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Vol.
38, No. 126, June 28, 2007 / Log
Archive
Gamblers, superstitious types, and brides and grooms (with a record number of weddings scheduled) are banking on July 7, or 7-7-7, as being their lucky day. Wait and see. Last June, folks who put stock in the 6-6-6 date came up empty when the apocalypse, by most accounts, failed to materialize. At least this time around, Lucky Sevens Day will fall on a Saturday, generally a lucky day in our book. In real news this afternoon:
• Jazz on the Bay faculty concert is tonight
• The passing of Alice Goldsby
• On to GOP Assembly for Dem budget
• Changes few for UW System
• Camp Lloyd reaches out to grieving children... and grows
• Background on 'Lloyd'
• Art Camp show is Friday
• UW wins $125 million biofuels grant
• Reilly mentions UW-Green Bay at Madison announcement
• Details on bioenergy grant
• Supreme Court ruling doesn't address college affirmative action
• No 'expose,' but chancellors should value disclosure
• With budget uncertainty, waiting list for WHEG
• Rehabbing the facilities
• Brief: Meinhardt
Jazz on the Bay's all-star faculty concert is tonight... and free
Top pros play for their students (and you) when the annual Jazz on the Bay Faculty Concert takes place at 6:30 p.m. (Thursday, June 28) in the University Theatre. Featured faculty are John and Chris Salerno, camp directors; Terry Winch, Nashville; Gerald Mattern, De Pere; Dave Dunning, Neenah; Steve and Jennifer Johnson, Green Bay; Craig Hanke, Green Bay; Kevin Short, Weston; Harold Miller, New Berlin; Terry Iatonni, Green Bay; Charlie Christenson, New York; Jon Delany, Green Bay; and vocalists Roger Drumm, Green Bay; Jennifer Scovell, Pullman, Wash.; and Shon Parker, Kalamazoo. This concert is FREE and open to the public.
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The Jazz on the Bay student concerts are Saturday morning in the University Theatre, starting at 9 a.m. Student instrumentalists and vocalists will join forces as they combine jazz styles and their performing groups for an entertaining morning. Both concerts are free to the public.
The passing of Prof. Emeritus Alice Goldsby
Word has been received of the death of Prof. Emeritus Alice Goldsby, who died Tuesday, June 19 in Madison after a brief illness. She had lived in Madison in the winters for several years, but continued to spend summers at her home on the bayshore until about three years ago when she made Madison her permanent home. Goldsby retired as associate professor emeritus of Natural and Applied Sciences and microbiology in May 1990 after 26 years of service to the UW. These years included four years at the UW-Center System in Green Bay until 1968 when she became a founding faculty member of the new four-year University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She received her doctorate in veterinary sciences and pathology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1962.
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It is expected a memorial event will be held in early August in her former Edgewater Beach neighborhood, a few miles north of campus. There should be a notice in the local newspaper prior to the event. We'll run a special LOG announcement if we can.
Dem Senate passes its version of budget; now it's on to GOP Assembly
The Democratic-controlled Senate tacked on an ambitious new initiative — universal healthcare coverage for Wisconsin residents — when it voted Tuesday to approve Gov. Doyle's proposed 2007-09 state budget on an 18-15, party line vote. Even before the 11th-hour amendment, experts were predicting a long and contentious fight when the budget goes to the Republican-dominated Assembly and, then, a Senate-Assembly conference committee. See Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel coverage at http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=625196.
Changes few for UW System budget
The few comments heard during Tuesday's Senate budget deliberations were mostly positive for the UW System. Except for some tweaking with regard to UW-La Crosse, the Growth Agenda provisions remained intact. The few changes included:
• $5 million in one-time GPR for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health lung cancer research;
• increased flexibility in the use of Universal Service Fund revenues to support telecommunications services at all 26 campuses;
• minor changes to the latest plan on the veteran's tuition remission program;
• new language pertaining to faculty and academic staff collective bargaining units.
Camp Lloyd reaches out to grieving children... and grows
If you haven't yet seen media coverage, you might, on Friday. In partnership with Unity Hospice and directed by Prof. Illene Noppe, UW-Green Bay is again hosting Camp Lloyd, an afternoon camp for grieving children, filled with fun activities such as arts and crafts, music, games, swimming and hiking. The idea is to encourage participants to explore their own experiences of grief, realize that their feelings are normal and find support from each other. The Ecumenical Center is home base for a week that concludes Friday afternoon (June 28) with activities including a shoot around with Phoenix basketball players and a tree-planting ceremony. Prof. Noppe says enrollment has doubled from last year, and includes three returning campers.
