UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 36 No. 39



Commencement highlights Names of graduates Chancellor's Award Brunch is cancelled Sabbaticals granted Creative teaching awards Bob and Carol Bush photos WRAP photos Digital collections presentation More on UWDC Instructional Development Council Thanks for books Up With Good Bodies winners Dance Team heads to nationals New Business Assistance Center Helping to 'hype' downtown Provost's remarks on COBE Column on research/teaching UW System research-grant program UW-Green Bay seeks 'globalists' 'Race and Ethnicity in New York City' Nair lands U.N. appointment	Vol. 36, No. 39 / December 16, 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. One of 'happiest days of year' is approaching... this Saturday, not next Holiday celebrations will start early when more than 300 graduates are honored at the University's mid-year commencement ceremony Saturday (Dec. 18) starting at 11:30 a.m. at the Weidner Center. "Commencement is one of the happiest days of the year at UW-Green Bay," observes Chancellor Bruce Shepard, who will preside. Highlights this time: • Commencement address by Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser Jr.; • Lynn Barrett, Social Change and Development, is student speaker; • Outstanding Student to Jill West, Psychology and Human Development; • Chancellor's Award to Ron Weyers (see related story); • Formal award of Frankenthal Professorship to Prof. Cheryl Grosso, COA; • Emeritus status conferred to Profs. Michael Morgan and Ronald Stieglitz, NAS. For more, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#deccomm. * * * * * Hundreds of people we know will be there Saturday's commencement represents a life-changing milestone for more than 300 graduating seniors. Who are they? What degrees will they receive? Scan the list at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#decgrad. * * * * * Insurance entrepreneur Ron Weyers to receive Chancellor's Award Chancellor Bruce Shepard will present the Chancellor's Award to Ron Weyers at commencement. Weyers is a founding director of the Phoenix Fund and a strong supporter of the Founders Association, the Weidner Center and Phuture Phoenix. He and partner Wally Hilliard grew two of the nation's largest insurance carriers — Employers Health and AMS — from scratch in Brown County. For more, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#chanaward. * * * * * EC cancels Baccalaureate Brunch The Ecumenical Center sends word that the traditional Baccalaureate and Brunch program the morning of Commencement will not be held this time. * * * * * Profs. Abbott, Bauer-Dantoin, Henze earn research sabbaticals Sabbatical leaves during the 2005-2006 academic year were approved for three members of the UW-Green Bay faculty at the December meeting of the UW Board of Regents. Full-year sabbaticals were granted to Prof. Angela Bauer-Dantoin, Human Biology, who'll work on developing a textbook on women's biology; and Prof. Catherine Henze, who will write a book on the original music in Shakespeare's plays. Prof. Clifford Abbott, Information and Computing Sciences, was granted a sabbatical for the second semester. He will create an on-line resource for learning the Oneida language. * * * * * Meyer, Stokes win semester teaching awards Two faculty members have received Creative Approaches to Teaching awards for fall semester 2004. They are Prof. Sandra Stokes, who teaches in the Education and Women's Studies academic units, and Prof. E. Nicole Meyer, of Humanistic Studies and French. Their noteworthy strategies have in common the use of a small-group approach rather than individual or class-as-a-whole discussion. For more, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#teaching. * * * * * Scenes from Bush bash Snapshots from Tuesday night's big celebration at halftime of the women's basketball game are now online. It was announced that Bob and Carol Bush were the donors of the first major private gift toward a new and improved Phoenix Sports Center. Everyone looks happy at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/people/bush.htm. * * * * * WRAP party snapshots What HR calls "WRAP," what some others call "the end-of-year gathering," what still others remember as the "length-of-service awards program" took place Wednesday afternoon (Dec. 15) in the Union. We have snapshots on-line, along with a group shot of our 35-year employees, at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/events/04wrap.htm. For a list of all employees receiving plaques, go to www.uwgb.edu/hr/. * * * * * Scholarship in the digital age: Campus presentation in CL 304 this Friday The Instructional Development Council and the Cofrin Library jointly invite members of the campus community to a presentation from 9 to 11 a.m. this Friday (Dec. 17) in Room 304 of the Cofrin Library. The topic is "Institutional Repositories: UW System Digital Collections." Presenters are Amy Rudersdorf, digital project coordinator, and Lisa Saywell, digital repository librarian, both of UW-Madison. * * * * * More on 'digital repository' and 'digital collection' MINDS@UW is a digital repository designed to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university's research faculty in digital formats. It manages and distributes digital items, made up of digital files and allows for the creation, indexing, and searching of associated metadata to locate and retrieve the items. It is designed to support the long-term preservation of the digital material stored in the repository. The UWDC is a digital collection that supports the teaching and research needs of faculty and students. For more information, see http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/. * * * * * Questions on Friday's program? Call them For more information on the Dec. 17 program, contact Prof. Heidi Fencl, chairperson of the Instructional Development Council; Leanne Hansen, director, Cofrin Library, or Anne Kasuboski, coordinator, Reference and Instruction, Cofrin Library. * * * * * Sherry says 'thank you' for books The retiring Sherry