UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 32 No. 2



Thron is UW System's top teacher Eulogizing 'The Pit' Midwest Photo XI opens Lawton season Workshop series on environmental issues Campus directories Additions to directories Brief: Goff	Vol. 32, No. 2 / September 12, 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. UW System honors Thron as state's top teacher UW-Green Bay Associate Prof. Joan Thron received the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award given by the UW System Board of Regents at a ceremony Friday in Madison. Thron teaches in the Education and Humanistic Studies departments. She is the recipient of UW-Green Bay's third statewide teaching excellence award since the Regents instituted the program in 1992. Prof. John Harris, Business Administration, received the individual award in 1996, and the Human Development unit shared top faculty honors in 1994. For more on Prof. Thron, and the recognition of her special contributions to teaching and her students at UW-Green Bay, click on www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000sep.htm#award *** * * * *** With remodeling of oldest lecture hall, profs bid 'fond' farewell to 'The Pit' Q. How many UW-Green Bay students over the years have taken courses in ES 114? A. Practically all of them! The venerable venue was the first major lecture hall on campus when the first three buildings opened on the Shorewood site 31 years ago. If those newly remodeled walls could talk! Actually, they don't have to. Several professors who are well versed in the room's rich history share thoughts on the famous "Section F"; the challenges of teaching "Intro" courses in a cavernous hall filled with non-majors; the good, the bad and the ugly of old ES 114; and the joys of remodeling, at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm *** * * * * Lawton Gallery season opens Friday with UW-Green Bay's 11th Midwest Photo An exhibit of 75 photographs in various photographic media, ranging from traditional black and white prints to digital images, opens with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. this Friday (Sept. 15) in the Lawton Gallery in Theatre Hall. Midwest Photography Invitational XI includes the work of 20 artists from across the country. The every-other-year invitational, which originates at UW-Green Bay, began in 1980. Photo XI will tour from mid-January 2001 through April 1, 2002, with exhibitions at the Wisconsin Union Galleries in Madison and sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. For more, see www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000sep.htm#photo * * * * * Dolan, Fiala plan workshops to help citizens untangle environmental issues More on this in next week's LOG, but circle the dates: Helping citizens understand and evaluate competing viewpoints and complex environmental issues is the goal of two UW-Green Bay faculty members who are offering a series of free community workshops entitled, "Critical Thinking, Science, and the Environment." The workshops are on Thursdays, Sept. 21, Oct. 5, and Nov. 2. All are scheduled from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the University Union. Professors Andrew Fiala, of Humanistic Studies and Philosophy, and David Dolan, of Natural and Applied Sciences and Mathematics, are organizing the series. For basic details, click on www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000sep.htm#citizens * * * * * Directory assistance? Call Nancy Some units still haven't picked up their allotment of the official 2000-01 UW-Green Bay phone directories published by Marketing and University Communication. If you need help, call Nancy Matzke. Maybe it's 2214, maybe it's not. Pick up your phone directory and then you'll know for sure. * * * * * More on the phone book Any corrections or additions to the official 2000-01 campus phone book should be submitted to Betsy Bassett-Piehl in CL 815 by Friday, Sept. 29. An addendum will be distributed in early October. * * * * * Brief Prof. Victoria Goff, COA, is currently an exchange professor at the Institute for Communication at Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark. She will be teaching graduate seminars in the history of world communication. UW-Green Bay has had the exchange program in place for more than a decade, with faculty from several departments taking part. Goff's e-mail at Aalborg is goffv@hum.auc.dk * * * * *** 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.

Thron is UW System's top teacher

Eulogizing 'The Pit'

Midwest Photo XI opens Lawton season

Workshop series on environmental issues

Campus directories

Additions to directories

Brief: Goff

Vol. 32, No. 2 / September 12, 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.

UW System honors Thron as state's top teacher

UW-Green Bay Associate Prof. Joan Thron received the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award given by the UW System Board of Regents at a ceremony Friday in Madison. Thron teaches in the Education and Humanistic Studies departments. She is the recipient of UW-Green Bay's third statewide teaching excellence award since the Regents instituted the program in 1992. Prof. John Harris, Business Administration, received the individual award in 1996, and the Human Development unit shared top faculty honors in 1994. For more on Prof. Thron, and the recognition of her special contributions to teaching and her students at UW-Green Bay, click on www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000sep.htm#award

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With remodeling of oldest lecture hall, profs bid 'fond' farewell to 'The Pit'

Q. How many UW-Green Bay students over the years have taken courses in ES 114? A. Practically all of them! The venerable venue was the first major lecture hall on campus when the first three buildings opened on the Shorewood site 31 years ago. If those newly remodeled walls could talk! Actually, they don't have to. Several professors who are well versed in the room's rich history share thoughts on the famous "Section F"; the challenges of teaching "Intro" courses in a cavernous hall filled with non-majors; the good, the bad and the ugly of old ES 114; and the joys of remodeling, at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm

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Lawton Gallery season opens Friday with UW-Green Bay's 11th Midwest Photo

An exhibit of 75 photographs in various photographic media, ranging from traditional black and white prints to digital images, opens with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. this Friday (Sept. 15) in the Lawton Gallery in Theatre Hall. Midwest Photography Invitational XI includes the work of 20 artists from across the country. The every-other-year invitational, which originates at UW-Green Bay, began in 1980. Photo XI will tour from mid-January 2001 through April 1, 2002, with exhibitions at the Wisconsin Union Galleries in Madison and sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. For more, see www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000sep.htm#photo

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Dolan, Fiala plan workshops to help citizens untangle environmental issues

More on this in next week's LOG, but circle the dates: Helping citizens understand and evaluate competing viewpoints and complex environmental issues is the goal of two UW-Green Bay faculty members who are offering a series of free community workshops entitled, "Critical Thinking, Science, and the Environment." The workshops are on Thursdays, Sept. 21, Oct. 5, and Nov. 2. All are scheduled from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the University Union. Professors Andrew Fiala, of Humanistic Studies and Philosophy, and David Dolan, of Natural and Applied Sciences and Mathematics, are organizing the series. For basic details, click on www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000sep.htm#citizens

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Directory assistance? Call Nancy

Some units still haven't picked up their allotment of the official 2000-01 UW-Green Bay phone directories published by Marketing and University Communication. If you need help, call Nancy Matzke. Maybe it's 2214, maybe it's not. Pick up your phone directory and then you'll know for sure.

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More on the phone book

Any corrections or additions to the official 2000-01 campus phone book should be submitted to Betsy Bassett-Piehl in CL 815 by Friday, Sept. 29. An addendum will be distributed in early October.

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Brief

Prof. Victoria Goff, COA, is currently an exchange professor at the Institute for Communication at Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark. She will be teaching graduate seminars in the history of world communication. UW-Green Bay has had the exchange program in place for more than a decade, with faculty from several departments taking part. Goff's e-mail at Aalborg is goffv@hum.auc.dk

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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.