October 2002

Fox Cities next destination for UW-Green Bay road show

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay hits the road again Wednesday, Nov. 6 when the University holds its first Fox Cities reception.

The reception at UW-Fox Valley in Menasha will give Fox Cities residents an opportunity to meet UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard, new Phoenix men's basketball coach Tod Kowalczyk and other University representatives.

The event will be held in the Student Union at UW-Fox Valley, 1478 Midway Road, Menasha. It starts with a 6 p.m. social hour with a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres followed by a program at 7 p.m.

The program will feature remarks by Shepard, Kowalczyk and representatives of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts and the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association.

The Chancellor said the Fox Cities reception will continue UW-Green Bay's efforts to tighten connections with the region. Last May, the University held its first-ever regional reception in Sturgeon Bay.

Shepard said the reception will enable UW-Green Bay alumni, prospective students and other Fox Cities residents to learn more about the University's programs, people and events. UW-Green Bay has many strong connections with the Fox Cities, he said.

"We are eager to meet with residents of an area as vibrant as the Fox Cities," Shepard said. "It's an area from which we draw many of our students. And many of them find job opportunities in the Fox Cities after they graduate from UW-Green Bay."

Outagamie County ranks second to Brown County in the number of UW-Green Bay students and alumni. The University currently has 327 students from Outagamie County. The county also is home to nearly 900 UW-Green Bay alumni.

Winnebago County ranks 10th among counties in the number of UW-Green Bay students and alumni. Currently, there are 152 students from Winnebago County attending UW-Green Bay. About 280 UW-Green Bay alumni live in Winnebago County.

UW-Green Bay has other interesting ties to the area. For example, five of the 13 members of the 2002-03 UW-Green Bay women's basketball team are from Outagamie County.

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

(02-211 / 31 October 2002 / SH)

UW-Green Bay jazz ensembles perform Nov. 5 in Weidner Center

GREEN BAY-University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Jazz Ensembles I and II present their first concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Jazz Ensemble I, directed by John Salerno, will feature two UW-Green Bay alumni, along with several student musicians. Salerno is director of jazz studies at the University.

Alumnus Shawn Postell will be featured on trumpet in "Beyond the Limit," a Bob Mintzer composition that Salerno calls "challenging." The orchestral-style work also features student Steve Johnson on saxophone. Postell arranged and will be featured on a Thelonius Monk piece, "Straight, No Chaser."

Postell also will be heard on "Happy Song," again with Johnson on saxophone, and Cole Porter's "Love for Sale," with Johnson and A.J. Kluth on saxophone. Alumnus Terry Iattoni will be featured on drums in Salerno's arrangement of "Samurai Samba," which also features Kluth on saxophone.

International student Ricardo Vogt arranged Cole Porter's "Night and Day," and he will be featured on vocals. Vogt is a freshman emphasizing studies in vocal jazz.

The program includes an arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere," with Johnson on saxophone.

Jazz Ensemble II, directed by faculty member Thomas Pfotenhauer, will perform a piece by Lawrence University director of jazz studies Fred Sturm, "Cerulean Sky."

They'll also perform a Rodgers and Hart piece, "I Could Write a Book," a Charles Mingus composition, "Fables of Faubus," and Pat Metheny's "Too Soon Tomorrow."

Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The number for tickets is (920) 465-2676.

The concert is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

(02-210 / 29 October 2002 / VCD)

Skyrocketing applications at UW-Green Bay may lead to early cutoff

GREEN BAY -­ With applications for admission soaring at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the University faces the prospect of cutting off applications earlier than ever before.

Applications for UW-Green Bay’s fall 2003 semester are running 37 percent ahead of the number of applications at the same time a year ago, according to University officials.

Steven Neiheisel, UW-Green Bay Assistant Dean for Enrollment Services/Registrar, said the growing demand sends a clear signal to prospective students considering applying to the University. “The message is: Apply early,” he said.

UW-Green Bay cut off applications for fall 2002 semester classes from most new freshmen last Feb. 15, one of the earliest cutoff dates on record. The application cutoff for transfer students was March 1.

Largely through a reduction in transfer students, UW-Green Bay reduced its enrollment this fall to 5,267 students. The University admitted 300 fewer transfer students than were admitted the previous year.

Neiheisel said the limit on transfers has created pent-up demand that is reflected in an increase in transfer applications for the spring 2003 semester. Transfer applications for spring are up about 56 percent from a year ago.

Neiheisel said the numbers for next year — both spring and fall — do not bode well for procrastinators.

“The demand is high right now — very high,” he said. “If this trend continues, we may have to close off applications even earlier than last year.”

Neiheisel said the priority date for applications for fall 2003 is Jan. 1. Any applications received after that date will be considered if space is available, he said.

UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard said he is pleased that UW-Green Bay has become a school of choice for so many students. Ninety-seven percent of new freshmen this fall indicated the institution was their first or second choice of schools, he said.

But Shepard said the growing demand at a time of state budget cuts raises concerns about the University’s ability to maintain access while also protecting the quality of education.

