April 2002

GREEN BAY -- Andrea Wiltzius, Kohler, placed second in auditions for the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program held in mid-April at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She won a cash prize and is "under contract" to the Met until the first-place winner actually arrives to begin the Metropolitan Opera internship that is the top award. If the winner doesn't appear, Wiltzius gets the internship.

Wiltzius, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, was one of a select group of 20 artists under age 30 from around the country who competed for the internship. She received the invitation to audition for the Young Artist internship program on the basis of her performance in the Eastern Wisconsin District Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions in fall 2001where she was named "Most Promising Young Artist."

Auditioning for the Metropolitan Opera internship was an "incredible" experience, says the soprano. The auditions took place in the form of a series of master classes--beginning with Metropolitan Opera artistic director James Levine, and including famed tenor Placido Domingo--from which contestants were eliminated down to a final four. The four then performed for a final judging.

Wiltzius will graduate in May from UW-Green Bay where she has studied voice with Prof. John Plier. She has been accepted to the Graduate Performance Diploma programs at The Julliard School in New York and at Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, and she'll decide which to attend in the fall.

GREEN BAY -- Andrew Spear, Green Bay, is the winner of the first Humanistic Studies essay competition at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He received a cash award for his paper, "Freedom, Responsibility, and Existential Authenticity: A Critique." Faculty judges chose his paper from among four finalists in the competition founded to encourage and reward excellence in the study of the humanities.

Spear will graduate in May with a Philosophy major and a Humanistic Studies minor. He has been accepted for graduate study at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he will study philosophy.

GREEN BAY -- Heirloom lettuces and flowers are new among the offerings at the annual Heirloom Plant Sale at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 11 and 12 in the Laboratory Sciences greenhouse on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. If any of the 9,000 plus plants remains at the end of day on Sunday, they'll be available on Saturday and Sunday, May 18 and 19 during the same hours.

Prof. Jeffrey Nekola, founder of the sale, says 90 percent of the plants for sale are tomatoes and peppers, the sale's mainstays from the beginning. But, he says, "Heirlooms are more than tomatoes and peppers. Adding the new varieties is an experiment to see if people want these things."

New are 21 varieties of heirloom lettuces, including romaine, butter crunch and leaf types in shades of green, yellow, red and variegated combinations. Lettuces will be sold in mixed lots for an "instant chef's salad." Unlike tomatoes and peppers, that are slow to mature, "the lettuces will be ready to go in a week or two," says Nekola.

New, too, are a few "old-time" flowers-vining petunias, a zinnia mix, painted tongue, marsh mallows, and others. Herb selections have expanded to include nine different basils. And the sale includes some novel vegetables such as leaf celery-grown for its leaves, rather than the stems-and chards in jewel-like colors.

"This will be the most striking display we've ever had in the greenhouse," says Nekola.

New offerings among the 75-or-so tomato varieties include four never-before offered patio tomatoes from England: a red cherry, a yellow cherry, an orange tomato with white-hairy leaves, and a tiger-striped plum tomato. Nekola is keen on a new hot pepper. Le Petite Guillet bears purple peppers on a plant with purple and white striped leaves. The list of tomatoes and peppers, along with pictures of most of them, can be previewed on the World Wide Web at www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/Heirloom/index.htm.

The sale also offers some eggplants, with varieties from Russia and Syria new this year, and a few members of the cabbage family.

Plants sell for $1 each, except for lettuces and flowers which are three for $1. Sale proceeds benefit student scholarships.

Plant shoppers also will be able to browse a display by the Green Bay Bonsai Society and purchase ceramics, including garden-related items, made by UW-Green Bay ceramics students and faculty.

This is the seventh year for the UW-Green Bay sale.

Nekola grows out all of the tomatoes and peppers in his own garden each year to provide seeds for the next year's event. He collects seeds from around the world, by swapping, connecting with people who have seeds handed down through generations, and visiting farmer's markets and ethnic food stores.

For Nekola, growing and passing along heirlooms is a serious business on a couple of levels. Not least is that preserving heirloom plants helps to preserve culture. "A living connection to the past," he calls them. And as a conservation biologist, Nekola is concerned about protecting the diversity of plant genes for the future. He points out that the Irish potato famine occurred because the potatoes grown were all of a variety not resistant to blight. "All the different genes have potential uses in plant breeding," says Nekola.

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard will lead a UW-Green Bay contingent to Door County on Thursday (May 2) for the University's first Door County reception.

Shepard and other University officials will meet and greet Door County residents at the reception at the Stone Harbor Resort and Conference Center in Sturgeon Bay.

The event starts with a 6 p.m. social hour with a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres followed by the Chancellor's program at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

Shepard, who took over as UW-Green Bay Chancellor Nov. 1, sees the reception — the first of its kind in the region — as an effective way to develop stronger connections between the University and the people of Door County.

In addition to meeting Shepard, Door County residents attending the reception will have opportunities to:

• Learn more about the University's exciting Division I athletics program from new Athletics Director Ken Bothof.

• Obtain information about applying for admission to UW-Green Bay from Admissions Director Pam Harvey-Jacobs.

• Talk about the Weidner Center's new season and ticket information with Nancy Hershfield, the Weidner's director of development.

