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December 6, 2004 Director for paper sciences center sought By Richard Ryman Nationwide advertising for the position began a month ago. John Katers,
assistant professor of natural and applied sciences at the University
of Wisconsin-Green Bay, said the selection committee will begin looking
at applications this week.
Katers and Patrick Schillinger, president of the Wisconsin Paper Council
and a member of the selection committee, said the director will require
multiple skills, including fund raising.
"Generally speaking, we want someone who not only has some research
skills and capabilities, but someone who can work with the industry to
make this a self-sustaining organization," Schillinger said.
The plan to establish the center was announced in February after Congress
approved a $500,000 allocation of start-up funding at the behest of Rep.
Mark Green, R-Hobart. In the final accounting, the feds provided $497,000.
Katers said the center's budget year began Sept. 1 and its downtown
office is expected to open in January or February, after the hiring of
the director.
Finding additional sources of funding will be critical to the center's
success.
"The $500,000 doesn't go very far when you start spreading it out over
several years," Katers said. "I think we will be fairly well positioned
to secure some additional funding."
Center staff will consist of a full-time director, a part-time assistant
director and a part-time support person. Katers is the assistant director
and expects to continue in that role.
He said they are looking at Washington Commons and Regency Office Center
as possible center sites.
The center was inspired by the successful biotechnology research center
in Madison.
"There are three areas where we thought we could have an impact," Katers
said. "Production and products of the future, energy and the environment.
The environment meshes well with some of the folks we have here on campus."
Katers said he expects the new director will spend the first few months
developing a strategic plan and establishing relationships with the paper
industry and University of Wisconsin System partners.
"We are trying to work within the existing system and the existing resources
we have," he said.
Schillinger said the center will be a work in progress.
"What we are trying to do is not force the issue on business, but rather
to have the industry explain to the center what they would like to see,"
he said.
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