September 2004

UW-Green Bay workshop focuses on invasive plants

GREEN BAY - Botanist and botanical consultant Gary Fewless will present a workshop on Invasive Plant Species from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 9 at the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity located in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Suite 212 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The workshop is free, but because space is limited, advance registration is required.

Invasive plants are introduced species that invade the local vegetation and grow with such vigor that they dominate the area and exclude native species, Fewless explains. The workshop will discuss purple loosestrife, common reed, reed canary grass, garlic mustard and other species.

Fewless will teach participants how to recognize invasive plants, discuss their ecology, and give information on effective controls.

Fewless is the botanist for the University's Cofrin Arboretum and curator of the UW-Green Bay Herbarium. He has taught field botany courses at UW-Green Bay for more than 20 years. Fewless has been a botanical consultant in northeastern Wisconsin since 1979, working primarily with endangered and threatened species and wetlands. He is among the state's experts on identification and control of invasive species.

Workshop participants will get basic information in an indoors session and then take a field walk to seek out invasive plants. Attendees should dress for the weather of the day.

Questions and registration can be directed to (920) 465-5032 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.

(04-181 / 30 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay to induct first members of psychology honor society

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has been granted a charter for Psi Chi, the national honor society for psychology students.

UW-Green Bay's Psi Chi chapter will induct its first members at a ceremony at 5 p.m. Friday (Oct. 1) in Phoenix Rooms A and B of the University Union. Forty-one Human Development and Psychology students will be initiated.

Psi Chi was founded in 1929 to encourage, stimulate and maintain excellence in scholarship and to advance the science of psychology. It has chapters at more than 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Many of the society's members have gone on to distinguished careers in psychology.

"It is a wonderful achievement for us to get a chapter and a credit to the active and hard-working students in Human Development and Psychology, two of the campus's largest majors," said Prof. Regan Gurung, Psi Chi faculty adviser.

UW-Green Bay students being inducted into Psi Chi are Anne Brede, Amanda Brown, Carly Chrouser, Angela Deuchert, Lisa Dumke, Rebecca Heim, Robert Hudson, Mathew Lancelle, Christina Prust, and Andrew Van Sistine, all of Green Bay; Wendy Berth, Chilton; Ashley Boivin, Marinette; Allison Brunner and Tina St. Charles, De Pere; Diana Duquette, Brillion; Maria Goin, Menasha; Kristin Grudzielanek and Amanda Loewen, Sheboygan; Jennifer Hahn, Hartland; Jill Hamm, Mauston; Melissa Jones, Waupun; Andrea Jordan, Cross Plains; Heather Klein, Hilbert; Krystle Lange, Abbotsford; Mariah Luchterhand, Unity; Sylvia Malcore, Gregory Pouliot, and Jimmie Riley, Luxemburg; Miranda Maring, Hazel Green; Kristin Mauk, Plymouth; Carissa Mercier, LaValle; Amber Pyne, Franklin; Jillian Schofield, Merrill; Becky Siegler, Rudolph; Sarah Stock, Manitowoc; Jennica Thiers, Roseville, Minn.; Christina Tosh, Verona; Kristen Vareka, Newton; Sarah Voss, Burlington; Annette Wagner, Coleman; and Jill West, Grafton.

The chapter's officers are Sylvia Malcore, president; Greg Pouliot, vice president; Amber Pyne, secretary; and Rebecca Heim, treasurer.

(04-180 / 29 September 2004 / SH)

Grosso will be Frankenthal Professor at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Prof. Cheryl Grosso, long-time member of the faculty, has been named to the Frankenthal Professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She will officially assume the title on Jan. 1, 2005.

Named professorships support the scholarship of outstanding faculty members. The stipend associated with the professorship is for a limited time, usually three to five years, but the recipient retains the title for life.

The Frankenthal Professorship was established in 1980 in honor of the late Siegfried W. Frankenthal of Green Bay by members of the Frankenthal family. It was the first named professorship at UW-Green Bay. Grosso will be the sixth faculty member to hold the title.

Grosso's scholarly work includes composing, performing and conducting music. In her role as a faculty member, she teaches and mentors students, and serves the University in institutional capacities. In the early 1990s, Grosso received a UW System award for teaching excellence over a five-year period. Last month, she won the 2004 UW-Green Bay Founders Association Award for Excellence in Scholarship.

Grosso began teaching at UW-Green Bay in 1985 and progressed to the title of full professor. She has been chairperson of music, served two terms as chairperson of the Communication and the Arts academic program, and spent a year as interim dean of liberal arts and sciences. She founded and directs the UW-Green Bay Hand Drumming Ensemble.

Grosso's compositions are of two types: western art music or classical music, and music for hand drumming ensemble. Both have won regard from other composers, teachers, conductors, publishers, and others in the music world. Two highly reputable publishers, Smith Publications Sonic Art Editions and Studio 4 Publishing Company, have published her classical works, and another major publisher, Alfred Music Publishers, has published her hand drumming compositions. Alfred first published her methods book, "Hand Drumming Essentials: The Instruments, Techniques, and Compositions for Ensemble Performance." Grosso has composed 44 pieces for hand drumming ensemble since 1980.

Grosso received an Award of Merit at the 1995 Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.) American College Theater Festival for incidental music she composed to accompany "All in the Timing," six one-act plays by David Ives. Grosso has composed for film, dance, and chamber ensemble. Her compositions and arrangements have been performed by professional and student musicians across the country.

As a performer, Grosso has given solo recitals, including two live broadcasts carried on Wisconsin Public Radio. She continues to perform with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, with chamber groups and other small ensembles, and with professional performing groups that tour to the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts.

Grosso has conducted the UW-Green Bay Contemporary Percussion Ensemble for 19 years, and for several years conducted the New Music Ensemble.

Grosso has collaborated in creative endeavors with artists, dancers and choreographers, poets, theater professionals and others to develop works or performances that draw on multiple disciplines.

A graduate of Green Bay Southwest High School, Grosso earned her bachelor's degree at UW-Green Bay. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in percussion performance from California Institute of the Arts, and she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Iowa.

(04-179 / 27 September 2004 / VCD)

Workshop will help caregivers with cultural issues

GREEN BAY- Ira SenGupta, executive director of the Cross Cultural Health Care Program, Seattle, Wash., will lead workshops on Thursday, Oct. 14 and Friday, Oct. 15 for physicians, nurses, psychologists, chaplains, social workers, case managers, funeral directors, hospice workers, clergy, translators and others who provide end-of-life care.

The one-day workshop, Barriers and Bridges in End-of-Life Care, begins at 8:30 a.m. and concludes at 4:30 p.m. The same workshop will be presented each of the two days. Workshop participants will learn how to bridge cultural differences to become more effective care givers.

Attendees have three choices of workshop site. The Oct. 14 live workshop is at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The same live workshop will be presented on Oct. 15 at St. Vincent Hospital, with an interactive compressed video link to St. Norbert College.

The workshop fee is $29. Several underwriting organizations are making the low fee possible. Continuing education credits are available for social workers, funeral directors, physicians and nurses.

