• Dr. Michael Lovano received the Leonard Ledvina Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Faculty Award Ceremony in spring 2009.
• David Christoff '09 was accepted to Marquette University and will begin a Masters in Leadership Studies there this fall.
• Laura Felmer '05 has graduated from the Law School at UW-Madison.
• Andrew McIlree '06 has accepted a position at Macalester College in St. Paul, working in the major gifts and leadership giving programs. 
• Melissa Collum '96 has received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship    for Rwanda, Summer 2009. The title of her project is "Developing Learning Expeditions on Youth and Development in Rwanda."
• In 2008 Dr. Marti Lamar was honored with the Leonard Ledvina Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• Christopher Clausen '96, having worked for Fair Isaac in Minneapolis, is now vice president of financial services at I.C. System in St. Paul.
• Ryan Wleklinski '05 has graduated from Villanova with a MA in U.S. history. 
• History major Brian Day '94 will be attending UW-Madison's journalism graduate program in fall 2007.  He will also pursue coursework in  Environmental Science and resource management. 
• History major Amelia Froelich '08 won first prize in the Women and Gender Studies 2006-2007 annual essay contest for her analysis of the role of women in the Mexican Revolution.
• History major Jamie Fase-Laska '06 has been accepted to the history graduate program at the Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Jamie has begun a course of study in Arabic at the College of Charleston, and will be taking regular graduate and independent study courses in Middle East Studies at the Citadel starting this summer. Her future dream is to study in Cairo, Egypt.
• History major Michael Kamaal '98 works for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. During Black History Month, he writes a weekly reflection piece for their internal web site. His latest contribution addressed the African-American struggle for education from a historical perspective. 
• Dr. Robert Kramer, specialist in Middle East History, traveled to the University of Oslo, Norway in April 2006 to give a lecture entitled "Women and War in an Islamic Movement: Between Ideology and Practice in the Sudan." While in Norway, he also attended the Seventh International Sudan Studies Conference at the University of Bergen and delivered a conference paper entitled "Jewish-Muslims or Muslim-Jews? Negotiated Identity in Sudanese History."
• Dr. Wayne Patterson, specialist in Asian history, was awarded the position of Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He spent the spring and summer 2006 in Korea, immediately after his participation in the Philippine Studies teacher exchange program in fall 2005.
• Marce Mueller '01 is teaching U.S. history and ESL in Houston, Texas.
• Ryan Howdle '02 has been attending Augustana U. in Alberta, Canada and serving as an assistant coach for their hockey team. He graduates this May with a degree in Biology and expects to matriculate at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the U. of Saskatchewan this fall.
• History major Rob Skog '05 has been accepted to Marquette University (his first choice!) to pursue graduate work in journalism.
• History major Brian Borley '05 has been teaching at Port Washington High School since June 2005. His duties include Freshman and Sophomore U.S. and World History courses; he also serves as the Freshman class adviser. Brian says he's "having a blast" with his students and colleagues.
• History major and graduating senior Nikki Eggers received the Basil Reuss Prize for Excellence in History at the Academic Awards Dinner (April 19, 2005). Nikki has also been accepted to UW-Madison's Ph.D. program in African history for fall 2005, and has been nominated for a Federal Department of Education Title VI fellowship in foreign language area studies.
• History major Andy Kauth '00 completed his M.A. in History, with an emphasis on Early Rome, the Roman Republic and the historian Livy, at McGill University, Montreal, in January 2004. He is currently working toward his M.S. in Exceptional Education at UW-Milwaukee.
• History major Sean Niewoehner '03 is pursuing his M.A. in Anthropology, with an emphasis on ancient Europe, at Northern Illinois University. Next step, a doctoral program!
• History Major Frank Hoffman '05 will be going down to New Orleans soon to volunteer with the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
• History major Kate Warner '04 is working for the Betty Brinn Children's Museum in Milwaukee. She is also pursuing her minor in Art History at UW-Milwaukee and soon will start graduate work in Museum Studies.
• On March 15, 2005, the History discipline hosted the installation ceremony for our new SNC chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society.

Dr. Michael Lovano
History webmaster
michael.lovano@snc.edu