“We are stretching our resources about as far as they can go,” he said. “We must make sure educational quality is not jeopardized.”

Despite the planned enrollment decrease this fall, UW-Green Bay exceeded its full-time equivalent enrollment target by about 1.5 percent. The FTE enrollment is based on the number of credits taken and is used in measuring the University’s capacity.

The enrollment target was established for the purpose of balancing enrollment and available resources, including adequate class sections and student services.

(02-209 / 25 October 2002 / SH)

'Seeds of Peace' program director to speak at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY -- The program director of an organization that has gained renown for its efforts to teach peace making to teenagers from regions in conflict will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 in Phoenix Room B of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

David Allyn will present the program on Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization that has for several years brought Israeli and Arab youngsters together at a summer camp in the Maine woods where the teenagers get to know and develop empathy for each other.

Last summer, Seeds of Peace operated its first overseas program, bringing together Serbian, Kosovar, Croatian, Bosnian, Albanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Greek youth at a site in Greece. The organization will coordinate conflict resolution programs at the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens.

Seeds of Peace has received support from several Israeli prime ministers, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan, and U.S. leaders including present President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton. The organization has been written about and reported on in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN, the Voice of America, and many other media outlets.

Allyn earned a Ph.D. degree in cultural history from Harvard University, and has taught at Princeton University. His writings have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and the Journal of American Studies. His first book, "Make Love, Not War," was reviewed for The New Yorker by novelist John Updike.

The Oct. 29 program is free and open to the public.

(02-208 / 22 October 2002 / VCD)

How's 'War on Terrorism' Going? Panel will seek answers

GREEN BAY -- The final public forum in a month-long series looking at democracy and citizenship in the U.S. after the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington will examine "The 'War on Terrorism': How Is It Going?" The session is at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Brown County Public Library, 515 Pine St.

Six panelists will tackle questions such as: What is terrorism? Are we really in a "war?" Can the intelligence community predict terrorist activity? What is homeland security?

Panelists include Martin Greenberg, professor emeritus of Urban and Regional Studies (political science) at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and Middle East expert; Derek Jeffreys, assistant professor of Humanistic Studies (religious studies) at UW-Green Bay; Ray Greco, FBI senior resident agent, Green Bay; Joseph Tullbane, director of the Center for International Education at St. Norbert College; and two representatives from Fort McCoy, Lt. Col. Timothy Corrigan, command judge advocate, and Col. Michael Staszak, installation commander. Tullbane also will moderate. The audience will be invited to join in the discussion.

Admission is free. First Northern Savings Bank will provide free parking across the street from the Library.

"After the Attack: Our Democracy a Year Later," was sponsored by St. Norbert College, the Brown County Library, University of Wisconsin-Extension, and the Office of Outreach and Extension, Institute for Learning in Retirement, and academic programs in Humanistic Studies and Social Change and Development at UW-Green Bay. The series of five forums began on Oct. 1.

(02-206 / 16 October 2002 / VCD)

Pianist Kim will perform in Oct. 26 recital at Weidner Center

GREEN BAY -- Pianist Namji Kim will perform in recital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 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.

Kim is a member of the UW-Green Bay faculty.

She will perform Toccata in E Minor by J.S. Bach, Ballade no. 4 by Frederic Chopin, Symphonic Etudes by Robert Schumann, and "L'Isle Joyeuse," by Claude Debussy. Kim also will perform two pieces by Gabriel Faure, Barcarolle no. 3, and Barcarolle no. 5.

Among Kim's teachers were Lucette Descave, who was a pupil of Faure and Jolivet, and Gyorgy Sandor, who was a student of Bartok and Kodaly.

Kim began piano studies at age 6 and gave her first recital at age 8 at the Theatre Andre Malraux in France. She received first prizes in piano, chamber music and harmony at the Conservatory at Paris, and a first prize in piano upon graduation from the Conservatory at Rueil-Malmaison, France. Kim earned bachelor's and master's degrees at The Julliard School, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Manhattan School of Music.

Kim has performed as a soloist in recitals and with orchestras in the United States, France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Ukraine and Korea. She was a finalist in the Chopin International Piano Competition in Majorca, Spain, and in the Kahn International Piano Competition in Paris. She joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in fall 2000.

On Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003, Kim will perform in recital at the Elvehjem Art Museum in Madison. The event will be broadcast on the "Live from the Elvehjem," program on music stations of Wisconsin Public Radio.

(02-205 / 16 October 2002 / VCD)

'After the Attack' forum will focus on influence of the media

GREEN BAY -- Three panelists with expertise in the media will address how media sources influence what Americans know in a public forum on "The Media: How Does It Shape Our Understanding?" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at the Brown County Library, 515 Pine St.

The forum is the fourth of five sessions examining democracy and citizenship in the U.S. after 9/11. The series is entitled "After the Attack: Our Democracy a Year Later."

