UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 32 No. 11



Cole wins Women of Color honor Article touts Weidner Center's role Madison picks Wiley Investment Board survey Consider the Variable The next 'Nerdistan' Pfotenhauer trumpet recital Trio del Sol perform Chamber series spring lineup Art Agency art sale Chili sale International Education Week 'Inspector Hound' continues SIS Project Update 'Butterfly' gets Midwest Emmy Jobs listed Udall scholarship Faculty research program reminder Briefs: Breznay, Dutch, Grosso, Henze, Howe, Katers, Liu, Meredith, Wright	Vol. 32, No. 11 / November 13, 2000 The LOG Online e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website and to an archive of past issues. Cole wins UW System Women of Color honor Juliet Cole, assistant to the director of the Institute for Learning Partnership, was recently recognized by the University of Wisconsin System for her contributions to the UW-Green Bay campus, the Green Bay community, and in particular, to women of color. Cole was recognized at the statewide Women's Studies Conference, Oct. 27-28, for her commitment to diversity issues and initiatives. For more, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000nov.htm#cole *** * * * *** Article touts Weidner Center's role in sending theatre students to the pros For Andrea Roberts, UW-Green Bay Class of '93, last week's run of the touring Broadway musical "The Scarlet Pimpernel" represented a homecoming. It was the first time she had worked the Weidner Center as a costume manager for the touring production. An article in Sunday's Green Bay Press-Gazette noted that Roberts is one of a growing number of theatre pros who used UW-Green Bay's Weidner Center connection as a springboard to their careers. Others mentioned were Jennifer Strosin, '98, and Aaron Stinebrink, '2000. See the Press-Gazette online at http://www.greenbayareaguide.com/news/archive/theatre/j1112adresser.html *** * * * * Madison goes for Wiley Dr. John D. Wiley, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was Friday named chancellor of the university, effective Jan. 1, 2001. Wiley will succeed David Ward. "I think John will be especially effective, given his experience as a UW-Madison student, faculty member, dean and senior administrator," said System President Katharine Lyall. "He has literally seen the institution from every vantage point." For more, visit the System Web at http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/chancellorsearch/index.msql?get=release_wiley * * * * * The Investment Board wants to hear from you The State of Wisconsin Investment Board, which invests the trust funds of the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), would like to survey as many WRS participants as possible using their Participant Survey on their website. The address is http://www.swib.state.wi.us/survey.asp. They report they are short on UW faculty and staff respondents, and would like more data. The survey is scheduled to close by mid-December. * * * * * More Investment Board news: consider the Variable The Investment Board tells us that they have been getting numerous contacts from state employees about the Variable Fund investments. The Board now has a new Website (www.swib.state.wi.us) that includes information about the Variable. Many WRS members are interested because of the pending court decision regarding 1999 Act11, which would reopen the fund and allow them to place half of their retirement funds there. Information about the Variable Fund is available at http://www.swib.state.wi.us/pressrelease.asp. * * * * *** Wisconsin cities vie to become next 'Nerdistan' Here's a catchy label we're likely to hear more of, later this month, in connection with Wisconsin's first-ever Economic Summit: "Nerdistan." That's the term that techies and new-economy prophets are using to describe what they'd like to see if Wisconsin (with help from its higher-education community, of course) succeeds in creating its own Silicon Valley. If you're interested, check Sunday's cover story in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel at http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/nov00/newecon12111100a.asp *** * * * * Visiting guest star joins Pfotenhauer in trumpet recital Guest artist Christopher Moore will appear in a trumpet recital with UW-Green Bay faculty member Thomas Pfotenhauer at 7:30 p.m. Sunday (November 19) in the Weidner's Fort Howard Hall. Admission is free. Moore, who is a professor of trumpet at the University of Kansas, will be guest soloist with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra the previous night. The program represents composers from Francesco Manfredini, who lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, to Joseph Turrin and Thomas Stevens, who are working today. Compositions by Bellini, Bloch, and Britten round out the program. For more, see the web at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000nov.htm#trumpet * * * * * Chamber music series brings acclaimed Trio del Sol to campus The new University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chamber music series brings Trio del Sol, of Tempe, Ariz., to Fort Howard Hall at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 17. Trio members Katie McLin, violin, Robert Spring, clarinet, and Andrew Campbell, piano, are based at Arizona State University. The group is known for virtuoso performances and innovative programming. