January 2002

UW-Green Bay announces scholarships recipients

Horkman wins two scholarships

GREEN BAY -- Kristin Horkman, Green Bay, has been awarded two scholarships at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She received the Robert E. Lee and Associates, Inc. scholarship for students in chemistry or engineering and the Federation of Environmental Technologists scholarship for students in fields relating to managing and preventing air, water and solid and hazardous waste pollution.

Horkman is enrolled in the UW-Green Bay-UW-Milwaukee dual degree program which enables a student to earn two degrees — a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from UW-Green Bay and a bachelor's degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from UW-Milwaukee — in approximately five years.

A graduate of Green Bay Preble High School, Horkman plans a career as a civil and environmental engineer. She spent summer 2001 working as an engineering aide for the City of Green Bay.

GREEN BAY -- Amanda Malueg, Green Bay, has received the Brad Cook Memorial Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. A graduate of Green Bay Southwest High School, she is a UW-Green Bay junior earning a major in Biology and a minor in Environmental Science. She plans to pursue advanced studies after graduation.

The scholarship was established by the family and friends of former UW-Green Bay student Brad Cook to honor his memory and his interest in environmental studies.

GREEN BAY -- Dale Adney, Green Bay, has received the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay First Year Engineering Scholarship. A graduate of Green Bay West High School, Adney is beginning his studies in the University's pre-engineering program. He plans a career as a mechanical engineer.

The Engineering Scholarships are funded through an endowment established by community citizens who support engineering studies at UW-Green Bay.

GREEN BAY -- Kelly Vaile, Green Bay, and George Okwadha, a native of Kenya, have received University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Engineering Scholarship Second Year Awards.

Both are students in the dual UW-Green Bay-UW-Milwaukee program that enables students to earn two degrees-a UW-Green Bay degree in Environmental Science and a UW-Milwaukee degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering-in approximately five years. Both also won various UW-Green Bay scholarships in 2001.

Vaile, a graduate of Ashwaubenon High School, has gained practical experience through an internship and employment with the Brown County Highway Department and by working with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. She plans a career in engineering.

Okwadha was a civil engineering laboratory technologist for the government and a teacher in Kenya. He plans to pursue advanced degrees after completing the UW-Green Bay-UW-Milwaukee program and will apply his education to solving environmental issues in Kenya. Okwadha has been inducted into Phi Kappa Phi national honorary society.

The engineering scholarships are funded by community members who support engineering studies at UW-Green Bay.

GREEN BAY -- Meghan Count, Elkhorn, has received the James E. Casperson/Environmental Science Alumni scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Count is a senior majoring in Environmental Science. She spent the first half of 2001 studying in the master's degree program in environmental engineering at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, with which UW-Green Bay has a study-abroad agreement. A member of the UW-Green Bay cross-country team, Count has been an All-American Academic Scholar for the past two years. Count, who expects to graduate in December 2002, plans to pursue advanced studies.

The scholarship was established by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Casperson in memory of their son who, at the time of his death, was an Environmental Science student at UW-Green Bay. Additional funds have been contributed by alumni of the Environmental Science program.

GREEN BAY -- Derek Behmke, Plymouth, has received the Robert E. Lee Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Behmke is a fourth-year student completing a major in Chemistry and minors in Physics and Secondary Education. He is a graduate of Plymouth Comprehensive High School. Behmke plans a career teaching at middle or high school level.

The scholarship, contributed by Robert E. Lee and Associates, Inc., Green Bay, is available to students in Chemistry or Engineering.

GREEN BAY -- Angela Sette, Reeseville, has received the Environmental Science scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Sette is pursuing majors in Environmental Science and Biology and plans to work in the fields of habitat management or habitat restoration after she graduates. In summer 2001, she completed internships with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge and with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for the Glacial Habitat Restoration Area. She is a graduate of Dodgeland High School, Juneau.

The Environmental Science scholarship is funded through a grant from Shade Allied Inc., to support students who have demonstrated commitment to the environmental sciences through their academic performance and career aspirations.

GREEN BAY -- Andrew Thill, Random Lake, has received the Nancy J. Sell Memorial Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Thill is completing a major in Chemistry and a minor in Environmental Science. Thill has been on the Dean's List, including two semesters with highest honors, every semester at UW-Green Bay. He is considering a career in forensic science.

The scholarship is funded through an endowment established by friends and colleagues of Prof. Nancy Sell, a former member of the UW-Green Bay faculty, to honor her interest in the physical sciences and engineering and their application to environmental problems.

GREEN BAY -- Heather Mielke, Marion, has received the Science and Mathematics Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Mielke is earning a major in Mathematics and a minor in Secondary Education. She has been on the Dean's List every semester at UW-Green Bay and has been inducted into Phi Kappa Phi national honorary society. Mielke's activities include serving as vice president of the UW-Green Bay student chapter of Wisconsin Education Association and election to the same office in the statewide organization. Mielke plans to begin a career as a math teacher at middle school or high school level.

The scholarship is funded through an endowment created by University faculty members in Natural and Applied Sciences and Human Biology.

