UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 35 No. 79



'Lifelines' speaker series Space Grant renewal Praise for 'UW-Green Bay Downtown' 'Wisconsin Ideas' summer edition Horizon League's highest honor Second Phoenix winner Fall Founders Dinner New Classified Council Appleton editorial Diversity Circles Fiala book Extended Degree scholarships Scholarships have histories	Vol. 35, No. 79 / July 7, 2004 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. Weidner Center books Angelou, Albright, Pearl, Rivers for lectures UW-Green Bay's Weidner Center is announcing plans this week for what it describes as the first national-level women's speaker series in Northeast Wisconsin. Called "LifeLines," the annual series will bring four distinguished women to the region. First-year speakers are: • Joan Rivers - Monday, January 31, 2005 • Mariane Pearl - Monday, March 7 • Madeline Albright - Tuesday, March 29 • Maya Angelou - Wednesday, May 4 The "powerful, motivational, meaningful" series is sold exclusively by subscription ($196 and $156) through the Weidner Center Ticket Office. Tickets are on sale now. For more info, visit http://www.uwgb.edu/weidner/LifeLines/index.html. *** * * * * NASA gives Wisconsin Space Grant a five-year, $2m boost The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium has received a five-year program and funding renewal from NASA. The extension means the 26-member consortium headquartered at UW-Green Bay will receive $475,000 a year for the next five years. Consortium Director Aileen Yingst said the renewal gives the consortium and its many programs long-term stability: "It demonstrates that NASA fully appreciates the good work we're doing for Wisconsin students and citizens." See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004july.htm#space. * * * * *** Elvis takes top spot, but 'UW-Green Bay Downtown' a close second If you missed Monday's orchids-and-onions column in the Green Bay Press-Gazette, it's right here. Near the top you'll find positive reviews for the UW-Green Bay Downtown Learning Center. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/opinion_16748588.shtml. *** * * * *** Summer edition of 'Ideas' features news on budget, etc. New on line is the latest edition of Wisconsin Ideas, the quarterly e-magazine of the UW System. Stories include: * Charting a New Course: What the Board of Regents found in its year-long study. * Biennial budget: The UW System is already beginning to outline priorities for the 2005-07 state budget, a biennium which could establish the future direction of public higher education in Wisconsin. * Farewell to President Lyall * Who said what at Spring Commencement 2004: (Check out the photos and quotes from Green Bay, spotlighting Founding Chancellor Edward Weidner.) Go online at http://www.wisconsin.edu/wisconsinideas. *** * * * * Horizon League's highest honor goes to UW-Green Bay volleyball star Volleyball standout Janelle Tomlinson has been named the female recipient of the 2004 Horizon League Coleman Medal of Honor. The award is presented annually to two student-athletes who best demonstrate outstanding achievement in academics, athletics and extracurricular activities. Tomlinson, an academic all-America selection, was the 2003 Horizon League MVP after leading UW-Green Bay to its first volleyball championship in history. See http://www.uwgb.edu/athletics/offthefield/070104.html. * * * * * Honor is second straight, and third in five years, for a Phoenix athlete Janelle Tomlinson is the second straight UW-Green Bay woman to win the Horizon League's top honor. Basketball star Kristy Loiselle was selected for the award last year. UW-Green Bay's previous winner was basketball's Cheri Nordgaard in 1999. * * * * * Mark your calendar: Fall Founders Dinner UW-Green Bay will welcome participation by local education leadership at the Fall 2004 Founders Association Dinner. A "Future of Education" after-dinner program is expected to include panelists representing SNC, NWTC, K-12 and others. Details to come, but mark your calendar now for the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 17, in the University Union. * * * * * Next meeting of Classified Council is Wednesday The next meeting of the new Classified Staff Advisory Council is set for: Wednesday, July 14 10 to 11 a.m. SS 1400 Conference Room (Counseling & Health Services) * * * * *** Appleton editorial agrees that 'brain drain' is economic threat The editorial page of the Appleton Post-Crescent, reacting to last week's story on Wisconsin lagging in the percentage of its residents holding college degrees, offers this: "State's degree stats show need to change economy." See http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/opinion_16732366.shtml. *** * * * *** You read it here first: 'Diversity Circles' If you didn't, two weeks ago, the Press-Gazette carried a top-of-the-local section story recapping UW-Extension's award of $10,000 to a project aimed at improving relations among diverse populations in Brown County. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_16656929.shtml. *** * * * *** Newspaper highlights Fiala book on pacifism "Practical Pacifism," a new book by UW-Green Bay Prof. Andrew Fiala, was the topic of a feature in the Green Bay News-Chronicle. See http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=126551. *** * * * * Four students earn Extended Degree scholarships The Extended Degree Program has awarded scholarships to four students in the program for the 2004-05 academic year: • Elizabeth Eleanor Wyngaard Scholarship: $1,000 to Vickie Dansbury, Beloit, and $500 to James Tobias-Becker, De Pere. • Patricia L. Hoppe Scholarship: $750 to Amanda Dornfeld, Little Chute. • Dr. Katharine Olski Scholarship: $750 to Amy Dvorak, Mishicot. * * * * * Scholarships have interesting histories The Elizabeth Wyngaard Scholarship, a source of tuition assistance for nontraditional freshman and sophomore students over age 25, honors Betsy Wyngaard, who recharted her academic course with the help of the Extended Degree Program. Sudden heart failure ended her life in fall 1997, at age 29, just as she was taking aim at her bachelor's degree. Friends and family created the scholarship in her memory. The Patricia L. Hoppe Scholarship honors a student who also died before she could complete her degree, but not before she expressed her desire to help other returning adult students in the Extended Degree Program. The Olski Scholarship was created upon the retirement of the former program director, in 1997. * * * * *** 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. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

