October 2004

UWGB jazz groups perform on Wednesday

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble I and Jazz Ensemble II will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Jazz Ensemble I, directed by John Salerno, will open their part of the program with Juan Tizol's "Caravan," composed when Tizol was with Duke Ellington. Soloists on the often performed, much recorded piece will be Rod Israeli and Catherine Lautenbach on saxophone, Leala Cyr on trumpet, and Sarah Phelps on tuba.

Guest Bruce Reines arranged "Route 66." The piece will feature Reines on trombone and faculty member Paul Bhasin on trumpet.

Jazz Ensemble I also will perform "We'll Be Together Again," with Cyr on vocals, and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," with vocalist Melissa Staley. "One Note Samba" with Ryan Sette on guitar and Zach Valentine on saxophone completes the set.

Bhasin directs the nine-member Jazz Ensemble II. They'll perform funk, swing and contemporary jazz numbers by composers such as Benny Golson, Duke Ellington and Thad Jones. UW-Green Bay Performing Arts Events are supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

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

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Guitarist will perform 'Music of Old and New Worlds' at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Classical guitarist Manuel Rubio will present a concert, "Music of the Old and New Worlds," at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1 in the Christie Theater of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The public is invited to the free event.

Rubio is gaining international attention as a performer for his technique and his expressive methods. He is known for his interpretations of works by contemporary composers and of masterpieces of the past, and for his arrangements of Latin American and Spanish music.

A native of Mexico City, Rubio presently is dean of the Guitar Department at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan. He formerly was a member of the guitar faculty at the Mexico State Conservatory of Music and the Music Department of La Salle University in Mexico.

His program will include works by John Dowland, Johann Sebastian Bach, Fernando Sor, Manuel M. Ponce and Gentil Montana.

Rubio's visit to Green Bay is sponsored by guitar-maker and retired chiropractor Frederico Sheppard, who says it is his present to the community on the occasion of his own birthday on Nov. 1. Sheppard came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 16 and moved from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin in the 1970s to attend UW-Green Bay. He developed an interest in guitar making during that time and has continued to study and pursue the craft.

"I've lived in Green Bay for two-thirds of my life," says Sheppard, of his birthday "gift." "This is where I got my education and this is where I practiced."

Rubio's performance at UW-Green Bay also marks campus observance of the Mexican Day of the Dead on November 1 and 2. During the traditional celebration, those who have died are honored and they may make spiritual visits to family and friends. Says Sheppard, "Death is looked at very differently in Mexico, because on the Day of the Dead, everybody comes back."

In addition to the UW-Green Bay concert, Rubio will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28 at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, and at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31 at the Brown County Public Library.

During his visit to Green Bay, Rubio also will visit a class of sixth graders at Foxview Intermediate School in De Pere, attend Spanish language and culture classes at UW-Green Bay, and meet with the Mayor's Hispanic Advisory Council.

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Poet Laureate Sweet will read works at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Wisconsin Poet Laureate Denise Sweet will give a reading of her work at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4 in the 1965 Room of the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The public is invited to the free event.

Sweet, a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay since 1990, was named to the four-year term as Poet Laureate in September by Governor Jim Doyle.

Sweet has presented more than 200 readings throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala and Great Britain.

Sweet published a poetry chapbook, "Know by Heart" in 1991. Her collection of poems, "Songs for Discharming" won the 1997 First Book Award from Returning the Gift: the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. The following year, the book won the Posner Award for Poetry given by the Wisconsin Council of Writers. Sweet's poems have appeared in many journals and in two four-author collections, "Days of Obsidian, Days of Grace," and "Nitaawichige: Anishinaabe Poetry and Prose."

Sweet's poem, "Veteran's Dance: After Oklahoma City," received a second place award at the Santa Fe Indian Market's first poetry competition, and her poem "Constellations" is part of a permanent installation at the Midwest Express Center in Milwaukee.

Sweet was one of five U.S. writers sponsored by the U.S. Embassy to attend the First World Congress of Indigenous Literatures of the Americans in 1998 in Guatemala.

The reading will be followed by a reception. The Humanistic Studies academic unit at UW-Green Bay is the event sponsor. Sweet teaches courses in Humanistic Studies, English, and American Indian Studies, and is a former chairperson of American Indian Studies.

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Phuture Phoenix receives state diversity award

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's Phuture Phoenix program received state recognition today for its efforts to encourage students to complete high school and pursue a college education.

The Office of State Employment Relations and the State Council on Affirmative Action awarded Phuture Phoenix the first annual Ann Lydecker Award for Education. The award recognizes innovative practices to promote diversity.

UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard and his wife, Cyndie, who serves as director of Phuture Phoenix, accepted the award in a ceremony at the State Capitol.

Phuture Phoenix was commended for using university students and local community members to introduce fifth graders from targeted schools to higher education. University students involved in the program are encouraged to mentor the fifth graders until they graduate from high school.

The fifth graders also visit the UW-Green Bay campus for Phuture Phoenix Day, a day of activities ranging from classroom visits and experiences to an ice cream social. This year, Phuture Phoenix Day was held Oct. 13.

The program targets elementary schools with a high percentage of students from low-income families.

Chancellor Shepard said he and Cyndie were accepting the award on behalf of the entire community.