SenGupta has developed and conducted over 2,600 hours of trainings nationally in cross-cultural issues for health and social service providers within the past year alone. She conducts cultural and competency institutional assessments and is a consultant for the Health Resource Services Administration Managed Care Technical Assistance Center.

SenGupta has led several community-based research projects and is the principal investigator for a national study of best practices for the Cultural and Linguistically Appropriate Services standards for the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. She also serves on a committee developing training modules for primary care physicians.

Sponsors of the workshop include the Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education, the UW-Green Bay Institute on Dying, Death and Bereavement, St. Vincent Hospital, UW-Oshkosh, and St. Norbert College.

Complete information and registration is available on-line at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

(04-178 / 27 September 2004 / VCD)

Thomas Paine is lecture subject at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Thomas Paine, the revolutionary activist who had a major role in forming this country, will be the subject of a lecture at 11a.m. Friday, Oct. 8 in the Christie Theater located in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event is free and open to the public.

American historian Seth Cotlar, an assistant professor at Willamette University, Salem, Ore., will speak on "Thomas Paine and the Question of Democracy in the Early American Republic."

Cotlar has numerous publications, conference presentations and lectures to his credit on topics relating to the early years of the American Republic. He is the author of the article on Paine in a forthcoming "Encyclopedia of the New American Nation," and has taught an upper-division seminar, "Tom Paine and the Age of Democratic Revolutions."

The lecture is the first in the fall series sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change at UW-Green Bay.

(04-177 / 27 September 2004 / VCD)

20th Century American music scheduled at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Lawrence University will present a program of 20th century American music at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. Admission is free.

The performers will be Howard Niblock, oboe, and Ernestine Whitman, flute, both of Lawrence University, and Benjamin Moritz, piano, of UW-Green Bay.

Their program includes Sonata for Oboe and Piano by James Niblock; "Black Anemones," by Joseph Schwantner; Scherzo, Aria, and Fugato by Kent Kennan; and Sonata for Flute and Piano by Samuel Zyman. All of the composers except Kennan are still living.

Niblock, a professor of oboe at Lawrence Conservatory, has performed throughout the United Sates and Europe, including performances in Munich, Vienna, Paris, Rome and Milan. He formerly was a guest lecturer of music at the Vienna Academy of Music.

Whitman has performed under the batons of Robert Shaw, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Serkin, Andre Previn, and others. She was a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for seven years, and has performed at a number of prestigious music festivals. She is a professor of flute at Lawrence Conservatory.

Moritz began teaching at UW-Green Bay this fall. He recently has performed in music festivals in Italy, Turkey and the U.S. He is the keyboard coordinator at Michigan's Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Moritz also is an active pedagogue and clinician, presenting workshops at Bolivia's National Conservatory of Music, the Bursa State Conservatory in Turkey, and various universities in the U.S.

The three will perform the same program at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3 in Harper Hall at Lawrence University in Appleton.

(04-176 / 27 September 2004 / VCD)

Gay marriage debate at UW-Green Bay will air pro and con

GREEN BAY - Both sides of the issue on gay marriage-for and against-will be aired in a debate at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4 in the Phoenix Rooms of the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. Admission is free.

The debaters will be Elizabeth Birch, former executive director of Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organization, and Robert H. Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America.

UW-Green Bay Prof. Phillip Clampitt will moderate the discussion.

During Birch's tenure as executive director of Human Rights Campaign, membership grew from 100,000 to 500,000, and the organization developed strong educational and political action programs. Birch previously served as worldwide director of litigation for Apple Computer, Inc., and general counsel to Claris Corp., Apple's software subsidiary. She has helped various Fortune 500 companies develop and implement non-discrimination and domestic partner benefits policies.

Birch has long been active in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and HIV/Aids communities, and is the author of a number of HIV/AIDS anti-discrimination policies that are now law in California. In 2002, Birch was honored for her work in the civil rights community with an award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Among her other honors was being named the 9th Circuit Court's Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year.

Knight is a former editor and writer for the Los Angeles Times and a former Media Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He presently examines a variety of social issues in his role with the Culture and Family Institute. He wrote and directed that organization's documentary about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and a documentary about homosexuality. Knight was among those drafting the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Knight has written monographs on same-sex marriage, television sex and violence, and government sponsorship of the arts and broadcasting. He is the author of "The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture." Prior to taking his present position, Knight spent 10 years as director of cultural studies for the Family Research Council.

Both debaters have long lists of appearances they've made in various media venues.

The program at UW-Green Bay is sponsored by the Office of Student Life and the student organizations, Good Times Programming and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance.

(04-175 / 27 September 2004 / VCD)

Filmmaker, political activist Michael Moore to visit UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Academy Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author Michael Moore, whose newest film and political activism have recently put him in the news spotlight, will appear in Green Bay in October. Good Times Programming and the Office of Student Life will present Moore at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Saturday, Oct. 23.

Moore's lecture, titled "An Evening with Michael Moore," will feature a multimedia presentation encouraging the public to vote. It includes clips from some of his films.

Moore is best known for his work directing the films, "Roger and Me"; the Academy Awarding winning "Bowling for Columbine"; and most recently, "Fahrenheit 9/11," which has become the highest-grossing documentary of all time and the only documentary to premiere at number one in the box office after its opening weekend. The film presents Moore's view of President George W. Bush's agenda for the country after the September 11 tragedy, and it posits how and why that has led America to its current state.

As the nation's number one selling non-fiction author, Moore's books include "Stupid White Men" and "Dude, Where's My Country."

Moore will present two shows at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. The first will start at 7 p.m. and the second will follow at 9:30 p.m. Tickets for the event are $5 plus an additional $2 handling fee and may be purchased from the Weidner Center box office, 1-800-328-8587. UW-Green Bay students may purchase their tickets on Friday, Oct. 1 starting at 10 a.m. Tickets are limited to four per person. Ticket sales open to the general public on Saturday, Oct. 2 at 9 a.m.

Arrangements for the appearance of Michael Moore were made through the Greater Talent Network, Inc., New York, N.Y.

Contact: Grant Winslow, Phone: 920 465-2200 ext. 37, E-mail: winslowg@uwgb.edu.

(04-174 / 24 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay to be site for presidential debate "watch," discussion

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will be the site of a campus-community viewing and discussion of the first Bush-Kerry presidential debate Thursday, Sept. 30.

Campus and community members are invited to watch the televised debate together and then participate in group discussions afterward. The gathering will take place in Phoenix Room B of UW-Green Bay's University Union. The debate is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.

The UW-Green Bay event will be hosted by Prof. Scott Furlong, a political scientist and chairperson of the Public and Environmental Affairs academic unit. The UW-Green Bay Office of Student Life also is helping organize the event.

The campus-community gathering is part of DebateWatch, a nationwide voter education program of the Commission on Presidential Debates.

The first of three nationally televised presidential candidate debates between President George Bush and Sen. John Kerry will be held at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. The debate will focus on foreign policy and homeland security.

Furlong said presidential debates have become a "rite of passage" since the famous Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960.

"In an election year when the two candidates are very close in the polls, the debates take on more importance in trying to sway those voters sitting on the fence," Furlong said. "I hope in the DebateWatch to not only have people watch the debate, but also to engage in some political dialogue among peers following the debate."

