March 2000

Equity artist joins UW-Green Bay production of 'Pippin'

GREEN BAY - Guest artist Rachel Rockwell, Chicago, will join the cast of Pippin, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay musical production scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 29 and 30 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Rockwell will portray the Leading Player, a character who serves as a master of ceremonies for a troupe of actors presenting the story of Pippin, son of King Charlemagne.

"This role calls for what we in theater call a 'triple threat' - an incredible singer, dancer, and actor," says UW-Green Bay Theater chairperson and director Laura Riddle, in making the announcement. "I chose her because she is an incredible singer, dancer and actor."

A member of Actor's Equity Association, Rockwell was in the Chicago company and the first national tour of Hal Prince's Showboat. "That's a great credit, because Showboat is one of the most difficult roles in musical theater to sing," says Riddle.

Rockwell's other Chicago appearances include Peggy Sue Got Married, which was a world premiere, A Chorus Line, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Houdini, Hello, Dolly!, Peter Pan, and The Will Rogers Follies. She also has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Indiana Repertory Theatre, and the Maryland Shakespeare Festival.

Rockwell is a seasoned choreographer and her work has been seen in theaters in Chicago and elsewhere. A native of Indiana, Rockwell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from the University of Evansville and was a two-time finalist in the Irene Ryan acting competition sponsored by the American College Theater Festival.

Music and lyrics for Pippin were written by Stephen Schwartz, whose credits include Godspell. The production was originally directed and choreographed on Broadway by Bob Fosse, whose work is getting renewed attention.

Tickets for the Weidner Center production are: $20 for adults and $15 for seniors and non-UW-Green Bay students in the orchestra; $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and non-UW-Green Bay students in the mezzanine and balcony. The number for tickets is (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - E.J. Dionne Jr., columnist for the Washington Post and a senior fellow in governmental studies at The Brookings Institution, will speak at 10 a.m. Monday, April 10 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event in the Christie Theater, located in the University Union, is free and open to the public.

Dionne's topic is "Do Americans Still Hate Politics?"

He is the author of Why Americans Hate Politics: the Death of the Democratic Process, and They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era, both published in the 1990s by Simon and Schuster. He is at work on a book project analyzing America's entrance into a new progressive era of government reform and civic action. Dionne also is the editor of Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America, and a forthcoming book, What's God Got to Do With the American Experiment?

Dionne is a former reporter and editorial writer for the Washington Post and was a correspondent in Paris, Rome, and Beirut for The New York Times. He frequently writes and speaks on topics including elections, politics, public opinion, conservative and liberal ideology, civil society, journalism, and the role of religion in solving social problems.

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students will present the results of research on exotic plants, snails, mammals, soils, and pond water quality from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Friday, March 31 in the 1965 Room of the University Union on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

The students were recipients of 1999-2000 Cofrin Arboretum Student Research Awards which provide opportunities for students to conduct studies in natural areas managed by the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Arboretum Center for Biodiversity. Awards of $1,000 are typical.

The recipients and their projects are:

Matthew Barthel, De Pere, "Microhabitat Preferences of the Snail, Vertigo nylanderi, in the Toft Point Natural Area"; Julie Bradshaw, Oconto, "Distribution and Control of Gallium mollugo in the Cofrin Arboretum"; Steve Engels and David Marks, both Green Bay, "Carnivores of the Cofrin Arboretum."

Todd McCoy, Woodstock, Ill., "A Field Guide to Mammals of the Cofrin Arboretum"; Amy Piaget, Green Bay, "Soil Characteristics of Abandoned Farm Fields in the Succession Plots of the Cofrin Arboretum"; Samantha Stoughtenger, Mauston, "Nutrient Determination in Ponds of the Cofrin Arboretum."

The Cofrin Arboretum Student Research Program is supported by an endowment established by the Cofrin family. The projects give students an opportunity to learn how to conduct research and add to knowledge about the natural history of northeastern Wisconsin.

GREEN BAY - A $307,995 grant from the Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) will launch the first major project of the new Center for Organizational Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The grant will fund a three-year study aimed at helping small not-for-profit and business organizations survive natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, storm surges, river floods and severe storms, says Daniel J. Alesch, director of the Center and a professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at UW-Green Bay.