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587. For more on the program, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000nov.htm#trio * * * * * Series adds Fine Arts Quartet, Wisconsin Brass to spring concert schedule The spring portion of the schedule has been announced for the new chamber music series sponsored by UW-Green Bay. The music continues with appearances by the Fine Arts String Quartet, in residence at UW-Milwaukee, on February 10, 2001, and by the Wisconsin Brass Quintet from UW-Madison, on April 7, 2001. The series began with a performance by Duo Pegasus in October, and a Trio del Sol appearance this Friday. * * * * * Do your holiday shopping, for art, right here! Art Agency is hosting its seasonal sale in Phoenix Room C on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 27 and 28. There will be exquisite art work for sale, ranging from ceramics, jewelry, paintings, photography, graphics, sculptures and much more. Don't miss out on reasonable prices, and great gifts for your family and friends. The sale will run from 8 to 4:30 both days. Say the event's organizers: Hope to see you there! * * * * * Chili sale is Wednesday The bulletin boards on campus tell us it's time for the Art Agency's annual bowls and chili fundraiser. The chili will be hot and ready to go from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 15) in the Studio Arts "café" area and from a roving chili cart. Proceeds go to a local charitable organization. * * * * * International Week starts today, includes Friday open house The week starting today is "International-Education Week" and UW-Green Bay's Office of International Education has planned a few events to help celebrate diversity in Green Bay. On Tuesday (Nov. 14) there will be an international poetry reading at Kavarna Café, 112 S. Broadway, beginning at 8:30 p.m. On Wednesday (Nov. 15) with the support of Chartwell's, the Nicolet Cafeteria will be serving a variety of international foods for lunch. Also, that night at 6:30 p.m. at the Neville Public Museum, the Green Bay Film Festival will be showing a Spanish film, "Solas." Finally, on Friday (Nov. 17) the Office of International Education will be hosting an open house (Student Services 1900) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For details, contact International Education. * * * * * 'Inspector Hound' continues There's still time to catch a very funny farce this week in Studio Two. It's the theatre program's production of "The Real Inspector Hound." The second week's schedule has performances at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday and Friday, and a pair of shows (at 7 and 9 p.m.) on the final night, Saturday, Nov. 18. The Friday night show will be signed for the hearing impaired. For more, check http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000nov.htm#hound * * * * * SIS Project Update A demonstration of Course Catalog panels using the PeopleSoft application was made at the Nov. 8 Leadership Council meeting. Development of the Course Catalog is substantially complete and is a key milestone that is critical to other efforts such as development of a class schedule and Academic Advising setup. Overall data conversion for Student Records has been going well. For more project news click http://www.uwgb.edu/sis/Log_Update18.htm * * * * *** 'Butterfly' gets Midwest Emmy Our talented friends at NEWIST/CESA 7 and WPT-Green Bay continue to receive honors for their work. The documentary on middle-school girls, Beyond the Butterfly, received a Midwest Emmy at the Awards Ceremony in at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago on Oct. 28. It is the ninth award for the production, which gave video cameras to girls to document what they are thinking, feeling and doing and to speak candidly about themselves and their experiences. The www.wpt.org/butterfly website contains video clips, the teacher guide, script and other resources. *** * * * * Jobs Admissions Program Manager ... Apply to Pam Harvey-Jacobs, screening begins Nov. 3; Assistant Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences (Chemistry) ... apply by Dec. 1 to John Lyon; Assistant Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences (Earth Science) ... apply by Dec. 10 to Steven Dutch; Assistant Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences (Mathematics) ... apply by Dec. 1 to Gregory Davis; Director of Human Resources ... apply by Nov. 13 with Sharon Dimmer; Assistant Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs ... apply by Dec. 20 to Scott Furlong; Assistant Professor of Human Biology ... apply by Nov. 30 to James Marker. * * * * * Scholarship opportunity UW-Green Bay students in fields related to the environment, and Native American students in fields related to health care or tribal public policy, are invited to apply for the Morris K. Udall scholarship. In April 2001, the Udall Foundation will award $5,000 scholarships to students who will be college juniors or seniors during the next academic year. The program welcomes applications from those who approach environmental issues in multidisciplinary ways. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Feb. 15. Go to www.udall.gov or Prof. Michael Kraft for more information. * * * * * Reminder on faculty research program The University community is invited to the first in this year's series of faculty lectures from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 16) in Rose Hall 220. Sandra Stokes, Education and Women's Studies, will describe a summer and after-school arts program for elementary and middle-school children which she began last summer. David Dolan, Natural and Applied Sciences, will speak on the three-workshop series, "Critical Thinking, Science, and the Environment." * * * * * Briefs A paper by Prof. Peter T. Breznay, Information and Computing Sciences/ICS, titled "Recursive Hierarchical Interconnection Networks with Asymptotically Optimal Parameters" has been invited for presentation at the at the IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics (AI2001), which will be held in February 2001 in Innsbruck, Austria. The paper will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference. Research by Prof. Steve Dutch, NAS, was selected to be presented at the 112th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Reno, Nev., this week. Approximately 7,000 geoscientists are expected to attend. Dutch's presentation, "If you build it, they will come: some second-order effects of web publishing," addresses the benefits and problems of using the Web in geoscience education. Prof. Cheryl Grosso** is the author and composer of two new books for learning and performing hand drumming. Hand Drumming Essentials: The Instruments, Techniques, and Compositions for Ensemble Performance, is aimed at university, high school and middle school percussion instructors. It is a methods book that includes seven of Grosso's original compositions. Hand Drumming Ensembles: Rhythm Chants for Group Performance is a collection of 12 of Grosso's compositions. Both books were published by Alfred Publishing Company, the foremost U.S. publisher of academic and scholarly music. John Bergamo, internationally renowned as a world percussion performer and composer of modern music, wrote the forward used in both books. Grosso studied with Bergamo at California Institute of the Arts. An article by Catherine Henze, Assistant Professor in HUS, will appear in Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000), 403-19, entitled "Music as Women's Defense 'Against Malicious Detractors': The Case of Beaumont and Fletcher's The Woman Hater." Graduate student Nate Hawley has received the Sophie Danforth Conservation Biology Fund Award from the Rhode Island Zoological Society to support his thesis project,. "Patterns of Diversity and Habitat Associations in a Vulnerable Island Butterfly Fauna." Hawley earlier received support for the project from the Milwaukee Zoological Society. Hawley has conducted his field study over the course of three trips to Tobago, where Neila Bobb, '96, is environmental research officer for the Environment Department of the Tobago House of Assembly. Hawley, whose undergraduate degree in the biological aspects of conservation is from UW-Milwaukee, is a student of Robert Howe, Natural and Applied Sciences. Prof. John Katers, NAS and engineering, was listed among the speakers for a conference earlier this month in La Crosse hosted by the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin. The topic of the conference was "Dairying in Concert With the Environment," which emphasized nutrient management and procedures for limiting potential pollution. A paper by Weiping Liu, Business Administration, titled, "Simplified Procedures to Valuate Stocks of Different Growth Stages," has been accepted for presentation at the Academy of Finance Annual Meeting scheduled for March 2001 in Chicago. The Press-Gazette reports that among those competing recently at the International Dvorak Voice Competition with 110 students from eastern and western Europe were two UW-Green Bay students who traveled with Prof. Sarah Meredith, COA and music. Competing at the festival in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, were student vocalists Kami Nordgaard and Andrea Wiltzius, with accompanist Andrea Meyer also making the trip. Clarinetist Scott Wright, COA, of the music faculty, was billed as the featured guest artist for a concert by the Northeastern Wisconsin Concert Band in Menominee, Mich., last month. He was soloist on the classical showpiece "Concertino for Clarinet" and on the jazz favorite "Concerto for Clarinet" by Artie Shaw. *** * * * *** LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Cole wins Women of Color honor

