UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 32 No. 31



University Picnic UW-Green Bay advocates testify COS is popular Mary Ann Cofrin Hall naming Facts sheets are online Hall naming is well deserved Web cam Pedestrian Planning program Residence Life open house Briefs	Vol. 32, No. 31 / April 9, 2001 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 Web site and to an archive of past issues. May 8 is date set for University Picnic, special celebration All faculty, academic staff and classified staff are invited to "picnic with a purpose" on Tuesday, May 8, on the plaza patio outside the University Union. The occasion? The chance to celebrate another successful school year, the accomplishments of outgoing Chancellor Mark Perkins, and the careers of Interim Dean Mike Murphy and all campus colleagues retiring during 2000-01. The cookout runs from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m., with a brief program at 12:15 p.m. saluting Chancellor Perkins and recognizing our newest retirees. Watch for a reminder and your chance to RSVP in your mailbox soon. *** * * * *** UW-Green Bay advocates speak on behalf of Learning Experience Initiative As mentioned in this space several days ago, UW-Green Bay advocates were in Peshtigo last Thursday to testify before the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee in support of the Learning Experience Initiative. A short newspaper account of their efforts is online in the Green Bay Press-Gazette archive at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0104/0406uwgb.html *** * * * * Statistics show COS is popular with UW-Green Bay faculty, staff When the UW System purchased affiliation with a find-the-experts database service called Community of Science (COS), there was speculation that it would prove to be a valuable tool. Two years later, a review of usage numbers at UW-Green Bay shows just that. More than 250 faculty and staff profiles currently reside in the COS Expertise database, available for searching by fellow scholars or industries and agencies nationwide in need of specialized expertise. Statistics at UW-Green Bay indicate that in the first three months of 2001 alone, there were 247 hits on the Expertise database, 333 hits on the COS Funding Opportunities database, 20 hits on the COS portal to the Federal Register, and 41 hits on the COS portal to MEDLINE, all of which originated from UW-Green Bay's URL. There are 238 UW-Green Bay faculty and staff members registered for the COS Funding Alert Service, a weekly e-mail service that provides funding opportunities related to key words selected by participants. Mike Marinetti, assistant dean of professional studies and research, is the campus COS contact. * * * * * It's official: 'Mary Ann Cofrin Hall' is OK with Regents Start using the name Mary Ann Cofrin Hall for the new classroom building. It's official — and safe to order business cards. The UW System Board of Regents voted Friday to endorse UW-Green Bay's plan to honor philanthropist and friend Mary Ann Cofrin when the facility opens later this year. * * * * * Fact sheets on Mrs. Cofrin, new building are online Who is Mary Ann Cofrin? And what is this new building all about? Sure, most of us know the basics, but if you're interested in a little more background, it's all online. Fact sheets on Mrs. Cofrin, the Cofrin family and features of the facility are archived on the Marketing and University Communication website, beginning at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001mar.htm#family * * * * *** Newspaper editorial calls naming 'a well-deserved tribute' In case you missed it, today's issue of the Green Bay Press-Gazette contains an editorial which comments on UW-Green Bay's tribute to Mary Ann Cofrin. The piece is online at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/opinion/0104/0409cofrin.html *** * * * * Checked the web cam lately? If you're a LOG reader from out of town — even if you're a UW-Green Bay employee whose office overlooks the new-building construction — don't forget you can get some neat views of MACH 2001 via the Wisconsin Public Service Corp. library webcams. Today's views are at http://www.buildingsolar.com/webcam.asp * * * * * Walk, run, or — walk to hearing on 'Pedestrian Planning' The distance-learning room, IS 1034, is the site of a hearing Monday (April 9) from 4 to 7 p.m. on "Pedestrian Planning." No, this doesn't mean run-of-the-mill, every day, garden-variety planning — it has to do with a DOT master plan to better address future design projects with the safety of pedestrians in mind. Care to testify? Walk-ups are welcome at the videoconference, which originates in Madison. * * * * * Residence Life plans open house for Wednesday, April 11 Ever wonder what happens to on-campus students after they leave your classrooms and offices? The Office of Residence Life has an open house scheduled for Wednesday (April 11) between 2:30 and 5 p.m. You can tour the facilities, learn about various programs and activities that enhance students' lives, talk with current RAs and students, and view displays on Housing: Past and Present. No need to RSVP. * * * * * Briefs Prof. Dan Alesch, Public Administration, has been invited to present a paper at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) at its first annual meeting on Integrated Disaster Risk Management. The conference takes place in early August 2001 in Vienna. Background on the event is available at http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/RMP/dpri2001/ Prof. Denise Sweet, American Indian Studies and Humanistic Studies, has been awarded a $8,000 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship in support of her poetry. Also, she has received word that a proposal for an Ojibwe Language Preservation Project has been granted $86,000 by the Red Cliff Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa. The grant will support apprenticeships for intensive study with the only remaining elder fluent in the Red Cliff dialect of Ojibwe. Apprentices will work full time on acquiring the language and increasing their application and fluency. They, in turn, will instruct community language groups in basic conversation. Sweet will participate full time during her 2001-2201 sabbatical. Later this month, Sweet will serve a week-long artist-in-residency on the Navaho Reservation in Red Mesa, N.M., working with high school student playwrights from various Navaho and Hopi communities. * * * * *** 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.