"Enormous losses suffered every year in the United States by small organizations are understated because insured losses and public aid to affected communities are usually used as the yardstick for measuring loss," says Alesch. He says estimates don't take into consideration the losses borne by owners, uninsured losses from business interruption, income lost while attempting to recover over several years, and lost capital assets to owners when an organization finally fails.

Investigators in the study will look at selected organizations of one to 100 employees in areas of the United States that are prone to natural disasters. The knowledge gained, says Alesch, "...will enable us to develop inexpensive, perhaps profitable, ways to protect against disaster losses and, when an event occurs, effective strategies for recovery."

The project will result in a report identifying which organizations survive and which fail due to natural disasters, a set of training materials to help small organizations prevent and recover from natural hazard losses, and an informational Worldwide Web site.

UW-Green Bay investigators will work with colleagues at Cleveland (Ohio) State University, also a PERI grant recipient, where the training materials will be produced. They'll also work with the Small Business Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce educational institute for not-for-profit organizations, and with private organizations.

The new Center for Organizational Studies at UW-Green Bay was founded to provide a framework for studying organizations of all kinds in order to learn how to build and maintain effective organizations, how to change organizations that function poorly, and how to generate continuous improvement within organizations. The Center will make its findings widely available. UW-Green Bay students will benefit from the research and practical experience opportunities that the Center provides.

"Formal organizations are a central element of human activity," says Alesch. "We work, learn, play, and worship in them. We depend on them for health care, social support, emergency services, and for most of our food. Yet, we know surprisingly little about them."

Alesch has been active in natural hazard mitigation research for nearly 20 years. He is co-author of the 1985 book, The Politics and Economics of Earthquake Hazard Mitigation, which still serves as an authoritative source. He was a principal investigator in a study after the Northridge, Calif., earthquake which showed that the pattern of small business recovery and failure was significantly different from what had been assumed in the past. Alesch joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1976 and received its Founders Association award for excellence in community outreach in 1986 and again in 1998.

GREEN BAY - Six University of Wisconsin-Green Bay seniors in art will open an exhibit of their work with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 9 in the Lawton Gallery on the UW-Green Bay campus, 2420 Nicolet Drive.

The students and the medium they'll exhibit are: Katie Holschbach, photography, and Kristi Schluttenhofer, photography, both of Green Bay; Jennifer Anderson, printmaking, Manitowoc; Katie Bosman, photography, Kewaunee; Aaron Lisowe, photography, Chilton; and Susan Riddle, painting, Madison.

The exhibit continues through April 22. A second senior exhibition will open on April 30.

Lawton Gallery is located in Theater Hall, directly east of the Weidner Center. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Vocal Ensemble, Women's Chorus, and Concert Choir will present a program appropriate to the change of seasons at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 29 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Director of choral activities William Witwer directs the Vocal Ensemble and Concert Choir, and faculty lecturer Jeffery McGhee directs the Women's Chorus.

The Vocal Ensemble begins the program with what Witwer describes as "an ornithology chronology." The five songs, dating from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, all have to do with birds. The earliest selection, "Il est bel et bon," by Pierre Passereau, isn't about real birds, but about gossiping women described as "cackling hens." The selection is followed by "Of All the Birds" by John Bartlet, "Die Nachtigall" by Felix Mendelssohn, "Un Cygne," by Paul Hindemith, and "The Birds Begun at Four O'Clock," by Emma Lou Diemer.

The 28-member Women's Chorus will sing songs of hope, life, and joy, says director McGhee. Their program includes "Sing With Pleasure," from Handel's Saul, "Beau Soir," by Debussy, "And Nature Smiled," by Allen Koepke, and an arrangement of a traditional gospel, "The Storm is Passing Over." Student pianist Nichole Ihlenfeldt accompanies the group.

The Concert Choir will perform six selections from American composer Randall Thompson's settings of Robert Frost's poems, Frostiana. Pianist and faculty member Janice Cusano will be the featured accompanist on the set. The selections include, "The Road Not Taken," "The Pasture," "Come In," "A Girl's Garden," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and "Choose Something Like a Star."

General admission tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty musicians and outstanding area high school students will be highlighted along with UW-Green Bay student soloists in a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 30 at the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Groups performing include the University's Jazz Ensemble I, directed by John Salerno, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, directed by Chris Salerno, and a High School Honors Band, directed by Thomas Pfotenhauer.

