UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 31 No. 45



Record 'Intro' crowd hits campus Regents give support to Learning Experience Lab Sciences Building remake Founders awards winners Vending machines accept Pass Points Native American, reggae music Italian luncheon is is Oct. 6 UW System grants conference Briefs: Draney, Galt, Greif	Vol. 31, No. 45 / August 31, 2000 The LOG ONline is distributed every other week during the summer. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website. For 600, college starts today Heavy traffic near the Residence Life complex was in evidence this morning as about 600 of the 1,000 or so members of the new freshman class moved into their rooms. The earlybirds are part of the University's largest-ever Intro to College contingent; the elective orientation program was expanded this year to meet the demand. New students get library and computer tours, how-to advice, and opportunities to enjoy social events including Friday afternoon's ice cream social. This afternoon, a crowd of about 1,500 students and parents took part in a welcome program at the Phoenix Sports Center. Despite the 88-degree heat (where's that new facility when you need it?) the event succeeded in drumming up some school spirit. Move-in day is Monday for other students living on campus. *** * * * * Details: Regents give UW-Green Bay major support for Learning Experience Most on campus have already heard the great news: The UW-Green Bay "Learning Experience Initiative" has won approval and a pledge of $3.7 million in start-up funding from the UW System Board of Regents. The System's budget still needs legislative approval. Details of the plan, including quotes from Regents who singled out the Green Bay plan for public praise, are online at the news site at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000aug.htm#experience * * * * * UW System OKs $17 million to re-make Lab Sciences Building More good news, almost overshadowed by recent planning progress on the Learning Experience and by construction progress on the new academic building: UW-Green Bay's $17.5 million plan to remodel and create additional space in the Laboratory Sciences Building is well on its way. The Regents assigned a higher priority to only one other capital project in the entire state, which makes funding of the Green Bay project a good bet. For details, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000aug.htm#project * * * * * They're winners — and here's why Ovations from a near-capacity crowd greeted the announcements Wednesday that five members of the faculty and staff received Founders Association Awards for Excellence at the all-University convocation. Recipients and their awards are: Thomas Haevers, academic support; Beverly Hendricks, administrative support; Warren Johnson, teaching; Margaret Laughlin, scholarship; and Carol Pollis, institutional development. If you weren't there, or if you were there but want additional detail about why these people are so exceptionally award-worthy, follow the news at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000aug.htm#founders * * * * * Now, even the coinless can browse vending machines via Pass Points Campus vending machines are now accepting Pass Points! If you don't have your Pass Points yet, simply take your Passport I.D. to any cash register in the University Union, Garden Cafe or the Value Transfer Station in the Cofrin Library to purchase Pass Points to use all over campus...including vending machines! Just swipe your card and the machine will do the rest! An added bonus, vending machines are now selling 20-ounce bottled soda! * * * * * Unusual blend of Native American, reggae music is Sept. 7 A singer with a musical vision that blends his Native American traditions with the sounds of reggae will perform from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, on the Nicolet Room patio outside the University Union. Casper Lomayesva is Hopi and Navaho, and grew up on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona. His concert is part of the 2000-2001 Contemporary Issues series of programs sponsored by the Office of Student Life. Click here for more: http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000aug.htm#reggae * * * * * Mark your calendar: Italian luncheon is Oct. 6 More details to come, but tickets are on sale for the noon-hour International Italian Cuisine & Entertainment Luncheon to be held in the Phoenix Room on Friday, Oct. 6. Tickets, at only $7.99 per person, are available at the Information Center in the Union. The meal will include Italian beef with peppers and onion, quatro-fromage ziti, and something called Il dolce-chocolate raspberry espresso cheesecake. Harpist Nancy Blanchard Watts will perform. Call ext. 2400 with questions. The program is sponsored by the Office of Student Life, the University Union, American Intercultural Center and the International Center. * * * * * Research Office sends reminder on grants conference The Institute for Research and the Office of Graduate Studies would like to remind all faculty and staff of the upcoming UW System Grants Dissemination Conference scheduled for Oct. 6 at the Pyle Center in Madison. Participation is free, though the deadline for registration is Sept. 13. Complete conference information and online registration is available at http://www.uwsa.edu/acadaff/grants. The conference will feature concurrent presentations by investigators who were awarded project and research grants from UW System. Presenters will share their results, provide ideas on how their outcome might be replicated, and offer tips on preparing effective grant proposals. Additional sessions are scheduled on writing grants for UW System programs and on using online tools to locate funding opportunities. Questions about the conference should be directed to Steve Bialek at 608.262.5563 or by e-mail sbialek@uwsa.edu. * * * * * Briefs Prof. Michael Draney,** NAS, traveled in July to the Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society in Lexington, KY, to present a paper: Ecology of Lathys spp. and other ground-dwelling Dictynidae from the southeastern U.S. coastal plain. Prof. Anthony Galt, SCD, upon invitation, delivered a paper entitled "Research on Pantelleria, 1968-74" at a conference entitled, "Pantelleria and the Mediterranean," held July 15th in the Barbacane Castle in the port of Pantelleria, Italy. The Island of Pantelleria was the site of Galt's Ph.D. dissertation and subsequent research in the 1970s. Galt also revisited another previous field site: Locorotondo in the Province of Bari. A book by Gary Greif, professor emeritus of Humanistic Studies and philosophy, was recently published by University Press of America. The book, titled: The Tragedy of the Self: Individual and Social Disintegration Viewed Through the Self Psychology of Heinz Kohut, uses a recent version of psychoanalytic theory to examine and critique some assumptions fundamental to contemporary social and political theory and practice. *** * * * *** LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. To submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or just plain feedback, UW-Green Bay employees can call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Record 'Intro' crowd hits campus

Regents give support to Learning Experience

Lab Sciences Building remake

Founders awards winners

Vending machines accept Pass Points

Native American, reggae music

Italian luncheon is is Oct. 6

UW System grants conference

Briefs: Draney, Galt, Greif

Vol. 31, No. 45 / August 31, 2000

The LOG ONline is distributed every other week during the summer. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website.