GREEN BAY -- Seventy thousand dollars in research grants is available to educators for school-based action research projects in 2002-2003 through the Institute for Learning Partnership at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The projects must directly impact teaching and learning.

March 22 is the application deadline. Proposals may be classroom-specific as well as multi-school or multi-district collaborations, says Institute Director John Crubaugh.

Crubaugh says funding teacher directed, school-based research is important because it gives educators, especially classroom teachers, an opportunity to practice applying research in their own classrooms.

Last year educators in the school districts of Algoma, Clintonville, Denmark, Green Bay, Kohler, Manitowoc, Mishicot, Oconto Falls, Oostburg, Pulaski, Sturgeon Bay, Wausaukee and West De Pere; and Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) 7, received grants.

Crubaugh says the Institute likely will fund one to three projects in the $5,000 to $10,000 range; four to six projects from $3,000 to $5,000; five to ten projects from $1,500 to $3,000; and 10 to 15 projects under $1,500. One grant of up to $10,000 may be awarded to support developing a proposal to an external funding agency for a project involving collaboration between public school and UW-Green Bay personnel.

Application requirements and forms are available at the Institute for Learning Partnership, Wood Hall 416, UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311. Forms can be downloaded from the Institute's World Wide Web page at www.uwgb.edu/learnpart/. Names of last year's grant recipients and their project titles also are listed there. The phone number for information is (920) 465-5555.

GREEN BAY -- Free income tax help provided by members of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chapter of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) begins the week of Feb. 11 and continues through the week of April 15 at four sites in Green Bay. Assistance will not be available the week of March 18 through 22, because University students will be on spring break.

Twenty-five UW-Green Bay Accounting and Business Administration majors will be available during scheduled hours on the UW-Green Bay campus, at the Salvation Army and at the Fort Howard and Northeast Family Resource Centers. Lecturer James Loebl is the group's faculty adviser and Melissa Schweinert is the student coordinator.

Loebl says VITA is a nationwide organization that every year provides 73,000 volunteers who help more than 3.5 million individuals with their federal income taxes. The program targets taxpayers with special needs, including those with disabilities or limited incomes, persons who are non-English speaking, and the elderly.

"One of VITA's major purposes is to ensure that taxpayers get the assistance they need to properly claim and receive tax credits to which they're entitled," he adds.

Scheduled hours for the free tax assistance from Feb. 11 through March 15 and from March 25 through April 15 are:

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Dr.
Cofrin Library, first floor (lower level) alcove
Mondays and Wednesdays, noon to 2 p.m.
Saturdays, 1 to 3 p.m.

Salvation Army
626 Union Court
Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Fort Howard Family Resource Center
(Fort Howard Elementary School)
520 Dousman St.
Mondays, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Northeast Family Resource Center
(Nicolet Elementary School)
1309 Elm St.
Thursdays, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

GREEN BAY -- Percussionist Brian Short will perform in recital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2 in University Theater, located in Theater Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Admission is free.

Short, who teaches percussion and directs UW-Green Bay percussion ensembles this academic year, will perform solo in the first half of the program. In the second half, he'll be joined by other members of the percussion trio, Trichotomy.

Short has performed with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, among other orchestras and ensembles. He holds a Master of Music degree from the Hartt School, Connecticut, where he won the John Cage Award for Outstanding Percussionist for 2001.

His program will include the second performance of two sections of David Macbride's "Three Tympani Pieces," written at Short's request. Short performed in the composition's premiere performance last May in Connecticut. Short also will perform UW-Green Bay faculty member Cheryl Grosso's composition, "Homage in Metal," written after the death of composer John Cage in 1992, and "Reflections on the Nature of Water," by 20th century composer Jacob Druckman.

Trichotomy will perform Cage's "Amores," for prepared piano and percussion trio. Their program closes with Russell Peck's "Lift-Off," a work for three players on nine drums, inspired by 1960s rock and roll and the space shuttle launch. Trio members in addition to Short include Craig Bitterman, who teaches at Holyoke Community College, Massachusetts, and Jon Stroop, Cincinnati, a candidate for the Master of Music degree.

GREEN BAY - Faculty and current students from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's Master of Science Degree Program in Applied Leadership for Teaching and Learning will hold an information session about the program from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27 in the 1965 Room of the University Union, on campus. The program is currently accepting applicants for fall 2002 enrollment.

At the information session, members of the graduate faculty will discuss the details of the program and the application process, distribute application materials, and answer participant's questions. Representatives of current classes will also be present to share experiences and answer questions.

The 30-credit, two-year master's program is based on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and is designed to allow educators to work within a community of learners while integrating their professional experiences in the classroom into their coursework. Classroom teachers, guidance counselors, and those in other education-related fields seeking a master's degree in education, are encouraged to attend.

For more information call (920) 465-5555 or e-mail learnpart@uwgb.edu. An RSVP by Wednesday, Feb. 20 is requested for those planning to attend the information session.

GREEN BAY -- Former coaches Dick Bennett (basketball) and Aldo Santaga (soccer), and former athletes Nicole Paplham (swimmer) and Mark King (golfer) are the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's newest inductees to the Phoenix Hall of Fame.

