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Building on a legacy

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering memorial scholarship and professorship funds are administered by the University of Wisconsin Foundation. Colleagues, former students, corporations and foundations have joined to contribute to these funds to honor respected leaders in civil and environmental engineering. Please join us in this sterling tribute.

Gifts to the UW Foundation may be in the form of cash, appreciated securities, personal or real property. Pledges may be made over a period of years. Gifts to the UW Foundation are fully tax deductible.

For more information please contact:

Debra Holt, Managing Senior Director of Development
University of Wisconsin Foundation
1848 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53726
608/263-0779
deb.holt@
uwfoundation.wisc.edu

For more information about the memorial scholarships, professorships, graduate fellowships or other industry reinvestment opportunities, please contact:

Jeffrey S. Russell, PhD, PE
Professor and Chair, CEE Development Committee
2205 Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1691
608/262-7244
russell@engr.wisc.edu

Remembered for innovation
and brilliance as an educator

Professor Emeritus James L. Clapp died in March 2007. A Wisconsin native, Jim was a world-renowned thinker and educator, an innovator who spurned traditional approaches, a humorist who could not resist telling stories, and a person who felt deeply about his principles, his students, and UW-Madison.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in naval science and BS, MS and PhD degrees from UW-Madison. Except for six years as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Maine-Orono, Jim was a member of the UW-Madison Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty for nearly three decades.

A pioneer in interdisciplinary research, Jim played a key role in the formative years of what now is the UW-Madison Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. He was chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Center for Land Information Studies. Appointed by the Governor, Jim chaired the Wisconsin Land Records Committee and was president of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. He received the Congressional Medal for Antarctic Service as a result of his interdisciplinary approach to applying satellite geodesy to ice-flow problems. With his graduate students, Jim was instrumental in developing and promoting the idea of a multipurpose land-use database, leading to a series of National Research Council reports, and helping to provide the basis for today’s rich environment of information about land as a resource and treasure.

Above all, Jim loved helping his students learn. Those students, and his colleagues, will remember him with fondness, admiration and deep respect far into the future.