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August 25, 2004

College News

by Evan Silverstein

DANVILLE, KY - Mills Funk Davis, who graduated from Centre College in 1993,
successfully climbed to the summit of Mount Everest on May 24. It took Davis
58 days to reach the icy peak, situated 29,035 feet -  about six miles -
above sea level. Davis suffered some minor injuries along the way. The double
major graduate from Centre and resident of Bowling Green, KY, is believed to
be the first Kentuckian to conquer Everest.

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TULSA, OK - Steadman Upham, president of Claremont Graduate University in
Claremont, CA, has been named the University of Tulsa's 17th president. He
succeeds former TU president Bob Lawless, who announced his retirement last
fall. Upham earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Arizona State University in
Tempe, where he also earned a master's degree.

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ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Eckerd College alumnus Mark E. Lewis, class of 1992, has
received the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers -
the nation's highest honor for promising professionals at the start of their
research careers. Lewis is currently an assistant professor at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Eight federal departments and agencies nominate
scientists and engineers for the annual awards.

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ALMA, MI - Fourteen Alma College students and their professor recently
visited the Arctic Circle to investigate the long-term impact of the 1989
Exxon Valdez oil spill, the school said in a news release earlier this
summer. Marek Payerhin, assistant professor of political science, and the
students traveled 560 miles along the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline until reaching
the Arctic Circle. It was the first time Alma College students reached the
Arctic Circle, according to Payerhin. The spill on March 24, 1989, dumped 11
million gallons of crude oil across 1,300 miles of coastline when the oil
tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, AK.

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