Article touts Weidner Center's role

Madison picks Wiley

Investment Board survey

Consider the Variable

The next 'Nerdistan'

Pfotenhauer trumpet recital

Trio del Sol perform

Chamber series spring lineup

Art Agency art sale

Chili sale

International Education Week

'Inspector Hound' continues

SIS Project Update

'Butterfly' gets Midwest Emmy

Jobs listed

Udall scholarship

Faculty research program reminder

Briefs: Breznay, Dutch, Grosso, Henze, Howe, Katers, Liu, Meredith, Wright

Vol. 32, No. 11 / November 13, 2000

The LOG Online e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website and to an archive of past issues.

Cole wins UW System Women of Color honor

Juliet Cole, assistant to the director of the Institute for Learning Partnership, was recently recognized by the University of Wisconsin System for her contributions to the UW-Green Bay campus, the Green Bay community, and in particular, to women of color. Cole was recognized at the statewide Women's Studies Conference, Oct. 27-28, for her commitment to diversity issues and initiatives. For more, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000nov.htm#cole

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Article touts Weidner Center's role in sending theatre students to the pros

For Andrea Roberts, UW-Green Bay Class of '93, last week's run of the touring Broadway musical "The Scarlet Pimpernel" represented a homecoming. It was the first time she had worked the Weidner Center as a costume manager for the touring production. An article in Sunday's Green Bay Press-Gazette noted that Roberts is one of a growing number of theatre pros who used UW-Green Bay's Weidner Center connection as a springboard to their careers. Others mentioned were Jennifer Strosin, '98, and Aaron Stinebrink, '2000. See the Press-Gazette online at http://www.greenbayareaguide.com/news/archive/theatre/j1112adresser.html

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Madison goes for Wiley

Dr. John D. Wiley, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was Friday named chancellor of the university, effective Jan. 1, 2001. Wiley will succeed David Ward. "I think John will be especially effective, given his experience as a UW-Madison student, faculty member, dean and senior administrator," said System President Katharine Lyall. "He has literally seen the institution from every vantage point." For more, visit the System Web at http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/chancellorsearch/index.msql?get=release_wiley

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The Investment Board wants to hear from you

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board, which invests the trust funds of the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), would like to survey as many WRS participants as possible using their Participant Survey on their website. The address is http://www.swib.state.wi.us/survey.asp. They report they are short on UW faculty and staff respondents, and would like more data. The survey is scheduled to close by mid-December.

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More Investment Board news: consider the Variable

The Investment Board tells us that they have been getting numerous contacts from state employees about the Variable Fund investments. The Board now has a new Website (www.swib.state.wi.us) that includes information about the Variable. Many WRS members are interested because of the pending court decision regarding 1999 Act11, which would reopen the fund and allow them to place half of their retirement funds there. Information about the Variable Fund is available at http://www.swib.state.wi.us/pressrelease.asp.

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Wisconsin cities vie to become next 'Nerdistan'

Here's a catchy label we're likely to hear more of, later this month, in connection with Wisconsin's first-ever Economic Summit: "Nerdistan." That's the term that techies and new-economy prophets are using to describe what they'd like to see if Wisconsin (with help from its higher-education community, of course) succeeds in creating its own Silicon Valley. If you're interested, check Sunday's cover story in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel at http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/nov00/newecon12111100a.asp

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Visiting guest star joins Pfotenhauer in trumpet recital

Guest artist Christopher Moore will appear in a trumpet recital with UW-Green Bay faculty member Thomas Pfotenhauer at 7:30 p.m. Sunday (November 19) in the Weidner's Fort Howard Hall. Admission is free. Moore, who is a professor of trumpet at the University of Kansas, will be guest soloist with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra the previous night. The program represents composers from Francesco Manfredini, who lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, to Joseph Turrin and Thomas Stevens, who are working today. Compositions by Bellini, Bloch, and Britten round out the program. For more, see the web at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000nov.htm#trumpet

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Chamber music series brings acclaimed Trio del Sol to campus