• Learn about UW-Green Bay's new Master's of Management program from Business Administration Chair Karl Zehms and faculty member Don McCartney. The new master's program, which is targeting Northeastern Wisconsin business professionals, is accepting applications for the fall semester.

The reception will feature door prizes, including Weidner Center and athletics ticket giveaways. The Phoenix Bookstore also will offer the latest in Phoenix apparel and merchandise.

For more information about the Door County reception, contact Shane Kohl, UW-Green Bay Director of Donor and Alumni Relations, at (920) 465-2586 or kohls@uwgb.edu.

GREEN BAY -- Violist Clark Potter will be guest artist in the season's final Chamber Music at Green Bay concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 29 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Due to a contribution by an anonymous sponsor, admission is free.

Potter will join UW-Green Bay Prof. Scott Wright, clarinet, and pianist Linda Halloin, who frequently perform together as Duo Pegasus.

Potter is viola professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he also teaches conducting and directs NEBratsche, the University's viola ensemble. He serves as principal viola of the Lincoln Symphony. Potter performs actively as a solo recitalist and chamber musician, and has premiered numerous pieces for the viola.

A native of Washington state, Potter performs in the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra and serves as an artist and faculty member at the Young Musicians and Artists summer program in Salem, Ore., and the Seattle Chamber Music Workshop. He is on the board of the Nebraska chapter of the American String Teachers Association.

The three will perform Mozart's Trio in E-flat Major and Max Bruch's "Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Piano and Viola." Halloin and Wright will present Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, by Mozart contemporary Johann Wanhall. Halloin and Potter will pair for "Romance" by Ralph Vaughn Williams. Contemporary English composer Rebecca Clarke's Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale will feature Potter on viola and Wright on clarinet.

Wright founded the Chamber Music in Green Bay series in fall 2000.

GREEN BAY -- Tod Kowalczyk has been named men's basketball head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, athletics director Ken Bothof announced today. Kowalczyk, who has 11 years of Division I coaching experience, becomes only the fifth head coach in the 33-year history of Phoenix basketball.

"Tod Kowalczyk brings a wealth of coaching experience to UW-Green Bay," said Bothof. "His enthusiasm and energy will invigorate our program."

Kowalczyk, 35, was an assistant coach at Marquette University for the last two seasons under head coach Tom Crean. The resurgent Golden Eagles were ranked in the top 10 nationally this past season, finishing with a 26-7 overall record.

"We're delighted that Tod Kowalczyk has agreed to become the next head coach of the UW-Green Bay men's basketball team," said UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard. "Anyone who saw Tod during his public interview quickly became aware of the passion and knowledge he will bring to our men's basketball program. It's clear to me that our program will be in good hands for years to come."

Hoop Scoop magazine tabbed Kowalczyk as the third-best "Top Young Assistant Coach in America." As a member of the Golden Eagles staff, Kowalczyk helped assemble a 2001-02 recruiting class that was ranked as high as 11th nationally.

"UW-Green Bay is a great opportunity," said Kowalczyk. "I appreciate the confidence that Chancellor Shepard and Ken Bothof have in my leadership and my vision for this program."

Prior to his tenure in Milwaukee, the De Pere, Wis., native was at Rutgers University for three years, including one season as associate head coach. Kowalczyk's vast Division I experience also includes stints as an assistant coach at Rider University (1993-97) and the University of New Hampshire (1989-91).

Kowalczyk played collegiate basketball at the University of Minnesota-Duluth where he was an all-conference selection and team MVP for the Bulldogs. During Kowalczyk's playing career, the Bulldogs made four straight national tournament appearances.

At De Pere High School, Tod was a basketball standout for coach Jake Orlowski. Tod's father, Rod Kowalczyk was also a longtime coach and athletics director at De Pere.

Tod has a bachelor's degree in health education and physical education from UM-Duluth (1989) and a master's in education administration from Rider (1996).

Kowalczyk returns home to assume leadership of a UW-Green Bay team with four starters, 10 letter winners and 14 players returning. The Phoenix will begin competition in the new Resch Center in the fall of 2002.

Shepard said the exciting things happening at UW-Green Bay are due to a complete team effort, and the athletic program is an important part of that team. He also said the strong community support is essential to continued success.

"Nothing we put in place is going to work without the community on board," said Shepard. "With the community on board, nothing is impossible. There is a proud tradition of community support for the Phoenix. And so I am very excited about the future of Green Bay's Division I men's basketball program."

Kowalczyk fills the position vacated by Mike Heideman, who was relieved of his coaching duties following a seven-year term at the Phoenix helm.

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GREEN BAY -- About a hundred students will sleep outdoors on Friday, April 26 in a Shantytown organized by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

"Our goal is to draw attention to the plight of the homeless," said chapter President Matt Bonson. Representatives of 16 different student organizations from UW-Green Bay, along with a group from St. Norbert College, will participate.

The event is from 5 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of First United Methodist Church at Madison and Doty streets in Green Bay. Speakers for a program beginning at 7 p.m. include the Rev. Karen Ebert, pastor of the church; Hung Nguyen, executive director of Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity; Bonson; and others to be confirmed.

Habitat for Humanity is soliciting donations of blankets and food for the homeless in association with the Shantytown. Bonson says items can be dropped off at the church parking lot after 5 p.m. on Friday. Blankets will be distributed to local shelters, and the food will go to a local food bank.

