 in the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 24 playoffs.

With this milestone also came the announcement of his retirement at the end of this season. Rooney has been with the college since 1986, when he began coaching the men’s team, and he started the women’s soccer program in 1993. Rooney has earned a number of accolades over the course of his more than 30-year career, including multiple NJCAA Coach of the Year honors and enshrinement into the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame, among others.

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Members of the 1979 Lewis and Clark Bucks Volleyball team were inducted into the L&C Athletic Hall of Fame Aug. 19 in the George C. Terry River Bend Arena. Pictured from left to right, they are Athletic Director Arnold Copeland, Edith Allensworth, Tracy McIntyre Cook, Cathy Ruyle, Paula Dublo and Coach Judy Gass. Not pictured are Tina Strack, Angela Mendez, Debbie Cunningham, Shari Ripka, Sandy Booth and Michelle Linn.

More photos at www.flickr.com/lewisandclarkcc

TRAILBLAZER Charles “CJ” Nasello

Trailblazer Charles “CJ” Nasello loves to take chances on and off the soccer field. Staying true to his adventurous spirit, the 18-year-old L&C student has started his own business.

Nasello’s Errand and Delivery Services is open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, and serves Godfrey, Alton, East Alton and Wood River. The business partners with local restaurants to deliver food and products, and also runs errands and delivers food for individuals customers.

“I got the idea from my brother, who has two kids and was a single father,” Nasello said. “He would call and ask me to get milk or food for him and the kids, and I figured there is a huge need for this.”

Even though this is his first venture, Nasello, a business major, feels up to the challenge. He’d eventually like to own more businesses and maybe even run for public office one day.

“It gets busy with meetings and everything else going on, but I wouldn’t trade a day away,” he said. “Lewis and Clark helped enhance the skills I need as a small business owner. I couldn’t have asked for better instructors. They are so helpful and understanding.”

Assistant Soccer Coach Ryan Hodge said Nasello juggles a lot, but handles it like a pro.

“He has a love for soccer and for his community and puts a lot of his efforts toward both,” Hodge said. “He not only brings a good work rate to the team but helps the team stay positive through his outgoing personality. He is the type of player that every coach enjoys having on their team.”

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Mark Your Calendars!

It’s Time to Enroll for Winter Intersession & Spring 2018 Courses!

Nov. 10 - Veterans Day, Campus Closed Nov. 11 – Scholarship Applications Open Nov. 22 – Thanksgiving Recess, No Classes Nov. 23-26 – Thanksgiving Recess, Campus Closed Dec. 14 – Last Day of Fall Classes Dec.18 - Jan. 12 – Winter Intersession Dec. 23 - Jan. 1 – Holiday Recess, Campus Closed Jan. 15 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Campus Closed Jan. 16 – Spring 2018 Classes Begin

Winter (Intersession) is Coming Make the most of your winter break this year by checking a course or two off your list. Winter intersession courses are offered entirely online and in a condensed four-week format, beginning Dec. 18 and ending Jan. 12.

More than a dozen full-credit courses are available in subjects like English, Social Media Marketing, Art of Film, Human Sexuality and Reproduction, Multicultural American Literature, American Government, Interpersonal Communication and more.

Enrollment for Winter and Spring courses begins Oct. 16 and runs through the start of classes. Call (618) 468-2222 for more info.

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