UW-Green Bay, Chancellor, FYI, February 2005


	They don't just assign texts, they write them UW-Green Bay faculty members continue to add daily to the body of knowledge in their fields through research and scholarship. Newly published is Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia, a book by history Prof. Greg Aldrete. (The award-winning Aldrete, shown here, sometimes dons a toga for his lectures on ancient oratory.) His book is described as offering readers “the opportunity to peer into the inner workings of daily life in ancient Rome, to witness the full range of glory, cruelty, sophistication, and deprivation that characterized Roman cities.” UW-Green Bay authors are busy across campus. Prof. Ray Hutchison, chair of Urban and Regional Studies, serves as senior editor for the Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, a three-volume encyclopedia in progress for Sage Publications. The short story collection Let’s Do by Prof. Rebecca Meacham won the prestigious 2004 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Additionally, new publications are expected from three professors recently honored with research leaves by the UW Board of Regents. Angela Bauer-Dantoin, Human Biology, will develop a textbook on women’s biology. Catherine Henze, Humanistic Studies, will write a book on the original music in Shakespeare’s plays. Clifford Abbott, Information and Computing Science, will create an on-line resource for learning the Oneida language. ‘UWGB Downtown’ continues with labor luncheon Two more installments of the popular series “UWGB Downtown: Connecting for Lunch” have been scheduled for spring. • Andrew Kersten,associate professor of Social Change and Development, will speak Thursday, Feb. 17, about “Why Unions Matter: The Labor Movement’s Unique and Essential Role in America’s Past, Present and Future.” • Vishal Lala of the Business Administration faculty will speak Thursday, April 14, on “Effective Decision Making: Insights from Marketplace Research.” Each lunch and program ($15) takes place at the Holiday Inn City Centre. Call (920) 465-2222 for details.		“Currently, there is no textbook that provides undergraduates with a comprehensive exploration of women’s health issues; most focus solely on reproductive issues. I intend to address not only reproductive issues in women but also topics such as gender and the brain; women and mental illness; women, nutrition and eating disorders; women and cancer; and women and cardiovascular function. It is my hope that the book will be a resource for students not only during their undergraduate women’s health course, but well beyond that time.” Prof. Angela Bauer-Dantoin 2005 sabbatical for developing a textbook on women’s biology UW-Green Bay has link to Mars mission A UW-Green Bay planetary scientist landed a spot on a team that will send a mega-rover to Mars in 2009. R. Aileen Yingst, adjunct assistant professor and director of the Space Grant Consortium, was selected by NASA to take part in the Mars Science Laboratory mission. The mission will deliver a mobile laboratory to the surface of Mars to explore a region as a potential habitat for past or present life. The rover will offer new and additional capabilities beyond what current probes can deliver. “It’s humbling to think that something I touched and handled and worked on is going to land on Mars,” Yingst says. Additionally, she expects to announce this week details of a separate Mars-related initiative, involving a significant NASA grant for campus-based research. Will ‘The Apprentice’ Trump ‘The Simpsons’? Pop-culture titans will be the talk of campus—at least among students who attend one or both TV-related lectures arranged by the student Good Times Programming board during the month of February. The first comes at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2, when author and critic Chris Turner visits the Phoenix Room of the University Union to talk “Planet Simpsons.” He says the popular Fox series is a window to the Millennial Generation. The second is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17, again in the Phoenix Room. “Apprentice” contestant Omarosa Manigault Stallworth, who with her love-her-or-hate-her persona became something of a household name, will share backstage stories of The Donald and reality TV. Both programs are free and open to the public.
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