Lawrence L. Wiseman


Lawrence Wiseman, Professor Emeritus Department Chair, 1982-87, 1988-93, 1996-04 Department of Biology College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187

Click below for a look at our current project
combining photography, ornithology, art,
anthropology, and some archaeology
in the American Southwest.

The Wiseman Bird Rock Art Site

Click below for a look at our current project combining photography, ornithology, art, anthropology, and some archaeology in the American Southwest. The Wiseman Bird Rock Art Site

A.B., Biology, Hiram College, 1966; M.A., Ph.D., Biology, Princeton University, 1969; 1970.
Rock Art: Ancient rock art representations of birds in the American southwest. Developmental Biology: Cell movement and adhesion in embryonic development. Evolution: Industrial melanism in American peppered moths. Higher Education/Public Policy: Academic leadership, intercollegiate athletics and academics, science education.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES

Chair, Department of Biology, 1982-87, 1988-93, 1996-2004
Director, University Self-Study for Reaccreditation, College of William and Mary, 1993-95
Special Assistant to the Provost, College of William and Mary, summer 1989
Special Assistant to the President, University of Colorado, 1987-88

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

20 research papers, 1 book

Grant, B.S. and L.L. Wiseman. 2002. Recent History of Melanism in American Peppered Moths. Journal of Heredity 93:86-90.
Thelin, J.R. and L.L. Wiseman. 1992. The Numbers Game: The Statistical Heritage in Intercollegiate Athletics. in Monitoring the Intercollegiate Athletics Enterprise , Jossey-Bass Publishers. Chapter 1, pp 5-12.
Wiseman, L. 1991. The Academic President in an Age of Fund Raising and Legislative Affairs. In R.R. Sims and S.J. Sims (eds.), Managing Institutions Of Higher Education Into The 21st Century: Issues And Implications , Greenwood Press, Westport, C T. Chapter 1, pp. 3-9.
Thelin, J.R. and L.L. Wiseman. 1991. The Future of Big-Time Intercollegiate Athletics. Planning for Higher Education 19: 18-27 .
Thelin, J.R. and L.L. Wiseman. 1990. Fiscal Fitness? The Peculiar Economics of Intercollegiate Athletics. Capital Ideas (A Publication of the Forum for College Financing) 4, No. 4:1- 9 .
Thelin, J.R. and L.L. Wiseman. 1989. The Old College Try: Balancing Athletics and Academics in Higher Education , George Washington University Press, Washington, D.C., 141 pp.
Grant, B. and L.L. Wiseman. 1982. Fossil genes: scarce as hen's teeth? Science 215: 698-699 .
Wiseman, L.L. and J. Strickler. 1981. Desmosome frequency: experimental alteration may correlate with differential adhesion. Journal of Cell Science 49: 217-223 .

SELECTED TALKS

"Rock Art in the American Southwest," Christopher Wren Association course, College of William and Mary, three lectures, April, 2007.
"The American Southwest: Mountains, Desert, Cultures, and Rock Art," Christopher Wren Association course, College of William and Mary, three lectures, Feb/March, 2006.
"What's Wrong with Science Teaching?," Christopher Wren Association Town and Gown, College of William and Mary, 2001.
"Melanism in Peppered Moths in England and Tennessee: Where Have All the Dark Ones Gone?," Department of Biology, East Tennessee State University, 1999.
"Teaching Science to Non-Science Students," The Governor’s School for Global Economics and Technology, Longwood College, 1998.
"Access to Higher Education: Sports and Students," Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Charlottesville, VA, 1996.
"Athletics and Fundraising: Boon or Boondoggle?" Distinguished Speaker Series, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Regional Meeting, Oakland, CA, 1992.
"Industrialization of the American University," Annual Higher Education and Public Policy Lecture, College of William and Mary, 1989.

PANELS and BOARDS

Southwest Service Subcommittee, Sierra Club (2007- )
Selection Jury, The Virginia Scientist of the Year (1988-2000)
Board of Directors, Williamsburg Community Health Foundation (1996-2000)
Board of Directors, Williamsburg Community Hospital (1994-96)
NSF Undergraduate Curriculum and Course Development in Engineering, Mathematics and the Sciences Panel (1991)
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Panel (1991)

Updated: January 29, 2009