UW-Green Bay is recommending that a contract be awarded to Sodexho to be the institution's dining services provider. The decision is expected to be finalized this week with UW System Board of Regents approval at the monthly meeting in Madison. Sodexho describes itself as the leading food and facilities management services company in North America, with 130,000 employees and an impressive list of corporate, healthcare and education clients. Kurt Willmann, executive director for business enterprises and project administration at UW-Green Bay, says the multi-million-dollar contract is likely to bring some attractive new options to the campus dining scene. Watch for details in the next LOG ONLine, following this week's Regent action.

Kurt Willmann has notified many on campus of the recommendation to contract with Sodexho for dining services, and he has initiated discussions regarding the transition process. He also offers a public thank-you to members of the Dining Services RFP Committee for their sustained and diligent efforts. Members include Mike Barry, Diana Borrero-Lowe, Wendy Buck, Rebecca Burch, Anne Buttke, Chad Goeden, Glenn Gray, Regan Gurung, Cynthia Hacker, Melissa Jackson, Dan McIver and Suzy Pfeifer.

Mark your calendars: A groundbreaking ceremony is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 9, to celebrate the start of the Laboratory Sciences Building renovation and expansion project. All members of the campus community will be invited to attend the brief program. Watch for more details shortly. Chris Sampson, Marketing/University Communications, is heading up the event-planning team.

Eight faculty members have received spring 2002 Teaching Enhancement Grants awarded by the Faculty Development Council. The individual grants ranged from $293 to $1,000. The total awarded was $4,999. The grant program supports research, developing new materials, professional development activities, and other strategies to help faculty members improve their teaching. Grant recipients and their activities are:

David Coury, Humanistic Studies, Teaching Language and Culture Through German Popular Music, a project to didacticize texts of popular music in order to teach grammar, vocabulary, dialects and cultural history.

Catherine Henze, Humanistic Studies, Live Renaissance Music in Humanities and English Classes, participation in North Star Viols chapter meetings in order to enhance classroom use of Renaissance music.

Warren Johnson, Human Biology, First Annual International Bioethics Forum: Defining Life, Changing Life, Owning Life.

Jennifer Mokren, Communication and the Arts, Assessing student work and participating in Educators' Dialogue — 2002 Society of North American Goldsmiths conference.

Donna Ritch, Human Biology, annual conference of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.

Larry Smith, Social Change and Development, 2002 Systems Thinking and Dynamic Modeling Conference for K-12 Education.

Christine Style, Communication and the Arts, Annual Southern Graphics Council Conference.

William Witwer, Communication and the Arts, 4MAT Level II Training.

The American HeartWalk is the American Heart Association's premiere promotional and fund-raising event; it takes place each year and promotes a heart-healthy lifestyle in hundreds of cities across America, including Green Bay. The Northeastern Wisconsin Walk will be held on Sept. 21, 2002, at NWTC, with participation of corporate and private teams and individual walkers from across the region. Organizers are looking for an individual to volunteer as a contact and team captain for UW-Green Bay. If you're interested, please email Christopher Sampson, University Communication, at sampsonc@uwgb.edu

Postal rates are headed up, with First Class stamps to $0.37ea. and Postcard to $0.23 ea. If you need stamps between now and the change, June 30, 2002, you're invited to stop at the University Information Center, 1st Floor, University Union. The folks at the Union say they are overstocked with the current postage stamps (1st Class $0.34 and Postcard $0.21) and purchasing from there will help them limit the number of makeups stamps needed once the new rates go into effect. They will also have a supply of the new stamps available for purchase beginning the week of June 24 for your personal convenience.

Reminder: Bayfest gate and parking operating hours will be Thursday, June 6th from 5 p.m. until midnight; Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. until midnight, and Sunday from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Pham Hong Nhat, a scientist in the Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Division of the Vietnam Institute for Tropical Technology and Environmental Protection, will arrive on Saturday for a three-week visit to UW-Green Bay and the region. He's the third scholar to be sponsored by the Visiting Asian Scholars Program initiated by Professors Emeritus Jack Day and Robert Wenger and their wives, Jan Day and Lena Wenger. The hosts are crafting an itinerary for Mr. Nhat that includes meeting people on campus and in the community, a field trip to the Green Bay wastewater treatment plant, a tour of the Fox River basin and bay of Green Bay conducted by Prof. Emeritus Bud Harris, a fishing expedition on Lake Michigan, and a trip to Madison to meet members of the UW-Madison Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and tour the Environmental Chemistry and Technology laboratory, plus other activities yet to be scheduled. Mr. Nhat will leave Green Bay on June 29. Questions about his schedule may be directed to Day via e-mail at DAYJ@UWGB.EDU, or to 435-0004.

"Contemporary Environmental Issues in Vietnam," will be the topic for Pham Hong Nhat, Visiting Asian Scholar, at a "brown bag" seminar open to all from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday June 12 in the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, Mary Ann Cofrin Hall 212. His presentation will be followed by time for questions and discussion.

Their own experiences in Vietnam and China led Prof. Emeritus Jack Day and Jan Day and Prof. Emeritus Robert Wenger and Lena Wenger to find way to bring Asian scholars to UW-Green Bay and promote multicultural education on campus and in the community. They founded the Asian Visiting Scholars Program in 1998. The Days made nearly a dozen trips to Vietnam between 1996 and 1999 while he was technical adviser on a United Nations project to help train staff and upgrade facilities for a provincial environmental agency. While in Vietnam, Day worked with Pham Hong Nhat, the newest guest of the Visiting Scholars program. The Wengers have made four trips to China, beginning in 1987-88, when he was a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University. Previous visiting scholars supported by the program were Li Wei, associate professor in the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Beijing, who spent a year here in 2000-2001, and Boi Tran Huynh, director of international education and instructor in art history at Dong Nai College of Decorative Arts in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, who visited for six weeks in 2000.

Keith West, industrial recycling specialist with the UW-Extension Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center located on campus, is the recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for a project titled, "Insuring Environmental Improvement in the Great Lakes Ecosystem: A Collaboration with the Insurance and Great Lakes Industries." West is carrying out the Wisconsin portion of studies included in a larger grant to the Tellus Institute of Boston. The pilot project is aimed at learning whether there may be insurance incentives for industries that improve environmental performance.

The CIT division is pleased to announce that Paula Ganyard will be our next UW-Green Bay Webmaster. She has been working in this capacity for the past few months on a part-time, interim basis, and recently accepted the permanent position. She worked previously for the Cofrin Library, where she served as a reference librarian, Webmaster, and trainer. In announcing the move, Diane Blohowiak praised Ganyard's skills and work ethic, and noted that the new Webmaster (along with Andy Speth and LTC student staff) will have a busy summer in implementing a new campus Web design and assisting departments in meeting design and accessibility standards.

Deanna Kratzke, Appleton, has won a $1,000 scholarship for 2002-2003 from Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society. She is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, working toward a major in Information Sciences and a minor in German. Kratzke is one of 116 scholarship recipients nationwide. Phi Eta Sigma is a national honor society that rewards scholastic achievement during the freshman year at a college or university.

UW-Green Bay accounting students took first, second and third place in a manuscript competition sponsored by the local chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants. The winners are Bill Kocha, first place; Bryan Lewis, second place; and Melissa Schweinert, third place. Students from area colleges and universities are eligible to compete. The top manuscript at the chapter level is typically forwarded to the national IMA student competition, and winners at that level get their papers published in an IMA publication, according to Prof. Marilyn Sagrillo, Accounting and Business Administration.

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