Panelists on Oct. 22 will be Judy Smith, assistant professor of communications, media and theater at St. Norbert College; Connie Walker, Madison, news director for Wisconsin Public Radio; and Carol Hunter, editor of the "Green Bay Press-Gazette." Mark Everingham, associate professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, will moderate the session. The audience will be invited to join in the discussion.

Admission to all of the forums is free. First Northern Savings Bank is providing free parking across the street from the Library.

"After the Attack: Our Democracy a Year Later," is sponsored by St. Norbert College, the Brown County Library, University of Wisconsin-Extension, and the Office of Outreach and Extension, Institute for Learning in Retirement, and academic programs in Humanistic Studies and Social Change and Development at UW-Green Bay. The series of five forums began on Oct. 1.

The final forum at 7 p.m. on Oct. 29 at the Brown County Library is The "War on Terrorism": How Is It Going?

(02-203 / 15 October 2002 / VCD)

Environmental Expo is Wednesday at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY-Community and campus organizations will sponsor an Environmental Expo from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16 in Niagara Room B of the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The event is free and open to the public.

The Clean Water Action Council, Northeast Wisconsin Student Environmental Council, Campus Green Party, Round River Alliance, and Public and Environmental Affairs Council will present exhibits and offer a variety of information. Activities include a demonstration of recycled papermaking.

A student jazz combo will provide entertainment, and organizers plan free snacks.

(02-202 / 14 October 2002 / VCD)

NEW Partnership for Children and Families is praised for pioneering work

GREEN BAY-The Northeast Wisconsin Partnership for Children and Families celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday (Oct. 14), and received a commendation from Gov. Scott McCallum for its pioneering work in Wisconsin. The event took place at a dinner held at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Green Bay.

Susan Dreyfus, administrator of the Division of Children and Family Services of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, presented the commendation praising the NEW Partnership for its leadership in developing standardized, competency-based training for child welfare workers in Wisconsin.

The Partnership, which began with the goal of providing training for child welfare workers in four counties and three Native American tribes, now serves 1,100 child welfare professionals in 26 counties and six tribes. When it was founded, Wisconsin had no statewide training program for child welfare workers. Today, similar partnerships provide training in all of Wisconsin's counties.

"The NEW Partnership has been the leader and the model, and served as the consultant in developing a statewide training system that presently is comprised of three additional regional child welfare partnerships," explains Director Sam Braus.

The nucleus for the NEW Partnership came from an initial grant from the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that also supported developing a child welfare emphasis in the Bachelor of Social Work program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. "The idea was that the partnership between the counties and tribes and the University would result in training that was really related to the workplace," says Betty Baer, founding Partnership director. Baer was chair of the BSW program at UW-Green Bay at the time.

The commendation praises the Partnership for increasing statewide awareness to the need for child welfare worker training, setting a positive example, and providing technical assistance to help other training partnerships organize.

Representing the Partnership at Monday's presentation were Braus; Baer, who was director until retirement in 1997; Ann McLean, who succeeded Baer as director until she retired in 2000; and UW-Green Bay Interim Dean of Professional Studies and Outreach V. Jane Muhl. The Partnership is headquartered at UW-Green Bay.

Braus says the Partnership provides training for supervisors and administrators, as well as for welfare workers. "In addition, the partnership has developed child welfare curriculum on topics ranging from domestic violence to working with families facing the effects of alcohol and substance abuse," he adds. "We go from classroom to practice."

Braus notes that the Partnership has provided academic and financial support to many students preparing for service in public and tribal child welfare settings.

Today, the NEW Partnership is supported in part by federal funds channeled through the state Division of Children and Family Services.

County and tribal NEW Partnership members include:
Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Fond du Lac, Forest, Forest County Potawatomi, Green Lake, Kewaunee, Lac du Flambeau tribe, Langlade, Lincoln, Manitowoc, Marathon, Marinette, Marquette, Menominee, Menominee Tribe, Oconto, Oneida, Oneida Tribe, Outagamie, Portage, Shawano, Sheboygan, Sokaogon Chippewa Community (Mole Lake), Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe, Vilas, Waupaca, Waushara, Winnebago, and Wood.

(02-201 / 14 October 2002 / VCD)

Regents approve joint social work master's program at UW-Green Bay, UW-Oshkosh

GREEN BAY - A master's degree program in social work developed jointly by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh will respond to regional needs for social workers with advanced education.

The UW System Board of Regents, meeting Friday (Oct. 11) at UW-Whitewater, approved the joint program described as a highly innovative model for collaboration among UW campuses.

The program, which will begin in fall 2003, is especially tailored to meet the educational needs of students who have professional experience. A few courses will be offered on the Oshkosh and Green Bay campuses, but most will be taught at locations within a reasonable commuting distance for students.

Chancellors at the two UW campuses said the social work program will demonstrate how UW System campuses can strengthen programs and save money through greater collaboration.

"We know there is a great need in the region for this program," said UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard H. Wells. "By working together, we can better meet that need."

"Collaboration is becoming increasingly important," UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard said. "The Master's of Social Work program jointly provided by UWGB and UW-Oshkosh will be a model for future initiatives."