"This is a program that could not have gotten off the ground without community volunteers and supporters, local educators and our student mentors," he said. "It shows what we can accomplish when campus and community work together."

He said Green Bay School Superintendent Dan Nerad's early support was critical to the success of Phuture Phoenix.

The chancellor added that Phuture Phoenix is an excellent example of UW-Green Bay's "Connecting learning to life" campuswide theme. He said the program connects the campus to the community and also connects youngsters to successful futures.

Shepard said he was especially honored that Phuture Phoenix is the first recipient of an award named for Lydecker, the late chancellor of UW-River Falls who died in an automobile accident in March. He said Lydecker was an outstanding leader in higher education and a personal friend of the Shepards.

Phuture Phoenix started in 2003 with about 500 fifth graders. This year, about 830 students from the Green Bay, West De Pere and Shawano-Gresham school districts are involved.

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UW-Green Bay fossil workshop is Nov. 6

GREEN BAY - Fossils will be the topic of a public workshop led by Prof. Daniel Meinhardt from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 6 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Participants should meet at the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Suite 212. The workshop is free, but because space is limited, advance registration is required.

Meinhardt will present a short introduction to Wisconsin geologic history and the process of fossilization, and show examples of fossils from the University's Richter Natural History Collections and from his own collection. Then the group will visit a site where they can find fossilized remains of marine animals from a tropical sea that existed here more than 350 million years ago. Participants should dress for the weather of the day.

Meinhardt, who joined the UW-Green Bay Human Biology faculty in 2003, previously was a public education instructor with the Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota, and taught biology at St. Olaf College. Prior to that he had been a public education instructor at the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas.

Meinhardt's Ph.D. degree is from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. His own research investigates how animal form evolves.

Questions about the workshop and registration can be directed to (920) 465-5032 weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. or by e-mail to wolfa@uwgb.edu.

The workshop is part of a series sponsored by the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity at UW-Green Bay. Participants of all ages are welcome, but workshop content goes beyond an elementary introduction. Educators, students and others with a keen interest in nature will find the workshop useful.

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Dissenting diplomats will speak at
UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Three former diplomats who resigned their positions in protest over the war in Iraq will speak at noon Monday, Oct. 25 in the Christie Theater of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The free event is open to the public.

They are part of an organization, Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, whose members charge that the war does harm to America's national interests.

The speakers will include:

— Col. Ann Wright, who was deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia, and who served as deputy chief at embassies in Sierra Leona, Micronesia, and Afghanistan. Wright also served in Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada and Nicaragua. She received the State Department's Award for Heroism for actions during the Sierra Leone civil war and was on the first State Department team in Afghanistan.

— John H. Brown, a senior officer who joined the Foreign Service in 1981 and served in London, Prague, Krakow, Kiev, Belgrade and Moscow. He previously had been at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

— Brady Kiesling, who had been chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. His foreign service career took him to Israel, Morocco, Armenia, and Washington, D.C. In 1994, he was decorated by the American Foreign Service Association for courageous dissent on U.S. policy on Bosnia.

All three resigned early in 2003 in protest against President Bush's policies in Iraq. Kiesling was the first U.S. official to resign in protest over Iraq.

Members of the organization have been speaking out widely and have had numerous interviews in the media.

Their appearance at UW-Green Bay is sponsored by the Public and Environmental Affairs academic unit. Chairperson Scott Furlong says the presentation will offer yet another opportunity for students to witness and take part in the political process during this election season.

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Eugenics, euthanasia are lecture topic at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - A scholar whose fields include history of medicine and modern intellectual history will speak on "A New Set of Values: Eugenics and Euthanasia in 20th Century America" at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29 in the Christie Theater located in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ian Dowbiggen is a professor of history at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is the author of the book, "A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America" published in 2003 by Oxford University Press.

Dowbiggen has published and spoken widely on the histories of euthanasia, eugenics, psychiatry and concepts of mental illness. He earned his Ph.D. degree in European Intellectual History and History of Medicine at the University of Rochester in New York. His dissertation research examined the field of psychiatry and psychiatric knowledge in 19th century France.

Dowbiggen's lecture is part of the Historical Perspectives series sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change at UW-Green Bay.

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Arts 'Career Conversation' begins new series at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - The first in a series of Career Conversations connected with a year-long emphasis on Interdisciplinarity in Action at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will be from 1 to 1:50 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22 in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Room 111 on the campus.

The theme is Arts and Arts Management, and anyone interested in careers in the field is welcome to attend. Presenters will be Kristin Masarik, director of education and outreach for the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra and a UW-Green Bay graduate with a major in music and a minor in arts management; Martha Ahrendt, program director for the Green Bay Community Foundation and president of the NEW Arts Council; and Benjamin Moritz, lecturer in music at UW-Green Bay.

They'll describe their jobs, their backgrounds, what led them to this point in their careers, and participate in discussion. The facilitator will be Prof. Ellen Rosewall, whose Arts Management class meets at that hour.

Interdisciplinarity in Action is a yearlong emphasis on UW-Green Bay academic units in the Liberal Arts and Sciences and how they work together to engage students. Joyce Salisbury, associate dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, says the Career Conversations show "how this work extends into students' future-and into connecting with the community-by showing how this interdisciplinary work turns into a career."