The ninth annual induction banquet will be held at 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Swan Club in De Pere, Wis. Cost is $25 per person.

Bennett (1985-1995) spent 10 seasons guiding the Phoenix into the national spotlight and solidified his well-earned reputation as one of the nation's premier technicians of the game of basketball. A highlight of his UW-Green Bay career was the 1990-91 campaign. Coaching his son Tony, he guided the Phoenix to a 24-7 overall record and the school's first NCAA Division I tournament appearance. Bennett led the Phoenix back to two more NCAA appearances (1994 with the memorable first-round upset of California, and1995) and two NIT appearances during his tenure. He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and continues work as a popular clinician and speaker. He received the Red Smith Award in January for his outstanding contribution to basketball in the state of Wisconsin.

King (1980-81) is a Green Bay native who, following his collegiate career and graduation with a bachelor's degree in business administration, made a mark in the golf-equipment industry. He is president of TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company, the equipment brand used by many of the world's best golfers. In 2000, he was instrumental in the launching of the TaylorMade-adidas premium metal wood line — the 300 series, which in a matter of weeks became the hottest driver on the PGA Tour. In his youth he was one of the top junior golfers in the state of Wisconsin, with high finishes in the Wisconsin Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Junior Championship in 1977, and the Wisconsin State Junior Masters in 1975. He played on scholarship at Northern Illinois University for two seasons before transferring to UW-Green Bay and competing for the Phoenix in 1980 and 1981. In 1981, he led the Phoenix to its first-ever tournament win beyond the state borders — the Notre Dame Invitational. He was named team MVP as a senior.

Paplham (1992-96) posted eight individual conference championships, five individual conference records and three NCAA consideration times. She was also a member of relay teams that won five conference championships and she was twice named conference swimmer of the year. Paplham was a United States Swimming Senior Nationals qualifier in three events and still holds school records in the 50-freestyle, 100-freestyle, 100-backstroke, and 100-butterfly events, and she is also a member of the record-holding 200- and 400-medley relay teams. She earned a graduate degree from the University of Kansas and is currently a sociology and economics instructor at Northcentral Technical College in Wausau.

Santaga (1978-1992) led the Phoenix men's soccer team to a 148-102-21 record in 14 seasons, an NCAA Division II playoff bid in 1978 and, in 1983, the school's only NCAA Division I tournament appearance. He also coached the Phoenix women in 1992. He began his career at UW-Green Bay in 1969 as an assistant coach for the University's founding soccer coach, Lou LeCalsey. He left after one year and became one of the sport's most influential figures in Northeast Wisconsin, while helping to establish soccer programs at St. Norbert College, Lawrence University and Green Bay Premontre (now Notre Dame Academy). He retired from UW-Green Bay in 1996 and continues to coach at the youth level in the Green Bay area. Known for his tireless efforts in promoting soccer, and a genuine love for his players, Santaga was a 1989 inductee to the Wisconsin Soccer Hall of Fame.

For information about the Phoenix Hall of Fame or the induction banquet, contact Marilyn McCarey, UW-Green Bay Office of Intercollegiate Athletics, and (920) 465-2625.

Inductees' Bios:

Dick Bennett
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pa.
UW-Green Bay sport: Head Coach, Men's Basketball
High School: Clintonville
Years at UW-Green Bay: 1985-1995
Current Home: Madison, Wis.
Family: Wife Anne; daughters Amy and Kathi (head women's basketball coach at Indiana); son Tony (former NBA player and UW-Madison men's basketball assistant)

Current Position: Motivational speaker, basketball clinician Induction Presenters: Former assistant coaches, Mike Heideman and Steve Swan Induction Sponsor: Former coaches and players

Career Highlights: Bennett (1985-1995) spent 10 seasons guiding the Phoenix into the national spotlight and solidifying his well-earned reputation as one of the nation's premier technicians of the game. He inherited a 4-24 team and improved his win total by one, to go 5-23 his first year in Green Bay. Four years later the Phoenix jumped into the national spotlight with a 24-8 campaign in 1989-90 when he took the Phoenix to the second round of the National Invitation Tournament — the program's first Division I post-season appearance. It was the beginning an incredible streak of conference championships, post-season tournaments and 20-win seasons. Perhaps the highlight of his UW-Green Bay career was in 1990-91, while coaching his son Tony, the Phoenix rolled to a 24-7 overall record and the school's first NCAA Division I tournament appearance. Bennett's 1993-94 squad shocked the college basketball world with a first-round NCAA tournament win over 16th ranked, Jason Kidd-led, California. The 1994-95 squad dropped a 49-48 decision to Purdue in the first round of the NCAA tournament. In all, Bennett guided the Phoenix to a 187-109 record and five post-season appearances. He left Green Bay to rebuild the University of Wisconsin-Madison program from a second-division finisher to a Big Ten Conference contender, topped by a Final Four appearance in 1999-2000. He retired a year ago and works as a popular clinician and speaker.

