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Vol. 38, No.14, September 28, 2006 / Log Archive

It has been a busy week. Here's a LOG newsletter for late Thursday, or first thing Friday:

• Gard, Kagen debate here Oct. 26
• Raising the roof at the Kress: See it happen
• 100 tons of raw roof-holding power
• Photo gallery: Cloud Commons dedication
• Maier get-together

• International Ed hopes faculty grants encourage new travel
• Friends, Phi Kappa Phi sponsor reading group on 'Mountains'
• Tuesday: Friends host 'Waterways' show of old Wisconsin
• WWHEL conference for women is Oct. 26-27
• Space Grant scholarships go to two at UW-Green Bay

• UW-Extension launches Service-Learning Website
• Tickets on sale now for Jamaican
• Campuses react to energy initiative
• Rep. Pocan on UW System, state politics
• Conference on 'Motivating Students'
• Brief: Luczaj

Gard, Kagen will debate Oct. 26 at UW-Green Bay
The University has landed a plum event. John Gard and Steve Kagen, the Republican and Democratic candidates for the nationally important 8th Congressional District seat, have agreed to a debate at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Union's Phoenix Room. So far, it's the first debate, or among the first, we've seen scheduled; its placement fairly close to the November election promises added significance. For more, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/.

Raising the roof at the Kress: See it happen
Mainly for the benefit of alumni and off-campus folks, but also a neat study in photo progression, we captured the final "big lift" last week that put the last big section of the Kress Center roof in place. See the moving display at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/photoblog/kressbeam06.htm.

Looked easy? Consider the following
Assorted interesting facts about the roof-raising:

• It took a pair of 250-foot Leiberer cranes to do the job.
• The truss shown on the Web was the last of six large roof trusses.
• It and three other curved trusses were each 185-feet long and 89 tons.
• Each of the two girder trusses that support the curved sections are 146-feet-long and 100 tons.
• The next major steelwork is the installation of the catwalk system inside the roof structure.

Views from the Cloud: dedication snapshots
It's official! Cloud Commons was dedicated Wednesday with a first-rate event. UW-Green Bay student Bob Kranzusch said it best, noting that "one of our own" was being honored. "It's nice to know that Mrs. Cloud (Class of '80) sat in the same classrooms, studied in the same library, and had some of the same professors we still have today... She knows from experience the kinds of challenges we face day in and day out." For images, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm.

Maier gathering a reunion, of sorts
Founding Chancellor Edward Weidner and plenty of faculty members past and present were on hand to pay tribute to the late Robert H. Maier at Thursday's dedication ceremony in the Laboratory Sciences Building. The festivities took place too close to deadline for a full report. We'll have photos, details of a nice new gift to the Maier scholarship fund, and related information about an interesting new book in Monday's LOG.

International Ed hopes faculty travel grants will encourage new offerings
In an effort to expand study abroad offerings, the Office of International Education is funding two travel grants for faculty interested in developing new study abroad programs in regions where an exploratory visit is essential. A brief program description and application is available online at http://www.uwgb.edu/international/forFacnStaff.htm. Proposal submission deadlines are October 25 for travel between November 1 and April 30, or March 1 for travel between May 1 and October 31. Please contact either Brent Blahnik or Sarah Meredith at 465-2889 with questions about this grant opportunity.

Friends, Phi Kappa Phi sponsor reading group on 'Mountains'
The Friends of the Cofrin Library and the campus chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society are sponsoring a campuswide reading group of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World. The group will meet once to discuss the book prior to a presentation at 5 p.m. on Nov. 9 by Dr. David Walton, a member of Partners in Health group Dr. Farmer founded. Discussions will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 24 from 11:30-12:30 OR Wednesday, Oct. 25, noon to 1 p.m. Please contact Prof. Angela Bauer-Dantoin by Wednesday, Oct. 7, if you are interested in participating. Group size is limited to 20 persons and the first twenty persons who join the reading group will receive Mountains Beyond Mountains compliments of Phi Kappa Phi.

Friends host 'Waterways' show of old Wisconsin next Tuesday
The Heritage Players bring "Waterways — the Lakes and Rivers of Old Wisconsin in Story and Song" to the Union's Christie Theatre at 7 p.m. next Tuesday (Oct. 3). Stu Smith is co-director of the local troupe. The script and stories are drawn, in part, from the collections of our own Cofrin Library and Area Research Center. It's the eighth in a series of education- or history-related programs organized in recent years by the Friends of the Cofrin Library. Look for more in Monday's LOG, but plan now to attend.

Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership conference is Oct. 26-27
The annual WWHEL State Conference comes with the theme "Managing Conflict" and promises another attractive program. The dates this year are Thursday and Friday, Oct. 26 and 27, at the UW-Madison Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison. Hotel room reservations needed to be in yesterday, but we're guessing it's still worth a try. For conference details, visit http://www.wwhel.org.

Space Grant scholarships go to two from UW-Green Bay
The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium is proud to award 2006-2007 Undergraduate Scholarships to two students from UW-Green Bay: Allison Froh is a junior majoring in Human Biology and the prevention of bone density loss that occurs in prolonged space flights. Angela Roethel is a junior majoring in Health Psychology and Human Physiology. Both awardees are from Oostburg High School.

UW-Extension launches Service-Learning Web site
UW-Extension is proud to announce a new Web site dedicated to service-learning, at (http://www.uwex.edu/service-learning/). UW-Extension, in cooperation with the UW Colleges, developed this Web site to provide information and resources for those interested in service-learning in both classroom and community settings. These resources include an online learning module to convey general concepts of service-learning, examples of service-learning in UW-Extension, and ideas for implementing service-learning in traditional and non-traditional educational settings. "Like service-learning itself, the site is dynamic in nature, so please offer your feedback to Chris Natynski at christopher.natynski@uwc.edu or Lauren Hauser at lauren.hauser@uwc.edu."

Tickets on sale now for Jamaican Luncheon in October
This invitation is from Poppy Grant and the cultural cuisine folks at the Union: "Ya Mon — Tickets are on sale starting this week for the Jamaican Luncheon. You can reserve a table of 5-10 people. Tickets can be purchased at the University Ticketing & Information center. The menu again — just in case you forgot is: http://www.uwgb.edu/union/jamaican/. Hope you can come and have some fun."

Campuses, and their hometown newspapers, react to energy initiative
Here's news coverage, from each school's hometown, of Thursday's announcement by the Governor that, if feasible, he will encourage four UW campuses to become energy independent by the early 2010s:

"UWGB envisions fossil-fuel-free campus"
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/GPG0101/609280521/1978

"UWSP to shake off energy reliance"
http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/SPJ0101/609280612/1657/SPJnews

"UWO chosen to help lead way towards energy independence"
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/OSH0101/609280381/1987

"Doyle wants UW-River Falls off the energy grid by 2012"
http://www.rivertowns.net/

'Education, not politics, should be focus of state-UW relationship, Pocan says'
The Daily Cardinal student newspaper in Madison includes a few quotes from Rep. Mark Pocan in its coverage of a forum where politics and higher education were discussed. See http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/education,-not-politics,-should-be-focus-of-state-uw-relationship,-state-rep.-says.html.

'Motivating Students for Better Retention, Learning, and Achievement'
That's the title for the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning Fall 2006 Conference, November 17-18, in Minnesota's Twin Cities. Details:

With three outstanding plenary speakers, more than two dozen concurrent sessions, and five preconference workshops, this conference focuses on one of the most critical issues in higher education today — student success. You'll learn about current research and best practices in plenary sessions led by:

• Vincent Tinto, Professor of Education and Sociology, Syracuse University, whose current research, funded by the Lumina and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations, focuses on the impact of learning communities on the academic achievement of underprepared students in urban colleges

• Marilla Svinicki, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, author of Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom (Anker Publishing, 2004)

• Kathleen Cushman, Writer, What Kids Can Do, Inc./Next Generation Press, and a panel of first-generation college students.

Registration information and a detailed brochure are online at http://www.collab.org.

Brief
On Sept. 30, Prof. John Luczaj, Natural and Applied Sciences, will have a research article titled "Sulfur Isotopes from Mississippi Valley-Type Mineralization in Eastern Wisconsin" published in the Great Lakes Section - Society for Sedimentary Geology (GLS-SEPM) Fall 2006 and 67th Annual TRI-STATE Field Conference Guidebook. He was also co-editor of the guidebook. For more information, see: http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/gls-sepm/Announce&Reg_2006_GLS_SEPM-TRISTATE.pdf.

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