Rasmussen is not at all retiring (shy) about extending a huge thank-you to all who donated books for the just-completed Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign. It was another big success. Thank you, all! * * * * * Business types are campus winners Team "Getting Down to Business" and members Marilyn Sagrillo, Ann Selk, Barb Swanson, Julie Smith and Lucy Arendt are first-place winners of the Fall 2004 Up With Good Bodies Program. Second place went to team "No Butts About It" and members Melissa Jackson, Sue Bodilly, Betsy Basset-Piehl, Nancy Matzke and Karen Callahan. The individual winner was student Jessica Buboltz. Up With Good Bodies (UWGB) is a Counseling and Health Center-sponsored program that helps promote healthy lifestyle changes by using a team/peer support system. * * * * * UW-Green Bay Dance Team heads to nationals The UW-Green Bay Phoenix Pride Dance Team recently took second place at the Raider Classic cheer and dance competition held in Wisconsin Rapids, and received an automatic bid to the United Performing Association national competition Feb. 24-27, 2005, in Minneapolis. It will be the first time the UW-Green Bay dance team has competed at national level, says adviser April Prokash. A member of the UW-Green Bay dance team when she was an undergraduate Spanish major, Prokash (nee VandenPlas) is in her fifth year as team adviser. She graduated in 1992. Dance Team members are: Amanda Aamodt and Anne Wayne, Wisconsin Rapids; Alyssa Allen, Jessica Allen and Katie Hanrahan, Franklin; J. Nicci Clark, Wausau; Brodee Ewert, Three Lakes; C. Kait Fitzgerald and Kari Plog, Green Bay; Cindy Hart, West Allis; Katie Legler, Seymour; Missy Madigan, Suamico; Crista Reidl, Grafton; Cheri Spice, Oconto, and Jenny Wessel, Sheboygan. * * * * * Ground broken for new Business Assistance Center UW-Green Bay's Small Business Development Center will be among the partners at the new Business Assistance Center, which will be located at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. The Green Bay Press-Gazette quoted Sue Hammersmith, UW-Green Bay provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, in its story on the ground-breaking ceremony. Read more at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/biz_18944751.shtml. * * * * * UW-Green Bay helps "hype" downtown In another community partnership, UW-Green Bay is working with young professionals from throughout the community to find ways to bring vitality to downtown Green Bay. The Press-Gazette reported on the wrap-up session for the first group to go through the program. The story can be found at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_19042730.shtml. * * * * * Provost's remarks on COBE initiative UW-Green Bay Provost Sue K. Hammersmith was invited to speak at last week's UW System Board of Regents meeting. The text of her remarks is now online. She spoke regarding the collaboration of various Northeast Wisconsin institutions of higher education on a plan to increase the number of college graduates in our area. See http://www.uwgb.edu/provost/bor12.04.htm. * * * * * A nicely written column on research/teaching, by a UC Riverside professor "We need professors in the labs as well as in classes" is the headline over a cleverly written and seriously effective guest column in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. Free registration might be required. Even if it is, it's good reading at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-zuk13dec13,0,7716298.story. * * * * * UW System research-grant program has $425,000 in the pot; Apply now The UW-Green Bay Research Council is inviting submissions for the UW System Applied Research Grant Program. Sponsored by the governor and the state legislature, the entire program annually provides $425,000 for the support of applied research activities that improve connections between knowledge and practice and also promote a positive change in the economy of Wisconsin. Proposals are welcome from all academic disciplines. Guidelines, forms, evaluation and submission information may be accessed electronically from the Research Council Web site: http://www.uwgb.edu/rc/. Proposals are due by 4 p.m., February 16, 2005 to the Institute for Research located in WH303. Questions may be directed to Lidia Nonn (ex 2565). * * * * * UW-Green Bay seeks 'globalists' to share international interests The Office of International Education is seeking individuals with international experience or interests to join in a network aimed at sharing information and activities with global perspectives. Jay Harris, acting director of international education, invites individuals to join in who have traveled, studied or worked abroad; persons who have served in the Peace Corps, been hosts to exchange students, adopted children from abroad or who have international connections through extended family; or those simply fascinated by other cultures and global issues. For full details, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#global. * * * * * Journal looks at 'Race and Ethnicity in New York City' In another project, Prof. Ray Hutchison had a hand in the newest volume of Research in Urban Sociology, on "Race and Ethnicity in New York City." With Prof. Jerry Krase of the City University of New York, he was editor, and author of the introduction. The volume presents eight articles on both older and established ethnic and racial communities as well as new and emerging groups in New York City. These include Italian communities, African American, as well as newer Jewish, Caribbean, and Asian groups. * * * * * Nair lands U.N. appointment Announced at this month's Faculty Senate during the Provost's report was the appointment of Prof. Ganga Nair, Natural and Applied Sciences, as "Chairman for Southeast Asia" for a UN-sponsored project in the conservation and management of natural resources. This appointment, which will run for three years, follows intensive consultation work in the People's Republic of China over that past year or so. * * * * * 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.