Mark King
Hometown: Green Bay, Wis.
UW-Green Bay Sport: Golf
High School: Green Bay West
Years at UW-Green Bay: 1980-1981
Major: Business Administration, 1981
Current Home: Vista, Cal.
Family: Children, Alison (8) and Lauren (7)

Current Position: President, TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company Induction Presenter: Former teammate, Bill Lindmark Induction Sponsor: 1981 and 2001 UW-Green Bay golf teams

Career Highlights: King was named president of TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company in 1999. The company is a $400 million operation and manufacturer of golf equipment used by many of the top golfers in the world. He has worked with TaylorMade for nearly all of his 20 years in the industry except for a brief time as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Callaway Golf Balls. Still a scratch golfer, he is considered among the finest salespersons in the industry and is also known as a product creator and innovator.

Collegiate Highlights: Played for Northern Illinois University for two years before transferring to UW-Green Bay and competing for the Phoenix in 1980 and 1981. Here he led the golf team to its first-ever tournament win beyond the state borders — the Notre Dame Invitational in 1981, and was named team MVP his senior season.

High School Highlights: He was a four-year letter winner at Green Bay West High School and Green Bay city champion in 1975 and 1976. He finished third in the Wisconsin State Junior Masters in 1975 and won the Wisconsin Professional Golfers (PGA) Association Junior Championship in 1977. He was also a two-year letterwinner in basketball and football, earning MVP laurels in all three sports.

Nicole (Paplham) Benson
Hometown: Wausau, Wis.
UW-Green Bay sport: Swimming
High School: Wausau East
Years at UW-Green Bay: 1992-1996
Major: Social Change and Development, 1996
Current Home: Wausau, Wis.
Family: Husband, Thomas. Expecting their first child

Current Position: Instructor of sociology and economics at Northcentral Technical College, Wausau Induction Presenter: UW-Green Bay Swim Coach, Jim Merner Induction Sponsor: 2001 swim team and Walters Swim N Sport

Collegiate Highlights: Paplham (1992-96) swam less than three seasons for the Phoenix but is the most decorated swimmer in the program's history. She posted eight individual conference championships, five individual conference records and three NCAA consideration times. She was also a member of relay teams that won five conference championships. She was twice named Conference Swimmer of the Year and was Newcomer of the Year as a freshman in 1992-93. She was a United States Swimming Senior Nationals qualifier in three events and still holds school records in the 50-freestyle, 100-freestyle, 100-backstroke, and 100-butterfly events, and is also a member of the record-holding 200- and 400-medley relay teams. She was injured the entire 1994-95 season and after rehabilitating was struck with another injury — a dislocated shoulder — while competing in the U.S. National Championships (a qualifying meet for the U.S. Olympic Trials) in the summer of 1995. That injury knocked her out of competition for the start of the 1995-96 season (what would have been her senior season barring injury). Despite that early season setback she went on to win three individual conference titles, setting records in each, and she was a member of three championship relay teams. She was named Conference Swimmer of the Year. She had one more year of remaining athletic eligibility but because she had fulfilled her academic requirements, the honor student went on to pursue a graduate degree from the University of Kansas and swam one year for that program.

High School Highlights: She was a 1992 high school All-American in swimming and a multiple YMCA State Champion from 1980-1992.

Aldo Santaga
Hometown: Tripoli, Libya
UW-Green Bay sport: Head Coach, Men's and Women's Soccer
Professional Career: Member of the Libyan National team and Italian Select team
Years at UW-Green Bay: 1978-1992 (briefly in 1969)
Current Home: De Pere, Wis.
Family: Wife Janet; Sons Jeff, Greg and Scott

Current Position: Retired from the University in 1996. Currently coaches youth soccer in the Green Bay area Induction presenters: Sons Jeff, Greg and Scott Induction sponsor: Friends and former players

Career Highlights: Santaga (1978-1992) led the Phoenix men's soccer team to a 148-102-21 record in 14 seasons, an NCAA Division II playoff bid in 1978 and the school's only NCAA Division I tournament appearance in 1983. He also coached the Phoenix women in 1992. He began his career at UW-Green Bay in 1969 as an assistant for UW-Green Bay's founding soccer coach, Lou LeCalsey. Santaga left after a year and started programs at St. Norbert College, Lawrence University, and Green Bay Premontre High School (now Notre Dame Academy). He took over as head coach of the Phoenix in 1978 and in the five seasons from 1979 to 1983 coached the Phoenix to a phenomenal 66-16-7 record. His sons Greg and Scott are both members of the 1983 NCAA Division I tournament team. Known for his tireless efforts in promoting soccer, and a genuine love for his students-athletes at all levels, Santaga was a 1989 inductee to the Wisconsin Soccer Hall of Fame. After coaching the Phoenix women's team on an interim basis, he retired from collegiate coaching following the 1992 season, and worked in UW-Green Bay's Advancement Office until 1996. He has continued to coach and promote the game of soccer for young and old, boys and girls, and currently coaches at the youth level in the Green Bay area.

GREEN BAY - An award called the Golden Handtruck may sound a little odd, but University of Wisconsin-Green Bay theatre students, faculty and staff are proud to have it.

