FYI, the state Assembly has approved and sent to the Senate several bills that were discussed as part of a legislative videohearing here last month. Approved were AB 244, creating tax credits for businesses that pay employees' tuition; AB 432, which permits auditing of UW and technical college courses by persons 60 and older; and AB 654, which dresses up the EdVest program to make it more attractive.

Neenah resident Jamie Michalkiewicz, a UW-Green Bay Elementary Education major, was the most recent winner of the Papa John's $5,000 Halfcourt Shot contest, during the Monday, Jan. 31 Phoenix men's basketball game. His accuracy (and a little bit of luck) earned him a $5,000 check which will be presented Feb. 17. "He was so excited," said Athletics Marketing Director Dennis Keihn. "He said, 'I have no money. No money at all.'' I said, 'Well, now you do.'" Michalkiewicz was the second contestant this year to earn the 5,000 smackers. Jason Meyer, a 14-year-old Bayview Middle School student, was the first.

Papa John's, the pizza company that insures the halfcourt shot contest, "couldn't be more delighted" about the recent run of $5,000 winners, according to Dennis Keihn. "They are loving the publicity." As are many of Athletics' other sponsors — Oneida Bingo and Casino, Krolls West, Weidner Center, The Bar, US Cellular, American Express Casualty and the UWGB Bookstore — in the noticeably more festive atmosphere at games this season. Contestants are selected at random by section and seat number.

A free professional development opportunity for faculty is coming up on Tuesday, Feb. 15, with the videoconference "Integrating Global Resources into Your Classroom." The downlink site is Cofrin Hall Room 11 at St. Norbert College. The program will run from 2 to 3:30 p.m., with a discussion of how faculty can access and integrate global resources into the classroom as practical teaching tools. Panelists include Dr. Andrey Narvsky of St. Petersburg University, Russia; Dr. Colette Mazzucelli of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution MA Program at Beaver College; and Dr. Lalita Rajasingham of Victoria University of New Zealand. SNC and NWTC are co-sponsors; all faculty and staff of UW-Green Bay are invited to attend. Please let Doug Gjerde, Outreach and Extension, 2407, or gjerded@uwgb.edu, know if you plan to attend.

This week's sampling of activities and initiatives includes: Counseling and Health: all staff will attend two workshops or training opportunities related to diversity; view and discuss the NEWIST video "Discussion on Diversity"; and offer in-service training or student seminars on such topics as understanding sexual orientation, Native American healing traditions, and, in Spanish, "Health Information for Green Bay."

The Committee on Awards and Recognition has set Friday, Feb. 11, as the deadline for nominations for Founders Association Awards for Excellence. Nomination forms are available from committee members or the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff, CL 825.

The United Way of Brown County sends thanks to those who pushed the 1999 campaign to a record $4 million total, an increase of 6.5%, and a record 24,000 contributors. Volunteer panels will make recommendations to the Board of Directors in March as to allocations for various nonprofit agencies. UW-Green Bay's 1999 campaign saw a major increase, with pledges reaching $14,873 after three years in the $11,000 range.

Sunday afternoon (Feb. 13) is the time for "Give Yourself a Valentine," a seminar for women presented at the YWCA by the Y and the local Business and Professional Women organization. The cost is $5 and guest speakers will address mental health and wellness and workplace and career issues. Call Elaine Capelle at 468-7186 for registration info.

You should have already seen the all-campus e-mail seeking top students for positions as Admissions Office orientation assistants; nominations are due in the Admissions Office by Friday, Feb. 11.

Three jobs in the Information Technology area: Windows NT System Administrator; Senior Programmer Analyst; and Oracle Database Administrator. Apply by Feb. 11; direct questions to Cheri Dobbin-Dietrich, CL 830.

Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, the newest book co-edited by Michael E. Kraft, PEA, is one of five books on the subject of sustainable use reviewed by senior editor Malcolm G. Scully in "The Rhetoric and the Reality of Sustainability," appearing in the January 28 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Scott Wright, COA, has a busy performance schedule in addition to his Feb. 17 recital on campus (see item elsewhere in this roundup). Wright recently was a featured soloist at the annual convention of the International Clarinet Association in Ostend, Belgium. In the next few months, he will give a solo recital and master class at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill.; tour Florida for a week with the acclaimed Keith Brion New Sousa Band; and make a concerto appearance with the Lower Columbia Symphonic Band in Washington state.

Publications Jennifer Davis, staff member NAS, and co-authors Robert Howe and Gregory Davis, NAS, have a research paper "A multi-scale spatial analysis method for point data" in the February 2000 issue of Landscape Ecology [15(2):99-114].

"Paleorefugia and neorefugia: the influence of colonization history on community pattern and process," a paper by Jeff Nekola, NAS, is the lead article in the December 1999 issue of Ecology. The paper was selected as one of the journal's occasional "Concepts and Synthesis" pieces, emphasizing new ideas to stimulate research in ecology. Nekola recently learned that the paper is the topic of a graduate seminar at the University of Minnesota.

Publications by Ismail Shariff, URS, include "Global Realignment in the New Millennium" and "The Asian Financial Crisis: The role of the International Monetary Fund and its Mounting Criticism" in the January and July 1999 issues, respectively, of World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues.

Early articles by Prof. John Stoll, PEA, have recently been selected for republication in literature collections. "Consumer's Surplus in Commodity Space," written with Alan Randall, will be reprinted in a forthcoming three-volume collection titled Welfare Economics as part of The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics - Series edited by Mark Blaug and published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. The same article was also reprinted last year in Making the Environment Count: Selected Essays of Alan Randall. Also republished in that book were the Randall-Stoll pieces "Valuing Increments and Decrements in Natural Resource Service Flows," and "Existence Value in a Total Valuation Framework."

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