The UW-Green Bay Career Services Office is collaborating on the Career Conversations.

Topics for other Career Conversations scheduled include Civic Involvement, Publishing and Global Conservation. The series will conclude with a Career Services open house in April.

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Motivating students to stay in school is conference theme

GREEN BAY - Motivating students to stay in school is the topic of the fall conference sponsored by the Institute for Learning Partnership on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 21-22 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Marcia Tate, a nationally recognized educational consultant, will give the keynote address, "Learning Strategies that Engage All Students and Their Practical Application," at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Friday sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 3 p.m.

Tate's address is based on her best-seller, "Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain" and her second book currently in publication, "Sit and Get Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies that Engage the Adult Brain."

Tate also will present a Friday morning workshop, "Additional Learning Strategies (including tangible applications) for Engaging All Students." After her presentation, five facilitators from the Green Bay School District, CESA 7 and CESA 8, will each select a strategy and work with a small group of educators to discuss applications.

Tate is a former classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator and countywide staff development executive director. She is also CEO of Developing Minds Inc., an organization that promotes brain-building instructional strategies. She has presented to more than 75,000 administrators, teachers, parents and community leaders. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College, a master's degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan, an educational specialist degree from Georgia State University and a doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University.

"Tate's message is of vital interest to teachers and administrators," says interim Institute Director John Crubaugh. He explains that truancy and building motivation in truant students is a major challenge in many schools across the nation, including northeastern Wisconsin schools. With the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as "No Child Left Behind," the implications of truancy could be serious.

The Fall conference also features the research of area educators in a showcase representing candidates in the UW-Green Bay Master's Program in Applied Leadership for Teaching and Learning, the Institute for Learning Partnership's Accomplished Educator Professional Development Certificate (PDC) Program, educators who received Institute grants for improving teaching and learning, and UW-Green Bay's undergraduate students in education.

Conference information is available at (920) 465-5555 or by e-mail to learnpart@uwgb.edu.

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Films challenging Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" to be shown

GREEN BAY -University of Wisconsin-Green Bay student organizations are sponsoring showings of two films that challenge the assertions of filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

The films - "Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which The Brain Begins to Die" and "Fahrenhype 9/11" - challenge Moore's view of President George W. Bush's agenda for the country after the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy.

The first campus screening of the films, sponsored by the College Republicans, starts at 7 p.m. Friday (Oct. 22) in the University Union's Christie Theater.

The Good Times Programming student organization will show the films again at 7 p.m. Monday (Oct. 25), also in the Christie Theater.

The showings of the two films are free and open to the public.

Moore is scheduled to speak in person at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at UW-Green Bay on Saturday, Oct. 23. His multimedia presentations at 7 and 9:30 p.m. will include clips from some of his films.

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"Brown County Diversity Circles" kickoff set for Monday

GREEN BAY - The public is invited to the kickoff Monday (Oct. 18) of a new project to improve relations among the county’s diverse populations.

Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt and Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce President Paul Jadin will help kick off “Brown County Diversity Circles.” The event will be held at the YWCA of Green Bay-De Pere, 230 S. Madison St. It runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The keynote speaker for the kickoff will be Fran Frazier, an award-winning consultant and facilitator for the national Study Circles Resource Center.

Diversity Circles bring together people from different backgrounds and viewpoints to discuss issues of importance to communities. A strength of the process is that it provides concerned citizens an opportunity to move from dialogue to action.

“Brown County Diversity Circles” was developed by a volunteer coalition that reflects the community’s distinctive personality. Project sponsorship includes the three higher education institutions in Northeastern Wisconsin (the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, St. Norbert College and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College), leaders from Hmong, Hispanic, American Indian and African American populations, and a variety of civic organizations that endorse the project’s goals.

The first round of Diversity Circles discussions, which will address issues related to immigration and the impact of Brown County’s changing population, begins later this month.

To register for a Diversity Circle, call UW-Green Bay Outreach and Extension at (920) 465-2642 or (800) 892-2118 or register online at http://www.uwgb.edu/outreach/diversity.

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Symphonic concert has 'spooky' overtones

GREEN BAY - "Witches, Eels, Phantoms, Soldiers, Knights and Damsels" is the theme when the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. Director of Bands Kevin Collins directs both groups.

Wind Symphony is the new name for the former Wind Ensemble and represents the increasing size of the group and the more symphonic nature of the repertoire it is playing, says Collins. "This gives our students additional educational opportunities to perform orchestral works and provides audiences with more varied, and sometimes more familiar, programming," he explains.

The Wind Symphony will perform Gustav Holst's First Suite in E-flat for Military Band; "Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon;" and two "spooky" pieces: "Tam o'Shanter," by Malcolm Arnold and "March to the Scaffold," from "Symphonie Fantastique" by Hector Berlioz.

The Symphonic Band program includes works by three living composers: "Aquarium," by Johan de Meij; "Fortress" by Frank Ticheli; and selections from Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Phantom of the Opera."

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

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Legal historian will speak at UW-Green Bay on Wisconsin case

GREEN BAY - American Legal Historian Christine Compston will speak on "Wisconsin v. Yoder: Whose Rights? Which Rights? Why?" at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 22 in the Christie Theater located in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The case Wisconsin v. Yoder went before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972. Three Amish families had sued the state of Wisconsin over requirements that children stay in school until age 16, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court had found in favor of the families. In an appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed that Wisconsin Law violated the families' free exercise of religion.