When it's time to tuck in for the night, the students will spread their sleeping bags inside an assortment of cardboard cartons donated by area businesses.

Student groups participating in the Shantytown include: Campus Crusade, Circle K, East Timor Action Network, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Gamers Club, Good Times Limited, Habitat for Humanity, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Kappa Tau Epsilon, Psychology and Human Development Club, Residence Hall and Apartment Association, Round River Alliance, Social Work Club, Southeast Asian Student Union, and Student Senate, all from UW-Green Bay, and the student chapters of Wisconsin Education Association from UW-Green Bay and from St. Norbert College.

GREEN BAY -- A High School Honor Band-about 150 strong-will join the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The high school students all received "outstanding" ratings in their district solo ensemble competition, and were nominated for the honor band by their school band directors, according to UW-Green Bay Music department Chair and Director of Bands Kevin Collins. "These students are very talented, musically and academically," says Collins.

Collins, who directs the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble, and Scott Wright, director of the Symphonic Band, will share conducting duties for the honor band.

Brian Short, who teaches percussion at UW-Green Bay, will be marimba soloist with the Wind Ensemble on "Fantasy on Japanese Wood Prints," by composer Alan Hovhaness. The Ensemble will perform two other pieces by 20th century composers, Roger Nixon's "Fiesta del Pacifico," and Percy Grainger's "Colonial Song."

The Symphonic Band will open its program with the "Armida" overture by Haydn, and also will perform the Chorale and Variant by Elliot Del Borgo. They'll end their program with one of the less frequently played John Philip Sousa marches, "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty."

High schools represented in the Honor Band include students from:

Algoma, Antigo, Appleton East, Ashwaubenon, Berlin, Bonduel, Clintonville, Colby, Crystal Falls, Mich., Gibraltar, Green Bay Notre Dame, Green Bay Southwest, Green Bay West, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, NEW Lutheran, Omro, Palmyra-Eagle, Peshtigo, Pulaski, Reedsville, Rhinelander, Shawano, Stockbridge, and White Lake.

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

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is taking its show on the road Thursday, May 2 when the University holds its first Door County reception in Sturgeon Bay.

The reception at the Stone Harbor Resort and Conference Center will provide Door County residents with a convenient opportunity to meet new Chancellor Bruce Shepard, learn how to enroll at UW-Green Bay and discover lifelong learning opportunities.

Shepard said the event will enable UW-Green Bay alumni, prospective students and other residents of Door County to learn more about the University's programs, people and events without leaving their community.

"We want the people of Door County to get an up-to-date picture of all the exciting things that are happening at UW-Green Bay," Shepard said. "At the same time, we want to hear from them about their hopes and expectations for the University."

A wide range of UW-Green Bay programs will be represented at the reception. Door County residents can learn more about the Weidner Center's new season and the Division I athletics program while also hearing about new programs for students, alumni and the community.

The reception will feature door prizes, including Weidner Center and athletics ticket giveaways.

The reception, sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association, starts with a 6 p.m. social hour with a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres followed by the Chancellor's program at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

For more information about the Door County reception, contact Shane Kohl, UW-Green Bay Director of Donor and Alumni Relations, at (920) 465-2586 or kohls@uwgb.edu.

GREEN BAY - A panel of community and campus members will continue interviewing finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball head coaching position the week of April 22.

The interview sessions are open to the general public and the news media. Questions for the candidates come from the interview panel and the media.

All sessions are held in UW-Green Bay's University Union. The interview dates, times and locations are listed below:

• Steve Merfeld, Head Coach, Hampton University
Monday, April 22; 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Niagara Room B.

• Al Grushkin, Head Coach, University of the Incarnate Word
Tuesday, April 23; 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Alumni Rooms A & B.

• Mike Garland, Assistant Coach, Michigan State University
Wednesday, April 24; 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.; Alumni Rooms A & B.

Tod Kowalczyk, Assistant Coach at Marquette University, was the first of four finalists to meet with the interview panel. He visited the UW-Green Bay campus Tuesday, April 16.

Brad Soderberg, Assistant Coach at Saint Louis University, was on the initial list of finalists. Soderberg's name was removed from the list after he was named Head Men's Basketball Coach at Saint Louis on April 12.

GREEN BAY -- Key Issues in Human Resource Management, a workshop especially for professionals in nonprofit organizations, is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, June 11 and 12 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Sessions are from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day in Cofrin Library room 102 on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The workshop is part of a new certificate program for nonprofit professionals organized by the UW-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension, and cosponsored by the United Way of Brown County, the Neville Public Museum, and the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce.

It is not necessary to be enrolled in the certificate program in order to participate in the workshop.

Workshop facilitator is Jeff Russell, co-director of Russell Consulting, Inc., and an instructor with the UW-Madison Outreach Programs Certified Public Manager Program, and its Small Business Development Center. Before forming his own consulting firm, Russell was human resource coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Administration.

Russell has a bachelor's degree in Humanism and Cultural Change, and a Master of Science degree in industrial relations from UW-Madison. He is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and past president of the South Central Wisconsin Chapter of ASTD. Russell is co-author of three management books.

Sessions on June 11 will focus on hiring. June 12 will be devoted to staff retention, new employee orientation, and managing employee performance.

