A 600-acre tract in Canada's Yukon Territory, one of four sites in the new Pelly Valley Ecological Reserve, is named for Bill Laatsch, URS. It's one of the unexpected results of his doctoral research, completed nearly 30 years ago. Laatsch did field work at Faro, then a vibrant mining town, while preparing for his dissertation on Yukon mining settlement. At the time, Laatsch identified the area as a rich environment for study for its variety of ecological components. Laatsch got an unexpected call about a year and a half ago, informing him that the boreal forest-alpine tundra ecotone interpretation site would bear his name, in honor of his scholarship. Faro's mines have closed, and remaining residents are seeking to develop the area some 150 miles distant from Whitehorse for ecological study and tourism. Laatsch reports that he visited last summer to find the site developed with signage, trails, a kiosk and a plaque, and graduate students at work.

Prof. Harvey J. Kaye of Social Change and Development has an essay given prominent placement in the April 21 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article, headlined "One Professor's Dialectic of Mentoring," in the "Point of View" column shares that the students he has advised have grown through the process, and so has he.

You're invited to a "citizenship extravaganza" this Wednesday (April 26) from 10 a.m. to noon in Rose Hall 250. Congressman Mark Green, State Senator Gary George, and state representatives Carol Kelso, Frank Lasee and Mark Pocan will speak on the role of citizens in influencing national and state policy. A question and answer session will follow each speaker's presentation. The event is sponsored by the Public and Environmental Affairs Council and the College Democrats and College Republicans organizations.

Marlys Brunsting of the Cofrin Library has more than a dozen new databases she'd like to publicize as available to the campus community. Watch this space for more, but for starters, check out:

Three new databases are available to the campus community on a trial basis. Please take a look at those that interest you and let the collection development librarian, Joan Robb, know what you think. Descriptions and links are on the Resources Under Evaluation web page.

CINAHL Plus Text - journal articles in nursing and allied health.
Oxford English Dictionary - etymological dictionary.
American National Biography - biographies of people who have shaped the nation.

Music by the Beatles and other Beatles-era musicians will dominate the program in the last jazz concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 5 in the University Theater. The Jazz Ensembles and Vocal Jazz Ensemble will perform Beatles-era material, including a funk version of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna," along with other selections. Guest vocalists Todd Buffa, Woody Mankowski, and Chris Salerno. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. More on the program in next week's LOG.

Congratulations to Prof. Christine Style, COA and art, who was married April 15 to Tony Rajer. No need to amend your phone books; Prof. Style sends word that she will be keeping her name.

Regan Gurung, HD, recently had a paper accepted for publication in Psychological Review, the third most cited journal in the sciences (after Science, and Nature), together with colleagues from UCLA, Syracuse and Penn State. It presents a brand-new theory of how humans respond to stress and remedies years of research that focused only on men. Titled "The female stress response: Tend and befriend, not fight or flight" it has already been written up in the London Times and is expected to be featured soon in The New York Times and on "Dateline."

Linda Peacock-Landrum, Career Services, will be featured at the Employment Expo Tuesday (April 25) at the Regency Conference Center in downtown Green Bay. She will be a panelist on the topic "How Do I Acquire the Necessary Skills for the 21st Century and Beyond?"

Christine Style, COA, with co-author Anton Rajer on behalf of the Board of Curators and the Awards Committee of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin have been selected to receive a State Historical Society of Wisconsin Book Award for 'Public Sculpture in Wisconsin'. The award will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society on Saturday, June 10, 2000.

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