Compston's major fields of inquiry include U.S. Constitutional and legal history and U.S. social history. Her books include one on former Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, "Earl Warren: Justice for All," and a co-edited volume on two other justices, "Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912 - 1934."Compston's Ph.D. dissertation looked at judicial decision making in Supreme Court cases involving aid to sectarian schools. Compston's most recent professional presentations have been on various aspects of the U.S. Supreme Court and on civil liberties in the aftermath of 9/11.

She also is co-editor of "Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives," published by Oxford University Press in 2003.

Compston has had extensive involvement in civic education programs and projects. She is a consultant for young adult and reference books for Oxford University Press, and for the social science and history College-Level Examination Program for the Educational Testing Service. She has written teacher's guides, made presentations on teaching history using primary sources, collaborated on educational programming for Public Television, and participated in the debate on national teaching standards for American history.

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

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UW-Green Bay students invite community to safe trick or treat

GREEN BAY - Parents are invited to bring children ages 14 and under to a Safe Night of Trick or Treating from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28 on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus. Trick or treaters and their parents may arrive at the Ecumenical Center on the east side of campus at any time during that time period. Parking is in the Phoenix Sports Center lot located between the Sports Center and the Ecumenical Center.

Tour guides will lead the children trick or treating in the UW-Green Bay student apartments and apartment suite buildings. Younger children will be taken to the nearest buildings.

The Safe Night of Trick or Treating is sponsored by the Community Apartment Board (CAB), a student programming organization for residents of the apartments and apartment suite buildings.

Publicist Kari Steger says about 100 student rooms participated in the first CAB-sponsored Safe Night of Trick or Treating in 2003. She noted that the tour guides dressed up, students decorated their rooms, and some of the student residents were in costume, too: "It was a lot of fun."

Information about the Safe Night of Trick or Treating is available from Chris Engstrom at 883-4408, Zach McLain at 883-4483 or Matt Mott by e-mail to mottm@uwgb.edu.

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City stars in 'Our Town 1854' at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - One of the last performances of "Our Town 1854,"an original musical play celebrating Green Bay's founding, will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19 in the Christie Theater located in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The event is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted.

Created especially for the city's 150th anniversary, the play is a production of Heritage Players.

All of the play's content is based on accounts in 1854 Green Bay newspapers: a fire that destroyed much of downtown, the hardships faced by the first Belgian immigrants, the first city council meeting with the new mayor, vignettes of six important Green Bay women, the first performance of the Green Bay Choral Society, the first circus performance, and an excerpt from an 1854 theatrical performance.

Bev and Stu Smith direct the production. Musical director Mary Eisenreich composed and arranged the original title song, "Our Town 1854." Dierdra Baumgart created authentic period costumes.

Cast members include Dave and Sandy Zochert, Roger Lawyer, Craig Berken, Kathy Nelson, Bill and Nancy Jones, Michael Murphy, Lee Bock, Michael Troyer, Eisenreich, and the Smiths.

Heritage Players is a community-based theater company organized to present programs and plays of historical significance to the Green Bay area. The group is supported by the Brown County Historical Society and the Neville Public Museum of Brown County.

The UW-Green Bay performance of "Our Town 1854" is sponsored by the Friends of the Cofrin Library, an organization dedicated to supporting the library at UW-Green Bay.

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Lecture on Edith Stein, 20th century saint, set at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - "Being a Person in a Political World: Saint Edith Stein on the Soul," is the topic of a lecture by Prof. Sarah Borden of Wheaton College at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18 in the Christie Theater located in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green By, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The event is free and open to the public.

Edith Stein gained fame in the 20th Century as a scholar, an early European feminist, a Catholic convert, a victim of the Holocaust, and a saint. Borden's book, "Edith Stein," was published by Continuum in December 2003. It is part of a series on Outstanding Christian Thinkers.

Says Borden, "Throughout her work, [Stein] developed a distinct vision of the person and our relations with others that both confirms certain insights of our contemporary society and challenges our individualism."

Stein was born in Germany near the end of the 19th Century to a devout Jewish family. She came to Christianity through the study of philosophy at university. Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, was among her professors. Stein became a leading voice in the Catholic Woman's Movement in Germany. At about the time that Hitler rose to power, she joined the Carmelite Order. As Nazi activity grew, the Order sent Stein to the Netherlands for safety, but after Holland also fell to the Nazis, Stein and her sister, by then also a member of the Order, were rounded up and deported to a concentration camp where both died.

Borden, who earned her Ph.D. degree from Fordham University, began teaching in the Philosophy Department at Wheaton College in 2001. Borden's Ph.D. dissertation examined aspects of Stein's philosophy.

The lecture is sponsored by the Humanistic Studies academic unit and the Office of Student Life.

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UW-Green Bay names Teaching Scholars

GREEN BAY - Five new faculty members have been named Teaching Scholars and seven veteran faculty members have been selected to a new Teaching Scholars II program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The Teaching Scholars program, beginning its fifth year, offers an opportunity to the University's newest faculty members who want to spend a year studying teaching and learning in order to hone their teaching skills. The program was initiated by Professors Denise Scheberle and Fergus Hughes, at a time when significant numbers of new faculty were joining UW-Green Bay as senior faculty retired. A grant from the UW System Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) supported the start-up. So far, 34 new faculty members have completed the program.