The new University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chamber music series brings Trio del Sol, of Tempe, Ariz., to Fort Howard Hall at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 17. Trio members Katie McLin, violin, Robert Spring, clarinet, and Andrew Campbell, piano, are based at Arizona State University. The group is known for virtuoso performances and innovative programming. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587. For more on the program, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000nov.htm#trio

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Series adds Fine Arts Quartet, Wisconsin Brass to spring concert schedule

The spring portion of the schedule has been announced for the new chamber music series sponsored by UW-Green Bay. The music continues with appearances by the Fine Arts String Quartet, in residence at UW-Milwaukee, on February 10, 2001, and by the Wisconsin Brass Quintet from UW-Madison, on April 7, 2001. The series began with a performance by Duo Pegasus in October, and a Trio del Sol appearance this Friday.

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Do your holiday shopping, for art, right here!

Art Agency is hosting its seasonal sale in Phoenix Room C on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 27 and 28. There will be exquisite art work for sale, ranging from ceramics, jewelry, paintings, photography, graphics, sculptures and much more. Don't miss out on reasonable prices, and great gifts for your family and friends. The sale will run from 8 to 4:30 both days. Say the event's organizers: Hope to see you there!

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Chili sale is Wednesday

The bulletin boards on campus tell us it's time for the Art Agency's annual bowls and chili fundraiser. The chili will be hot and ready to go from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 15) in the Studio Arts "café" area and from a roving chili cart. Proceeds go to a local charitable organization.

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International Week starts today, includes Friday open house

The week starting today is "International-Education Week" and UW-Green Bay's Office of International Education has planned a few events to help celebrate diversity in Green Bay. On Tuesday (Nov. 14) there will be an international poetry reading at Kavarna Café, 112 S. Broadway, beginning at 8:30 p.m. On Wednesday (Nov. 15) with the support of Chartwell's, the Nicolet Cafeteria will be serving a variety of international foods for lunch. Also, that night at 6:30 p.m. at the Neville Public Museum, the Green Bay Film Festival will be showing a Spanish film, "Solas." Finally, on Friday (Nov. 17) the Office of International Education will be hosting an open house (Student Services 1900) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For details, contact International Education.

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'Inspector Hound' continues

There's still time to catch a very funny farce this week in Studio Two. It's the theatre program's production of "The Real Inspector Hound." The second week's schedule has performances at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday and Friday, and a pair of shows (at 7 and 9 p.m.) on the final night, Saturday, Nov. 18. The Friday night show will be signed for the hearing impaired. For more, check http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000nov.htm#hound

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SIS Project Update

A demonstration of Course Catalog panels using the PeopleSoft application was made at the Nov. 8 Leadership Council meeting. Development of the Course Catalog is substantially complete and is a key milestone that is critical to other efforts such as development of a class schedule and Academic Advising setup. Overall data conversion for Student Records has been going well. For more project news click http://www.uwgb.edu/sis/Log_Update18.htm

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'Butterfly' gets Midwest Emmy

Our talented friends at NEWIST/CESA 7 and WPT-Green Bay continue to receive honors for their work. The documentary on middle-school girls, Beyond the Butterfly, received a Midwest Emmy at the Awards Ceremony in at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago on Oct. 28. It is the ninth award for the production, which gave video cameras to girls to document what they are thinking, feeling and doing and to speak candidly about themselves and their experiences. The www.wpt.org/butterfly website contains video clips, the teacher guide, script and other resources.

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Jobs

Admissions Program Manager ... Apply to Pam Harvey-Jacobs, screening begins Nov. 3; Assistant Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences (Chemistry) ... apply by Dec. 1 to John Lyon; Assistant Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences (Earth Science) ... apply by Dec. 10 to Steven Dutch; Assistant Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences (Mathematics) ... apply by Dec. 1 to Gregory Davis; Director of Human Resources ... apply by Nov. 13 with Sharon Dimmer; Assistant Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs ... apply by Dec. 20 to Scott Furlong; Assistant Professor of Human Biology ... apply by Nov. 30 to James Marker.