The fee for the two-day course is $238. Two or more individuals from the same organization receive a reduced fee of $198

The numbers for information about the workshop and about the certificate program are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118. Information and registration also are available through the World Wide Web at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

GREEN BAY -- Five senior student artists will show their work in an exhibit opening with a reception from 2 - 4 p.m. Sunday, April 28 in the Lawton Gallery located in Theater Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The exhibit is the second of two senior exhibitions. The reception also is the occasion for announcing winners of art merit scholarships for 2002-2003. Scholarship awards will be made public at 3 p.m.

Artists showing their work are:

Tina Bechtel, Green Bay, multimedia works; Paul Dax, Green Bay, metal works; Jeanelle Vanden Heuvel, Green Bay, installations in various media; Rachel Lankford, Suamico, black and white photographs; Beth Wanninger, Beloit, photographs.

The exhibit continues through May 11. Lawton Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. The gallery is located in room 230 of Theater Hall.

GREEN BAY -- Trumpeter Thomas Pfotenhauer will be joined by guest artist John Tranter on trombone and euphonium in a recital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. Admission is free.

Joining the pair as piano accompanists will be UW-Green Bay faculty member Namji Kim and Professor Emeritus Arthur Cohrs.

Pfotenhauer, accompanied by Kim, will perform "Contest Piece," by Georges HŸe, and Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, by J.N. Hummel. Cohrs will accompany Tranter on trombone in Schumann's FantasiestŸcke, op. 73, and Frank Martin's "Ballade." Tranter will switch to euphonium for "Concert Gallop," by contemporary composer Philip Wilby. Tranter and Pfotenhauer will join, again accompanied by Cohrs, for "Divertimento," by Boris Blacher.

Pfotenhauer will perform unaccompanied on "Look Little Heavens," a composition based on a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, by another contemporary composer, Hilary Tann.

Pfotenhauer has been a member of the UW-Green Bay faculty since 1997. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance at the University of Kansas where his doctoral research focused on American women composers of trumpet music. Pfotenhauer earned his bachelor's degree in music at UW-Green Bay, and has performed extensively in the region, before leaving to pursue studies elsewhere and since returning.

Tranter is completing a doctorate in trombone performance at the University of Minnesota and has been a member of the Skyline Brass Quintet.

GREEN BAY -- "The Liar," the final production of the 2001-2002 mainstage theater season at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27, and Thursday through Saturday, May 2 - 4 in University Theater, located in Theater Hall on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The play is a newly minted script based on an old story. It's a comedy that director Laura Riddle of the UW-Green Bay faculty calls "fast-paced," "almost cartoon-like," and "sometimes silly."

The story is this: A young man returns to his father's house after being gone many years. He doesn't reveal his identity, and in an attempt to win respect from others and the love of a beautiful woman, he concocts lies about himself. Those lies lead to more lies. The story appears in ancient Roman theater, and it was dramatized by playwrights Pierre Corneille in 1647 and Carlo Goldoni in 1750. The Goldoni play has had modern revivals.

Riddle says she liked the story, but wanted a more contemporary script. She also wanted to create a project unlike any that UW-Green Bay theater students had done. "I wanted students to actually have an opportunity to participate in the creative process," says Riddle.

Riddle called in local comedian and playwright Mike Eserkaln, who developed a first draft. Then she cast the play, and the actors, director and playwright began to hammer out a final script through improvisation and daily rewrites.

"Normally, I choose a play based on a script," says Riddle. "This is different. This has very much been the process of developing a new script."

The new play is set in a resort that would be familiar to modern viewers. The characters are either guests or staff. But there are references to the play's roots. There's a "sidekick" based on the classic clown character common in comedies of centuries ago. Some of the resort staff function like the "chorus" of ancient theater.

Playwright Eserkaln is owner and performer at ComedyCity-Green Bay. He has written and produced six previous plays, including "Dill," "Pete, the Peg-Nosed Pirate," and "Get Down(sized)." He also wrote for a sketch comedy troupe, "Milk Dogs."

Dan Van Dellen, Wausau, portrays the young man, Bill. The sidekick, Chuckie, is played by Eric Lindahl, Stetsonville.

Scenic design for "The Liar" is by Jeffrey Entwistle, and Kaiome Malloy designed the costumes. R. Michael Ingraham is the lighting designer and technical director. All are members of the faculty. Sound design is by student Chad Lussier.

Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door for adults, and $10 in advance and $12 at the door for seniors and students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is accepting applications for a new master's degree program targeted at Northeastern Wisconsin business professionals.

The Master's of Management program prepares students for new challenges in their workplace and community, according to Karl Zehms, UW-Green Bay Chair of Business Administration and Accounting.

The new program offers an innovative, advanced study of management. It is designed to prepare effective leaders and decision-makers for the region's businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

The program, which begins offering courses this fall, provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in complex and dynamic organizations. It is a learning opportunity for managers seeking career growth. It also is open to students who have recently completed their undergraduate work.

Master's of Management courses are offered to address the real-world needs of full-time workers. To do this, classes are held in the evening or over a series of weekends.

The 36-credit curriculum consists of a graduate core of six required courses and four elective management courses. A hands-on professional project examining a major organizational issue is the capstone of the program's academic experience.

Students have the convenience of small classes and the opportunity to work closely with faculty. All instructors have doctorate degrees and experience teaching in accredited graduate programs.