'Lifelines' speaker series

Space Grant renewal

Praise for 'UW-Green Bay Downtown'

'Wisconsin Ideas' summer edition

Horizon League's highest honor

Second Phoenix winner

Fall Founders Dinner

New Classified Council

Appleton editorial

Diversity Circles

Fiala book

Extended Degree scholarships

Scholarships have histories

Vol. 35, No. 79 / July 7, 2004

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.

Weidner Center books Angelou, Albright, Pearl, Rivers for lectures

UW-Green Bay's Weidner Center is announcing plans this week for what it describes as the first national-level women's speaker series in Northeast Wisconsin. Called "LifeLines," the annual series will bring four distinguished women to the region. First-year speakers are:

• Joan Rivers - Monday, January 31, 2005
• Mariane Pearl - Monday, March 7
• Madeline Albright - Tuesday, March 29
• Maya Angelou - Wednesday, May 4

The "powerful, motivational, meaningful" series is sold exclusively by subscription ($196 and $156) through the Weidner Center Ticket Office. Tickets are on sale now. For more info, visit http://www.uwgb.edu/weidner/LifeLines/index.html.

* * * * *

NASA gives Wisconsin Space Grant a five-year, $2m boost

The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium has received a five-year program and funding renewal from NASA. The extension means the 26-member consortium headquartered at UW-Green Bay will receive $475,000 a year for the next five years. Consortium Director Aileen Yingst said the renewal gives the consortium and its many programs long-term stability: "It demonstrates that NASA fully appreciates the good work we're doing for Wisconsin students and citizens." See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004july.htm#space.

* * * * *

Elvis takes top spot, but 'UW-Green Bay Downtown' a close second

If you missed Monday's orchids-and-onions column in the Green Bay Press-Gazette, it's right here. Near the top you'll find positive reviews for the UW-Green Bay Downtown Learning Center. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/opinion_16748588.shtml.

* * * * *

Summer edition of 'Ideas' features news on budget, etc.

