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Vol.
37, No. 122, June 19, 2006 / Log
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An off-campus friend posed a good question following yesterday's U.S. Open: "I usually hit buildings, trees and sand traps while golfing, and many times on the same hole, so how come Phil Mickelson gets all the cash and glory and I'm stuck pounding numbers into a keyboard in a windowless office with two other people?" The difference, we told him, is there's no thrill of the unexpected when you golf that way consistently. In news today:
• Photos: Kress Events Center construction
• New grants promise boost to faculty research
• UW System plans for growth
• What college students do online
• In golf news, former Phoenix wins title
• Warriors... Gold... Eagles, that's it!.. will resume series
• Brief: Meredith
A look at Kress Events Center construction
Not readily apparent from a distance is how much progress is being made on the new Kress Events Center. University photographer Eric Miller got an inside tour of the worksite last week. For a closer look at two pages of photos, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/photoblog/kress0606.htm.
New grants program (WiTAG) promises boost to faculty research
The WiSys Technology Advancement Grant (WiTAG), aimed at stimulating inventions from faculty at UW System campuses, will get under way in July, it was announced today by UW System President Kevin P. Reilly and Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The WiTAG program will allow researchers to collect early, quality data to support federal grant applications by hiring post-doctoral fellows and research assistants, and provide other support for faculty to conduct research and development. The grants will be for three years and their research must be targeted for commercialization. Interdisciplinary projects, joint applications from UW System campuses, and collaborations with industry are encouraged. For more, go to http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2006/r060619.htm.
AP story looks at collective UW System plans for growth
UW System President Kevin Reilly said the university's Growth Agenda includes increasing enrollment by 7,700 students over the next six to eight years to help increase the number of Wisconsin's baccalaureate degree holders, and to boost the state's overall economy by reaching out to more adult students and students from lower-income families. The Associated Press moved a lengthy story on the issue, at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WI_UW_GROWTH_PLANS_WIOL-?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-06-18-15-02-11.
Finding out what college students do online
A new study by an assistant professor of communications and sociology at Northwestern University attempts to identify how today's college students spend most of their time online. Based on her survey of more than 1,300 students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Eszter Hargittai said that a number of common assumptions about students and the Internet turned out to be wrong, most notably, the notion that college students follow politics online, and via blogs specifically. On the other hand, 78 percent say they have visited Facebook. Click
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/16/internet.
In golf news, former Phoenix wins title
Jason Hill is a teacher now, and never expected to be in the finals of the Wisconsin State Golf Association Match Play Championship at Green Bay Country Club. It's an interesting story how Hill, 24 and Horizon League player of the year for the Phoenix a year ago, came out of "retirement" to win the title. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060616/GPG0203/606160534/1232/GPGsports.
More sports: Marquette returns to Phoenix schedule
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported last week that the Marquette University men's basketball program has finally agreed to resume its series with UW-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee. The two Horizon League teams might even get a home game or two out of it — something that has never happened in Green Bay. See http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=436543.
Brief
Mezzo-soprano, Sarah Meredith and Friends, David Giebler, pianist, and Cheryl Murphy, harpist, presented a lecture-recital at Barnes and Noble Bookstore on Thursday, June 1st. Ms. Meredith discussed some of the challenges faced by women performing artists from the 12th - 21st Centuries and performed repertoire by Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Margaret Bonds, and Billie Holiday. Student singers Maggie Walsingham, soprano, Leigh Wyman, mezzo-soprano, and Sarah Klauck, mezzo-soprano also performed selections by women composers.
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