For more information about the Master's of Management, contact UW-Green Bay's Office of Graduate Studies by phone at (920) 465-2123 or by E-mail at gradstu@uwgb.edu.

GREEN BAY -- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students will display outstanding scholarship and creative work Wednesday (April 17) at the University's first Academic Excellence Symposium.

Seventy-nine students representing numerous academic programs and majors will exhibit 30 projects at the Symposium. The event runs from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Phoenix Rooms A and B of the University Union.

Denise Scheberle, Interim Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said she is pleased with the student and faculty response to the Symposium, the first of its kind at UW-Green Bay. Faculty members nominated students for the Symposium.

"This is extraordinary work on the part of our students," Scheberle said. "It certainly points to a lot of collaborative work across a wide range of programs."

UW-Green Bay students will present poster displays, creative work and computer presentations in an exhibit for faculty, staff, students and the community. The session will allow viewers to study and review each exhibit and discuss it with the presenters.

Among the projects to be showcased are research projects in natural and biological sciences, social work surveys, art exhibits and computer science projects.

The Symposium was open to a variety of student projects including internships, honors projects, independent studies, distinction in the major projects and undergraduate/graduate research.

Students will receive certificates of excellence for their exceptional work.

The Symposium is sponsored by the honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Eta Sigma.

Based upon the response to the first Academic Excellence Symposium, Scheberle is confident that the event will grow in the future.

GREEN BAY -- Registration is available for Basic Financial Management, a workshop set for Friday, May 17 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event is from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Cofrin Library room 102 on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The workshop is part of a new certificate program for nonprofit professionals organized by the UW-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension, and cosponsored by United Way of Brown County, the Neville Public Museum, and the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce.

However, the workshop functions as a free-standing event and participants do not have to be enrolled in the certificate program.

Jane Jerzak, partner in charge of Wipfli Ullrich Bertelson LLP's Not-for-Profit and Health Care Services Division, is the workshop facilitator. A Registered Nurse and a Certified Public Accountant, Jerzak has provided services to not-for-profit organizations for more than 18 years in areas such as financial accounting and reporting, cost allocation, strategic planning, operations reviews, reimbursement analyses, mergers and acquisitions and feasibility studies. She has a Master of Science degree in business with a major in health care fiscal management from UW-Madison.

The course fee is $119 per person. Two or more individuals from the same organization may enroll for $99 each. The fee includes instruction, handouts, lunch, refreshments, and parking.

Information about this workshop and about the Certificate for Nonprofit Professionals program is available by calling (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118. To learn about this and other professional education programs online, the World Wide Web site is www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

GREEN BAY -- Registration is still available for Advanced Ethics and Boundaries for the Social Work Practitioner, a workshop scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, May 10 in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Presenter Karen A. Jick has a long list of credentials. She is director of programs for In Their Best Interests, Inc., a Milwaukee-area nonprofit advocacy organization; director of Fostering Healing, a program for children in kinship and foster care who also are victims of crime; and director of Milwaukee CASA, a program that trains volunteers to be court-appointed advocates for children in foster care. Jick also directs curriculum and is a trainer for the statewide Child Welfare Training Partnership. She holds certificates in mediation, human services administration, and solution-focused brief therapy.

The $70 program fee covers handouts, Continuing Education Hour certificate, refreshments and parking.

The workshop is part of the series, Critical Issues in Social Work Practice, sponsored by the Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Workers. Alliance members include the Social Work departments and the Offices of Outreach at UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh.

For information and registration, the numbers are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118.

GREEN BAY -- A historian will speak on "Why Are There No Black Soldiers in 'Saving Private Ryan'? Race and Nation in Twentieth Century America," at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 26 in the Christie Theater in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Gary Gerstle is a professor of history and director of the Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is an expert in twentieth century American history and has written extensively on labor, liberalism, ethnicity and race, and nationalism. His book, "American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century," was awarded the 2001 Saloutos Prize for the best book in the history of immigration and ethnicity.

Gerstle uses Stephen Spielberg's celebrated movie as a window through which to examine relations between the different ethnic and racial groups who fought for the U.S. in World War II. He looks specifically at the American government's refusal to integrate blacks with other troops or to permit them in combat roles, and asks whether a generation so committed to perpetuating racial inequality deserves to be called by Tom Brokaw and others as "America's greatest."

The lecture is part of a series sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Center for History and Social Change.

GREEN BAY -- Soprano Ruth Wilson, along with pianist Janice Cusano, will present a recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. Admission is free.

Guest artists joining in the program include faculty member Thomas Pfotenhauer, trumpet, on Handel's "Let the Bright Seraphim," and flutist Nancy Collins on Mozart's "L'amero." Tenor John Plier, also of the UW-Green Bay faculty, will join Wilson in the "Carrie and Mr. Snow" sequence from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel."

Wilson also will sing three songs by Franz Schubert, three works based on folk songs by John Jacob Niles, and several selections from American musical theater and cabaret.

Wilson holds the Master of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is teaching at UW-Green Bay this academic year in place of Prof. Sarah Meredith, who is on leave to teach in Slovakia. Wilson is known for her interpretation of oratorio works, and was featured in the "Messiah," in the Music at Holy Trinity Series in New York. She also performs in opera and in musical theater. Wilson has two recordings of collections of Broadway and cabaret tunes to her credit.

