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Students
display outstanding work
on campus, at Capitol
More than 60 UW-Green Bay student projects will be on display April 6
for the fifth annual Academic Excellence Symposium. UW-Green Bay students
from across disciplines display their outstanding scholarly and creative
work to campus and the community. This year the Symposium is timed to
coincide with the visit of the UW System Board of Regents.
The array of research topics is impressive. Sample projects include shoreline
development in Wisconsin communities, cost effectiveness of advertising
in movies, strategic decision “downloading” in business, database-driven
genealogy, the housing voucher system for the homeless, civic engagement,
and synthesis and analysis of biodiesel. Also highlighted will be musical
performances and artwork (including art metals, at left, by Daniel Klewer
, and paintings, lower, by Donna Mleziva.
The Symposium is from 10 a.m. to noon in the Winter Garden
area of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall.
A number of the projects have also been selected to represent
Green Bay at the “Posters in the Rotunda” event at the Wisconsin
State Capitol April 25. Students from all University of Wisconsin universities
will display their research to UW faculty, administration, Wisconsin state
legislators and interested citizens.
Rising star: Musician/ activist to visit campus
Described as a “rare force” and “one-woman dynamo,”
Magdalen Hsu-Li will make two public appearances on campus Wednesday,
April 5.
The singer/songwriter, visual artist, speaker and cultural activist will
perform in concert at 8 p.m. in the Union’s Phoenix Room. The concert
features songs from her recent CD, “Smashing the Ceiling.”
“I intend to always be defining issues of identity, raising awareness
and bringing communities together through my music,” says Hsu-Li,
who has been compared to Tori Amos and Ani DeFranco.
Earlier in the day, she will present a workshop on the topic of being
Asian and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual or trans-sexual) in the American
music industry. She’ll talk about changing social status, identity,
visibility and media. The event will be in Cofrin Library 207.
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 "Student
involvement in research at UW-Green Bay has increased in leaps and bounds.
The last few years have seen our students doing graduate quality work,
tackling intellectual challenges of impressive scope. These projects galvanize
both faculty scholarship and catalyze interest in scholarship among other
students."
Regan Gurung,
UW-Green Bay Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, on the April
6 Academic Excellence Symposium
Peruvian water resources expert
shows us ‘Life in the Andes’
Visiting international scholar Julio Alegria will lead a public presentation,
“Improving the Quality of Life in the Andes: a Case Study”
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 4 in the 1965 Room of the University Union on
campus.
 Alegria,
the director of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Services Project
(SANBASUR) serving rural communities in the Andean mountain region of
Peru, arrived in Green Bay in early March. His visit is sponsored by the
St. Norbert College-UW-Green Bay Joint International Visiting Scholars
Program that brings scholars and professionals from developing countries
to Green Bay for periods ranging from several weeks to a year.
The project Alegria directs in Peru aims to reduce rates of water-related
diseases in poor rural communities in the mountainous region of Cusco.
The approach and low-cost technologies being used there are being adopted
for rural water supply and sanitation projects in other areas.
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