Vol. 38, No. 135, July 23, 2007     /     Log Archive

We hear a planned August upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2007 will provide better Outlook email functionality via the web. Progress! The only things we miss about the old days were the non-corporate-speak product names. In the last century, you could name software for a noble tree, Pine, or for a great Southern writer like Eudora (Welty). That micro-objection aside, however, the outlook is excellent. In news today:

Trustees tell Chancellor: Budget battle is biggest for UW-Green Bay
Not since the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay was formed has a budget appropriation been as important to the campus as the one for 2007-09. That's how some UW-Green Bay board trustees are characterizing the situation in the wake of the state Assembly's move to negate the governor's funding of the Growth Agenda. Chancellor Bruce Shepard is quoted in the Green Bay Press-Gazette at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/thenews.htm.

Listen to audio
The Press-Gazette has an audio link from its Q&A with Chancellor Shepard online, partway down the page, at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070722/GPG0101/707220641/1207.

Chancellor's comments earn play at political sites
Sunday's Press-Gazette story about campus and community concern over the state budget is receiving a lot of attention. It was featured prominently earlier today on both the WisPolitics and Wheeler Report Web sites, perhaps the two most popular sites on Wisconsin politics. See the July 22 and July 23 entries at:
http://www.wispolitics.com/
http://www.thewheelerreport.com/

Public forum Wednesday on revised mission statement
Community members are invited to ask questions and provide feedback to wording that revises the Select Mission Statement for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay for the first time since 1988. The University will hold a public forum on the proposal from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday (July 25) in Room 250 of Rose Hall. The public also can comment and react to the proposed statement by sending an e-mail to UW-Green Bay Associate Provost Timothy Sewall at sewallt@uwgb.edu or by going online at http://www.uwgb.edu/hlcselfstudy2007/mission.html. The new wording:

"The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay provides an interdisciplinary, problem-focused educational experience that prepares students to think critically and address complex issues in a multicultural and evolving world. The University enriches the quality of life for students and the community by embracing the educational value of diversity, promoting environmental sustainability, encouraging engaged citizenship, and serving as an intellectual, cultural, and economic resource."

Prof. Luczaj lands grant for rock/water work
Earth Science Prof. John Luczaj of Natural and Applied Sciences has been awarded an $8,554 grant from the UW Water Resources Institute. The research project is titled "Geochemical Characterization of Sulfide Mineralization in Eastern Wisconsin Carbonate Rocks." Luczaj says he will be incorporating undergraduate students into the project.

Upward Bound passes test with flying colors, earns renewal
The UW-Green Bay Upward Bound Grant has been renewed for four years, it was learned this summer, allowing the program to continue extending its pre-college support services to aspiring low-income, first-generation students at East, West and Preble high schools in Green Bay. The grant received a total score of 299 out of a possible 300 points. (Two of the three readers gave it a perfect score of 100, and one reader scored it 99.) Assistant Dean Michael Stearney says staff members including Michael Casbourne, Jennica Fulwilder, Tori Nelson, Kristy Sanders and Kim Mezger-Schultz in the Precollege Programs Office have earned congratulations for a job well done!

Senior High: Talented teens and a star... euphonist...euphoniumist... brass player
On campus this week are about 200 students from five states enrolled in the annual Senior High Band, Orchestra and Choir Camp. Notable this year is the presence of Yamaha guest clinician, Adam Frey, an international-caliber musician who will be teaching brass master classes. Frey will solo on euphonium with the All-Camp Band at Saturday morning's closing concert (July 28) at the Weidner Center.

Total Guitar Camp packs 'em tighter than a Segovia/Hendrix/Atkins triple bill
It's the rare UW-Green Bay camp that draws students from nine states, but count 'em — Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, Maryland, Virginia — and know that next week's Total Guitarist Camp should be special. This year, camp faculty are planning to teach a variety of styles including jazz, classical, folk and rock. The free concert showcasing student performers is scheduled for 6: 30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, in the University Theatre.

Authors: Recent ES&P graduates add to environmental scholarship
Three recent graduates of the Environmental Science and Policy graduate program have had new papers accepted in scientific journals. Tom Nedland, along with faculty co-authors Amy Wolf and Tara Reed of NAS, will publish "A re-examination of restored wetlands in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin" in the journal Wetlands. Nedland is currently working as an wetland ecologist for Martenson and Eisele, Inc., Menasha. Recent award-winner Brad Herrick has had another paper published entitled "Seed banks in diked and undiked Great Lakes coastal wetlands" in American Midland Naturalist, with co-authors Amy Wolf and emeritus NAS professor Michael Morgan. Herrick was recently hired as ecologist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Another graduate, Steven Price, research coordinator at Davidson University in North Carolina, is now a Ph.D. candidate at Wake Forest University. His paper, with faculty co-author Bob Howe of NAS and others, titled "Are anurans of Great Lakes coastal wetlands reliable ecological indicators of environmental condition?" has been accepted in a special issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research.

UW-Green Bay students assist with national institute
Four UW-Green Bay students — Amanda Jeske, Crystal Jushka, Lotte Rasmussen and Ashley Marsh — are helping coordinate this week's national institute for psychology teachers on campus. Enrollment in high school psychology courses has grown substantially in recent years, and UW-Green Bay faculty organizers say interest in pedagogy is on the upswing, as well. For more, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2007july.htm#psychology.

Xiong vigil
The newspaper said about 100 people participated, but our correspondent reported closer to 200, with a sizeable UW-Green Bay contingent. The vigil last Friday night (July 20) featured speakers hopeful of finding missing senior, Mahalia Xiong, who vanished without a trace the previous Friday after a night out with friends. Police still say they have little to go on. See the latest P-G report at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070721/GPG0101/707210559/1207.

Alice Goldsby remembrance
Yesterday's Green Bay Press-Gazette carried a short obituary for Dr. Alice Goldsby, professor emerita, who, as reported here last month, died June 19, 2007 at age 87. The obit reports: "A celebration of her life will be held on Aug. 4, on the shores of Green Bay. For further information call 920-465-6581 or 262-542-1629. Memorials to Dane County Humane Society." For the obituary, click http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070722/GPG010301/707220664/1212.

Job posting: Web/print designer
Normally, the LOG doesn't carry every University job posting, but we'll make an exception this time. Because it happens to be our job. Know any good candidates? Send them to http://www.uwgb.edu/hr/Jobs/jobposting.asp?postid=227.

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