Commencement highlights

Names of graduates

Chancellor's Award

Brunch is cancelled

Sabbaticals granted

Creative teaching awards

Bob and Carol Bush photos

WRAP photos

Digital collections presentation

More on UWDC

Instructional Development Council

Thanks for books

Up With Good Bodies winners

Dance Team heads to nationals

New Business Assistance Center

Helping to 'hype' downtown

Provost's remarks on COBE

Column on research/teaching

UW System research-grant program

UW-Green Bay seeks 'globalists'

'Race and Ethnicity in New York City'

Nair lands U.N. appointment

Vol. 36, No. 39 / December 16, 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.

One of 'happiest days of year' is approaching... this Saturday, not next

Holiday celebrations will start early when more than 300 graduates are honored at the University's mid-year commencement ceremony Saturday (Dec. 18) starting at 11:30 a.m. at the Weidner Center. "Commencement is one of the happiest days of the year at UW-Green Bay," observes Chancellor Bruce Shepard, who will preside. Highlights this time:

• Commencement address by Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser Jr.;
• Lynn Barrett, Social Change and Development, is student speaker;
• Outstanding Student to Jill West, Psychology and Human Development;
• Chancellor's Award to Ron Weyers (see related story);
• Formal award of Frankenthal Professorship to Prof. Cheryl Grosso, COA;
• Emeritus status conferred to Profs. Michael Morgan and Ronald Stieglitz, NAS.

For more, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#deccomm.

* * * * *

Hundreds of people we know will be there

Saturday's commencement represents a life-changing milestone for more than 300 graduating seniors. Who are they? What degrees will they receive? Scan the list at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#decgrad.

* * * * *

Insurance entrepreneur Ron Weyers to receive Chancellor's Award

Chancellor Bruce Shepard will present the Chancellor's Award to Ron Weyers at commencement. Weyers is a founding director of the Phoenix Fund and a strong supporter of the Founders Association, the Weidner Center and Phuture Phoenix. He and partner Wally Hilliard grew two of the nation's largest insurance carriers — Employers Health and AMS — from scratch in Brown County. For more, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#chanaward.