New on line is the latest edition of Wisconsin Ideas, the quarterly e-magazine of the UW System. Stories include:

* Charting a New Course: What the Board of Regents found in its year-long study.

* Biennial budget: The UW System is already beginning to outline priorities for the 2005-07 state budget, a biennium which could establish the future direction of public higher education in Wisconsin.

* Farewell to President Lyall

* Who said what at Spring Commencement 2004: (Check out the photos and quotes from Green Bay, spotlighting Founding Chancellor Edward Weidner.)

Go online at http://www.wisconsin.edu/wisconsinideas.

* * * * *

Horizon League's highest honor goes to UW-Green Bay volleyball star

Volleyball standout Janelle Tomlinson has been named the female recipient of the 2004 Horizon League Coleman Medal of Honor. The award is presented annually to two student-athletes who best demonstrate outstanding achievement in academics, athletics and extracurricular activities. Tomlinson, an academic all-America selection, was the 2003 Horizon League MVP after leading UW-Green Bay to its first volleyball championship in history. See http://www.uwgb.edu/athletics/offthefield/070104.html.

* * * * *

Honor is second straight, and third in five years, for a Phoenix athlete

Janelle Tomlinson is the second straight UW-Green Bay woman to win the Horizon League's top honor. Basketball star Kristy Loiselle was selected for the award last year. UW-Green Bay's previous winner was basketball's Cheri Nordgaard in 1999.

* * * * *

Mark your calendar: Fall Founders Dinner

UW-Green Bay will welcome participation by local education leadership at the Fall 2004 Founders Association Dinner. A "Future of Education" after-dinner program is expected to include panelists representing SNC, NWTC, K-12 and others. Details to come, but mark your calendar now for the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 17, in the University Union.

* * * * *

Next meeting of Classified Council is Wednesday

The next meeting of the new Classified Staff Advisory Council is set for:

Wednesday, July 14
10 to 11 a.m.
SS 1400 Conference Room (Counseling & Health Services)

* * * * *

Appleton editorial agrees that 'brain drain' is economic threat

The editorial page of the Appleton Post-Crescent, reacting to last week's story on Wisconsin lagging in the percentage of its residents holding college degrees, offers this: "State's degree stats show need to change economy." See http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/opinion_16732366.shtml.

* * * * *

You read it here first: 'Diversity Circles'

If you didn't, two weeks ago, the Press-Gazette carried a top-of-the-local section story recapping UW-Extension's award of $10,000 to a project aimed at improving relations among diverse populations in Brown County. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_16656929.shtml.

* * * * *

Newspaper highlights Fiala book on pacifism

"Practical Pacifism," a new book by UW-Green Bay Prof. Andrew Fiala, was the topic of a feature in the Green Bay News-Chronicle. See http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=126551.

* * * * *

Four students earn Extended Degree scholarships

The Extended Degree Program has awarded scholarships to four students in the program for the 2004-05 academic year:

• Elizabeth Eleanor Wyngaard Scholarship: $1,000 to Vickie Dansbury, Beloit, and $500 to James Tobias-Becker, De Pere.

• Patricia L. Hoppe Scholarship: $750 to Amanda Dornfeld, Little Chute.

• Dr. Katharine Olski Scholarship: $750 to Amy Dvorak, Mishicot.

* * * * *

Scholarships have interesting histories

The Elizabeth Wyngaard Scholarship, a source of tuition assistance for nontraditional freshman and sophomore students over age 25, honors Betsy Wyngaard, who recharted her academic course with the help of the Extended Degree Program. Sudden heart failure ended her life in fall 1997, at age 29, just as she was taking aim at her bachelor's degree. Friends and family created the scholarship in her memory. The Patricia L. Hoppe Scholarship honors a student who also died before she could complete her degree, but not before she expressed her desire to help other returning adult students in the Extended Degree Program. The Olski Scholarship was created upon the retirement of the former program director, in 1997.

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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. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.