University Picnic

UW-Green Bay advocates testify

COS is popular

Mary Ann Cofrin Hall naming

Facts sheets are online

Hall naming is well deserved

Web cam

Pedestrian Planning program

Residence Life open house

Briefs

Vol. 32, No. 31 / April 9, 2001

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 Web site and to an archive of past issues.

May 8 is date set for University Picnic, special celebration

All faculty, academic staff and classified staff are invited to "picnic with a purpose" on Tuesday, May 8, on the plaza patio outside the University Union. The occasion? The chance to celebrate another successful school year, the accomplishments of outgoing Chancellor Mark Perkins, and the careers of Interim Dean Mike Murphy and all campus colleagues retiring during 2000-01. The cookout runs from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m., with a brief program at 12:15 p.m. saluting Chancellor Perkins and recognizing our newest retirees. Watch for a reminder and your chance to RSVP in your mailbox soon.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay advocates speak on behalf of Learning Experience Initiative

As mentioned in this space several days ago, UW-Green Bay advocates were in Peshtigo last Thursday to testify before the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee in support of the Learning Experience Initiative. A short newspaper account of their efforts is online in the Green Bay Press-Gazette archive at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0104/0406uwgb.html

* * * * *

Statistics show COS is popular with UW-Green Bay faculty, staff

When the UW System purchased affiliation with a find-the-experts database service called Community of Science (COS), there was speculation that it would prove to be a valuable tool. Two years later, a review of usage numbers at UW-Green Bay shows just that. More than 250 faculty and staff profiles currently reside in the COS Expertise database, available for searching by fellow scholars or industries and agencies nationwide in need of specialized expertise. Statistics at UW-Green Bay indicate that in the first three months of 2001 alone, there were 247 hits on the Expertise database, 333 hits on the COS Funding Opportunities database, 20 hits on the COS portal to the Federal Register, and 41 hits on the COS portal to MEDLINE, all of which originated from UW-Green Bay's URL. There are 238 UW-Green Bay faculty and staff members registered for the COS Funding Alert Service, a weekly e-mail service that provides funding opportunities related to key words selected by participants. Mike Marinetti, assistant dean of professional studies and research, is the campus COS contact.

* * * * *

It's official: 'Mary Ann Cofrin Hall' is OK with Regents

Start using the name Mary Ann Cofrin Hall for the new classroom building. It's official — and safe to order business cards. The UW System Board of Regents voted Friday to endorse UW-Green Bay's plan to honor philanthropist and friend Mary Ann Cofrin when the facility opens later this year.

* * * * *

Fact sheets on Mrs. Cofrin, new building are online

Who is Mary Ann Cofrin? And what is this new building all about? Sure, most of us know the basics, but if you're interested in a little more background, it's all online. Fact sheets on Mrs. Cofrin, the Cofrin family and features of the facility are archived on the Marketing and University Communication website, beginning at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001mar.htm#family

* * * * *

Newspaper editorial calls naming 'a well-deserved tribute'

In case you missed it, today's issue of the Green Bay Press-Gazette contains an editorial which comments on UW-Green Bay's tribute to Mary Ann Cofrin. The piece is online at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/opinion/0104/0409cofrin.html

* * * * *

Checked the web cam lately?

If you're a LOG reader from out of town — even if you're a UW-Green Bay employee whose office overlooks the new-building construction — don't forget you can get some neat views of MACH 2001 via the Wisconsin Public Service Corp. library webcams. Today's views are at http://www.buildingsolar.com/webcam.asp

* * * * *

Walk, run, or — walk to hearing on 'Pedestrian Planning'

The distance-learning room, IS 1034, is the site of a hearing Monday (April 9) from 4 to 7 p.m. on "Pedestrian Planning." No, this doesn't mean run-of-the-mill, every day, garden-variety planning — it has to do with a DOT master plan to better address future design projects with the safety of pedestrians in mind. Care to testify? Walk-ups are welcome at the videoconference, which originates in Madison.

* * * * *

Residence Life plans open house for Wednesday, April 11

Ever wonder what happens to on-campus students after they leave your classrooms and offices? The Office of Residence Life has an open house scheduled for Wednesday (April 11) between 2:30 and 5 p.m. You can tour the facilities, learn about various programs and activities that enhance students' lives, talk with current RAs and students, and view displays on Housing: Past and Present. No need to RSVP.

* * * * *

Briefs

Prof. Dan Alesch, Public Administration, has been invited to present a paper at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) at its first annual meeting on Integrated Disaster Risk Management. The conference takes place in early August 2001 in Vienna. Background on the event is available at http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/RMP/dpri2001/

Prof. Denise Sweet, American Indian Studies and Humanistic Studies, has been awarded a $8,000 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship in support of her poetry. Also, she has received word that a proposal for an Ojibwe Language Preservation Project has been granted $86,000 by the Red Cliff Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa. The grant will support apprenticeships for intensive study with the only remaining elder fluent in the Red Cliff dialect of Ojibwe. Apprentices will work full time on acquiring the language and increasing their application and fluency. They, in turn, will instruct community language groups in basic conversation. Sweet will participate full time during her 2001-2201 sabbatical. Later this month, Sweet will serve a week-long artist-in-residency on the Navaho Reservation in Red Mesa, N.M., working with high school student playwrights from various Navaho and Hopi communities.

* * * * *

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.