The graduate program is designed to attract those already working in human services in Northeastern Wisconsin who wish to complete their graduate education. Many of these potential students find it difficult or impossible to travel elsewhere in the state to obtain their degree.

All course work will be infused with six fundamental themes: a commitment to public-sector practice, a commitment to helping graduates assume leadership roles, an emphasis on family-focused practice, a commitment to serving diverse constituencies, an emphasis on serving clientele from rural areas, and interdisciplinary cooperation.

Human service directors throughout Northeastern Wisconsin provided the initial impetus for development of the new master's program. Subsequent surveys found strong demand for the program from currently certified social workers and social work agencies in the region. A survey of certified social workers without advanced degrees found that 66 percent indicated they were very likely or moderately likely to apply to a Master's of Social Work program in the next five years.

The program will prepare advanced-level social work professionals for practice in 26 counties of Northeastern Wisconsin.

The two current Master's of Social Work programs in Wisconsin — at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee — frequently are not an option for students who have completed undergraduate programs in the Green Bay and Oshkosh regions because of financial or employment constraints to relocation or commuting.

The new joint social work program will offer a curriculum focus that is distinct from and does not compete with the other UW programs.

(02-200 / 11 October 2002 / SH)

$822,000 federal grant launches new area Teaching American History Program

GREEN BAY-An $822,000 Teaching American History Grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) will spark American history instruction in northeastern Wisconsin over the next three years.

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Prof. Andrew E. Kersten has received word that the proposal he wrote to create the Northeastern Wisconsin Teaching American History Program was successful. The program aims to improve teaching, learning and student achievement in history in CESA 7 schools, focusing on students in grades five through 12.

According to Kersten, the grant will afford the money and the time for university faculty and public school teachers of American history to work together to enhance learning for area students.

"History isn't just knowing the facts. History changes all of the time," says Kersten, who is academic director of the project. "The program can bring current interpretation, debate, and methodology to northeastern Wisconsin."

Sue K. Hammersmith, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at UW-Green Bay, says this significant grant will take UW-Green Bay to a new level of participation with area schools and history teachers. "It will create new opportunities for history teachers to invigorate their courses using materials of direct relevance to northeastern Wisconsin," she explains. "They will have access to multimedia and print materials which-due to this grant-will be produced specifically for them."

UW-Green Bay professors of American history and staff from CESA 7 collaborated to design the program. Other partners include the Neville Public Museum of Brown County, Heritage Hill State Park, the Brown County Historical Society, and the Center for History and Social Change located at UW-Green Bay.

"Part of the goal was to include as many people and as many community resources as possible," says Kersten. "I wanted to create a groundswell for teaching American history."

Weeklong summer institutes in American history for teachers will bring nationally recognized historians to "keynote" each institute. By week's end, the teachers will be developing lesson plans to take to their own classrooms. UW-Green Bay will be host to two institutes each summer for the next three years. Each institute will accommodate 35 teachers. Participants can earn graduate credits or continuing education units, or attend without credit.

Historians already confirmed for institutes include Kermit Hall, an award-winning Constitutional historian who is president of Utah State University; Kriste Lindenmeyer, U.S. historian at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, who has published on Progressive-era politics; and Frank N. Schubert, a military historian who is chief of Joint Operational History in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.

The summer institutes will be followed by six daylong Saturday workshops during the school year. The workshops, too, will feature nationally known scholars.

Teaching materials generated through the program will be made available to participants and other teachers in Wisconsin through a World Wide Web site and CD-Rom. The grant will pay for publication of three supplemental teaching issues of "Voyageur," the northeastern Wisconsin history magazine published by the Brown County Historical Society.

The Northeastern Wisconsin Teaching American History Program also will organize local participation in National History Day, a 25-year-old program supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It gives students in grades six through 12 the opportunity to develop history projects and enter them in competition for cash awards and prizes. Competitions are held at local, state and national levels.

"Bottom line, I hope this program creates a lasting legacy of professional networks between teachers at all levels," says Kersten. He expects the Web site and local participation in National History Day to continue beyond the three-year grant.

The DOE Teaching American History Grant Program is in its second year. According to its Web site, the average award is $500,000.

Kersten, who joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1997, teaches in the History and Social Change and Development academic departments. He earned master's and Ph.D. degrees in American history at the University of Cincinnati.

Project leaders include CESA 7 Administrator Carol Gerhardt, CESA 7 coordinator; Judy Sargent, CESA 7 school improvement services director, curriculum coordinator; and Prof. Jerrold C. Rodesch, long-time UW-Green Bay faculty member with interests in history of education and American intellectual history, administrative director.