The University's production of "Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls" won the award at this month's American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) Region III gathering in Evansville, Ind.

The Golden Handtruck is awarded for the best technical work and most professionalism in getting production materials — set, lighting, sound system, costumes and props — ready for the performance and then taken down afterward. The production must adhere to strict time limits.

"It's perhaps the best recognition that a production can hope for because the entire company earns it," said Theatre Chair Laura Riddle. "It's actually a tremendously complicated process."

Riddle credited technical director R. Michael Ingraham for coordinating the entire process.

The award winner was selected by house stage hands, all union members. The award, an actual gold-painted handtruck, will be displayed prominently, Riddle said. "It's such a great honor," she said. "We don't want it just tucked away somewhere."

The UW-Green Bay production of "Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls," which Riddle directed, was one of six chosen from a five-state region to perform at the ACTF regional festival. About 50 productions from colleges and universities were in the running.

Numerous UW-Green Bay individuals also were recognized at ACTF for their work in "Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls" and other productions.

Student actor Todd Dively, Taylorville, Ill., was one of 16 regional finalists in the Irene Ryan Scholarship acting competition. He was nominated for his performance in "Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls." Shayne Steliga, Wauwatosa, made it into the second round of the competition, which reduced the pool of 350 to 40. Steliga was nominated for "A Lie of the Mind."

Riddle said scene partners contributed to the actors' success in the Irene Ryan competition. Johnny Yoder of Green Bay was Dively's partner, and Dan Van Dellen of Wausau was Steliga's partner.

Last spring's production of "Twelfth Night" earned an ACTF Award of Merit for Riddle's direction and for the entire design team, including Riddle for concept and Professors Jeffrey Entwisle for scenic design, Kaoime Malloy for costumes and Ingraham for lighting design and technical direction.

Student stage manager Briana Fahey, Marshfield, received an Award of Merit for excellence in stage management for "Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls." Fahey also has been nominated for the Kennedy Center stage management competition, a first for UW-Green Bay.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's Social Work Professional Program has been awarded a grant to help prepare students for social work with the rapidly increasing older population.

The funding is provided by the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City, a leading philanthropic organization interested in aging and health.

Entitled Creating the Future in Social Work Education: A Project in Gerontological Social Work, the grant program will provide opportunities for innovative learning experiences in social work to enhance the well-being of older adults and their families.

Through inclusion of aging content in all upper-level Social Work courses, students will gain a greater understanding of a variety of aging issues, including myths about aging, ethics and values, working with at-risk populations and inter-generational issues. The funding also will support practice and research opportunities.

The aging project will build on the Social Work program's current community and practitioner connections while also cultivating new resources and expertise throughout northeastern Wisconsin.

Under the two-year project, the UW-Green Bay Social Work program will receive a planning grant of $30,000 in the first year. An additional $30,000 for implementing the program is expected in the second year. The University will provide matching funds of $10,000 in each of the two years.

Doreen Higgins, a lecturer in Social Work at UW-Green Bay, said the planning phase will involve many individuals and organizations in the community.

"The older adult population — especially those 85 and older — is the most rapidly growing segment of our society, creating a need for social workers to enhance their knowledge and skill to improve the quality of life for older adults," she said.

Higgins said the UW-Green Bay project will have a long-term effect on the community by providing social workers knowledgeable and well-prepared on aging issues.

Progress reports describing specific results and recommendations to be carried forward into the second year must be submitted to the foundation by Aug. 1, 2002. Continuation of funding for the implementation phase is contingent on the progress report.

UW-Green Bay's program was one of 67 chosen for the grants from a pool of 103 applicants.

GREEN BAY -- Three seniors at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay have won Dr. Donel Sullivan Scholarships in Health Sciences for spring semester. They are Kari Alexander, Oshkosh; Emily Barnes, Eau Claire; and Anna Malovannaya, an international student from Ukraine.

Alexander, who plans a career as a physician assistant, is completing a major in Human Biology with a health sciences emphasis. She is a member of TriBeta, national honorary society in the biological sciences, and is active in Student Athletic Trainers Organization. Alexander has been a student athletic trainer intern at UW-Green Bay and completed an internship with a physician assistant in the community. She graduated from Oshkosh North High School.

Barnes, a member of the women's tennis team at UW-Green Bay, also has a major in Human Biology with a health sciences emphasis, and is completing a minor in chemistry. She is a member of TriBeta, national biological honorary society, and serves on the University's student athlete advisory committee. Barnes, who graduated from Eau Claire Memorial High School, plans a career in dentistry.

Malovannaya is completing majors in Biology and Chemistry and minors in Human Biology and Mathematics. Her independent study project with Prof. Warren Johnson was selected for presentation at the 2001 UW System Undergraduate Symposium. She was chosen for the Summer Medical and Research Training Program at Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, in summer 2001. Malovannaya plans to pursue graduate studies.

The Sullivan scholarship fund was created by Dr. Sullivan's sister, Maeve Sullivan, St. Paul, Minn., in honor of his commitment to family medicine and community service in more than 40 years of practice in Green Bay. Dr. Sullivan died in 1989.