Cusano joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1998. She teaches elementary children's music learning and teacher preparation as well as being an accompanist and performer. Cusano has served as multicultural chair for the Wisconsin Music Educators Association and has been director of the Green Bay Girl Choir.

Wilson and Cusano will perform a slightly different version of the program in recital in Bratislava, Slovakia on May 19.

GREEN BAY - Helen Schaal, an educator with over 20 years experience as a classroom teacher, and the present Green Bay Education Association president, is the new Teacher-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Schaal will serve from August 2002 through May 2004 as a visiting faculty member in the professional program in Education at the University. She will team teach an introductory course for prospective teachers, and teach various other undergraduate and graduate courses. She also will serve as a liaison between UW-Green Bay and the Institute for Learning Partnership, and area schools and the community, and work with UW-Green Bay education faculty to bring practice and theory together.

Jane Muhl, Interim Dean of Professional Studies and Outreach at UW-Green Bay, says the Teacher-in-Residence program is a "win-win" for students, teachers in the prekindergarten-12 system, and University faculty.

"Teachers-in-residence bring the realistic perspective of teachers in the field to the classrooms in our teacher education program," Muhl says. She says it also enables teachers from the PK-12 system to learn about the formal education of students preparing for the education profession.

Schaal, Green Bay Education Association president since 1998, and a classroom teacher since 1973, says she is excited about opportunities the Teacher-in-Residence position presents.

"I'll learn a new level of education," says Schaal. "I have worked with student teachers for a very long time. I've always wanted to make better connections for student teachers." Schaal says she wants to better connect what students do in the K-12 classroom to the theories they learn in class, and help cooperating teachers make better decisions for their students.

Schaal also hopes to work with new state teacher licensing requirements, and a mentoring program for Green Bay Public School teachers. Schaal serves on the new licensing requirement advisory board for the Department of Public Instruction.

GREEN BAY - Each of the five finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball head coaching position will interview before a panel of community and campus members in the upcoming weeks.

These interview sessions will be open to the general public and the media. Questions for the candidates will come from the interview panel and the media.

All sessions will be held in UW-Green Bay's University Union. The interview dates, times and locations are listed below:

• Brad Soderberg, Assistant Coach, Saint Louis University
Monday, April 15; 10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.; Alumni Rooms A & B

• Tod Kowalczyk, Assistant Coach, Marquette University
Tuesday, April 16; 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.; Niagara Room B

• Steve Merfeld, Head Coach, Hampton University
Monday, April 22; 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Niagara Room B

• Al Grushkin, Head Coach, University of the Incarnate Word
Tuesday, April 23; 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Alumni Rooms A & B

• Mike Garland, Assistant Coach, Michigan State University
Wednesday, April 24; 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.; Alumni Rooms A & B

GREEN BAY -- Five finalists will interview for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball head coaching position, athletics director Ken Bothof announced Wednesday, April 10. The finalists are listed below in the order of their respective interview dates:

• Brad Soderberg, Assistant Coach, Saint Louis University — Monday, April 15.
• Tod Kowalczyk, Assistant Coach, Marquette University — Tuesday, April 16.
• Steve Merfeld, Head Coach, Hampton University — Monday, April 22.
• Al Grushkin, Head Coach, University of the Incarnate Word — Tuesday, April 23.
• Mike Garland, Assistant Coach, Michigan State University — Wednesday, April 24.

"I am delighted with the quality and experience of these candidates," said Bothof. "The members of the selection committee should be commended for their work thus far."

Bothof is being assisted in the search process by a committee of campus and community leaders including men's basketball team members Calix N'Diaye and Greg Monfre.

"We are excited to invite these five coaches to UW-Green Bay to meet with us and talk about the future of our men's basketball program," said Bothof.

Each candidate will spend a day in Green Bay interviewing with the selection committee, university faculty and staff, athletics staff, community members, the men's basketball team, Bothof and Chancellor Bruce Shepard.

One interview session with each candidate will be open to the public and media. Location and times of those sessions will be made available at a later date.

GREEN BAY -- Terry Tafoya, a trained Native American storyteller and holder of a Ph.D. degree in educational psychology, will present two workshops-The Language of Grief, and Befriending Demons: Cross-Cultural Elements of Healing-on Friday, April 26 at the Mielke Theater in Shawano.

Registration is still available for both workshops.

The Language of Grief is from 9 a.m. to noon, and Befriending Demons is from 1 to 4 p.m. The fee is $60 for both sessions, or $32 for either morning or afternoon. Fees include handouts, refreshment breaks, a continuing education hour certificate, and, for all-day registrants, a box lunch.

The workshops are sponsored by the Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education, a partnership of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh Social Work and Outreach departments. The Shawano Medical Center Ethics Committee is a co-sponsor.

Tafoya, who lives in Seattle, is a Taos Pueblo and Warm Springs Indian who has used American Indian ritual and ceremony in his work as a family therapist at the Interpersonal Psychotherapy Clinic, part of the University of Washington School of Medicine. The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services has designated Tafoya as the state's first formally recognized native healer serving as an ethnic minority mental health specialist.

Tafoya's presentations draw on more than two decades of cross-cultural experiences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, northern Europe, Turkey and Indonesia. He earned his Ph.D. degree and two master's degree at the University of Washington. Tafoya also has his own firm, consulting on multi-culturalism, bilingual education and trans-cultural issues of mental health.