A pilot Teaching Scholars II program began this year with the aid of another OPID grant. It is for already-tenured faculty members who want to continue scholarly inquiry into teaching and learning, and develop a new teaching strategy in their classrooms.

Members of the 2004-2005 Teaching Scholars "class" and their teaching units are:
Scott Ashmann, Education
Craig Hanke, Human Biology and Biology
John Plier, Communication and the Arts and Music
Bryan Vescio, Humanistic Studies and English
David Voelker, Humanistic Studies and History

Teaching Scholars II for 2004-2005 and their units are:
Clifford Abbott, Information and Computing Science and Communication
Scott Furlong, Public and Environmental Affairs and Political Science
Aeron Haynie, Humanistic Studies, English and Women's Studies
Catherine Henze, Humanistic Studies, English and Women's Studies
Jennifer Mokren, Communication and the Arts and Art
Illene Noppe, Human Development and Psychology
Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges, Urban and Regional Studies and Psychology

Scheberle says the Teaching Scholar programs are, "...a celebration of purposeful teaching that is sensitive to student learning." She and Prof. Regan Gurung co-direct the programs.

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Public 'brainstorming' set for Green Bay, Scott, Humboldt development

GREEN BAY - Residents of the city of Green Bay and the towns of Scott and Humboldt are invited to a public "brainstorming" session at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12 in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Room 210 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The purpose of the informal meeting is to gather ideas on development of a large tract of land slated for mixed-use within the next few years. Approximately 2,500 acres roughly bounded by State Highways 54-57, Church Road on the north and Ronsman Road on the southeast are under discussion.

The session is sponsored by students in the UW-Green Bay Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P) Graduate Program seminar who are working with developers to create a plan that encourages energy efficient homes and businesses and open spaces. Topics for discussion include residential layout and type, desirable commercial businesses, energy efficiency and a recreational trail system.

Students in the ES&P master's degree program final seminar regularly complete a "real" project in the community.

Information about Tuesday's meeting is available from Prof. Patricia Terry, chairperson of the Environmental Science and Policy Program, at (920) 465-2749 or by e-mail to terryp@uwgb.edu.

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Phuture Phoenix Day aims to inspire interest in learning

GREEN BAY - About 830 fifth-grade students will visit the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Wednesday (Oct. 13) for Phuture Phoenix Day, a day of activities encouraging youngsters to pursue a college education.

Fifth-graders from 10 Green Bay elementary schools and the West De Pere and Shawano-Gresham school districts will participate in the program, which has grown substantially since the first Phuture Phoenix Day in 2003. Shawano-Gresham is new to the program this year.

Green Bay elementary schools participating are Chappell, Danz, Eisenhower, Fort Howard, Howe, Jefferson, Lincoln, Nicolet, Sullivan and Tank schools.

Students will visit classrooms, residence halls, the Cofrin Library, the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, the Phoenix Sports Center and other parts of the campus. The fifth-graders also will work with nearly 250 UW-Green Bay students who are serving as mentors for the youngsters.

Phuture Phoenix is led by Cyndie Shepard, wife of UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard. Cyndie Shepard has an extensive background in K-12 education.

Shepard said Phuture Phoenix has received strong support from the community as well as UW-Green Bay students, faculty and staff.

"The community and the faculty, staff and students of UWGB have generously volunteered their time to support our dream of encouraging these fifth-graders to finish high school and consider continuing their education," she said.

The Phuture Phoenix program is more than a one-day field trip to the campus, Shepard said. Connecting the fifth-graders to mentors is essential to the program's success, she said.

"The field trip is the vehicle to get them to their role models," she said. "The role models take them to their future."

The fifth-graders will arrive on campus at 9:30 a.m. and attend an introductory program at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts. The program will feature performances by the UW-Green Bay hand-drumming ensemble and pep band and a skit about the origin of the Phoenix, which is the University's mascot.

Melissa Staley, Miss Green Bay Area 2004 and a UW-Green Bay student, will speak to the youngsters about the importance of education. Staley is a Phuture Phoenix mentor.

Activities throughout the day will include classroom visits and experiences, activities involving UW-Green Bay student-athletes and an ice cream social with the chancellor.

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Students in UW-Green Bay class step up to help others

GREEN BAY - Sixteen students in the Public and Nonprofit Management class at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay are announcing the second annual Steps to Make a Difference Walk on Saturday, Oct. 16 on the UW-Green Bay campus.

The walk will raise money for six different nonprofit organizations: N.E.W. Community Clinic, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's Disease) Therapy Development Foundation, the Baird Creek Preservation Foundation, and Lakeland Chapter of the American Red Cross.

The total goal is $10,000. That's an increase over the 2003 walk that far exceeded its goal. Schreiber Foods, Inc., has pledged a matching donation up to $2,000. The first walk last year aimed to raise $2,000, but wound up raising more than $5,000 for four nonprofit organizations. Schreiber chipped in $1,000 in 2003.

All of the money raised will go to the nonprofit organizations. Support from Aurora BayCare Medical Center, the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, the Student Government Association, the Office of Student Life, and Sodexho means that none of the proceeds will be used for overhead.