(04-173 / 23 September 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay fall series for nonprofits moves downtown, starts Friday

GREEN BAY - The professional development series of workshops for managers and others in nonprofit organizations sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Office of Outreach kicks off its fall schedule on Friday, Sept. 24 in a new location. All of the workshops will be held in the new UW-Green Bay Downtown Learning Center at Washington Commons, rather than on the University campus.

The workshop series provides training in critical skills for managers, staff, board members and volunteers who work in nonprofit or government agencies.

All of the workshops are from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The fee is $119 per training day, but two or more individuals from the same organization get a reduced fee of $99 per training day. Complete details about the workshops are available at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed/. Registration also is available on-line.

Here's the fall schedule:

Friday, Sept. 24
Evaluating and Improving Organizational Effectiveness
Instructor: Lora Warner, president of Planning and Evaluation Association and an adjunct instructor at UW-Green Bay.

Friday, Oct. 29
Leadership and Managing Change
Instructor: Thomas J. Harvey, senior vice president of the Alliance for Children and Families, Milwaukee.

Friday, Nov. 19
Working Effectively with Your Nonprofit Board
Instructor: Virginia Baeten, executive director, Brown County Association for Retarded Citizens.

New workshop topics will be added to the series in spring, including Fundraising for Nonprofits on April 8 and Managing in a Downsized World on May 13.

(04-172 / 21 September 2004 / VCD)

Student will direct Schnitzler play at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay senior Erica Fuss will direct "La Ronde," a one-act play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1-2 in Theater Hall Room 110 on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. Admission is free.

Schnitzler, who lived from 1862 to 1931, explored the psychology of intimacy in his plays. In "La Ronde" as in many of his plays, a lover and a mistress are central characters. A biographer wrote that Schnitzler's dramatic method was "the intellectualization, the refinement of the Viennese waltz."

Student-led plays at UW-Green Bay give advanced theater students an opportunity to direct their own productions. Faculty members are available as resources, but students are responsible for all aspects of the production. Usually two or three student-directed plays are performed each year.

Fuss, a native of Holmen, is a Theater major emphasizing studies in theater design. Her experience on the UW-Green Bay stage includes acting roles and technical credits. She served as stage manager for four productions, and her most recent on-stage appearance was in a major role in the Tom Stoppard play, "Arcadia."

(04-171 / 21 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay program portrays three Latin American women

GREEN BAY - "Tres Vidas," a chamber music ensemble work featuring the lives of three extraordinary Latin American women, will be performed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The free event is sponsored by the Organizacion Latino American.

Georgina Corbo will portray all three roles: Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, the subject of a highly regarded 2002 film by Julie Taymor; Salvadoran peasant-activist Rufina Amaya, one of the few survivors when Salvadoran Army officers on an anti-communist crusade killed more than 1,000 residents of her village in 1981; and Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni, who published several collections of poetry during her lifetime from 1892 to 1938.

Corbo has appeared Off-Broadway in New York, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at the International Theatre Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has had television roles in Law and Order, New York Undercover, and the movie of the week, "It's Always Something." She has been seen on Sesame Street as the letter "E" opposite Elmo. Corbo has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the State University of New York, Purchase, where she studied acting and Latin American Studies.

Music in the show includes popular and folk songs from Mexico, El Salvador and Argentina, transcriptions of works by the tango master Astor Piazzolla, and new music by composers from Argentina, Mexico and Cuba. The musical group is The Core Ensemble, a trio comprised of cello, piano and percussion. The group has performed in every region of the United States, and in Australia, the Caribbean, Russia and Ukraine. It has gained national recognition for its efforts to commission new chamber and multi-genre works.

"Tres Vidas" was written by Marjorie Agosin, an author and one of the leading voices of Latin American feminism in the United States. A native of Chile, she presently is a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College and recently was named a fellow to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

The director, Matthew Wright, has traveled across the United States as an actor, director and educator. He presently is on the theater faculty at Oberlin College.

(04-170 / 21 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Manitowoc assistant dean named registrar at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Michael Herrity, assistant dean for student services at the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc since 1987, has been appointed registrar at UW-Green Bay.

Herrity brings more than 25 years of experience in college-level student services to his new position at UW-Green Bay. He succeeds Michael Stearney, who has been serving as both interim registrar and assistant dean for enrollment and academic services.

Herrity starts at UW-Green Bay on Oct. 1.

Sue Keihn, UW-Green Bay associate provost for student services/dean of students, said Herrity is a good fit for the registrar's position.

"His wealth of experience and his understanding of the importance of the registrar to students, faculty and staff make him ideally suited for the job," Keihn said.

The registrar has a wide range of duties and responsibilities at UW-Green Bay. The registrar oversees an office responsible for student registration, records and transcripts, majors and minors, graduation, and other information important to students, faculty and staff.

At UW-Manitowoc, Herrity has been responsible for recruitment, admissions, advising, orientation, placement and ACT testing, registration and records, course scheduling, and other areas. UW-Manitowoc is one of 13 freshman/sophomore colleges in the UW System.

Herrity's career in higher education includes positions as adviser in the College of Arts & Sciences at Oklahoma State University, residence life coordinator at Oklahoma State and the University of Texas, and residence hall coordinator at the University of Northern Iowa. He also has worked as a teacher, coach and athletic director.

Herrity has a doctoral degree in higher education administration from Oklahoma State University, a master's degree in student personnel services from the University of Northern Iowa and a bachelor's degree in physical education from the University of Iowa.

(04-169 / 21 September 2004 / SH)

Green Bay Film Society sets fall film series, new festival

GREEN BAY - Half a dozen international films from Germany, France, the U.S., Iran, and Israel are on the Green Bay Film Society regular fall schedule between October and December. The 7 p.m. showings on Wednesdays are at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County.

Documentary filmmaker Sarah Price will visit the series on Nov. 17 to present her newest film, "Lucky Girl," about the efforts of aid workers in post-Taliban Afghanistan to start co-educational schools for Afghani children. Price presented a film set in Milwaukee, "Caesar's Park," in 2002.

In addition, the Society will premiere its First Annual Northeast Wisconsin Film Festival, scheduling five films between the evenings of Oct. 21 and 23. The Festival will start Oct. 21 at the Neville, and move to the Historic West Theatre located on Broadway, for showings on Oct. 22 and 23.

The screenings are free. Series and film festival sponsors include the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, St. Norbert College, the Neville Public Museum, the Green Bay Film Society, the Northeastern Wisconsin Arts Council, The Historic West Theatre, Pulse Communications, Sundance Channel, the Goethe Institute, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. UW-Green Bay Prof. David Coury started the international film series in 1999.