Information about the workshops is available by calling (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118.

GREEN BAY - Four finalists have been named for the position of Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

On-campus interviews of the finalists will begin Wednesday, April 17, according to Greg Davis, chair of the eight-member search and screen committee. Their visits to the UW-Green Bay campus will include interview sessions open to the public.

The finalists and the dates and locations for their open interview sessions are:

-- Carol A. Blackshire-Belay, chair, Department of African and African American Studies, and Germanic Languages and Literatures, Indiana State University, Terre Haute. (Open session: Monday, April 29, University Union, 1965 Room)

-- Charles L. Elkins, faculty member, English Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. (Open session: Wednesday, May 1, University Union, Alumni Rooms A and B.)

-- Cheryl A. Grosso, Interim Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UW-Green Bay. (Open session: Wednesday, April 17, University Union, 1965 Room.)

-- Norman J. Wilsman, faculty member, School of Veterinary Medicine, UW-Madison. (Open session: Wednesday, April 24, University Union, 1965 Room.)

All four open interview sessions are scheduled to run from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Students at Milwaukee's Messmer High School are getting ready for college with help from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Through a growing partnership between the two institutions, UW-Green Bay faculty and staff help students in Messmer's Lifestyles class hone their college application skills. In an initiative with Messmer's honors program, UW-Green Bay mentors provide the high school students with hands-on experience in library research and writing college-level papers.

The UW-Green Bay-Messmer partnership began at the invitation of Michael Connor, former UW-Green Bay student, athlete, and staff member, who is now director of enrollment for Messmer High School.

"This is a great opportunity for us to work with top-notch high school students," says Michael Stearney, UW-Green Bay assistant dean for student development.

Messmer juniors and seniors in the Lifestyles class practiced applying to colleges at the third annual "Interview Days" recently completed. The students first completed a "college application," wrote an essay similar to those required of many college applicants, and submitted their materials to UW-Green Bay. In late March, half a dozen UW-Green Bay staff members went to Messmer to conduct "college interviews" with the students.

Stearney; Ron Morris, Admissions; Michael Casbourne, Regional Center for Math and Science; Juliet Cole, Institute for Learning Partnership; Bev Thielke, Upward Bound; and Jane Lynch, Financial Aid, interviewed 40 Messmer students. The UW-Green Bay team followed through by evaluating each student's application, essay and interview, and preparing individual feedback.

Messmer students who participated in Interview Days also got a special invitation to "Opportunity Knocks" on April 11, a UW-Green Bay initiative that encourages students of color from throughout the state to visit campus.

Weekend Academy began this year. The final session is Friday and Saturday, April 19 and 20, when students enrolled in Messmer's honors program come to UW-Green Bay to show the results of research and writing projects they've been working on with UW-Green Bay faculty and staff help.

The experience began in fall semester with a two-day visit to UW-Green Bay. Library staff members introduced 16 Messmer students to research. The students got guest accounts allowing them remote access to the Cofrin Library. On a return visit early in second semester, the students began to develop their own college-level research papers, and met faculty and staff writing mentors. Since then, mentors Troy Abel, Aeron Haynie and Dean VonDras of the faculty; Pam Harvey-Jacobs and Beth Warner of Admissions; Jamie Matczak of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts; Lynch; and Stearney have been working with the students on their papers by way of e-mail. Ann Deprey, Educational Support Services, coordinated the writing project.

On April 20, the students will present their completed papers to a faculty panel. Stearney says the research papers meet a requirement for the Messmer honors program. "This is why this partnership works so well," he says. "It meets our needs and theirs."

Messmer students' parents are invited for the final Weekend Academy. The parents and students will join in the April 19 on-campus "Celebrate Success" dinner, attended by students nominated by area schools, along with their parents.

Partner relationships with high schools are among the recommendations in a multicultural recruitment plan developed at UW-Green Bay as part of Campus Diversity Plan 2008, prepared at the request of the Board of Regents. Stearney coordinates the campus Plan 2008.

The partnership with Messmer is underwritten in part by the Department of Public Instruction Pre-College Minority Scholarship Program.

GREEN BAY -- Clarinetist Scott Wright will perform in recital with pianist Linda Halloin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. Admission is free.

The program will include primarily 20th century works. The two will perform Sonata, a rarely played three-movement piece by English composer Charles Stanford, composed in 1911. Also on the program is "Arabesque," by Paul Jeanjean, a work in classical French style, and "Prologue, Night Piece and Blues for Two" by contemporary Australian composer Don Banks.

Wright will perform two solo pieces, "Parable" by Vincent Persichetti, and a solo movement from Oliver Messiaen's Quartet.

The duo will perform one exception to 20th century music: an adaptation on themes from Verdi's "La Traviata," in which the clarinet performs in the voice role.

Wright joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1997. He has performed throughout the United States with numerous ensembles, and is active as a soloist, clinician, adjudicator and conductor. Last year, Wright performed with an orchestra assembled by folk musician Arlo Guthrie in several concerts, and on a recording celebrating American composers. Wright has inaugurated a series of chamber music programs that bring guest artists to UW-Green Bay. Wright earned a Doctor of Musical Arts at Arizona State University.

