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Lammers is a distinguished scholar in the field of religion and society, particularly medical ethics and war-peace questions. He is the co-editor of the books On Moral Medicine: Theological Reflections in Medical Ethics and Theological Voices in Medical Ethics and the author of dozens of articles in scholarly journals. On Moral Medicine was selected as an outstanding academic book by the Association of College and Research Libraries.
The recipient of a bachelor of arts degree with a major in history, philosophy, and theology at Marquette University in 1960 and a master of arts in theology at Marquette in 1962, Lammers served as a teaching assistant at Brown University from 1964 to 1967 and an instructor at Providence College from 1967 to 1969. He joined the Lafayette faculty as an instructor in religious studies in 1969 and the following year completed work on a doctorate in religious studies at Brown. In 1971 he became an assistant professor at Lafayette and was promoted to associate professor in 1977 and to full professor in 1986. He was named Manson Professor in 1991. He served as department head from 1985 to 1996.
Lammers has taught courses on religion in society, religious ethics, religion and medicine, religion and politics, contemporary religious issues, Judaism and Christianity, and social and ethical issues in biotechnology and genetic engineering, among others. With Alan W. Childs, professor of psychology, he developed and taught a two-course summer program in London on ethical and social issues in health care in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The College awarded Lammers the Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Lecture Award in 1972, Student Government Superior Teaching Award in 1977, Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award in 1981, Carl R. and Ingeborg Beidleman Research Award in 2000, and Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Award in 2006.
Lammers is a consultant on ethics to Lehigh Valley Health Network, working with physicians, nurses, residents, and medical students, and is a member of its Ethics Committee and Institutional Review Board. He coauthored the network’s Handbook on Ethics.
RONALD EDWARD ROBBINS, associate dean of the College, has served Lafayette for 41 years.
Robbins came to the College in 1968 as an assistant reference librarian in Skillman Library. He was promoted to reference librarian one year later and became head reference librarian in 1970. He was named Skillman’s head of public services in 1990. In 1998, Robbins moved to the Office of the Dean of the College and has served as an associate dean and as class dean for first-year and sophomore students.
Robbins holds a bachelor of arts, a master of arts in library science, and a master of arts in teaching from Indiana University. Before coming to Lafayette, he was a teacher in the Detroit public school system for one year.
Robbins is the co-editor, with Bernard S. Katz, associate professor emeritus of economics and business, of Modern Economic Classics: Evaluations through Time and is a contributor to the Biographical Dictionary of the Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Biographical Dictionary of the United States Secretaries of the Treasury, and the Encyclopedia Americana.
A member of the executive council and a former secretary of the Friends of Skillman Library, Robbins has served as a member of several committees of the faculty, including the committees on Academic Progress, Athletics, Enrollment Planning, Faculty Compensation, and Student Appeals, which he chaired. He also was a member of the College’s Advisory Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity.
Robbins also served as assistant coach of the men’s cross country and track and field teams and as coach and faculty adviser to the women’s cross country and track and field clubs. He led the women’s teams to varsity status.
EDMOND JOHN SEIFRIED was a member of the faculty of the Department of Economics and Business (now the Department of Economics) for 30 years before retiring in 2008.
Widely recognized for his expertise on economic issues and forecasting techniques, Seifried has made more than 2,000 presentations on banking and finance to national and international organizations. He also has traveled extensively in the former Soviet Bloc countries, serving as an adviser and consultant to newly privatized commercial banks.
Seifried joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1978 and was promoted to associate professor in 1982 and to full professor in 1989. He served as department head from 1985 to 1991 and was director of the department’s internship program, which he founded. He holds a doctorate in economics from West Virginia University.
Seifried is the author of Economics for Bankers and co-author of The Art of Strategic Planning for Community Banks and The Art of Risk in Community Banks. He also has authored many articles in academic and industry journals. Seifried has served as a labor arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mediation, and the New Jersey Board of Mediation.
Among other professional affiliations, he is the dean of the banking management schools sponsored by the Virginia Bankers Association and West Virginia Bankers Association. He also served on the faculty of the American Bankers Association’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking and the Consumer Bankers Association’s Graduate School of Retail Bank Management.