Here's the schedule for the fall series showings at 7 p.m. at the Neville Public Museum:

October 6
Forget America (Germany, 2000)
Directed by Vanessa Jopp
Presented by Coury

November 3
To Be and to Have (France, 2002)
Directed by Nicolas Philibert
Presented by UW-Green Bay Prof. E. Nicole Meyer

November 10
Blackboards (Iran, 2000)
Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
Presented by Coury

November 17
Lucky Girl (USA, 2004)
Directed by Sarah Price, who will present the film

December 1
Forgotten Tenor (USA, 1994)
Directed by Abraham Ravett
Presented by Mark Patel of Luna Cafe

December 15
James' Journey to Jerusalem (Israel, 2003)
Directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Presenter to be announced

The schedule for the First Annual Northeast Wisconsin Film Festival includes:

Thursday, Oct. 21
Festival of Local Short Films
7 p.m., Neville Public Museum

Friday, Oct. 22
Gettin' Grown (USA, 2004)
7 p.m., Historic West Theatre
A coming-of-age story set in inner city Milwaukee, directed by Aaron Greer. Presented in conjunction with the Milwaukee International Film Festival.

Saturday, Oct. 23
(All events at the Historic West Theatre)

Tanner on Tanner (USA, 2004)
3 p.m.
Updated version of Robert Altman and Gary Trudeau's satirical look at the American election process. (U.S. theatrical premiere courtesy of Sundance Channel.)

Since Otar Left (France, Belgium, 2003)
5 p.m.
A fiction film directed by documentary filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli about three generations of women in the present-day Georgian Republic.

The Butterfly (France, 2003)
8 p.m.
Directed by Philippe Muyl, the story centers on an eight-year old and a curmudgeonly entomologist.

(04-168 / 16 September 2004 / VCD)

International Baccalaureate workshop is Sept. 30 at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Teachers and school officials can learn about the International Baccalaureate academic curriculum at a workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30 in the Phoenix Rooms of the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. Registration deadline is Sept. 24. The workshop is free, but registration is required because of space limitations.

International Baccalaureate Orientation Workshop: Exploring the IB is offered by UW-Green Bay and the Institute for Learning Partnership located on the campus.

The IB program is described as a rigorous academic curriculum dedicated to building a new kind of literacy needed for successful participation in today's global society. Programs are designed for primary years, middle years, and high school level. In primary and middle schools, all students in the schools who adopt the program participate. At high school level, the program is a college preparatory program and may be selected by only part of the high school population. The IB program is adopted in more than 1,380 schools in 117 countries.

The UW-Green Bay workshop, led by experienced IB practitioners, will emphasize grades 9 - 12.

The number for more information and registration forms is (920) 465-5555. Information also is on the Web site at www.uwgb.edu/learnpart.

(04-167 / 16 September 2004 / VCD)

Downtown H.Y.P.E. targets community's young professionals

GREEN BAY - A new partnership will mobilize young professionals and students to help bring a high level of vitality to downtown Green Bay.

Downtown H.Y.P.E. (Harnessing Young Professionals' Energy) will bring together young people from throughout the community to experience downtown, form relationships with business and community leaders, and represent young people's viewpoints to government officials.

The Downtown H.Y.P.E. project team is a partnership made up of Downtown Green Bay, Inc., the Young Professionals Network and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Outreach and Extension.

The project is made possible by a Continuing EDvantage grant from UW-Extension's Division of Outreach and E-Learning. The grant program encourages economic development.

The project team will address three main questions being asked in the community:

• Where are the young professionals in community activities, boards and committees?
• What is the future of Green Bay's downtown?
• How do we stop the "brain drain" and begin to achieve "brain gain"?

A group of 24 young people will be selected to participate in the project. The group will include a mixture of students from UW-Green Bay, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, St. Norbert College and members of the Young Professionals Network.

The group will experience everything from restaurants and retail businesses to residential redevelopment. Participants even will be provided a disposable camera to capture images of a variety of downtown experiences.

Participants will be chosen by Sept. 30. They will meet at an orientation session Tuesday Oct. 19 and will share their findings and ideas at "download" sessions Nov. 16 and Dec. 14. At the end of the project, information and recommendations will be presented to community organizations and leaders.

Potential participants may sign up online at http://www.ypnetwork.com. Information also may be obtained by contacting Matt Rentmeester at mattre@sbcglobal.net or (920) 435-4540, ext. 103.

Downtown H.Y.P.E. is based on the theories of experts like Richard Florida, the Heinz Professor of Economic Development at Carnegie Mellon and author of the book "The Rise of the Creative Class," and Rebecca Ryan, founder of Next Generation Consulting in Milwaukee, who believe that successful economic development is in part driven by a community's ability to attract and keep young professionals who, in turn, will be a "labor pool magnet" for companies deciding where to locate their operations.

According to these theories, communities should promote unique attributes that appeal to a youthful and talented workforce. The attributes include a healthy, thriving downtown as well as a diverse mix of housing and community involvement opportunities.

(04-166 / 14 September 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay Library Research Center sets new hours

GREEN BAY - The Area Research Center and Special Collections area of the Cofrin Library at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has adopted new hours beginning with the fall semester just getting underway. Coordinator Debra Anderson said the change is being made to better meet the expressed needs of clients.

Formerly open afternoons five days a week and on Wednesday evenings, the Center located on the seventh floor of the Cofrin Library Building on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Ave., now has morning hours some days and has changed its open evening to Thursdays.

The Area Research Center and Special Collections are widely used by community researchers from Boy Scouts working on their heritage badges to people trying to track down rumors of ghosts in their properties. The collections include books, maps, photographs, public records, business archives, personal manuscripts and other materials relating to northeastern Wisconsin. The oldest documents date to the 17th century.

The Area Research Center gives Green Bay researchers access to the archives of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, notes Anderson. The UW-Green Bay ARC houses Historical Society public records and manuscripts for 11 counties of northeastern Wisconsin: Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto, Outagamie, and Shawano. Green Bay researchers who need materials from any of the 13 other regional ARCs or from the Historical Society in Madison can have them sent to UW-Green Bay.

New hours for the UW-Green Bay Area Research Center and Special Collections are:

Monday: 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thursday: 12:30 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Center typically closes for Thanksgiving Day and the day after, the week between Christmas and New Year's, and for two weeks in August. It occasionally also may close at other times to accommodate large class sessions. The number for information is (920) 465-2539.

(04-165 / 14 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay talk features 'cold case' sleuths on local crime

GREEN BAY - A Green Bay police officer and a Brown County dispatcher who spend their spare time solving historic local "cold cases" will tell how they've solved a 1931 Green Bay bank robbery in a talk from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23 in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Room 210 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The event is free and open to the public.

Officer Mike Knetzger and Dispatcher Tracy Ertl are the authors of a book, "True Crime in Titletown USA" planned for publication later this year.

The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Cofrin Library at UW-Green Bay.

The robbery in question was at the South Side State Bank located on Broadway in Green Bay. Five individuals were wounded-one of the police officers critically so-and the crime remains unsolved, though names such as John Dillinger and Al Capone sometimes have been floated as possibilities.

Knetzger and Ertl will explain how they picked up the trail years after much of the original evidence and records were gone, how they used modern techniques to solve an old crime, and how they used original records from the time, some of which are located in the Area Research Center at UW-Green Bay. They feel their evidence now could have resulted in an arrest had it been uncovered in 1931.