Background on 'Lloyd'
Illene Noppe, a professor of Human Development at UW-Green Bay, learned about grief camps at a conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. The idea became a passion for Illene through the inspiration of her husband, Lloyd Noppe (also a professor at UW-Green Bay), who lost his father at a very young age. Through conversations with her colleague and friend Lisa DeSieno, who is the Director of Outreach at Unity hospice of Green Bay, Illene Noppe found others who shared the goal. Michelle Taczala Miller, a 2005 Human Development, Psychology, and Women's Studies graduate, helped with development of the concept as a senior project. The first Camp Lloyd took place in summer 2006. UW-Green Bay students and alumni assist as counselors and interns.
Art Camp show is Friday at 5 o'clock
Senior High Art Studio Camp has 108 students in attendance. The week culminates with a free, public student show from 5 to 6 p.m. Friday (June 29) in the Lawton Gallery, in Theatre Hall. Award winners will be announced at the show. This year's sessions included instruction in painting, fashion design, digital animation, multi-media, ceramics, photography and printing.
UW wins $125 million biofuels grant
The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week it will provide a $125 million grant to help fund the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center on the UW-Madison campus. Officials say the center, which will also have more than $100 million in state and private-sector funding behind it, will examine ways to create new kinds of fuel and benefit the entire state and its economy. See http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=625208.
President Reilly mentions UW-Green Bay at big Madison announcement
The huge new biofuels grant for UW-Madison will have a ripple effect at other UW System campuses, President Kevin Reilly said at yesterday's announcement. He mentioned Green Bay as being one of the four energy-independent target campuses. See text of his brief remarks at http://www.uwsa.edu/president/speeches/2007/s070626.htm.
The lowdown on biofuels grant
You scientists out there who might be interested in more detail can find a ton of information at UW-Madison's online press kit at http://news.wisc.edu/bioenergy/.
Early reading: Court ruling doesn't address college affirmative action
Making news today is a Supreme Court verdict that limits K-12 school districts in pursuing racially balanced districting. Early word from the Chronicle of Higher Education on how the rulings might affect affirmative action in higher ed:
"The U.S. Supreme Court struck down two voluntary school-integration plans in a 5-to-4 decision issued this morning. But rather than reconsidering its past rulings on college affirmative action — as some conservative advocates had requested and some lawyers for colleges had feared — the court left those decisions solidly intact and cited them in striking down school-assignment policies based solely on race."
Oshkosh editorial questions 'expose,' but says chancellors should value disclosure
The recent dust-up at UW Oshkosh over ID/ATM cards for students was a lot of fuss over not much, the Oshkosh Northwestern says. However, chancellors need to be "ultra-transparent" in disclosing participation on community boards. See http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070627/OSH06/706270414/1190/OSHopinion.
With budget uncertainty, Wisconsin imposes waiting list for popular WHEGs
UW System officials said they are concerned over the implementation of a financial aid waiting list for Wisconsin students from lower-income families — uncertainty surrounding their financial aid could limit their higher education opportunities. See http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/06/27/wi/2w.txt.
Rehabbing the facilities
This announcement was leaked earlier, via an all-campus email, but we clear the air here for the benefit of our off-campus readers who might someday visit and need to use the facilities, and want to plan accordingly:
Out of service for the remainder of the summer are restrooms being remodeled to provide better handicap accessibility and, in some cases, additional capacity: Instructional Services 1004 (Learning Tech Lab); Instructional Services primary restrooms nearest the General Access Computer labs; and Studio Arts C-Wing.
Brief
Human Biology Prof. Daniel Meinhardt, an evolutionary biologist, recently received news that his manuscript "Skull Development of the Miniature Chorus Frog Pseudacris ocularis (Anura: Hylidae) Compared to that of a Larger-bodied Congener" was, after peer review, accepted for publication in the Journal of Morphology. Additionally, he has had a talk accepted for presentation at a joint meeting in St. Louis in July on the topic "Thin-plate Spline Analysis of Vertebrae Asymmetry in American Toads (Anaxyrus americanus)," a paper co-authored with UW-Green Bay undergraduate Abbey Waterstradt. The meeting is an international joint meeting of The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and The Herpetologists' League.
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