Faculty musicians will be in the spotlight with Jazz Ensemble I. Terence O'Grady will solo on vibes on "Cabana En El Sol," Pfotenhauer will be featured on trumpet on "Rhythm of Our World," and Robert Balsley will be heard on guitar in "Caravan." John Salerno on saxophone, joins student pianist Sara Salentine in a featured role in "Skylark." Chris Salerno is the vocal soloist, along with alumnus Bruce Raines on trombone, and student Sean Combs on trumpet, in "One Hundred Years From Today," arranged by John Salerno.

Chris Salerno is the composer of "Kathy De S'antonio," a tribute to her cousin from San Antonio, Texas, who died of breast cancer. Jazz Ensemble I will perform it with Chris Salerno on piano, Cheryl Grosso on percussion, and John Salerno on flute, in featured roles.

Students have the other solo spots with Jazz Ensemble I, including Becky Fleming and Andy Thiele on alto saxophone in "High Altotude," and pianist Kristin Sponcia in "Body and Soul."

Vocal Jazz Ensemble has four numbers on the schedule. Pfotenhauer will be featured on flugelhorn, along with student alto soloist Kelly Shoemaker, on "Open Invitation." Green Bay East High School student Katie Scovell, a soprano, has a solo role in the old Beatles song, "Blackbird." Soprano Kristin Sponcia, tenor Andy Ruh, and tenor saxophonist Steve Johnson will be featured in "Desafinado." Ruh will be heard again, along with alto RenŽe Millard on a Chris Salerno arrangement of "Goodbye."

The Honors Band consists of students from nine area high schools who were selected based on their individual performances at UW-Green Bay's January Jazz Fest. Schools represented include Ashwaubenon, Bayport, Schofield D.C. Everest, De Pere, Green Bay Southwest, Manitowoc Lincoln, Pulaski, Racine Walden III, and Stevens Point. Pfotenhauer will conduct selections including "Minor Skirmishes," "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars," "Silverado," and "Where or When."

General admission tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The number for tickets is (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - Members of the diverse Northeast Wisconsin community are invited to gather with nationally known leaders of the environmental justice movement at a free grassroots workshop, Environmental Justice: A Call to Action, on Saturday, April 8, in the Ecumenical Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. Registration begins at 9 a.m.

The workshop is a call to begin discussion of environmental justice issues in Northeast Wisconsin.

The problem it addresses is that low-income and minority groups everywhere are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards such as lead, PCBs, pesticides, mercury, air pollution, and toxic waste, explains UW-Green Bay faculty member Brian J. Merkel. He adds that the issue is compounded by failure to link these communities to high-quality health care.

"The workshop is about bringing people in our community together to focus on these issues," says Merkel. "It's about connecting the dots."

Nationally recognized expert Bunyan Bryant, a professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, will begin the program by defining environmental justice. Detroit attorney Thomas Stephens will describe legal battles against environmental injustice in Flint, Mich. In the afternoon session, Merkel will describe current environmental justice work in Green Bay and set the stage for further action.

Bryant, who teaches in the areas of environmental advocacy, policy, and justice, has made scores of presentations on environmental justice and related issues around the country. He is the author of Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies and Solutions, and has another book-length manuscript on environmental advocacy, justice and sustainability under consideration by a publisher.

Bryant's current national service includes a subcommittee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and the subcommittee of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council for an Urban Toxic Strategy; the President's Council for Sustainable Development Planning Committee; the EPA Clean Air Act Advisory Committee to Administrator Carol Browner; and the President's Council on Sustainable Development Public Linkage Dialogue and Education Task Force.

Stephens, who is affiliated with the National Lawyer's Guild, has 14 years of experience specializing in product liability and environmental justice. He lectures on environmental justice for the Detroit Bar Association and the Institute for Continuing Legal Education. His presentation will provide a practical look at legal issues arising from environmental injustice in Flint, a city like Green Bay in that industry is critical to its economy.

Merkel, whose academic area of specialization is immunology, began research on PCBs in fish eaten by members of the Hmong community shortly after joining the UW-Green Bay faculty in September 1997. He teaches courses in immunology and microbiology. He previously was a visiting assistant professor at Drew University in New Jersey and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical College of Virginia.