The Northeast Wisconsin Teaching American History Program advisory committee includes Debra Anderson, coordinator of special collections, University archives, and the Area Research Center at UW-Green Bay; Doug Brown, executive director of Heritage Hill State Park; John Crubaugh, interim director of the Institute for Learning Partnership located at UW-Green Bay; Lawrence McAndrews, associate professor of American history at St. Norbert College; Kim Nielsen, a historian and faculty member in Social Change and Development and Women's Studies at UW-Green Bay; Michael Telzrow, director of history at the Neville Public Museum; and Mark Waggoner, history teacher in the Green Bay School District. Prof. Jerald Podair, an American historian on the faculty at Lawrence University, is the assessment consultant.

(02-199 / 11 October 2002 / VCD)

Pedersen elected president of UW-Green Bay Alumni Association

GREEN BAY-Suzanne Pedersen has been elected president of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Alumni Association.

Pedersen graduated from UW-Green Bay in 1995 with a degree in business administration. She currently is employed at the ShopKo corporate headquarters, where she is responsible for individual and organizational development.

Pedersen succeeds Pam Stoll (class of '74), who served two consecutive one-year terms as UW-Green Bay Alumni Association president.

"We're very pleased that Suzanne will be leading the Alumni Association during the next year," said Shane Kohl, UW-Green Bay director of alumni relations. "She will continue the Association's mission of connecting our graduates with the University."

Other officers of the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association, all elected to one-year terms, are Janice Swiggum, '01, vice president of alumni operations; Chad Vandenbusch, '94, vice president of alumni services; David Lamers, '01, secretary; and Kelly Ruh, '01, treasurer.

Swiggum works in the UW-Green Bay Business and Finance office; Vandenbusch is an investment executive at Stifel, Nicolas & Co.; Lamers is an elementary schoolteacher in Appleton; and Ruh is a staff tax accountant at Wipfli.

UW-Green Bay has a network of more than 19,000 alumni throughout the United States and around the globe. The University is represented by alumni in every Wisconsin county, every state in the U.S. and 43 foreign countries.

Kohl said alumni are among UW-Green Bay's most important advocates at a time when the University is working to strengthen its connections with the community.

(02-198 / 9 October 2002 / SH)

'9 Chicago Painters' exhibit opens at Lawton Gallery

GREEN BAY -- "Painting: 9 Chicago Painters," is the exhibit opening with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17 in the Lawton Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The one-time exhibit is curated by Shane Campbell, a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and director of the Chicago gallery, Boomeditions. He is completing a Ph.D. degree in art history. Campbell will speak during the opening event at 5 p.m.

All nine of the painters share a common experience in the Art Institute of Chicago, where they are faculty or staff members, or students.

" 'Painting' brings together a variety of current practices by artists working in Chicago," says Campbell. "...the work of these artists is not necessarily about being 'Chicago painters,' but is to some extent about painting in Chicago."

Painters included in the exhibit are Joe Baldwin, Mark Booth, Martin Esteves, Howard Fonda, Michelle Grabner, Carrie Gundersdorf, David Kaiser, Noah Rorem and Chris Vasell.

The exhibit continues through Nov. 8.

Lawton Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The Lawton Gallery is located in room 249 of Theater Hall, directly east of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts.

(02-197 / 9 October 2002 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay bands set Oct. 18 Weidner Center concert

GREEN BAY -- The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Kevin Collins, UW-Green Bay director of bands, directs the 45-member Wind Ensemble, and Rebecca Tout, who joined UW-Green Bay as a lecturer for the year, directs the Symphonic Band.

The Wind Ensemble will perform two works by contemporary American composers; a classic of the band repertoire, Ralph Vaughn Williams's "Folk Song Suite"; and John Philip Sousa's "Wisconsin Forward Forever March." The contemporary selections include "Gavorkna Fanfare," by Jack Stamp, and "Tears," by David Maslanka.

The Maslanka piece has a Wisconsin connection. It was commissioned by the Wisconsin Chapter of College Band Directors National Association, and premiered at a state music festival with UW-Green Bay students in the band. UW-Green Bay musicians and guest soloists performed Maslanka's "Mass" in the Weidner Center in 1998.

Tout will conduct the 50-member Symphonic Band in a program by 20th century composers. They'll perform "Variations on a Korean Folk Song" by John Barnes Chance, "On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss" by David R. Holsinger, "Cajun Folk Songs," by Frank Ticheli, and Symphonic Dance No. 3, "Fiesta," by Clifton Williams.

Tout is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts in clarinet performance at Arizona State University where she also earned a Master of Music degree. She was principal clarinetist with the Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra, and has performing credits with other orchestras and ensembles, and as a soloist and recitalist.

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

(02-196 / 9 October 2002 / VCD)

'Our Town' opens UW-Green Bay theater season

GREEN BAY -- "Our Town," the Thornton Wilder classic that won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, opens the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay theater season with performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 17-19, and Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 23-26 in Studio Two of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Director John Mariano, a member of the UW-Green Bay faculty, calls the story of life in small-town America "a beautiful, life-affirming play."

He notes that the play was considered "experimental" when it opened in 1938. Audiences weren't accustomed to seeing a play performed on a stage without sets, and featuring a character that talks to the audience. The play went on to become a classic that has had thousands of performances in professional, amateur, university, and high school theater settings. It has become well known abroad, and was one of the first American plays toured by the U.S. State Department in the former Soviet Union when the Cold War thawed. A musical version was produced in the 1980s, and American Ballet Theater premiered a ballet version of "Our Town" in 1994.