GREEN BAY -- A new professional education program will help staff and board members, volunteers and others associated with nonprofit or governmental agencies improve their business and management skills. The Certificate for Nonprofit Professionals program, sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Outreach and Extension, launches in March.

"The certificate program will provide an excellent opportunity for nonprofit managers and leaders to gain the skills they need to be effective in today's nonprofit environment," says Toni Loch, CEO and president of United Way of Brown County.

To earn the certificate, participants will complete five required "critical skills" workshops, three elective courses tailored to individual interests, and a capstone project applying the learned skills, all within a three-year period. Continuing education units are sponsored by the UW-Green Bay department of Public and Environmental Affairs.

United Way of Brown County, the Neville Public Museum of Brown County and the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce are planning partners in the certificate program.

Leadership and Managing Change is the first critical skills workshop set for 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., March 22 and April 19 in the University Union at UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. Thomas J. Harvey, M.S., senior vice president of the Alliance for Children and Families, Milwaukee, will teach the two-day workshop.

Remaining workshops are:

Basic Financial Management, May 17 (one day), taught by Jane Jerzak, CPA, Ph.D., Wipfli CPAs and Consultants, Green Bay.

Key Issues in Human Resource Management, June, dates to be set (two days), taught by Jeffrey Russell, M.S., co-director of Russell Consulting, Inc., Madison.

Evaluating and Communicating Organizational Effectiveness, September, date to be set (one day), taught by Lora Warner, Ph.D., President of Planning and Evaluation Associates and faculty member in Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Working Effectively With Your Nonprofit Board, October, date to be set (one day), taught by Virginia Baeten, CPA, Ph.D., executive director of Brown County Association for Retarded Citizens, Green Bay.

Individual workshops may be enrolled without intent to complete the certificate program.

Topics for the elective seminars will be announced.

The critical skills workshops and the elective seminars will be offered once each year so that participants can complete the certificate in fewer than three years, if they wish, says Barbara McClure-Lukens, Outreach and Extension coordinator of continuing professional education.

The fee for the critical skills workshops is $119 per training day. Two or more individuals from the same organization will pay $99 per day. Fees for the elective courses will vary.

The numbers for information are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118.

GREEN BAY -- The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Institute on Dying, Death and Bereavement will present a series of discussions and a workshop from Feb. 21 through April 26 aimed at helping professionals who work with those experiencing loss.

The discussion sessions, led by local and regional experts, are scheduled from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Thursdays at the Ecumenical Center on the UW-Green Bay campus, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The capstone workshop at the Mielke Theatre in Shawano on Friday, April 26 will be presented by a family therapist in the University of Washington School of Medicine who uses American Indian ritual and ceremony in his work.

Discussion sessions are:

What is Death? Social Death, Biological Death, Psychological Death, Feb. 21. The presenter is Illene Noppe, professor of Human Development and Psychology at UW-Green Bay. Noppe is the Institute director.

What is a Good Death? March 7. Maribeth Braspennickx, and Gail Trimberger are the presenters. Both are associated with Unity Hospice where Trimberger is director of community development. Braspennickx also has five years experience with St. Vincent Hospital's Oncology Department.

Supporting Families Who Are Coping with Alzheimer's Disease, March 21. The presenter is Mary B. Bouche, executive director of the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Wisconsin.

Near Death Experiences, April 4. Bill Serdahely, retired professor of health at Montana State University and hospital chaplain at St. Vincent and Theda Clerk Hospitals is the presenter.

Terry Tafoya, whose education includes an academic Ph.D. and training as a traditional Native American storyteller, will lead the workshop on Friday, April 26. Sessions are The Language of Grief from 9 a.m. to noon and Cross-Cultural Elements of Healing from 1 to 4 p.m.

Tafoya is a Taos Pueblo and Warm Springs Indian who uses Native ritual and ceremony in his work as a family therapist at the Interpersonal Psychotherapy Clinic in the University of Washington School of Medicine. The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services has designated Tafoya as the first formally recognized native healer for the state.

Tafoya's workshop is co-sponsored by the Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education and the Shawano Medical Center Ethics Committee. Cost for the morning discussion sessions at UW-Green Bay is $29 per session. The cost for the workshop in Shawano is $32 per session (morning or afternoon) or $60 for all day.

Co-sponsors of the Institute series are the UW-Green Bay Social Work, professional Nursing and Human Development departments and the Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education, a collaboration between UW-Green Bay Outreach and Extension and UW-Oshkosh.

The numbers for information are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118.

GREEN BAY -- "At the Boundary: Works by Karon Winzenz," a one-person exhibit by the long-time Green Bay artist, opens with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31 in the Lawton Gallery, located in room 230 of Theater Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Winzenz, a professor emerita at UW-Green Bay, will discuss her art at 5 p.m. The exhibit features 28 works from the years 1979 through 1994.

Winzenz says her art seeks to express aspects of human spirituality for which she seeks inspiration outside her own modern, secular culture. "My work is nourished by the ritual art and architecture of prehistoric, tribal and non-Western cultures," Winzenz says.