Halloin received a Bachelor of Music degree at UW-Green Bay where she studied with Arthur Cohrs. Her Master of Music degree is from UW-Milwaukee. Halloin previously was on the staff of Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. In recent years, she has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in recitals throughout the Midwest and in Germany, Poland, and Ukraine.

Wright and Halloin frequently perform together as Duo Pegasus.

GREEN BAY -- The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Opera/Music Theater Workshop will present songs of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart in two performances in Studio Two of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, and on Friday, April 12.

Faculty member John Plier directs the workshop. Soprano Ruth Wilson, who teaches at UW-Green Bay, will be the guest artist.

The program will open with "Manhattan," a production number from Rodgers and Hart's first show in the mid-1920s, and proceed through a sampling of their work to "Bewitched," from "Pal Joey" in the early 1940s. Rodgers and Hart wrote songs for 26 Broadway shows and nine movies during their 24-year creative partnership.

Other Rodgers and Hart favorites on the program include "My Heart Stood Still," "Thou Swell," and "To Keep My Love Alive," from the 1920s, and "Isn't It Romantic," "Little Girl Blue," "My Romance," "The Lady is a Tramp," and "My Funny Valentine" from the 1930s.

The performers are Erin Dardis, Green Bay; Jessica Heller, Grafton; Caskey Hunsader, Green Bay; Jamie Kearns, Hartford; Lisa Klenke, Green Bay; Kari Moriak, Clayton; Kelly Shoemaker, Menomonee Falls; and Dan VanDellen, Wausau.

Sarah Zickert, Elkhart Lake, is the accompanist. Kearns is doing the choreography, assisted by Shoemaker and Hunsader.

General admission tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students. The numbers for ticket information are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - Five finalists have been named for the position of provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Their names were announced by Prof. Jeffrey Entwistle, chairperson of a nine-member search and screen committee representing faculty, staff and students at UW-Green Bay. The provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs is the chief academic officer reporting to the chancellor, and the University's chief operating officer.

Each finalist will visit Green Bay over the next three weeks for on-campus interviews. Their visits will include a general session open to the public.

The finalists, with the schedule for their public sessions, are:

Sue Hammersmith, dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Mich.
(Open session: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Monday, April 8, 1965 Room of University Union)

Walter Harris Jr., provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs
North Carolina Central University, Durham
(Open session: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Thursday, April 11, Alumni Room B, University Union)

Rosemary Keefe, dean of faculties
University of Wisconsin-Superior
(Open session: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Monday, April 15, Phoenix Room C, University Union)

Michael Harris, associate provost
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
(Open session: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 16, Niagara Room B, University Union)

Karen White, dean of the College of Fine Arts
University of Nebraska at Omaha
(Open session: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Monday, April 22, Phoenix Room C, University Union)

GREEN BAY -- Wisconsin Public Service Corp. will receive the first University of Wisconsin-Green Bay "UW Regents' Partnership Award" in special ceremonies on Thursday, April 4 in Madison.

The Board of Regents created the new award on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the UW System. Each campus nominates a recipient who has made an extraordinary contribution to the institution and to the UW System.

"Wisconsin Public Service has worked closely with UW-Green Bay on many projects, and we quickly came to the conclusion that WPS was the obvious choice as our inaugural recipient," said Chancellor Bruce Shepard.

Shepard called the design, financing and construction of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall "the finest, and most recent example" of the partnership with WPS. The University's newest classroom building opened in August 2001.

In the planning stages, WPS proposed that the new building be a demonstration site for building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technology. The sun's rays striking solar electric, or photovoltaic, material on parts of the building's "skin" — roofing and windows — would actually generate electricity. WPS provided the consultant to create the BIPV design for the building, and paid the difference between conventional and BIPV building materials and installation costs. Now that the building is complete, WPS maintains the BIPV systems.

The building is the first in Wisconsin to use the BIPV roofing and glass. The "vision glass" on the building's Winter Garden is the first such installation in the U.S. The technologies are bringing architects, engineers, students, and others from across the U.S. and from abroad to the campus.

Shepard said the achievement is particularly suited to the University's historical emphasis on the environment. "We would not have been able to so fully achieve this without the generous support of WPS," he added.

Shepard noted that the partnership with WPS has had a strong emphasis on education.

Each May for nearly 10 years, WPS has sponsored a "Solar Olympics" at UW-Green Bay, in which area high school students create practical, solar-powered projects. In 1994, WPS teamed with the University to establish an on-campus solar research station that enables researchers to compare various ways of harnessing the sun's energy to produce electricity. Grants from WPS to UW-Green Bay have supported faculty and student research projects on topics ranging from solar power to birds and bats.

Mary Ann Cofrin Hall has provided educational opportunities on campus and for visitors. WPS has installed a kiosk explaining the BIPV installations and other energy conserving features of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall in a publicly accessible spot near the Winter Garden.

The new UW Partnership awards — along with system-wide awards for teaching and academic staff excellence — will be presented at a celebration of the UW System's 30th anniversary on Thursday following the regular Board of Regents meeting.

"We're extremely honored and privileged to receive this award," said Larry Weyers, chairman, president and CEO of WPS Resources Corporation. "UWGB and WPS Resources have always shared a strong commitment to our community and its potential."

Board of Regents President Jay L. Smith said the event provides "an opportunity for the Regents to celebrate the excellence of the UW System and to reaffirm the importance of the individuals and organizations within and outside the UW System who are vital to our success."