Mariano says the UW-Green Bay production, set in the Weidner Center's 100-seat Studio Two, will be "an intimate retelling of the American classic."

Caroline Quinn portrays the Stage Manager, the principal character who helps the story unfold as she directly speaks to the audience. A junior from Amherst, Quinn had a major role in last season's production of "Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls," one of six college plays selected for performance at the 2002 Regional American College Theater Festival.

The characters of Emily Webb and George Gibbs, who provide the love interest, are portrayed by Terra Schultz, Medford, and Jared Hoyman, Neenah.

Scenic design is by Jeffrey Entwistle, and costumes are by Kaiome Malloy. R. Michael Ingraham is the technical director and lighting designer. All three are faculty members. Student Beth Noonkester, Cedarburg, is the stage manager.

Tickets are $12 in advance/$15 at the door for adults, and $10 in advance/$12 at the door for seniors and those under 17. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800328-8587.

(02-195 / 8 October 2002 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay choral concert celebrates American music

GREEN BAY -- "Of Thee I Sing! Choral Music of America," is the theme of a concert by University of Wisconsin-Green Bay choral groups and a High School Honor Choir at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

American composers from the 18th through the 20th centuries, and traditional spirituals and folk songs are included on the program. "I wanted to focus on the fabric of America and music that has been part of our culture and heritage," says William Witwer, director of choral activities at UW-Green Bay.

Timothy Stalter, director of choral activities at the University of Iowa, will direct the High School Honor Choir. Stalter formerly was assistant director of choral activities at UW-Madison, where he earned his Ph.D., and prior to that was director of choral activities at UW-Stevens Point.

The High School Honor Choir is comprised of top students nominated by teachers at high schools across Wisconsin.

University Chorus, conducted by faculty member John Plier, will open the concert with a selection from the musical, "The Secret Garden"; a composition by 20th century composer Timothy Snyder using text from the "Song of Solomon"; a traditional folk song; and the spiritual, "Go Down, Moses." Faculty member Angela Bauer-Dantoin is the accompanist.

Witwer conducts the Vocal Ensemble. Their program includes a selection by late 18th century composer William Billings, three Shaker songs, an arrangement of a Stephen Foster song, and a piece by contemporary composer Kirk Mechem, who used text from the Renaissance. UW-Green Bay student Sarah Zickert accompanies the group.

The Concert Choir's segment includes the composition that won the 1999 American Choral Directors Association National Student Composition Award. Composer Paul Aitkin used the World War I poem, "In Flanders Fields," by Canadian poet John McCrae as text. The group also will perform "A Jubilant Song," by John Leavitt, with text by Walt Whitman, the traditional "Buffalo Gals," and a spiritual. Witwer conducts with group, with faculty member Janice Cusano as accompanist.

One selection by 18th century composer Billings, and two by well-known 20th century composers are on the High School Honor Choir program. They'll sing Randall Thompson's setting for Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken," and an arrangement of a spiritual by Aaron Copland.

The Honor Choir and the UW-Green Bay Concert Choir will join for a final gospel arrangement of the hymn, "Standing on the Promises."

Honor Choir members represent high schools including:

Appleton East, Ashwaubenon, Bayport, Columbus, De Pere, Freedom, Green Bay East, Green Bay Preble, Kimberly, La Farge, Luxemburg-Casco, Mishicot, Montello, Oconto, Sevastopol, Sheboygan, Stevens Point, and Suring.

Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2271 or 1-800-328-8587.

(02-194 / 8 October 2002 / VCD)

'Nationalism versus Patriotism' is topic of Oct. 15 public forum

GREEN BAY -- "Love of Country: Nationalism versus Patriotism" is the topic of the third in a series of public forums at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15 at the Brown County Public Library, 515 Pine St. The series, "After the Attack: Our Democracy a Year Later," examines democracy and citizenship in the U.S. after 9/11.

Panelists who will discuss the meaning of patriotism are Francis Carleton, a political scientist and associate professor of Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay; Jennifer Carleton, senior staff lawyer with the Oneida Nation; Cristina Ortiz, director of international education and an associate professor of Humanistic Studies at UW-Green Bay; and Ken Bukowski, Brown County Corporation Counsel. Bukowski also will moderate.

Admission is free. First Northern Savings Bank is providing free parking across the street from the Library.

The series began on Oct. 1, and continues each Tuesday through October. All sessions are at 7 p.m. at the Brown County Public Library.

"After the Attack: Our Democracy a Year Later," is sponsored by St. Norbert College, the Brown County Library, University of Wisconsin-Extension, and the Office of Outreach and Extension, Institute for Learning in Retirement, and academic programs in Humanistic Studies and Social Change and Development at UW-Green Bay.