Knetzger and Ertl presently are working on two other cases. The Golden Pheasant murders were committed at a University Avenue restaurant of that name in 1930. The Triangle Gang extortion case in the late 1920s led to a shoot out between two Green Bay police units responding to the case unknown to each other. The other error in the extortion case was by the person or persons identifying themselves as the Triangle Gang, who mistakenly sent the extortion letter to a citizen with the same last name, rather than to the bank officer for whom it was intended.

Knetzger says he got interested in solving local cold cases after learning about them from the Green Bay Police Department history archives. "Nobody has looked into this, why not me?" said the former investigator.

Knetzger has been a law enforcement officer for a dozen years, working as a patrol officer and investigator for the Brookfield Police Department before joining the Green Bay Police Department eight years ago. He is a patrol officer and a field-training officer. Knetzger also teaches criminal justice courses at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and on-line for Colorado Technical University. He is certified to teach the Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings (Awareness Level) course for the Department of Homeland Security.

Ertl was named 2004 Brown County Telecommunicator of the Year. She began her 911-police/fire dispatch career 11 years ago with the Green Bay Police Department. Ertl previously worked as a police reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, and at one time was managing editor for Lifestyle Magazine in the Fox Valley. Her book, "When the Easter Bunny is Naked," a non-fictional account of crime survival through the eyes of a child, is set for release next year.

(04-164 / 13 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay recital features faculty tenor

GREEN BAY - Tenor John Plier, a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, will present a recital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. Admission is free.

The program will range from the classical period, represented by a Mozart composition, to the 20th century and works by living composer Ned Rorem.

Plier will open the program with "Misero! O sogno, o son desto?" a concert aria by Mozart that Plier describes as "...one of the most formidable compositions for tenor in the entire repertoire." He will continue with an early Beethoven piece, "Adelaide," followed by five songs by Henri Duparc that Plier characterizes as "full-blown, large scale, romantic pieces that are very lush and highly chromatic."

The second half of the program includes several lieder by Hugo Wolf and four pieces from Rorem's Cycle of Holy Songs.

"In general, this is a difficult program for both singer and pianist," says Plier.

Plier will be accompanied by pianist Benjamin Moritz, who began teaching at UW-Green Bay faculty just this fall. Moritz most recently was on the music faculty at Eastern Mediterranean University in Turkey, where he coordinated the accompanying program and also a piano festival and competition. His Doctor of Music degree in piano performance is from Northwestern University. In addition to recitals in Turkey and Cypress, Moritz has given solo performances in Italy, Bolivia, various places in the American Midwest, and in the Pacific Northwest.

Plier joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in fall 2000. A Wisconsin native, he studied voice at Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Appleton, and began a successful performing career by attending the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. He has nearly 400 professional opera performances in Europe and the U.S. to his credit. Plier also has appeared in oratorio, musical theater and recital performances. He made a recital debut in New York City. Plier presented Schubert's Winterreise with pianist Robert Pechanec at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2002. Plier is a Senior Specialist for the Fulbright Foundation, presenting master classes and performances abroad.

(04-163 / 13 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay Downtown Learning Center to be dedicated Sept. 16

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and community leaders Thursday (Sept. 16) will formally dedicate the University's new Downtown Learning Center at Washington Commons.

The public dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony will start at 9 a.m. in Younkers Court of Washington Commons.

Speakers at the dedication will include UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard, Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt, Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce President Paul Jadin and Russ De Mille, managing member of Development Associates.

UW-Green Bay already has begun offering programs and courses at the Downtown Learning Center, which is located on the lower level of Washington Commons. Initial bookings at the center have included UW-Green Bay's new Leadership Development Institute, the Emergency Management Certificate Program, Human Resources Management Series, and Management Development Series.

By strengthening connections between campus and community, the center emphasizes the University's commitment to "Connecting learning to life."

The 2,600-square-foot Downtown Learning Center includes a classroom, conference room, office, reception area, and storage space. The classroom holds up to 48 students.

The center is conveniently located near the Washington Street entrance to Washington Commons and the Food Court.

For more information or to schedule an event at the Downtown Learning Center, go online at http://www.uwgb.edu/downtown/ or contact Bob Skorczewski by phone at 465-2320 or via e-mail at skorczeb@uwgb.edu.

(04-162 / 13 September 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay offers new courses for educators

GREEN BAY - Half a dozen new topics have been added to the line-up of fall courses offered for educators by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The new selections include courses in space flight history, using the "six traits" in writer's workshops, working with emerging writers, middle school reading workshops, Door County Peninsula geology, and Earth and space science.

UW-Green Bay courses for educators are for graduate credit unless otherwise indicated in the listing. Some courses are offered with credit options. Two of the fall courses are being offered on-line.

UW-Green Bay courses for educators are organized by the University's Office of Outreach and Extension and align with Wisconsin standards for teacher and administrator development and licensure.

Enrollment in most classes is limited, so registration at least two weeks before the start of a course is recommended. Numbers for detailed information and to request registration materials are (920) 465-2480 or (800) 892-2118. Information and registration also are available online at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/educ. New offerings are added throughout the year and may be found on the Web site.

Here is a list of fall and winter classes to date.

Beginning in September:
Basic Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, Sept. 11, 25, Pittsville High School.
Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, Sept. 11, 25, Oct. 9, 23; Friday and Saturday, Nov. 12-13, Pittsville High School.
Using the Six Traits in a Writer's Workshop Context (NEW), Thursdays, Sept. 16, 23, 30; Oct. 7, 14, 21; Nov. 4, 11, 18; Dec, 2, 9, and Saturday, Nov. 6, New London.
Basic Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, Sept. 18, Oct. 2, Chilton Middle School.
Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, Sept. 18; Oct. 2, 16; Nov. 6; Friday and Saturday, Nov. 19-20, Chilton Middle School. Basic Active Learning Strategies, Monday, Sept. 20; Tuesday, Sept. 28; Thursdays Oct. 21, Nov. 4; Saturday, Dec. 4, Laconia High School, Rosendale.
Off to the "Write" Start: Working with Emergent Writers (NEW), Tuesdays, Sept. 21, 28; Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26; Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; Dec, 7; Saturday, Oct. 9, Lincoln Elementary School, New London.
The History of Space Flight (NEW) [on-line course], Begins Monday, Sept. 27 and ends Friday, Dec. 10. In partnership with Space Education Initiatives.