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Scholarship opportunity

UW-Green Bay students in fields related to the environment, and Native American students in fields related to health care or tribal public policy, are invited to apply for the Morris K. Udall scholarship. In April 2001, the Udall Foundation will award $5,000 scholarships to students who will be college juniors or seniors during the next academic year. The program welcomes applications from those who approach environmental issues in multidisciplinary ways. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Feb. 15. Go to www.udall.gov or Prof. Michael Kraft for more information.

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Reminder on faculty research program

The University community is invited to the first in this year's series of faculty lectures from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 16) in Rose Hall 220. Sandra Stokes, Education and Women's Studies, will describe a summer and after-school arts program for elementary and middle-school children which she began last summer. David Dolan, Natural and Applied Sciences, will speak on the three-workshop series, "Critical Thinking, Science, and the Environment."

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Briefs

A paper by Prof. Peter T. Breznay, Information and Computing Sciences/ICS, titled "Recursive Hierarchical Interconnection Networks with Asymptotically Optimal Parameters" has been invited for presentation at the at the IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics (AI2001), which will be held in February 2001 in Innsbruck, Austria. The paper will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference.

Research by Prof. Steve Dutch, NAS, was selected to be presented at the 112th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Reno, Nev., this week. Approximately 7,000 geoscientists are expected to attend. Dutch's presentation, "If you build it, they will come: some second-order effects of web publishing," addresses the benefits and problems of using the Web in geoscience education.

Prof. Cheryl Grosso is the author and composer of two new books for learning and performing hand drumming. Hand Drumming Essentials: The Instruments, Techniques, and Compositions for Ensemble Performance, is aimed at university, high school and middle school percussion instructors. It is a methods book that includes seven of Grosso's original compositions. Hand Drumming Ensembles: Rhythm Chants for Group Performance is a collection of 12 of Grosso's compositions. Both books were published by Alfred Publishing Company, the foremost U.S. publisher of academic and scholarly music. John Bergamo, internationally renowned as a world percussion performer and composer of modern music, wrote the forward used in both books. Grosso studied with Bergamo at California Institute of the Arts.

An article by Catherine Henze, Assistant Professor in HUS, will appear in Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000), 403-19, entitled "Music as Women's Defense 'Against Malicious Detractors': The Case of Beaumont and Fletcher's The Woman Hater."

Graduate student Nate Hawley has received the Sophie Danforth Conservation Biology Fund Award from the Rhode Island Zoological Society to support his thesis project,. "Patterns of Diversity and Habitat Associations in a Vulnerable Island Butterfly Fauna." Hawley earlier received support for the project from the Milwaukee Zoological Society. Hawley has conducted his field study over the course of three trips to Tobago, where Neila Bobb, '96, is environmental research officer for the Environment Department of the Tobago House of Assembly. Hawley, whose undergraduate degree in the biological aspects of conservation is from UW-Milwaukee, is a student of Robert Howe, Natural and Applied Sciences.

Prof. John Katers, NAS and engineering, was listed among the speakers for a conference earlier this month in La Crosse hosted by the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin. The topic of the conference was "Dairying in Concert With the Environment," which emphasized nutrient management and procedures for limiting potential pollution.

A paper by Weiping Liu, Business Administration, titled, "Simplified Procedures to Valuate Stocks of Different Growth Stages," has been accepted for presentation at the Academy of Finance Annual Meeting scheduled for March 2001 in Chicago.

The Press-Gazette reports that among those competing recently at the International Dvorak Voice Competition with 110 students from eastern and western Europe were two UW-Green Bay students who traveled with Prof. Sarah Meredith, COA and music. Competing at the festival in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, were student vocalists Kami Nordgaard and Andrea Wiltzius, with accompanist Andrea Meyer also making the trip.

Clarinetist Scott Wright, COA, of the music faculty, was billed as the featured guest artist for a concert by the Northeastern Wisconsin Concert Band in Menominee, Mich., last month. He was soloist on the classical showpiece "Concertino for Clarinet" and on the jazz favorite "Concerto for Clarinet" by Artie Shaw.

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