Remaining forums are:
Oct. 22 — The Media: How Does It Shape Our Understanding?
Oct. 29 — The "War on Terrorism": How Is It Going?

(02-193 / 8 October 2002 / VCD)

Wisconsin Space Grant gets NASA funds for student satellites

GREEN BAY-The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium located at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has won a $99,950 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to fund college and university student-designed satellites and satellite payload projects.

Students at Consortium-member institutions will be able to have their research projects actually launched into space or near-space.

Eligible institutions include the Universities of Wisconsin at Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Parkside and Whitewater; Alverno College, Carroll College, The College of the Menominee Nation, Lawrence University, Marquette University, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and Ripon College.

"The goal is to generate interest and develop technical skills in aerospace science and engineering in the students of Wisconsin," says Consortium Director R. Aileen Yingst, who wrote the grant request.

The funds come from NASA resources designated to enlarge the "pipeline" of higher education graduates and faculty who get involved with NASA as employees, contractors or researchers.

The dollars will support two new Wisconsin Consortium programs: a student payload competition and a student satellite program.

In the payload competition, teams of undergraduate or graduate college students, working with faculty mentors, will design research projects intended to be launched into space. The winning teams will be funded to actually build and launch their payloads during a Rockets for Schools launch. Rockets for Schools is an existing program for middle- and high school students.

The student satellite program will give college students the opportunity to design and launch their own aerospace missions, using weather balloons that travel to the "edge" of space. The advantages, says Yingst, are that the engineering issues mimic the real problems that would be faced by NASA employees and researchers, but the costs are economical, affording more launches by more students. "BalloonSats" can be launched for as little as $1,000.

The first launches for both programs are targeted for summer 2003.

Yingst says nothing like these projects have been tried before in Wisconsin.

"We believe that the most effective way of teaching the importance of space exploration is to allow students the resources and creative latitude to actively explore space for themselves," she adds.

In early September, NASA upgraded the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium to "Designated" status, raising its grant for the fiscal year to $475,000, compared to just over $256,000 for the previous year. The Wisconsin program was one of three of the total 50 state Space Grant programs to receive the higher level of funding. The Consortium has 24 members including industries, colleges and universities, state agencies, educational organizations, and other groups.

(02-192 / 7 October 2002 / VCD)

Dyslexia is topic of Nov. 22 workshop at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY -- "Developmental Dyslexia: Lessons from Brain Research," a workshop for educators and others who work with children and parents, is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Workshop leaders are Gordon F. Sherman, executive director of the Newgrange School and Educational Outreach Center, New Jersey, and Deardra M. Rosenberg, director of the Newgrange Educational Outreach Center.

Sherman, who'll give the keynote presentation, is past president of the International Dyslexia Association, a former faculty member in neurology at Harvard Medical School, and former director of the Dyslexia Research Lab at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston. He received the 2001 Samuel T. Orton Award from the International Dyslexia Association.

Rosenberg is certified in Wilson Language systems, is a Project Read trainer, and is a certified Learning Disabilities Teaching Consultant. She formerly was lead teacher of special education at Mendham High School, New Jersey. She'll talk about implications for the classroom.

The $85 workshop fee includes handouts, refreshments, Continuing Education Unit/Hour certificate, and parking.

The workshop is the seventh in a series exploring new brain research and its implications for practice. The series is organized by the Office of Outreach and Extension at UW-Green Bay, with advice of a community-University advisory board.

Registration for the workshop is available now. For information, the numbers are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118. On the World Wide Web, information is at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

(02-190 / 4 October 2002 / VCD)

Suicide prevention workshop is Nov. 15 at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY -- Registration is open for "Suicide: Prevention, Assessment and Intervention," a workshop for health and human service providers, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Workshop leaders are H. Frederick Johnston, M.D., and Amy L. Rock, M.S.S.W.

Johnston is clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and in the UW-Madison School of Educational Psychology. He has written extensively on childhood depression, ADHD, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He is co-editor of the "Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents."

Rock is a clinical social worker with more than 10 years of experience in child and family therapy private practice. She is co-author with Johnston of "Parenting, Teaching, and Helping Mentally Ill Children: The Answer Book for Families, Teachers, and Social Workers."

The $89 workshop fee includes handouts, customized 75-page conference booklet, lunch, breaks, Continuing Education Hour certificate, and parking.

The workshop is part of the "Critical Issues in Social Work Practice" professional development series sponsored by Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education, a partnership of UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh Social Work programs and Outreach and Extension offices.

The numbers for information are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118. Information is available on the World Wide Web at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

(02-189 / 4 October 2002 / VCD)

Post-9/11 forum to examine American involvement in other countries

GREEN BAY -- Two experts in Middle East studies will examine America's involvement in the Middle East and other countries in a public forum, "Historical Perspectives: Why Do They Hate Us So Much?" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the Brown County Public Library, 515 Pine St.

Historians Prof. Bob Kramer, St. Norbert College, and Prof. Michael Chamberlain, UW-Madison, are the speakers in the second of the forum series, "After the Attack: Our Democracy a Year Later." David Coury, associate professor of Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, will moderate. The audience will be invited to participate in discussion.