The workshop advisory committee includes Amparo Baudhuin, Catholic Immigration Services immigration assistant, Diocese of Green Bay; David Dolan, UW-Green Bay faculty member in Natural and Applied Sciences; Karen Early, nutrition education coordinator, Brown County UW-Extension; Mary Ginnebaugh, community environmental activist; Paula Lamberg, director, Fort Howard/Jefferson Family Resource Center; Eileen Littig, director, NEWIST/CESA #7 instructional TV director/producer, UW-Green Bay; Merkel, UW-Green Bay faculty member in Human Biology; Barbara McClure-Lukens, program coordinator, UW-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension; Denise Sweet, UW-Green Bay chair of American Indian Studies; and Jai Vang, executive director, Hmong Association of Green Bay.

The UW-Green Bay Institute for Research is sponsoring the free event which includes a multi-cultural buffet luncheon. The workshop will end by mid-afternoon. Childcare is available for workshop attendees by prior arrangement.

For more information, call (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118.

GREEN BAY - The Universities of Wisconsin at Green Bay and Oshkosh have formed the Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education to help social workers meet new state rules that require social workers to earn continuing education units.

The Offices of Outreach and Continuing Education and the Departments of Social Work at the two campuses will sponsor on-going educational programs to meet requirements of the Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing. The Alliance's first series of workshops, "Critical Issues in Social Work Practice," includes ten programs scheduled from March through mid-September.

Wisconsin began requiring continuing education for social workers on July 1, 1999. Starting from that date, social workers must complete at least 30 continuing education units in each two-year period. Social workers applying for state certification renewal must submit proof that they have met continuing education requirements.

All of the programs in the "Critical Issues" series have been reviewed by the Social Work professional programs at UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh and meet the state's standards for continuing education units, says Barbara McClure-Lukens, coordinator in UW-Green Bay's Office of Outreach and Extension. Continuing education unit value of the "Critical Issues" programs ranges from one-and-a-half to five units per workshop.

Seven of the ten scheduled programs will be at locations on the UW-Green Bay campus, two are at the Holiday Inn Select in Appleton and one at the Oshkosh Convention Center. Fees per event vary from $25 to $75.

McClure-Lukens says continuing education programs for social workers offered by the Alliance will be continually expanded and updated. The schedule can be viewed by way of the internet at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

For program brochures or to be added to the mailing list, callers may contact McClure-Lukens at the UW-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension, (920) 465-2222 or 1-800-892-2118; or Heidi Pethan, co-ordinator in the UW-Oshkosh Division of Continuing Education and Extension (920) 424-1352 or 1-800-633-1442.

Workshops scheduled through mid-September include:

Thursday, March 9
Male Grief, Female Grief
Presenter: Illene Noppe, UW-Green Bay faculty member and director, UW-Green Bay Institute on Dying, Death and Bereavement.
UW-Green Bay Ecumenical Center

Thursday, March 23
Dealing with Death in Diverse Cultures
Presenters: Sanjuana Aguillon, City of Green Bay housing specialist; Debbie Danforth, R.N., Oneida Health Center; Jai Vang, director, Green Bay Hmong Association.
UW-Green Bay Ecumenical Center

Thursday, March 30
Motivational Interviewing Strategies for the Social Worker
Presenter: Cheryl Rugg, CADACIII, CICSW, instructor, AODA Associate Degree program, Waukesha County Technical College
UW-Green Bay University Union

Saturday, April 1
Basic Ethics and the Practitioner
Presenter: Kevin Roeder, MSW, CICSW, UW-Green Bay faculty member
UW-Green Bay University Union

Thursday, April 6
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Presenter: Robert Bendiksen, UW-LaCrosse faculty member and director of its Center for Death Education and Bioethics
UW-Green Bay Ecumenical Center

Thursday, April 27
Two workshops: Strong at the Broken Places: Resiliency in the Lives of Survivors, and Compassion Fatigue and the Art of Self-Care
Presenter: Linda T. Sanford, LICSW, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work faculty member; author of Strong at the Broken Places and The Silent Children
Holiday Inn Select, Appleton

Thursday, April 27
Spiritual Resources When Facing Death
Presenter: Michael B. Lukens, professor of religious studies at St. Norbert College
UW-Green Bay Ecumenical Center

Friday, May 5
Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Presenter: Mervin Smucker, associate clinical professor, Medical College of Wisconsin and director, Cognitive Therapy Institute of Milwaukee
UW-Green Bay University Union

Thursday, May 18
Social Work Ethics and Boundaries
Presenter: Andrea Bevernitz, MSW, DSW
Oshkosh Convention Center

Friday, Sept. 15
Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice
Presenter: Leola Furman, Ph.D.
Holiday Inn Select, Appleton

The March 9 and 23 and April 6 and 27 programs at UW-Green Bay are organized by the UW-Green Bay Institute on Dying, Death and Bereavement.