Students in the class are organizing the entire event and they'll lead the walk. The activity fits in with the goals of the class — learning how to manage in public and nonprofit organization settings — and it's the students' contribution to national Make a Difference Day. Class instructor Prof. Denise Scheberle initiated the walk in 2003 as a way for students to practice what they were learning in the classroom.

Community members as well as individuals connected with the University are invited to walk or lead walk teams.

Registration for the walk will begin at 10 a.m. in the Nicolet Room of University Union. The walk will start at 10:30 a.m. Walkers may choose a two-mile walk or complete the entire 4.1-mile Cofrin Arboretum route.

Donors can choose which of the six organizations they want to support with cash or check. Checks should be made out directly to the organization. Donations may be given to a walker, or they can be sent to the Steps to Make a Difference Walk in care of the Office of Student Life, UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr., Green Bay, WI 54311.

Walk information is available from Walk Director Aaron Frailing by e-mail to FRAIAP24@uwgb.edu, or from Prof. Scheberle at (920) 465-2198 or scheberd@uwgb.edu.

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Guest artist, Preble Choir join in UW-Green Bay choral concert

GREEN BAY - Baritone Eric Graber will be the guest soloist and the Preble High School Chamber Choir will be the guest choir when University of Wisconsin-Green Bay choral groups perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Graber will be the soloist with the UW-Green Bay Concert Choir on "Five Mystical Songs" for choir and baritone soloist by Ralph Vaughn Williams. John Plier directs the Concert Choir.

Graber appears as a concert artist throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has won critical acclaim for his opera roles. Graber also has been a director and conductor of choirs, and spent three years as lead singer for the Steamboat Stowaways quartet, performing in the U.S. and Canada. Graber has won several awards, including the Barthelmes Award in the Metropolitan Opera Competition. He presently maintains a private studio in Denver.

Graber and Plier, a tenor, will perform the duet, "Au fond du temple saint," from Bizet's opera, "The Pearl Fishers." They'll be accompanied by Janet Osterberg, who also accompanies the Concert Choir.

The Preble High School Chamber Choir, directed by Susan McAllister, will contribute three numbers to the program. The Preble group has been selected to perform at the Wisconsin State Music Association conference in Madison later this month.

William Witwer will conduct the 27-voice Phoenix Chorale in selections by Claudio Monteverdi, Gabriel Faure, and two contemporary American composers. Both Eric Whitaker and Daniel Gawthrop have won awards or commissions from the American Choral Directors Association. The Chorale will perform Whitaker's "Sleep," and Gawthrop's "Sing a Mighty Song." Text for the latter was written by his wife, the poet Jane Griner. Benjamin Moritz accompanies the Phoenix Chorale.

Witwer, who is UW-Green Bay director of choral activities, also will conduct the University Chorus in works by contemporary American composers Andrea Jill Higgins and Timothy Snyder, and a selection by Stephen Foster. Richard Perry is the accompanist.

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

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UW-Green Bay Cultural Fair is Oct. 13

GREEN BAY - Entertainment, food, exhibits and vendors will represent many different cultures at the annual University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Cultural Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13 in the Phoenix Rooms of University Union on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The event is free and open to the public.

The featured entertainment from noon to 1 p.m. is Wade Fernandez and the Black Wolf Group. The group has two albums that have won praise in Europe and the U.S. Fernandez has shared the stage with Jackson Browne, Bill Miller, The Indigo Girls, Robert Redford and Leon Redbone. He has been nominated for several Native American Music Awards. Fernandez, who writes his own songs, won the 2001 Writer of the Year award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. In November, the group will go on tour in Germany and Switzerland where they toured extensively last year. Fernandez has roots on the Menominee Indian Reservation.

Other scheduled entertainment includes:
10 - 10:45 a.m. -Reggae and blues guitarist Tim Burton
11:15 - 11:45 a.m. The Shamrock Club Dancers
1 - 1:30 p.m. Citlalli-Alma de Mexico
1:30 - 2 p.m. Menominee Indian High School Singers and Dancers

Attendees will be able to sample international coffees and desserts, and shop for items including South American knitwear, Hmong needlework, Native American artwork and jewelry, and dreidels and other items of Judaica.

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UW-Green Bay to host "DebateWatch" for third presidential debate Oct. 13

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will offer another opportunity for campus and community members to watch and discuss a Bush-Kerry presidential debate.

UW-Green Bay will be the site of a viewing and discussion of the third and final presidential candidate debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday, Oct. 13. The public is invited.

The gathering will take place in the 1965 Room of UW-Green Bay's University Union. The nationally televised debate is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.

The campus-community gathering is part of DebateWatch, a nationwide voter education program of the Commission on Presidential Debates. Participants watch the debate together and then participate in group discussions afterward.

UW-Green Bay hosted a similar event for the first Bush-Kerry debate Sept. 30. The success of that event led to the decision to have a second DebateWatch at the University, according to Prof. Scott Furlong, a political scientist and chairperson of the Public and Environmental Affairs academic unit. About 125 people attended the first DebateWatch.

"I think people were able to view the first debate in a different light," Furlong said. "Rather than exploring merely who won and who lost, they were encouraged to think about what was said and perhaps what wasn't said."

The third presidential candidate debate will be held at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. The debate will focus on economic and domestic policy.