* * * * *

EC cancels Baccalaureate Brunch

The Ecumenical Center sends word that the traditional Baccalaureate and Brunch program the morning of Commencement will not be held this time.

* * * * *

Profs. Abbott, Bauer-Dantoin, Henze earn research sabbaticals

Sabbatical leaves during the 2005-2006 academic year were approved for three members of the UW-Green Bay faculty at the December meeting of the UW Board of Regents. Full-year sabbaticals were granted to Prof. Angela Bauer-Dantoin, Human Biology, who'll work on developing a textbook on women's biology; and Prof. Catherine Henze, who will write a book on the original music in Shakespeare's plays. Prof. Clifford Abbott, Information and Computing Sciences, was granted a sabbatical for the second semester. He will create an on-line resource for learning the Oneida language.

* * * * *

Meyer, Stokes win semester teaching awards

Two faculty members have received Creative Approaches to Teaching awards for fall semester 2004. They are Prof. Sandra Stokes, who teaches in the Education and Women's Studies academic units, and Prof. E. Nicole Meyer, of Humanistic Studies and French. Their noteworthy strategies have in common the use of a small-group approach rather than individual or class-as-a-whole discussion. For more, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#teaching.

* * * * *

Scenes from Bush bash

Snapshots from Tuesday night's big celebration at halftime of the women's basketball game are now online. It was announced that Bob and Carol Bush were the donors of the first major private gift toward a new and improved Phoenix Sports Center. Everyone looks happy at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/people/bush.htm.

* * * * *

WRAP party snapshots

What HR calls "WRAP," what some others call "the end-of-year gathering," what still others remember as the "length-of-service awards program" took place Wednesday afternoon (Dec. 15) in the Union. We have snapshots on-line, along with a group shot of our 35-year employees, at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/events/04wrap.htm.

For a list of all employees receiving plaques, go to www.uwgb.edu/hr/.

* * * * *

Scholarship in the digital age: Campus presentation in CL 304 this Friday

The Instructional Development Council and the Cofrin Library jointly invite members of the campus community to a presentation from 9 to 11 a.m. this Friday (Dec. 17) in Room 304 of the Cofrin Library. The topic is "Institutional Repositories: UW System Digital Collections." Presenters are Amy Rudersdorf, digital project coordinator, and Lisa Saywell, digital repository librarian, both of UW-Madison.

* * * * *

More on 'digital repository' and 'digital collection'

MINDS@UW is a digital repository designed to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university's research faculty in digital formats. It manages and distributes digital items, made up of digital files and allows for the creation, indexing, and searching of associated metadata to locate and retrieve the items. It is designed to support the long-term preservation of the digital material stored in the repository. The UWDC is a digital collection that supports the teaching and research needs of faculty and students. For more information, see http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/.

* * * * *

Questions on Friday's program? Call them

For more information on the Dec. 17 program, contact Prof. Heidi Fencl, chairperson of the Instructional Development Council; Leanne Hansen, director, Cofrin Library, or Anne Kasuboski, coordinator, Reference and Instruction, Cofrin Library.

* * * * *

Sherry says 'thank you' for books

The retiring Sherry Rasmussen is not at all retiring (shy) about extending a huge thank-you to all who donated books for the just-completed Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign. It was another big success. Thank you, all!

* * * * *

Business types are campus winners

Team "Getting Down to Business" and members Marilyn Sagrillo, Ann Selk, Barb Swanson, Julie Smith and Lucy Arendt are first-place winners of the Fall 2004 Up With Good Bodies Program. Second place went to team "No Butts About It" and members Melissa Jackson, Sue Bodilly, Betsy Basset-Piehl, Nancy Matzke and Karen Callahan. The individual winner was student Jessica Buboltz. Up With Good Bodies (UWGB) is a Counseling and Health Center-sponsored program that helps promote healthy lifestyle changes by using a team/peer support system.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay Dance Team heads to nationals

The UW-Green Bay Phoenix Pride Dance Team recently took second place at the Raider Classic cheer and dance competition held in Wisconsin Rapids, and received an automatic bid to the United Performing Association national competition Feb. 24-27, 2005, in Minneapolis. It will be the first time the UW-Green Bay dance team has competed at national level, says adviser April Prokash. A member of the UW-Green Bay dance team when she was an undergraduate Spanish major, Prokash (nee VandenPlas) is in her fifth year as team adviser. She graduated in 1992.