For 600, college starts today

Heavy traffic near the Residence Life complex was in evidence this morning as about 600 of the 1,000 or so members of the new freshman class moved into their rooms. The earlybirds are part of the University's largest-ever Intro to College contingent; the elective orientation program was expanded this year to meet the demand. New students get library and computer tours, how-to advice, and opportunities to enjoy social events including Friday afternoon's ice cream social. This afternoon, a crowd of about 1,500 students and parents took part in a welcome program at the Phoenix Sports Center. Despite the 88-degree heat (where's that new facility when you need it?) the event succeeded in drumming up some school spirit. Move-in day is Monday for other students living on campus.

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Details: Regents give UW-Green Bay major support for Learning Experience

Most on campus have already heard the great news: The UW-Green Bay "Learning Experience Initiative" has won approval and a pledge of $3.7 million in start-up funding from the UW System Board of Regents. The System's budget still needs legislative approval. Details of the plan, including quotes from Regents who singled out the Green Bay plan for public praise, are online at the news site at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000aug.htm#experience

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UW System OKs $17 million to re-make Lab Sciences Building

More good news, almost overshadowed by recent planning progress on the Learning Experience and by construction progress on the new academic building: UW-Green Bay's $17.5 million plan to remodel and create additional space in the Laboratory Sciences Building is well on its way. The Regents assigned a higher priority to only one other capital project in the entire state, which makes funding of the Green Bay project a good bet. For details, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000aug.htm#project

* * * * *

They're winners — and here's why

Ovations from a near-capacity crowd greeted the announcements Wednesday that five members of the faculty and staff received Founders Association Awards for Excellence at the all-University convocation. Recipients and their awards are: Thomas Haevers, academic support; Beverly Hendricks, administrative support; Warren Johnson, teaching; Margaret Laughlin, scholarship; and Carol Pollis, institutional development. If you weren't there, or if you were there but want additional detail about why these people are so exceptionally award-worthy, follow the news at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000aug.htm#founders

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Now, even the coinless can browse vending machines via Pass Points

Campus vending machines are now accepting Pass Points! If you don't have your Pass Points yet, simply take your Passport I.D. to any cash register in the University Union, Garden Cafe or the Value Transfer Station in the Cofrin Library to purchase Pass Points to use all over campus...including vending machines! Just swipe your card and the machine will do the rest! An added bonus, vending machines are now selling 20-ounce bottled soda!

* * * * *

Unusual blend of Native American, reggae music is Sept. 7

A singer with a musical vision that blends his Native American traditions with the sounds of reggae will perform from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, on the Nicolet Room patio outside the University Union. Casper Lomayesva is Hopi and Navaho, and grew up on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona. His concert is part of the 2000-2001 Contemporary Issues series of programs sponsored by the Office of Student Life. Click here for more: http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000aug.htm#reggae

* * * * *

Mark your calendar: Italian luncheon is Oct. 6

More details to come, but tickets are on sale for the noon-hour International Italian Cuisine & Entertainment Luncheon to be held in the Phoenix Room on Friday, Oct. 6. Tickets, at only $7.99 per person, are available at the Information Center in the Union. The meal will include Italian beef with peppers and onion, quatro-fromage ziti, and something called Il dolce-chocolate raspberry espresso cheesecake. Harpist Nancy Blanchard Watts will perform. Call ext. 2400 with questions. The program is sponsored by the Office of Student Life, the University Union, American Intercultural Center and the International Center.

* * * * *

Research Office sends reminder on grants conference

The Institute for Research and the Office of Graduate Studies would like to remind all faculty and staff of the upcoming UW System Grants Dissemination Conference scheduled for Oct. 6 at the Pyle Center in Madison. Participation is free, though the deadline for registration is Sept. 13. Complete conference information and online registration is available at http://www.uwsa.edu/acadaff/grants. The conference will feature concurrent presentations by investigators who were awarded project and research grants from UW System. Presenters will share their results, provide ideas on how their outcome might be replicated, and offer tips on preparing effective grant proposals. Additional sessions are scheduled on writing grants for UW System programs and on using online tools to locate funding opportunities. Questions about the conference should be directed to Steve Bialek at 608.262.5563 or by e-mail sbialek@uwsa.edu.

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Briefs

Prof. Michael Draney, NAS, traveled in July to the Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society in Lexington, KY, to present a paper: Ecology of Lathys spp. and other ground-dwelling Dictynidae from the southeastern U.S. coastal plain.

Prof. Anthony Galt, SCD, upon invitation, delivered a paper entitled "Research on Pantelleria, 1968-74" at a conference entitled, "Pantelleria and the Mediterranean," held July 15th in the Barbacane Castle in the port of Pantelleria, Italy. The Island of Pantelleria was the site of Galt's Ph.D. dissertation and subsequent research in the 1970s. Galt also revisited another previous field site: Locorotondo in the Province of Bari.

A book by Gary Greif, professor emeritus of Humanistic Studies and philosophy, was recently published by University Press of America. The book, titled: The Tragedy of the Self: Individual and Social Disintegration Viewed Through the Self Psychology of Heinz Kohut, uses a recent version of psychoanalytic theory to examine and critique some assumptions fundamental to contemporary social and political theory and practice.

* * * * *

LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. To submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or just plain feedback, UW-Green Bay employees can call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.