Furlong said the tightening of the public opinion polls following the first debate should almost guarantee that the final debate will be important for the candidates in getting out their message and trying to persuade voters.

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UW-Green Bay alumni, community invited to 2nd annual Alumnifest

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will reach out to its alumni and the community when the University opens its doors Saturday, Oct. 16 for the second annual Alumnifest.

Tours of new and renovated classroom and laboratory buildings, golf, a social and reception, and much more will highlight UW-Green Bay Alumnifest.

"Alumnifest is a great way for our alumni and community members to connect with UW-Green Bay," said Mark Brunette, director of alumni relations. "Visitors to the campus will find plenty to do, and our alumni will have opportunities to catch up with their classmates and faculty."

The schedule of Alumnifest events includes:

• Golf, 1-3 p.m., Shorewood Golf Course. A block of tee times is reserved for alumni and friends of UW-Green Bay at a discount. Call (920) 465-2118 to reserve a tee time.

• Laboratory Sciences open house, 3-5 p.m. Alumni and community members — including area high school science students and their families — are invited to tour the new and improved building. A $15 million renovation and expansion has transformed the 35-year-old building into a showplace for science education in the 21st century.

• Studio Arts open house, 3-5 p.m. Music graduates can catch up with former faculty members and view the recently completed renovations of Studio Arts music rooms.

• Campus tours, 5 p.m. Tours of UW-Green Bay's newest academic building, the state-of-the-art Mary Ann Cofrin Hall, and other parts of the campus will begin in the Phoenix Rooms of the University Union.

• Social and reception, 6-7 p.m., Phoenix Rooms, University Union. Limited cash bar, silent auction and hors d'oeuvres will be available. Meet Chancellor Bruce Shepard and see yourself in vintage UW-Green Bay photos and memorabilia. A cost of $5 will cover the evening's events, food and a beverage.

• Music and fun, 7-10 p.m., Phoenix Rooms, University Union. An ensemble of alumni and current members of the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble will perform swing, contemporary and jazz music - and a little Frank Sinatra.

Pre-registration for Alumnifest is encouraged. To register, contact Brunette by phone at (920) 465-2586 or by email at alumni@uwgb.edu or register online at http://www.uwgb.edu/alumni.

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UW-Green Bay play opener is funny, but the characters don't laugh

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Theater opens its season with a production of "Escape from Happiness" by George F. Walker at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 15-16 and Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 21-23 in University Theater located in Theater Hall on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Walker, a celebrated Canadian playwright, sets the play in a run-down family home located in a declining neighborhood. The threats to the family living in the house come from the neighborhood outside.

Director John Mariano says the play is about the family "gluing itself back together" while coping with the outside threats. Adds Mariano, "The play is funny. But the characters don't think it's funny, They are just trying to deal."

"Escape From Happiness" is one of a trilogy that Walker — a former taxi driver — calls his East End plays. Walker was himself born in Toronto's working class East End district. But, says Mariano, the truth of the play is not exclusive to Toronto. "It could be in any city in a neighborhood that has disintegrated into a high crime area." The play contains strong language and adult content.

Walker's plays have been performed widely in Canada and the U.S., and have been translated into German, French, Hebrew, Turkish, Polish and Czech.

Scenic design for "Escape From Happiness" is by Jeffrey Entwistle; Kaiome Malloy is the costume designer; and R. Michael Ingraham is the technical director and lighting designer. All are members of the UW-Green Bay faculty. Student Eric Klingbeil is the properties designer.

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door for adults and $10 in advance and $12 at the door for seniors and students. UW-Green Bay student tickets are $8. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or (800) 328-8587.

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Old and new in Romania are topics of UW-Green Bay lecture, exhibit

GREEN BAY - Photographer Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin will give an illustrated public lecture on "Tradition and Change in Transylvania" on Wednesday, Oct. 13 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay prior to an opening of an exhibit of her photographs in the University's Lawton Gallery on Thursday, Oct. 14.

The lecture will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Christie Theater located in University Union, and the exhibit will open with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 14 in the Lawton Gallery located in Theater Hall. Both events are free and open to the public. McLaughlin will attend the exhibit opening and will have copies of a catalog of her black and white work available for sale.

The lecture and exhibit will feature two series of photographs McLaughlin made in the Transylvania region of Romania between 1999 and 2003. McLaughlin says both sets of work are animated by the changes that have been taking place in Romania since the breakup of the Soviet Bloc of countries.

"The Color of Hay" is a series of black and white photographs documenting rural peasant life. McLaughlin began the work when she lived in the small village of Sarbi, Romania, from fall 1999 to fall 2000. McLaughlin says she found the region unique among former Soviet Bloc areas because it escaped collectivized farming due to poor soil and hilly landscape. The result was preservation of an earlier way of life. Even since the breakup of the former Eastern Bloc, change has been slow to come to the valleys of northern Romania, McLaughlin notes. Two photographs from this group were part of the Midwest Photography Invitational XII at UW-Green Bay in 2002.

"Shades of Romania," is series of color images focused on subjects in the contemporary urban environment of Romania.

Both series will be on display in the Lawton Gallery through November 4. Lawton Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. McLaughlin, who characterizes her photographs as being about disappearing traditions among people of Eastern Europe, says her purpose is "to capture and convey images of their way of life before it becomes further compromised by globalization."

