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Rev. May 13, 2008

 

Faculty and Staff

Cyndie Shepard has been appointed by Gov. Jim Doyle to the statewide Advisory Board for the Wisconsin Covenant, which promises a spot in a Wisconsin college or university to any eighth-grader who agrees to maintain a B average. The Governor credits Shepard and her husband, Chancellor Bruce Shepard, for inspiring the Covenant with the success of Phuture Phoenix at UW-Green Bay. The pre-college program targets schools in low-income neighborhoods and encourages children to graduate from high school and pursue higher education. A popular component is the annual campus tour day for local fifth-graders.

The quality of UW-Green Bay’s annual Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Institute, a summer training program for government officials, has been honored by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks. Program director Kassie Van Remortel, Outreach and Extension, received the group’s 2008 Award of Excellence.

Dave Dettman ’93 of the library staff was awarded the 2008 Information Literacy Award from the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians. The award praised his focus on library instruction as a way to boost academic success among new freshmen.

Leftovers from vegetable processing may be turned into energy as a result of a $30,000 grant from the Midwest Food Processors Association, Inc. to Prof. John F. Katers ’91 and ’93, Natural and Applied Sciences. The study will evaluate anaerobic digester options for waste generated at Del Monte processing facilities in Wisconsin. Prof. Michael Zorn ’93, a chemist, will also participate.

The UW System has recognized the contributions of Diana Borrero-Lowe, coordinator of the American Intercultural Center, with an Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award.

Lucy Arendt ’87 and ’90, Business Administration, is part of a seven-member team of engineers and social scientists awarded a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to explore strategies to protect buildings and their contents in earthquakes.

Aileen Yingst, a planetary geologist and director of Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, contributed to a women-in-science milestone on Feb. 22. Working from her Environmental Sciences Building computer, she directed a camera on the Mars Rover “Spirit” more than 35 million miles away. Yingst and about three dozen colleagues nationwide made up NASA’s first all-female science team to command a daily mission.

Chemist Sterling “Bud” Randall Jr. died March 13 at 84. Both he and his wife, Donna, were members of the University’s founding science faculty. She died in 1994. Tom McIntosh, also a campus founder and science professor, died April 2 at 77. He was survived by his widow, Prof. Emerita Elaine McIntosh, and sons including Chuck, a UW-Green Bay staff member in the Operations division.

Tributes poured in, scholarship donations were made and the state Assembly passed a memorial resolution as campus and community mourned the passing of Prof. Anne Kok, chairperson of the Social Work program. Kok died Feb. 4 in a Door County traffic accident. Friends remembered her warm manner and work as an educator, as an international volunteer in Jordan and Ethiopia, and as an engaged citizen in Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay. Scholarship donations are still being accepted; colleagues and students past and present shared memories online at www.uwgb.edu/memorial/.


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