2008 Woodie Awards
Duncan to Be Installed In Ceremony
Dr. Duncan will be installed as the 14 President of Rollins during an exciting and tradition filled ceremony.
Ann Marie Varga/office of public relations
Issue date: 4/8/05 Section: News
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Lewis M. Duncan will be installed as the fourteenth President of Rollins College in a tradition rich ceremony on Saturday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in the Harold & Ted Alfond Sports Center.
More than 600 guests are expected to attend the event, which will feature comments by dignitaries including the Lieutenant Governor of Florida, Toni Jennings, and guest speaker James Wright, president of Dartmouth College. Winter Park Mayor Kenneth "Kip" Marchman will also proclaim April 9 as "Dr. Lewis Duncan Day" in the City of Winter Park.
Several other celebratory events will lead up to Saturday's official installation.
The series of events themed "Honoring the heritage, celebrating the future..." includes:
A Student Reception on Wednesday, April 6, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Cornell Hall for the Social Sciences patio. Students in the Crummer Graduate School of Business and the Hamilton Holt School evening studies division will enjoy a reception with the President.
An Evening of Scholarship on Thursday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bush Auditorium. Rollins faculty members from five disciplines will present and debate their nominations for the great issues of the 21st century.
An All-Campus Celebration on Friday, April 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Mills Lawn. All faculty, staff and students are invited to a campus celebration, with lunch, music and a new addition to the Walk of Fame.
The program includes guest speakers representing the students, faculty and staff and live music performed by students. A highlight includes a pyramid constructed of Diet Coke (President Duncan's favorite). Each of Rollins' 91 student organizations is donating a six-pack of Diet Coke as a "surprise" gift to the President.
Lewis M. Duncan was elected fourteenth president of Rollins College in March 2004 and began his tenure on August 1 of the same year. He is former dean and professor of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and was previously provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Tulsa.
President Duncan received his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics and his master's and doctorate in space physics from Rice University in Houston. As a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow, he conducted research at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Puerto Rico.
He subsequently joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research scientist, and later became a section head in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences.
Following a year as a Carnegie Science Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, he joined the faculty of Clemson University as associate dean of the College of Sciences.
He was founding director of the South Carolina Space Grant Consortium and remains a fellow of Clemson's Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs. His current research interests include experimental space plasma physics, radiophysics, and technology and public policy.
More than 600 guests are expected to attend the event, which will feature comments by dignitaries including the Lieutenant Governor of Florida, Toni Jennings, and guest speaker James Wright, president of Dartmouth College. Winter Park Mayor Kenneth "Kip" Marchman will also proclaim April 9 as "Dr. Lewis Duncan Day" in the City of Winter Park.
Several other celebratory events will lead up to Saturday's official installation.
The series of events themed "Honoring the heritage, celebrating the future..." includes:
A Student Reception on Wednesday, April 6, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Cornell Hall for the Social Sciences patio. Students in the Crummer Graduate School of Business and the Hamilton Holt School evening studies division will enjoy a reception with the President.
An Evening of Scholarship on Thursday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bush Auditorium. Rollins faculty members from five disciplines will present and debate their nominations for the great issues of the 21st century.
An All-Campus Celebration on Friday, April 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Mills Lawn. All faculty, staff and students are invited to a campus celebration, with lunch, music and a new addition to the Walk of Fame.
The program includes guest speakers representing the students, faculty and staff and live music performed by students. A highlight includes a pyramid constructed of Diet Coke (President Duncan's favorite). Each of Rollins' 91 student organizations is donating a six-pack of Diet Coke as a "surprise" gift to the President.
Lewis M. Duncan was elected fourteenth president of Rollins College in March 2004 and began his tenure on August 1 of the same year. He is former dean and professor of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and was previously provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Tulsa.
President Duncan received his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics and his master's and doctorate in space physics from Rice University in Houston. As a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow, he conducted research at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Puerto Rico.
He subsequently joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research scientist, and later became a section head in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences.
Following a year as a Carnegie Science Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, he joined the faculty of Clemson University as associate dean of the College of Sciences.
He was founding director of the South Carolina Space Grant Consortium and remains a fellow of Clemson's Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs. His current research interests include experimental space plasma physics, radiophysics, and technology and public policy.