Winzenz has been exhibiting for more than 30 years. She became a part-time instructor at UW-Green Bay in 1970 and joined the faculty fulltime in 1974. Winzenz was curator of art at the University's Lawton Gallery from 1981 to 1995. She received the UW-Green Bay Founders Association award for excellence in scholarship in 1987. Winzenz retired from the University in spring 2001.

Winzenz graduated from Lawrence University and earned a master's degree at UW-Madison and a Master of Fine Arts degree from UW-Milwaukee.

The exhibit in the Lawton Gallery continues through Feb. 21. Lawton Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The number for information is (920) 465-2916.

GREEN BAY -- A dozen University of Wisconsin-Green Bay music students will present an honors recital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. The event is free and open to the public.

Students are selected for the honors recital on the basis of their performance before a faculty jury at the close of the fall semester.

Rachael Verhaagh, Green Bay, will perform as a pianist and as a soprano soloist.

Other performers are:

Kathleen Covi, Suamico, mezzo soprano; Sarah Danek, South Milwaukee, flute; Jessica Heller, Grafton, soprano; A.J. Kluth, Green Bay, saxophone; Christopher Lambert, Green Bay, guitar; Russell Reuter, Green Bay, piano.

Kelly Shoemaker, Menomonee Falls, soprano; Ellen Simon, Fond du Lac, percussion; David Viste, Green Bay, clarinet; Andrea Wiltzius, Kohler, soprano; and Sarah Zickert, Elkhart Lake, piano.

GREEN BAY -- Erin Gruwell, two-time California Teacher of the Year, will speak as part of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday, Jan. 25 in the Phoenix Rooms of University Union on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Gruwell actually will speak twice. At the noon "birthday celebration" for Dr. King, she will speak on "How to Change the Way Kids Look at the World and Change the World." At 3:30 p.m., she will talk on "Teaching Tolerance." Both events are free and open to the public.

As a first-year high school teacher in Long Beach, Calif., Gruwell was shocked to discover that most of her students had never heard of the Holocaust. She introduced them to "The Diary of Anne Frank" and other books about tolerance. The students-most of whom had already been written off by the educational system-were inspired to start writing their own diaries. Their accounts on topics ranging from buying a gun to their struggles with shyness, and living with "crack" parents to meeting a contemporary from Sarajevo, were compiled into a book "The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them." All 150 graduated from high school and enrolled in college.

The book is being developed into a major motion picture. Gruwell created the "Ambassadors of Tolerance" tour that took the Freedom Writers to visit Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, Anne Frank's attic in Amsterdam and war-torn Sarajevo. Their trip was recorded by filmmakers and will be the topic of a feature-length documentary.

Gruwell founded and is the president of the Tolerance Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to teaching tolerance and funding college scholarships to underprivileged students.

Gruwell has won many awards at local, state and national levels and her work has been reported on in newspapers and major magazines, and on radio and national television.

Gruwell presently is Distinguished Teacher-in-Residence at California State University at Long Beach from which she received her master's degree in English literature and her teaching credential. She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of California, Irvine.

A program in honor of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is set for noon Friday, Jan. 25 in the Phoenix Rooms of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The event is free and open to the public.

The speaker will be Erin Gruwell, who has won acclaim for her teaching of tolerance and for using that message to inspire students-many of whom had been written off by the educational system-to change their own lives. Her topic is "How to Change the Way Kids Look at the World and Change the World." Gruwell has twice been named California Teacher of the Year.

Program participants will be invited to share in a birthday cake and add messages of peace to a graffiti board. The sponsoring UW-Green Bay Office of Student Life will distribute its fourth annual "Hate Free Zone" mini-poster.

A light lunch will be provided.

UW-Green Bay is closed on Monday, Jan. 21, the official holiday marking Dr. King's birthday, so the campus observance is held later in the week. Spring semester classes begin Jan. 22.

GREEN BAY - U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl visited Martin Luther King Elementary School on Wednesday, Jan. 9 to get an up-close look at fifth-grade students simulating a flight to the moon.

The fifth-graders displayed the knowledge and skills they have gained in a space science program funded with a federal grant to the Wisconsin Initiative for Math, Science and Technology Education. Kohl, D-Wisconsin, was a Senate supporter of federal funding for the program.

The grant is administered by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, based at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

After teacher Ellen Van Pay asked, "Are we ready for launch?" the students used computers to simulate the 1998 unmanned Lunar Prospector mission. They shared with Kohl terms like igniting thrusters, cruise orientation and mid-course corrections.

"I am really impressed with their performance," Kohl said. "I can tell this is a special group of young people."

The King students explained to Kohl that the goal of the Lunar Prospector mission was to see what the moon was made of and to map its magnetic and gravitational fields. They also told the senator that they used the Internet to investigate the Prospector and other lunar missions.

The Wisconsin Initiative for Math, Science and Technology Education provides educators with support to increase student involvement in math, science and technology-based education.