Dance Team members are:
Amanda Aamodt and Anne Wayne, Wisconsin Rapids; Alyssa Allen, Jessica Allen and Katie Hanrahan, Franklin; J. Nicci Clark, Wausau; Brodee Ewert, Three Lakes; C. Kait Fitzgerald and Kari Plog, Green Bay; Cindy Hart, West Allis; Katie Legler, Seymour; Missy Madigan, Suamico; Crista Reidl, Grafton; Cheri Spice, Oconto, and Jenny Wessel, Sheboygan.

* * * * *

Ground broken for new Business Assistance Center

UW-Green Bay's Small Business Development Center will be among the partners at the new Business Assistance Center, which will be located at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. The Green Bay Press-Gazette quoted Sue Hammersmith, UW-Green Bay provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, in its story on the ground-breaking ceremony. Read more at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/biz_18944751.shtml.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay helps "hype" downtown

In another community partnership, UW-Green Bay is working with young professionals from throughout the community to find ways to bring vitality to downtown Green Bay. The Press-Gazette reported on the wrap-up session for the first group to go through the program. The story can be found at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_19042730.shtml.

* * * * *

Provost's remarks on COBE initiative

UW-Green Bay Provost Sue K. Hammersmith was invited to speak at last week's UW System Board of Regents meeting. The text of her remarks is now online. She spoke regarding the collaboration of various Northeast Wisconsin institutions of higher education on a plan to increase the number of college graduates in our area. See http://www.uwgb.edu/provost/bor12.04.htm.

* * * * *

A nicely written column on research/teaching, by a UC Riverside professor

"We need professors in the labs as well as in classes" is the headline over a cleverly written and seriously effective guest column in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. Free registration might be required. Even if it is, it's good reading at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-zuk13dec13,0,7716298.story.

* * * * *

UW System research-grant program has $425,000 in the pot; Apply now

The UW-Green Bay Research Council is inviting submissions for the UW System Applied Research Grant Program. Sponsored by the governor and the state legislature, the entire program annually provides $425,000 for the support of applied research activities that improve connections between knowledge and practice and also promote a positive change in the economy of Wisconsin. Proposals are welcome from all academic disciplines. Guidelines, forms, evaluation and submission information may be accessed electronically from the Research Council Web site: http://www.uwgb.edu/rc/. Proposals are due by 4 p.m., February 16, 2005 to the Institute for Research located in WH303. Questions may be directed to Lidia Nonn (ex 2565).

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay seeks 'globalists' to share international interests

The Office of International Education is seeking individuals with international experience or interests to join in a network aimed at sharing information and activities with global perspectives. Jay Harris, acting director of international education, invites individuals to join in who have traveled, studied or worked abroad; persons who have served in the Peace Corps, been hosts to exchange students, adopted children from abroad or who have international connections through extended family; or those simply fascinated by other cultures and global issues. For full details, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004dec.htm#global.

* * * * *

Journal looks at 'Race and Ethnicity in New York City'

In another project, Prof. Ray Hutchison had a hand in the newest volume of Research in Urban Sociology, on "Race and Ethnicity in New York City." With Prof. Jerry Krase of the City University of New York, he was editor, and author of the introduction. The volume presents eight articles on both older and established ethnic and racial communities as well as new and emerging groups in New York City. These include Italian communities, African American, as well as newer Jewish, Caribbean, and Asian groups.

* * * * *

Nair lands U.N. appointment

Announced at this month's Faculty Senate during the Provost's report was the appointment of Prof. Ganga Nair, Natural and Applied Sciences, as "Chairman for Southeast Asia" for a UN-sponsored project in the conservation and management of natural resources. This appointment, which will run for three years, follows intensive consultation work in the People's Republic of China over that past year or so.

* * * * *

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.