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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Korstad_3.jpg" style="width: 250px; height: 188px; float: right;" />Professor of Biology and Director of the Honors Program at Oral Roberts University (ORU), John Korstad is a well-known and much beloved member of the Au Sable faculty, annually teaching Lake Ecology and Management at Au Sables Great Lakes Campus in Summer Session II since 1996. Raised in northern California, John was a double major in biology and geology at California Lutheran College in Thousand Oaks. There John was strongly influenced by and attracted to Christian professors who expressed their faith in Christ transparently in many disciplines. Their examples had a profound impact on his ultimate decision to become a college professor who would teach students in a faith-based institution. After earning his Bachelor&rsquo;s degrees (BA in Geology and BS in Biology) from California Lutheran, John earned an MS in Environmental Biology from California State University- Hayward before completing both an MS and PhD in Zoology from the University of Michigan. A research contributor to such journals as <em>Hydrobiologia</em>, <em>Journal of Great Lakes Research</em>, and <em>Green Chemistry</em>, John is also known for his outstanding skill as an educator, having received awards at ORU for Faculty Member of the Year (Excellence in Teaching), Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year in the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Outstanding Faculty Award for All Schools, and, from the Carnegie Foundation, Professor of the Year in Oklahoma. A former Fulbright Scholar, John has conducted research in Norway on aquaculture research and the development of biofuels from algae. Known locally around Au Sable&rsquo;s Great Lakes Campus, John and his students in Lake Ecology and Management annually conduct surveys of local lakes and provide the results to local lake owner associations, a practice that has made many friends for the Au Sable Institute.&nbsp;</p>