The Space Grant Consortium is a partner in the Initiative. UW-Green Bay is the consortium's lead institution. Space Grant Consortium Director R. Aileen Yingst said the Consortium's focus is to use the excitement of space science to help give Wisconsin citizens the math, science and technology tools they need to thrive in the 21st century.

George French, chief executive officer of Space Explorers, Inc., introduced Kohl to the students. Space Explorers, which creates space-based school curricula, also is a partner in the Initiative.

French said the United States will send a team of astronauts to Mars in 20 years. Students in the King class potentially could be part of the team, he said.

Green Bay School Board member Judith Crain and Superintendent Dan Nerad also attended the event at King School.

GREEN BAY -- Ingrid Jensen, guest artist for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay 32nd annual Jazz Fest on Saturday, Jan. 19, will join the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble I, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and two high school jazz ensembles in performance at 7:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The two high school jazz ensembles will be chosen from among 19 participating in master classes and performances held throughout the day.

Jensen, who plays trumpet and flugelhorn, was selected by "Down Beat" magazine as one of the "25 most important improvising musicians of the future."

Jensen's earliest career had an international venue. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, she studied at nearby Malaspina College before attending Berklee College of Music in Boston where she received her degree. She was touring Europe with the Vienna Art Orchestra when she auditioned successfully for a position as jazz trumpet professor at Bruckner Conservatory in Australia. There, she sat in with Lionel Hampton and the Holden Men of Jazz where her performance got the attention of the German recording company Enja, which offered Jensen her first recording contract. Jensen presently lives in New York.

Jensen's first release, Vernal Fields, won a Canadian Juno award as the best mainstream album of 1995. Her third and latest, Higher Grounds, won a nomination in best jazz category in 2000. Jensen has played with Clark Terry, Maria Schneider, the Mingus Big Band, the Victor Lewis Quintet, the Marc Copland Quintet, and others, and with her own groups. She has recorded as a sidewoman with a number of artists.

With the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble I, directed by John Salerno, Jensen will perform "Way Out Basie" (Ernie Wilkins), "Gentle Piece" (Kenny Wheeler), "Nutville" (Horace Silver), and "Spain" (Chick Corea). She'll also play several combo numbers with the Jazz Ensemble's rhythm section and pianist Chris Salerno.

"After You," "Widow's Walk" and "Tiger of San Pedro" also are on the Jazz Ensemble I program.

Vocal Jazz Ensemble, directed by Chris Salerno, will perform "The Hand Song," by the Nickel Creek folk group, a number new to their repertoire. John Salerno did the arrangement. Soloists will be Jamie Kearns, Lisa Klenke and Sara deFelice. The group also will perform "Brasazia," "Yesterdays" and a Chris Salerno arrangement of "Underneath the Face of the Moon."

High schools participating in Jazz Fest include:

Ashwaubenon High School, Bay Port High School, Denmark High School, East De Pere High School, Freedom High School, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School in Galesville, Gladstone (Mich.) High School, Green Bay Preble High School, Green Bay West High School, Green Lake High School, Hortonville High School, Iowa-Grant High School in Livingston, Manitowoc Lincoln High School, New London High School, Plymouth High School, Pulaski High School, Rhinelander High School, Suring High School, and Wisconsin Lutheran High School in Milwaukee.

Jazz Fest tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY -- Two faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay have won Featured Faculty Awards. They are Regan A.R. Gurung, an assistant professor, and Richard Logan, a professor, both in Human Development. Gurung also teaches in the psychology discipline and Logan in anthropology.

The two will share their teaching philosophies during a reception at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8 in the 1965 room of University Union, following a campus teaching conference for UW-Green Bay faculty. Winners receive an honorarium and a plaque.

Featured Faculty awards are given by the University's Faculty Development Council to showcase excellent and innovative teaching. One award is designated for a faculty member with fewer than five years of service and the other for a senior-level faculty member.

Gurung joined the faculty in fall 1999. He has been a UW-Green Bay Teaching Scholar and a University of Wisconsin System Teaching Fellow, and won a UW-Green Bay Teaching-at-Its-Best award in spring 2001. He has organized statewide and national teaching conferences and presently is national conference program chair for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. His current research focuses on sex differences in self-perceptions of body image, health, and fitness, and the stressfulness of social comparisons. He is working on a book relating culture, development and health. His master's and Ph.D. degrees in social and personality psychology are from the University of Washington. Gurung came to UW-Green Bay from UCLA where he was a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow.

Logan has been a member of the Human Development faculty for 27 years. He also teaches in the Extended Degree program for adults unable to attend traditional on-campus courses. In recent years, he has developed a program in which University students earn internship credits by mentoring at-risk children in the community. Logan has served on several University task forces seeking to strengthen the general education program and presently chairs the General Education Council. He received the UW-Green Bay Founders Association award for excellence in institutional development in 1981. Logan is the author of a book on the psychology of individuals coping with solitary ordeals and is working on a second book on the topic. Logan has lived, taught, and done research in Kenya, and occasionally leads University travel-study trips to that country. He earned his Ph.D. in human development at the University of Chicago.