Fort Lewis College Annual Reports Summer Issue 2014 | Page 12

“I’m a believer in team,” she says.” So I owe a lot to
the people I’ve worked with all these years.”

To read more about Dr. Jung and her
work at flc, click here

Science has long been a passion for her. She
graduated from Fort Lewis College with a
degree in cellular & molecular biology and
worked for an insectary here in Durango for
a time. It was an opportunity afforded to her
by the education she received at FLC.
Her students help her in the College greenhouse and animal room, gaining valuable
hands-on experience.

To read more about Ms. Parish-Larson
and her work at flc, click here

“The goal behind studying
history was wanting it to be
out there for everyone,” she
says, “wanting more people to experience or think
about all these other past lives when they were
thinking about where they themselves lived and
who they were.”
“It’s great seeing people experience something like
that or think something like that for the first time,”
Dr. Jenks says.
Part of giving her students a new perspective is
challenging them to think critically and comparatively about the world around them. She wants to
uild up their abilities, as well as their confidence.
Seeing her students rise to the challenges she sets
for them is particularly rewarding.

To read more about Dr. Jenks and her
work at flc, click here

For Associate Professor of
Economics Dr. Tino Sonora, the
study of economics is sometimes
complicated, but also deeply interesting and, yes, even fun. Choices
made, even a world away, can have
ripple effects across the globe, felt
right to our doorsteps. Understanding the effects of choices is
what drives Dr. Sonora.

Featured Scholar

“I think most people think of
economics as inflation and
unemployment, but economics is
the study of choices,” he explains.
“Whatever choice you make is an
economic one and can be studied,
and that’s what I hope the students
get out of it.”

The broad nature of economics has led him all over the
world. He only recently returned from a trip to Croatia as
a Fulbright Scholar where he both taught and conducted
research into one of the world’s current hot button issues:
the future of the Eurozone and European Union, the
latter of which Croatia just joined in 2013.
“I think of myself as an economist who teaches. I don’t
think of myself as a teacher. Rather, I think of myself as
an assistant to learning. I’m first and foremost an economist, and hopefully I bring that passion for what I do to
the classroom.”

To read more about Dr. Sonora and his
work at flc, click here

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There are many such accomplishments to Dr. Jung’s
name, but she is quick to share the credit with those
around her.

“I love all the equipment. I love playing with
all the toys,” the winner of the 2014-15 Fort
Lewis College Outstanding Staff Award says.

New Faculty

Assistant Professor of
Anthropology Dr. Kelly
Jenks always felt that there
was more to history than
what she was taught growing
up. From an early age, the
2014-15 Fort Lewis College
New Faculty Teaching
Award winner felt the need
to study the past, particularly that of the Southwest,
in order to help others learn
about their heritage and gain
a new and deeper perspective on the world.

Dr. Tino Sonora

To read more about Dr. Miller and his
work at flc, click here

successful one at that. As coach she led that special
1988 volleyball team to the NAIA playoffs, the first
FLC women’s team to reach the playoffs since the
NAIA sanctioned women’s sports in 1981.

Outstanding Staff

Dr. Kelly Jenks

“A lot of the students said that was the best class
they took at Fort Lewis and that really motivated
them to go to graduate school,” he says, “and several of those students are now in top ten chemistry
graduate programs. It’s exciting to me to get them
interested in doing these kinds of things and then
see them be successful.”

Dr. Jung came to Fort
Lewis College as a student-athlete, playing volleyball and basketball. She later returned to campus as
a coach, and a

Hands-on learning and research
opportunities
wouldn’t happen
as well as they do
without Biology
Lab
Coordinator Kami ParrishLarson. She does
everything from
prepping
freshman labs to helping
senior
seminar
students find and
use lab and field
equipment. It’s a
ton of work, but
it’s something Ms.
Parrish-Larson particularly enjoys.

Ms. Kami Parrish-Larson

Dr. Kenny Miller

To ensure that he’s offering his students the kinds
of transformational opportunities that will lead to
success, he’s always evaluating his own teaching
style.

Achievement

Dr. Marcelyn B. Jung

“The really transformational opportunities, the
opportunities to set a
trajectory for a person’s
career and their life, happen here,” Dr. Miller says,
“happen at the undergraduate level. So I wanted to
be a part of that.”

Outstanding Teaching

Associate Professor of
Exercise Science and
Gender & Women’s Studies
Dr. Marcy Jung’s career
at Fort Lewis College
is filled with impressive achievements. From
the 1988 FLC Volleyball
team she coached to years
spent working on campus
wellness initiatives to
offering the Commencement invocation each
year. It’s such accomplishments that earned her the
2014-15 Fort Lewis College
Achievement Award.

Faculty & Staff Award Winners

Fort Lewis College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. Kenny Miller, the
2014-15 Alice Admire
Outstanding
Teaching Award winner, had
options as to where he
wanted to teach, but he
chose a small undergraduate school like Fort Lewis
College because he felt
he could have the most
impact on his students
here.