Beginning in October:
Land and Water: Teaching the Geology of the Door Peninsula (NEW), Friday and Saturday, Oct, 1-2; Friday, Oct. 22, Crossroads Historical and Environmental Preserve, Sturgeon Bay.
Facilitating and Assessing Writing Using the Six Plus One Traits, Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 1-2, 8-9, 22-23; Nov. 5-6, Jefferson Elementary School, Green Bay.
Spanish for Educators I, Mondays and Wednesdays, Oct. 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, Preble High School, Green Bay. (Options available for graduate or undergraduate credit.)
Tribes: A New Way of Learning and Being Together, Mondays, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, St. Philip Grade School, Green Bay.
Digital Technology: Multimedia in the Classroom, Mondays, Oct. 4. 11, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 22, Sheboygan Falls Elementary School.
Web Page Creation and Editing, Tuesdays, Oct. 5, 12, 26; Nov. 2, 9, 23, Sheboygan Falls Elementary School.
Preparing for Life After High School, Beginning Tues., Oct. 5. Sessions at various times and locations until May 10, 2005. In conjunction with Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Partners in Education 2004-2005 Cakes and Careers series. (Options available for graduate or undergraduate credits.)
Spanish for Educators II, Wednesdays, Oct. 6, 13, 20; Nov. 3, 10, 17; Dec. 1, 8, Hilbert High School.
A Reading Workshop in Middle School (NEW), Thursdays, Oct. 7, Dec. 2, 2004, and Feb, 10, March 10, April 14, 2005, Longfellow Elementary School, Clintonville.
The Science of Septic Systems, Saturdays Oct. 9, 16, with lab visits and presentation dates to be arranged, Crossroads at Big Creek Environmental Preserve, Sturgeon Bay.
Spanish for Educators I, Tuesdays, Oct. 12, 19, 26; Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Sevastopol High School. (Options available for graduate or undergraduate credit.)
Curriculum Mapping, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 15-16, De Pere High School.
Best Instructional Strategies in the Technology-Integrated Classroom (K-12), Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 22-23; Nov. 5-6, 2004; Jan. 7-8, 2005.
PowerPoint: Present with Pizzazz, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22-23, De Pere High School.
Exploring Earth and Space Science (NEW), Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Oct. 28-30; online follow-up Nov. 1-5, Crossroads Historical and Environmental Preserve, Sturgeon Bay. In partnership with Space Education Initiatives.

Beginning in November:
Electronic Portfolios: Powerful Professional Improvement Tool, Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 5-6; Dec. 3-4, Mishicot High School.
Classroom Application of Brain-Based Learning, Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 12-13; Dec. 3-4, Green Bay Education Association Office. Supervision of Student Teachers, Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 15-16; Saturday, Nov. 20, Green Bay Education Association Office.

Beginning in January 2005:
Basic Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, Jan. 8, 22, Howe Elementary School, Green Bay.
Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, Jan. 8, 22; Feb. 5, 19; Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, Howe Elementary School, Green Bay.
Basic Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, Jan. 15, 29, Southwest High School, Green Bay.
Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, Jan 15, 29; Feb. 12, 26; Friday and Saturday, March 18-19, Southwest High School, Green Bay.
Using Technology to Enhance Student Learning [on-line course], One face-to-face meeting Sat., Jan. 29, De Pere High School. Two-credit option ends April 15; three-credit option ends May 20.

Beginning in February 2005:
Differentiating Instruction to Meet the Needs of Gifted Students, Tuesdays, Feb, 1, 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 22; April 5, 12, 19, 26; May 3, Green Bay School District Broadway Central Office.
Internet I for Teachers, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 4-5, Mishicot High School.
Spanish for Educators II, Tuesdays, Feb. 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 15, 22; April 5, Sevastopol High School. (Options for graduate or undergraduate credit.)
Internet II for Teachers, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 18-19, Mishicot High School.

Beginning in March 2005:
Basic Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, March 12, April 2, Howard-Suamico School District.
Active Learning Strategies, Saturdays, March 12; April 2, 9, 23; Friday and Saturday, May 6-7, Howard-Suamico School District.

(04-161 / 8 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay Teacher gets Regents' Excellence Award

GREEN BAY - Denise Scheberle, professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, has received the 2004 UW Regents Teaching Excellence Award. The honor will be awarded on Friday (Sept. 10) at a meeting of the Board of Regents in Madison.

Regent Danae D. Davis of Milwaukee, who chaired the special regents committee that selected the award winners, said the recipients stood out among the many nominees for their exemplary service to students, innovative teaching methods, and remarkable contributions in their fields. Nominees undergo a rigorous campus selection process, which includes support from students.

"Nothing matches the rewards of teaching-seeing students grow in their thinking, their attitudes toward one another, and their ability to see the complexities of human existence," said Scheberle, whose teaching philosophy emphasizes active learning. "And the truly marvelous thing about it, I get to grow, too: every year, every class, and with every student."

In addition to Scheberle, Teaching Excellence Awards went to Eric M. Anderson, professor of wildlife at UW-Stevens Point, and the entire Physics Department at UW-LaCrosse.

Davis and Regent President Toby E. Marcovich, Superior, agreed that the awards show the Regents' appreciation of recipients' efforts to improve undergraduate education throughout the UW System.

Said UW System President Kevin P. Reilly, "These winners have proven their commitment to teaching excellence, and are a model for teaching across the UW System." The awards program is in its 13th year.

Scheberle teaches courses in public and nonprofit management, American government, public administration, and environmental law at the undergraduate level, and also teaches environmental law for the master's degree program in Environmental Science and Policy.

"Most of my classes deal with public policies — areas where thoughtful people disagree." explained Scheberle. "I try to get my students to think through why they hold the opinions they do. We talk about informed opinions and where to go for more information. Then, we go there."

Students in Scheberle's classes — even those with large enrollments such as American government — credit her with being an inspiring teacher. One student, who expected "painfully boring information-recital sessions," said, "Denise has an amazing ability to inspire very engaging discussions among her student in very large classes."

Scheberle aims for students to gain an increased sense of civic responsibility and participation along with developing greater skill in planning, organizing, leading and evaluating public or nonprofit programs. "To accomplish this goal, I've increasingly relied on active learning in the classroom," she explains. Last year's public and nonprofit management students organized and carried out all aspects of a fund-raising walk that raised $5,000 for charity. The second semester class organized a series of on-campus democracy dialogues.

Scheberle was among the first UW-Green Bay faculty members to have a class Web site. In large-enrollment American government classes, Scheberle has used Congressional committee simulations to allow every student to participate in learning how Congress works.

Timothy Sewall, UW-Green Bay associate provost for academic affairs, credits Scheberle with being willing to take risks with "cutting-edge" teaching strategies and technological innovations. "Dr. Scheberle also has a reputation for going out of her way to support countless undergraduate and graduate students in their pursuit of independent study and internship projects and serving as a chair or member of numerous master's degree thesis committees," he added.

Scheberle joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1992. Her campus leadership activities have included co-developing a UW-Green Bay Teaching Scholars program for new faculty members, developing an annual on-campus teaching conference, and organizing a yearly Academic Excellence Symposium that recognizes student achievement.

Scheberle was selected as the UW-Green Bay Wisconsin Teaching Scholar for 2003-2004, and in 1995-1996 was the UW-Green Bay Wisconsin Teaching Fellow. Both are UW System programs aimed at enhancing teaching.

Scheberle is a recipient of the UW-Green Bay Founders Association Award for Excellence in Teaching, was selected for a Faculty Development Council "Teaching at Its Best" award, and has four times won her department's teaching award.

"I would describe [Prof. Scheberle] as one of the most dedicated and passionate teachers I have been privileged to encounter in my 32 years in the academic world," said Fergus Hughes, interim dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who has worked with Scheberle in developing faculty development activities. "I have never had a colleague with whom I have had greater opportunity to discuss the art of teaching."