McLaughlin has exhibited her work across the U.S. and in England, France, Italy and China. In 2003, exhibits were held in Romania at the National Museum of Art and the Romanian Peasant Museum. She also has shown the work at the Romanian Cultural Center in New York.

McLaughlin earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a past recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholarship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

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Space Grant Consortium announces Laurel Salton Clark fellowship

GREEN BAY - The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium has established a graduate fellowship award to honor Dr. Laurel Salton Clark, the Wisconsin astronaut who died aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in February 2003.

The Dr. Laurel Salton Clark Memorial Graduate Fellowship Award will be awarded annually to a promising Wisconsin graduate student pursuing studies in environmental or life sciences and whose research has an aerospace component. The student must attend a Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium college or university.

A call for student applications for the new fellowship will go out in November.

The fellowship recipient will personify the qualities of leadership, intellectual balance and commitment to improving the human condition that were the hallmarks of Clark's life.

"This fellowship honors a bright, accomplished and courageous woman by providing opportunities to Wisconsinites to follow in her footsteps," Consortium Director Aileen Yingst said.

Clark died Feb. 1, 2003 over the southern United States when Columbia and her crew perished during entry, just prior to the shuttle's scheduled landing.

Clark was a graduate of Racine Horlick High School. She received a bachelor's degree in zoology and a doctorate in medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The recipient of the scholarship award will receive a direct stipend of $5,000 for the current academic year.

To learn more about eligibility and application requirements for the Clark fellowship, contact the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium by phone at (920) 465-2108 or by e-mail at wsgc@uwgb.edu.

The Space Grant Consortium, based at UW-Green Bay, is dedicated to using the excitement and vision of the nation's space program to equip Wisconsin citizens with the math, science and technology tools needed to thrive in the 21st century.

Members of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium include Alverno College; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics-Wisconsin Section, Madison; Astronautics Corp. of America, Milwaukee and Madison; BioPharmaceutical Technology Corp. Institute, Madison; Carroll College; the College of the Menominee Nation; Great Lakes Spaceport Education Foundation, Inc., Sheboygan; Lawrence University; Marquette University; the Medical College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee School of Engineering; Orbital Technologies Corp., Madison; PLANET LLC, Madison; Promega, Madison; Ripon College; Space Explorers, Inc., De Pere; the Universities of Wisconsin at Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Parkside, Superior and Whitewater; the Wisconsin Association of CESA Administrators; the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction; the Wisconsin Department of Transportation; Wisconsin Lutheran College; and the Wisconsin Space Business Roundtable. UW-Green Bay is the lead institution.

More information about the Space Grant Consortium and other funding opportunities can be found online at www.uwgb.edu/WSGC.

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"Brown County Diversity Circles" set to kick off this month

GREEN BAY - "Brown County Diversity Circles," a new project to improve relations among the county's diverse populations, kicks off with a communitywide event Monday, Oct. 18.

Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt and Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce President Paul Jadin will be among the speakers at the event at the YWCA of Green Bay-De Pere, 230 S. Madison St. The kickoff event, which runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.

The keynote speaker will be Fran Frazier, an award-winning consultant and facilitator for the national Study Circles Resource Center.

Registration for the first round of Diversity Circles discussions already is open. The initial round will address issues related to immigration and the impact of Brown County's changing population. Each small discussion group will meet for two hours weekly for four weeks.

Diversity Circles bring together people from different backgrounds and viewpoints to discuss issues of importance to communities. A strength of the process is that it provides concerned citizens an opportunity to move from dialogue to action.

The Brown County project involves more than 30 community groups, including University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty, staff and students.

Diversity Circles provide a powerful tool for getting people to talk with each other, especially about difficult and polarizing topics, according to Barbara McClure-Lukens of UW-Green Bay Outreach and Extension.

"They bring together people from diverse backgrounds to uncover common ground and build relationships," she said. "Then positive change can happen."

The first round of Diversity Circles includes the following sessions:

• Group One: Oct. 28, Nov. 4, Nov. 11 and Nov. 18 at the Multicultural Center of Greater Green Bay, 612 Stuart St. Sessions will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Group Two: Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Nov. 9 and Nov. 16 at the UW-Green Bay Downtown Learning Center at Washington Commons. Sessions will run from 6 to 8 p.m.

• Group Three: Oct. 27, Nov. 3, Nov. 10 and Nov. 17 at the Multicultural Center of Greater Green Bay. Sessions run from 6 to 8 p.m.

Participants who attend each four-session Diversity Circle will receive a certificate of attendance.

The "Brown County Diversity Circles" project was developed by a volunteer coalition that reflects the community's distinctive personality. Project sponsorship includes the three higher education institutions in Northeastern Wisconsin (UW-Green Bay, St. Norbert College and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College), leaders from Hmong, Hispanic, American Indian and African American populations, and a variety of civic organizations that endorse the project's goals.

To register for a Diversity Circle, call UW-Green Bay Outreach and Extension at (920) 465-2642 or (800) 892-2118 or register online at http://www.uwgb.edu/outreach/diversity.

For more information about the project, contact Barbara McClure-Lukens, UW-Green Bay Outreach and Extension, by phone at (920) 465-2222 or by e-mail at mcclureb@uwgb.edu.

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