GREEN BAY - "The Atom and American Life" is the topic for historian Allan M. Winkler in a presentation at 10 a.m. Friday, March 24 in the Christie Theater, located on the lower level of the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The program is free and open to the public.

Winkler is the author of Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom, an account of the impact of the atomic bomb on American political and cultural life. The book traces the debate among scientists and intellectuals over military and civilian uses of atomic power and the waxing and waning of popular protest over nuclear issues. Winkler also examines popular songs, movies, novels, poems, paintings, and television programs to show how the nuclear dilemma has become a part of our culture.

Winkler is professor of history and former chair of the History Department at Miami University of Ohio. His other recent books include America: Pathways to the Present, and The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, of which he was co-author, and Cassie's War, a novel for children. Winkler has taught at Helsinki University, Finland; the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi, Kenya; and has given guest lectures in many other countries. He has received two Fulbright Awards, and many other honors. Miami University's College of Arts and Sciences gave him its 1998 Distinguished Educator Award.

Winkler's appearance at UW-Green Bay is sponsored by the University's Center for History and Social Change.

GREEN BAY - A new book tells the story of the Menominee Indian Tribe and how they have sustained their 230,000-acre forest in ways that enhance, rather than degrade, the environment even in the face of development pressures.

Sustaining the Forest, the People and the Spirit, just published by the State University of New York Press, was written by Tom Davis, now president of Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College in Hayward.

Davis examined Menominee history, politics, institutions, economy, culture, spirituality, science and technology to provide insights into how the Menominees' example of sustainable environmental development can serve as a guide for other communities.

The research and the initial manuscript was Davis's thesis project for the Master of Environmental Science and Policy degree that he earned in 1996 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Davis says the inspiration for the thesis came when he was doing a lot of reading on the topic of sustainability after the concept was introduced in a class. He followed that with an independent study project on sustainable economics.

"There didn't seem to be any literature on something 'real.' Nobody had examples," he says. "It struck me that we have a real example of sustainable development right here in our area." Davis, who was at the time working in administration at the College of the Menominee Nation, had been associated with various tribal endeavors since the early 1970s.

Much has been written about the tribal forest, dating back to observations on how the Menominee used the forest resource which were recorded in the 1600s by Jesuit priests, says Davis. "It's one of the most famous forests in the world," he adds.

Davis made use of years of detailed records documenting the forest's management. Oral tradition also was a rich source of information, because the forest has a critical role in Menominee culture. "It's one of the central tenants of who the Menominee are," Davis explains, adding that while there is a science to managing the forest, the whole tribe gets involved in the decision-making process on key issues.

The difference between the Menominee forest and the adjacent Nicolet National Forest is easy to see on satellite images, says Davis. Even from space it's evident that the Menominee practice of selective harvesting creates a taller, greener forest. "People visit from all over the world to see how to do it," he adds.

Davis says the hard part of converting his thesis to a book was deciding what to leave out to keep the book to a manageable 272 pages. He's currently is at work on a book of essays on sustainability.

Prior to becoming president at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College, Davis was at Bay Mills Community College, Brimley, Mich., where he was project director for an internet-based learning program for Indian Head Start Program teachers, now being used from Alaska to Florida. Davis earned his bachelor's degree at UW-Oshkosh, where he majored in English and history.

GREEN BAY - The political writer Thomas Paine, who contributed to the American and French Revolutions and to the struggles of English workers during the Industrial Revolution, is the subject of a new biography by Harvey J. Kaye, Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Thomas Paine: Firebrand of the Revolution, published this month by Oxford University Press, is written for sixth through tenth grade readers.

Kaye says the publisher asked him to write on Paine for their Oxford Portraits series of biographies because of articles he had written on the radical writer, but adds, "My motivation came from the fact that he was my childhood, indeed, lifelong hero! Paine turned our American rebellion into a revolution and offered a vision of America to Americans that entailed liberty, equality, and democracy."

The president of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, Gary Berton, calls Kaye's book, "The best summary of Paine's life that has ever been printed."