Scheberle is an active scholar in her field with a long list of published papers and conference presentations. Her book, "Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Policy Implementation," is in its second edition. Scheberle presently is president-elect of the Public Policy Division of the American Political Science Association and serves on the executive committee of that organization's Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Colorado State University.

(04-160 / 8 September 2004 / VCD)

Musician to share Spanish culture at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY-Mezzo soprano and classical and flamenco guitarist AnnaMaria Cardinalli, who performs under the name, AnnaMaria, will share her music, her heritage and her research in performance and lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She'll perform in concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15 in Phoenix Room B, and lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16 in the Christie Theater. Both spaces are in the University Union on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. The events are free and open to the public.

A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, AnnaMaria is an 18th generation Santa Fean, descended from Spanish settlers who came into the area before it was part of the United States. Today, the culture she represents still reflects a well-preserved enclave of Spanish colonial culture. AnnaMaria's heritage also includes Sicilian, to which she credits her love of opera.

AnnaMaria's program themes include the development of flamenco and its parallel in northern New Mexico.

AnnaMaria began performing as a child member of the chorus at the renowned Santa Fe Opera. Her venues since have included the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the California missions. She has performed in Europe before members of the Spanish royal family and Pope John Paul II.

She has achieved her goal to sing the role of Carmen in Bizet's opera of that title and also has performed in film and television roles, including the title role in an Australian art film, "Gypsy Girl, Gypsy Girl."

AnnaMaria graduated high school at 13 to begin a professional career with the guitar. At 15, she recorded her first album and began her own label, Musica Mundial Productions. While performing, recording and running her company, she completed a bachelor's degree at St. Mary's College of California at 18, and by 20 she had a master's degree from St. John's College in Santa Fe.

Before age 25, AnnaMaria had earned a Ph.D. in theology with an emphasis in Latino studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her doctoral dissertation examined the early roots of today's Spanish flamenco as they are preserved in the traditions of the New Mexican Penitentes-a society whose practices in the isolation of northern New Mexico present a time capsule of medieval Spanish spirituality.

AnnaMaria's schedule at UW-Green Bay includes master classes and other meetings with students. Her appearance is co-sponsored by the Office of Student Life and Good Times student programming board.

(04-159 / 8 September 2004 / VCD)

Life of Helen Keller is topic of next "UWGB Downtown" luncheon

GREEN BAY - The author of a book on the political life of Helen Keller will discuss the story of Keller's life at the next "UWGB Downtown: Connecting for Lunch" on Thursday, Sept. 16.

The luncheon at the Regency Suites and KI Convention Center will feature Kim Nielsen, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay associate professor of Social Change and Development. Nielsen, the author of "The Radical Lives of Helen Keller," will explain why Keller should be remembered not only as a deaf and blind woman, but as an opinionated political activist who cared deeply about her world.

A buffet lunch will be served between 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. with the program beginning immediately after lunch. Registration in advance is required.

The $15 registration cost covers the luncheon, presentation and materials. To register or for more information, call (920) 465-2642 or go online at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/events/downtownlunch.htm.

According to Nielsen, the public continues to cling to cultural myths of Keller's youth, her saintliness, her ability to "overcome" her disability, and her reliance on the supposedly able-bodied Anne Sullivan Macy.

Nielsen said how we memorialize Keller matters a great deal.

"It matters to her memory, and, more importantly, to the lives of the nearly 20 percent of Americans with disabilities today," Nielsen said. "Only once we move beyond stereotypes can we realize the important and varied contributions disabled people can make to our vibrant society. This would truly be an appropriate memorial to Helen Keller, a deaf and blind woman, but also an opinionated political activist."

"UWGB Downtown: Connecting for Lunch" showcases UW-Green Bay and its faculty. The series is sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor at UW-Green Bay, the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association and Downtown Green Bay Inc. in collaboration with UW-Green Bay Outreach and Extension. The series provides the community with opportunities to learn more about Green Bay's University of Wisconsin while also taking part in lifelong learning.

This year's series will conclude Nov. 11 when William Laatsch, professor of Urban and Regional Studies, provides a unique look at the barns of Wisconsin's rural landscape and how they serve as an index for understanding the geography and culture of Northeastern Wisconsin.

(04-158 / 8 September 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay professor is Wisconsin's new Poet Laureate

GREEN BAY - Governor Jim Doyle on Tuesday (Sept. 7) announced the appointment of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Prof. Denise Sweet as the new Poet Laureate of Wisconsin. She begins a four-year term immediately.

Doyle expressed pleasure at appointing "someone with such great dedication to reaching out to both large and small communities and encouraging participation in the arts." Said the Governor, "Denise is well-educated, published, and admired by Wisconsin's community of poets and educators. She will be an important ambassador of poetry to people in all areas of our state."

"For the next four years, it will be my job to share my love for poetry with the citizens of Wisconsin. Does it get any better than that?" said Sweet. She said she views the appointment as a "rich opportunity" to expose the general public to great literature. "I can imagine poetry in public transit, at visitor information centers, on biking trail brochures, on community calendars," she added. "I'm eager to begin."

As Wisconsin's Poet Laureate, Sweet is expected to choose and lead one large-scale project that contributes to the growth of Wisconsin poetry. The post also includes responsibility for planning and attending at least four statewide literary events each year, as well as performing in at least four state and civil events as requested by the Governor's Office, school systems, and literary organizations.

Sweet's proposed statewide project is entitled "Here @ Home: A Community Calendar Series." It would be a workshop of poetry and writing that travels to both urban and rural settings encouraging people to write and display their works in their own communities.

An Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) enrolled at White Earth, Sweet has given over 200 public readings in the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Great Britain. In 1998, she was one of five U.S. writers to be sponsored by the U.S. Embassy to attend the First World Congress of Indigenous Literatures of the Americas held in Guatemala.

Sweet often works with educators in the areas of creativity, diversity, storytelling, drama and indigenous language preservation, particularly in the Great Lakes region and in the Southwest. She coordinated the First Annual Anishinaabeg Symposium on Culture, History and Contemporary Issues co-sponsored by UW-Green Bay and UW-Eau Claire in 1998-99. From 1998-2003, Sweet was co-director of the National Native Writers and Artists Forum and the National Native American Performing Arts Festival, both associated with the Navajo Nation and Telluride Institute.

Sweet published a poetry chapbook, "Know by Heart" in 1991. Her collection of poems, "Songs for Discharming," won the First Book Award from Returning the Gift: The Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and also received the Posner Award for Poetry of the Wisconsin Council of Writers. Her poems and fiction have been published in collections and in numerous periodicals and literary publications. In 2001, Sweet was awarded a year's sabbatical from UW-Green Bay to work on a now-completed manuscript, "As Those With Faith Will Do: Selected Poetry and Prose." She is at work on another collection, "Travelling: The Up North Poems." Sweet has frequently served as an artist-in-residence and has received a number of commissions.

Sweet's activities include serving as narrator for video productions for Wisconsin Public Television and the Wisconsin State Historical Society. She had a featured role in a full-length feature film, "Black Cloud," directed and produced by Ricky Schroeder, scheduled for release in limited theaters sometime this year.

