Academics

Symposium Program

4:30 p.m.
Reception

4:30 - 5:00 p.m. 
Poster Presentations of Student Research

5:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Formal Remarks
Welcome by Clare Conlisk '10
Beta Beta Beta President

Remarks by Stephen D. Schutt
Lake Forest College President

Remarks by Dr. Kenneth Weik
Associate Professor of Biology, Emeritus

Remarks by Dr. Kuei-Yuan Tseng
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Presentation of Certificates, Dr. Anne Houde, Professor of Biology

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Continued Poster Presentations of Student Research

Kenneth Weik Biography

For 34 years, Kenneth Weik was a mainstay of the biology department, even contributing after his retirement to teach some undergraduate courses and to participate in a graduate seminar on public policy and the environment.

Professor Weik achieved his doctorate in botany from Southern Illinois University, where his dissertation, "A Revision of the Genus Phacus Dujardin in Illinois," secured his expertise in freshwater algae native to Illinois. It was this interest that would be the focus of many of his publications and much of his teachings.  And, in an extracurricular mode, he put his knowledge to great use locally by organizing and supporting projects to restore native plants and trees to our campus, where, too, for many years he served as faculty advisor of the colleges Beta Beta Beta National Biology Honorary.

For all his regional orientations, Professor Weik’s algae studies took him and his students as far as San Salvador Island in the Bahamas and the United Emirates.

Near or far, his life continues to be one committed to nature.