Kaye recalls that even as a youth, he concluded that Paine's pamphlets, Common Sense and The American Crisis and other writings made Paine worthy of recognition as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As he matured, Kaye says, he realized that other works such as The Rights of Man, Paine's defense of the French Revolution, and The Age of Reason, his critique of organized religion, made Paine also an Atlantic, or world revolutionary.

Kaye discovered Paine as a little boy, browsing in his grandfather's at-home library, but says it was only in the course of his college studies that he began to fully grasp the extent of Paine's contributions to the politics and ideas of the late 18th century.

Kaye teaches in the Social Change and Development and History departments at UW-Green Bay where he also is the director of the Center for History and Social Change. He is the author of Powers of the Past, The British Marxist Historians, "Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?" and Other Questions, and The Education of Desire, which won the prestigious Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. Kaye regularly contributes to the Times (of London) Higher Education Supplement and other American and British periodicals.

GREEN BAY - A new dual degree program at the Universities of Wisconsin at Green Bay and Milwaukee offers the opportunity to earn two degrees — a bachelor of science in Environmental Science from UW-Green Bay and a bachelor of science in Civil/Environmental Engineering from UW-Milwaukee — and emerge with a strong credential for many career fields.

Students who have all of the prerequisite high school courses and follow a specified university course load can complete the program in five years, says UW-Green Bay Prof. Patricia Terry, engineering adviser and coordinator of the program at Green Bay.

"I think it is an exciting opportunity for students who are interested in the environmental sciences, but who also want the flexibility and employment opportunities that accompany an engineering degree," says Terry.

She recently attended a conference on university environmental science programs at which a panel of industry and government agency representatives was asked what they look for in a potential employee with a degree in environmental science. "Across the board, they all wanted an engineer with an environmental background," Terry noted.

She said the program also is a good choice for prospective engineers who want a more thorough environmental science background than they can get through engineering studies alone.

Students in the new program will attend UW-Green Bay for three years majoring in Environmental Science with a Physical Systems: Technology and Management emphasis. They then transfer to UW-Milwaukee's Civil Engineering program in the Environmental Engineering emphasis. When they successfully complete their studies, they receive degrees from both universities.

Terry says the new program results from a credit transfer agreement between the two universities which enables students to count specified courses for credit at both institutions.

For information, contact Prof. Patricia Terry at (920) 465-2749.

GREEN BAY - Nine University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students will experience first-hand the issues confronting citizens of the Western Hemisphere when they take part in a Model Organization of American States (OAS) March 27 through 31 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

The students have been learning how the OAS works, poring over advance copies of actual resolutions on the OAS agenda, and studying Chile, in preparation for carrying out the role of that country in the model exercise. Prof. Mark Everingham says the Model OAS not only helps students learn about the OAS and international financial and development agencies, but demonstrates that Wisconsin is affected by international politics and international affairs. Everingham teaches in the Social Change and Development and political science programs.

Students who will take part include Damon Grabow, Edgerton; Tim Heesen, Iron Ridge; Allison Jordan, Freemont; Danielle Luer, Eau Claire; Jarrod Meyer, Sussex; Bryan Milz, Marinette; Ronald Osero, Wausau; Annie Pryes, Green Bay; and Aimee Schlais, Dousman.

The UW-Green Bay students will be among university teams from throughout the hemisphere, representing the 34 OAS member countries. This is the fourth consecutive year that a team from UW-Green Bay has been selected for the Model OAS.

GREEN BAY - Seven University of Wisconsin-Green Bay dancers, along with choreographer and instructor Denise Carlson-Gardner, will travel to Detroit to compete in the Great Lakes Regional American College Dance Festival (ACDF) Wednesday through Saturday, March 15-18 at Wayne State University.

They'll perform "Free the World," choreographed by Carlson-Gardner. An independent juror, who saw it performed at the group's Danceworks recital on Feb. 12 at UW-Green Bay, chose the piece for the competition. Winners selected from regional competitions will perform later this spring at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The student dancers are Rana Altman, Maple Grove, Minn.; Amy Booso, Green Bay; Carla Hales, Menasha; Jana Lerlie, Oshkosh; Lisa Longhini, Manitowoc; Leslie O'Neill, Howards Grove; and Lisa Roskom, Lena.

In addition to creating the concept and choreography, Carlson-Gardner wrote original text and narrated it for the sound track. Student sound designer Neil Roehrborn, Sheboygan Falls, created the sound track.