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Commencement
brings professorship awards for Howe, Walter
Named professorships are prestigious, five-year appointments that provide
supplemental resources from private endowments to support leading faculty
members in pursuing advanced research and learning breakthroughs.
Two such appointments will be acknowledged at UW-Green Bay
midyear commencement on Saturday, Dec. 16.
Prof. Robert Howe has been selected for reappointment as
the Barbara Hauxhurst Cofrin Professor of Natural Sciences. Howe is director
of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity and a nationally recognized scholar
in the fields of birds, biology and environmental issues. In previous
years, Howe has used the Cofrin Professorship to purchase GIS, computing
and photo equipment for faculty and student fieldwork, pay stipends to
student researchers and provide seed money to attract matching grants.
Prof. Lynn Walter is the new Ben J. and Joyce Rosenberg
Professor. A professor of anthropology and women’s studies, Walter
is a widely published scholar on women, human rights and ethnicity. She
is founder of the Center for Food in Community and Culture, based at UW-Green
Bay, which seeks an interdisciplinary understanding of food and its relation
to political, social and economic systems. Resources from the Rosenberg
Professorship will enable publication of an edited collection on sustainable
agrifood systems, healthy eating and food security.
Campus to thank
Harden with top community award
The recipient of the University’s highest community honor will need
no introduction at commencement on Dec. 16, but he’ll get one anyway
(and a lengthy one at that), befitting the enduring nature of his contributions
both on campus and in the community.
Former Associate Chancellor Donald F. Harden will return to campus to
receive the Chancellor’s Award. Harden was a prime architect of
many of UW-Green Bay’s most visible, continuing success stories.
During a 25-year career that spanned the institution’s earliest
days to its emergence as a high-demand regional University, he forged
key community connections and repeatedly took the lead in engaging support
to enrich the student experience.
Harden completed his academic career in 1994 and immediately accepted
a new challenge when Bellin Health Systems appointed him founding president
of its fund-raising foundation. The capital campaign that followed, under
his leadership, still ranks among the region’s largest.
His volunteer service over the years has ranged from leadership
roles with the Chamber of Commerce and Green Bay Packers Executive Committee
to capital campaigns for youth, health, symphony and museum organizations.
He led Brown County’s United Way to its first campaign ever to exceed
$2 million. He is a current member of the Chancellor’s Council of
Trustees and a consultant to the $25 million Campaign for UW-Green Bay.
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“Art starts with an idea and changes along the way during the intuitive
process. You start with one idea and as it takes on a life of its own
it changes completely.”
UW-Green Bay art student Art Linskens, referring to his much-talked-about
recent assemblage of more than a mile of drinking straws. Other examples
of his hard-hitting work can be viewed in the annual student show at the
Lawton Gallery through Dec. 15.
Bruce
knows ballet: 'Nutcracker' at Meyer boasts tall presence from UW-Green
Bay
If you’re excited
by the prospect of seeing a fully staged “The Nutcracker”
at the Meyer Theatre Dec. 8 and 9, thank the Northeastern Wisconsin Dance
Organization, and know that UW-Green Bay has a hand in the project, as
well.
The NEWDO alliance of dance advocates has arranged for seven local studios
to collaborate on a community production that will go well beyond the
typical selections — Nutcracker “suites” — previously
performed locally. Dancing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy is a former
Green Bay resident who now dances professionally on the East Coast. In
addition, lighting and sets will have a professional feel under the direction
of Prof. Jeff Entwistle.
Another key player with UW-Green Bay ties is Cyndie Shepard, a member
of the NEWDO board of directors who is also a cast member. A dance instructor
for the University with extensive stage experience herself, she has enlisted
a newcomer, Chancellor Bruce Shepard, to make his ballet debut in the
role of Dr. Stahlbaum.
Dr. and Mrs. Stahlbaum (Bruce and Cyndie) open the ballet, remain on stage
as principal characters for the first 45 minutes and perform two featured
dances, a minuet and a lively galop. Unnamed sources tell us the rookie,
in the fashion of Emmitt (“Dancing With the Stars”) Smith,
is showing fine potential during rehearsals.
Tickets for “The Nutcracker” are $35, $24, $15. They are available
at (920) 494-3401.
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