Sweet joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1990. She is a member of the English, Humanistic Studies and American Indian Studies faculties. Sweet is a former chairperson of American Indian Studies and a former adviser to the student literary magazine and student Writer's Union. She has co-instructed travel seminars among the Mayan peoples in Mexico and Guatemala. Sweet also founded a summer workshop at UW-Green Bay for young adolescent writers, especially students of color.

Sweet was one of three candidates for the Poet Laureate position in 2000. The recipient that year was Ellen Kort of Appleton, who occasionally teaches poetry courses at UW-Green Bay. Kort was the University's commencement speaker in December 2003.

(04-157 / 7 September 2004 / VCD)

Workshop will identify teeming organisms in calm ponds

GREEN BAY-A workshop from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 11 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will introduce participants to the diverse array of plants and animals that live under the seemingly calm surfaces of ordinary ponds.

The workshop will begin at the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Suite 212 on the UW-Green Bay campus, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The session is free, but pre-registration is required due to space limitations.

Workshop leaders are Robert Howe, a biologist and member of the Natural and Applied Sciences faculty at UW-Green Bay, and Vicki Medland, an adjunct faculty member who has co-taught Wetland Ecology and Management and other courses. Howe, director of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, presently is co-principal investigator on an EPA-funded study to develop environmental indicators for the coastal environs of the Great Lakes. Medland, whose Ph.D. is in ecology, did her dissertation research on planktonic crustaceans.

The workshop will explore some of the microscopic and larger organisms-rotifers, cliliates, nematodes and others-that live in northeastern Wisconsin bodies of water. The session will start with a short lecture and then participants will go outdoors to collect samples from a nearby pond. They'll return to the laboratory to identify what they've found. Howe and Medland also will provide identification resources for use in classrooms and at home.

Workshop attendees should dress appropriately for the weather of the day.

The workshop is re-scheduled from last May when it was cancelled to avoid conflict with the University's commencement ceremony. "It will be better in the fall because everything should be big," says Medland. "Populations have had all summer to grow and there are lots of algae and other types of food."

To register or for more information, calls may be directed to (920) 465-5032 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, or e-mails may be sent to mckeefrk@uwgb.edu.

(04-156 / 7 September 2004 / VCD)

New residence hall, living learning center to be dedicated at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Tom Haevers Hall, the newest residence hall at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, will be dedicated Wednesday (Sept. 8) in a public ceremony at the new building.

The dedication ceremony starts at 4 p.m. in front of Tom Haevers Hall off North Circle Drive on the UW-Green Bay campus.

Tom Haevers Hall, the last of three new residence halls to open in consecutive years at UW-Green Bay, is named for a longtime residence life and housing director at the University. Haevers joined UW-Green Bay as director of housing in 1980. By the time he retired in 2001, the University's housing "village" had developed into a park-like setting with 24 buildings.

Also being dedicated Wednesday is the Tom Maki Living Learning Center, which is located on the first floor of Tom Haevers Hall. The center will provide students, faculty and community members with a place to learn, collaborate and achieve through classroom experience, study, recreation and other activities.

The living learning center is named for Tom Maki, vice chancellor for business and finance at UW-Green Bay since 1991. As the University's chief financial officer, Maki has played a leading role in the financing of affordable, quality student housing at UW-Green Bay.

Tom Haevers Hall features "suite-style" apartments with private bedrooms and shared kitchens and bathrooms. The 122-bed residence hall brings the total on-campus housing capacity at UW-Green Bay to nearly 2,000 residents.

Residents moved into Tom Haevers Hall on Sept. 1. They are primarily juniors and seniors.

Speakers at the dedication will include Haevers; Maki; UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard; Glenn Gray, UW-Green Bay director of residence life; student Nathan Petrashek, president of the Residence Hall and Apartment Association; and Robert Schaefer, president of University Village Housing Inc.

A reception and guided tours of the new residence hall will follow the dedication ceremony.

(04-155 / 7 September 2004 / SH)

New print exhibition premieres at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - The first in a new series of invitational exhibitions showcasing contemporary trends in printmaking opens with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 9 in the Lawton Gallery located in Theater Hall Room 230 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Entitled ReFresh, the exhibit highlights art works in all printmaking media, including photography and digital imaging. Curators Stephen Perkins, UW-Green Bay academic curator of art, and Christine Style, an artist and UW-Green Bay faculty member in art, will speak about the work at 5 p.m.

The premiere ReFresh exhibition includes 61 works by 33 different artists. The show is national in scope, with artists representing 22 states and one Canadian province. It will be on display at UW-Green Bay through October 6.

Wisconsin artists with work in the show are Bonnie de Arteaga, Brillion; Laura Newman, Plover; and Kou Vang, Brown Deer. Vang is a former Green Bay resident and a graduate of UW-Green Bay.

Perkins and Style selected the show from portfolios submitted by 135 artists in the U.S. and Canada. They aim for the new biennial series to “regularly ‘refresh’ the view of printmaking by presenting works that expand the field through both traditional and new digital technologies.”

The exhibition is available for tour to museums and galleries.

Lawton Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

(04-154 / 3 September 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay starts semester with strong enrollments, quality freshmen

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay opened its doors today (Thursday, Sept. 2) to one of the largest, most diverse student bodies in the University’s history.

UW-Green Bay enrolled 5,416 students, including a freshman class of 1,001 students, according to preliminary enrollment figures. It marks only the third time in the University’s history that the freshman class has exceeded 1,000 students.

The full-time equivalent enrollment, which is based on the number of credits students take, stands at an all-time high of 4,678. The higher FTE enrollment reflects the fact that students are taking more credits.

The University established the FTE enrollment record in spite of efforts to limit enrollment, including cutting off new-freshman applications Feb. 16.

The enrollment figures reflect strong demand for a UW-Green Bay education, according to Associate Provost/Dean of Students Sue Keihn. Ninety-seven percent of freshmen identified UW-Green Bay as their first or second choice of schools, she noted.

“Demand is high,” she said. “We’re experiencing increased demand from across the state.”

A survey of new freshmen found the top reasons for choosing UW-Green Bay to be interesting academic majors or programs, graduates getting jobs, a good academic reputation and the campus appearance and facilities.

UW-Green Bay also set records for minority freshmen and overall minority enrollment. Sixty-six students of color are in the freshman class, compared with 56 a year ago. Overall, 318 students of color are enrolled, compared with 305 in fall 2003.

“Our commitment to diversity continues,” Keihn said. “A diverse campus provides an optimal educational experience for all students.”

Final enrollment figures for fall 2004 will not be available for several weeks.

Here are other facts and figures about the fall 2004 student body at UW-Green Bay:

• The class of new freshmen enters college with an average high school grade-point average of 3.32 on a 4.0 scale and an average ACT score of 22.6.

• Nearly half of new freshmen are “first generation” college students whose parents did not attend college.

• 75 percent of freshmen who started at UW-Green Bay in fall 2003 are returning for their second year.

• Female students in the freshmen class outnumber male students by a margin of 65 percent to 35 percent.

• Students come from 71 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, 25 other states, and 21 other countries.

(04-153 / 1 September 2004 / SH)