Admission is free. First Northern Savings Bank is providing free parking across the street.

"After the Attack: Our Democracy a Year Later," is sponsored by St. Norbert College, the Brown County Library, University of Wisconsin-Extension, and the Office of Outreach and Extension, Institute for Learning in Retirement, and academic programs in Humanistic Studies and Social Change and Development at UW-Green Bay.

The series continues at 7 p.m. each Tuesday through October at the Brown County Library. Remaining forums are:

Oct. 15-Love of Country: Nationalism versus Patriotism
Oct. 22-The Media: How Does It Shape Our Understanding?
Oct. 29-The "War on Terrorism": How Is It Going?

(02-188 / 1 October 2002 / VCD)

Visiting artist schedules Oct. 9 recital at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY -- Mezzo-soprano Eva Blahova will perform in recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Blahova, a member of the faculty at the Academy of Music and Drama, Bratislava, Slovakia, is traveling in the U.S. to perform and give master classes. Her trip was arranged by UW-Green Bay Prof. Sarah Meredith, who taught at the Academy in Bratislava during the 2001-2002 academic year.

Blahova will perform a program of music by 19th and 20th century Slovak and Czech composers, including Viliam Figus Bystry, Mikulas Schneider-Trnavsky, Antonin Dvorak, Vit'eslav Novak, Jan Cikker, Alexander Moyzes, Leos Janacek, and Eugen Suchon. Many of the selections are based on folk songs. She will be accompanied by Prof. Janice Cusano of the UW-Green Bay music faculty.

She will give a master class at 5:30 p.m. the day of the recital in Fort Howard Hall, and will lead master classes at other nearby institutions during a week-long stay in the area.

Blahova is acclaimed as a recitalist and soloist in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere in Europe. She has performed in Canada, South Korea, and Japan, and in the U.S. during a previous trip in 1996. She is founder of the Future Opera Stars for Tomorrow Festival in Prague, and of the European Days Festival and the International Singing Competition of Lucia Popp in Bratislava.

Blahova comes from a family with a history of singing. Her father was the first professional opera and concert singer in Slovakia. He collected 1,200 folk songs and published six books of them.

During her tour, Blahova also will perform at the Slovak Embassy in Washington, D.C., and at several locations in Iowa.

Tickets to the recital are $6 for adults and $3 for students. UW-Green Bay students are admitted free. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587. For information about Blahova's master classes in the area, the number is (920) 465-2637.

(02-187 / 1 October 2002 / VCD)

Globalization is topic of lecture at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY -- "Globalization and Resistance: Views from Above and Below," is the topic of a lecture at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7 in the Christie Theater, located in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The speaker is William I. Robinson, member of the sociology faculty at the University of California at Santa Barbara, former journalist, and author of books, book chapters, scholarly papers, reports and monographs.

Robinson's fourth book, "Global Capitalism and Central America: Development and Social Change in the Age of Globalization," is in press, and he is at work on the manuscript for a fifth, "The Debate on Globalization: The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Transnational State," under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press.

Robinson was a practicing journalist who spent several years as a war correspondent, editor, and finally, Washington bureau chief and U.S. representative for Agencia Nueva Nicaragua (ANN), a Nicaragua-based international news agency. In addition to extensive experience in Central America, Robinson has lived and studied in Kenya and Nigeria. He is listed in Who's Who in America and the Directory of American Scholars.

The lecture is part of the Historical Perspectives Series sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change at UW-Green Bay. The lectures are free and open to the public.

(02-186 / 1 October 2002 / VCD)

Ecuadorian musicians will perform Oct. 9 at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY -- Musicians from the Inti Raymi Cultural Center in Otavalo, Ecuador will perform in concert from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9 in the Christie Theater, located in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event is free and open to the public.

They perform traditional music on instruments made in Ecuador, including guitar, mandolin, charango, violin, and bandola stringed instruments, percussion instruments including drums and bombo, and a variety of flute- and pipe-type wind instruments. The group has made several compact disks.

The Inti Raymi cultural group was organized nearly 20 years ago. It works to save the cultural heritage of Native Americans of the Andes region through the arts, and to foster cultural pride in Otavalo Quicha Indian youth. The group also seeks to establish relationships with Native American nations in North America.

For several years, Inti Raymi musicians have spent May through October performing at college campuses, art fairs, and other locations in the upper Midwest. They participate in powwows in Minneapolis organized by the American Indian Movement. Inti Raymi last performed at UW-Green Bay in 1994.

UW-Green Bay students who participate in a January travel course to Ecuador visit the Inti Raymi Cultural Center, and Prof. Marcelo Cruz, who leads the trip, frequently performs with Inti Raymi groups when they're traveling in the summer in the U.S.

Inti Raymi's appearance at UW-Green Bay is sponsored by the Office of Student Life, the Urban and Regional Studies academic program, and the American Intercultural Center.

(02-185 / 1 October 2002 / VCD)