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Vol.
39, No. 147, August 8, 2008 / Log
Archive
Notice the front page of Thursday’s Green Bay Press-Gazette was shrouded in black? Glad it’s finally over. With so much talk about wanting out, about negative mindsets, about having your mind right and not having your mind right, we half heard echoes of the actor Strother Martin as the warden: “What we’ve got here is…(pause)… failure to communicate.” Wishing the best to the new-look Packers and to an out-of-the-box Cool Hand Brett, and flowing forward to a forever Favre-free format, this is the LOG newsletter for 8-8-08:
• Interest in the Northwoods
• Rosewall, alumni on state arts task force
• Hutchison plans ‘The Tourist City’ conference
• New hours for Area Research Center
• See food on the bayshore
• ‘Legislators should recognize the value of higher education’
• Major stem cell grant
Early interest is solid in Northwoods program; info session is Wednesday
Already, more than 20 Northwoods residents have taken advantage of a program that lets place-bound working adults earn a bachelor’s degree closer to home, through a partnership between UW-Green Bay and Nicolet College. An info session regarding UW-Green Bay’s Adult Degree Program is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday (Aug. 13) at Nicolet, in Rhinelander. For details, or for an update on the program, http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-168.htm.
Rosewall, UW-Green Bay alumni prominent on state arts task force
Today’s Press-Gazette carries coverage of Thursday’s public forum in Green Bay hosted by the Wisconsin Task Force on Arts and Creativity in Education. Prof. Ellen Rosewall of arts management is quoted on the value of nurturing creative skills, as is Lt. Gov Barbara Lawton, a former UW-Green Bay student. Alumnus and business leader Paul Linzmeyer ’78 says liberal education and arts too often get short shrift. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/GPG0101/808080702/1207/GPG01.
Hutchison to convene Florence conference on ‘The Tourist City’
Tourist studies has emerged as an important, interdisciplinary area of research and analysis in urban studies and contemporary social change. As part of the 10th annual Florence Expo, the Del Bianco Foundation has issued a call for papers for presentation at a conference on “The Tourist City” to take place the week of Nov. 14 in Florence, Italy. Ray Hutchison, UW-Green Bay professor of Urban and Regional Studies, is conference co-coordinator, continuing his extensive involvement with Del Bianco and its efforts to promote international collaboration in education, the arts and urban planning. For a preview of the conference, click http://www.uwgb.edu/urs/tourist_city.pdf.
New hours for Area Research Center
Effective Sept. 1, 2008, the UW-Green Bay Area Research Center will have new hours:
Mondays, noon to 4 p.m.
Tuesdays, noon to 8 p.m.
Wednesdays-Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
(As always, visitors are reminded to call ahead — 465-2539 — on the day of your planned visit in case of unanticipated closings). Documenting the history of Northeastern Wisconsin, the center is located on the seventh floor of the Cofrin Library.
Business update on a bayshore neighbor
Tuesday’s LOG included an item from the P-G concerning the closing of Patrick's on the Bay, 2607 Nicolet Drive. A source now tells us of new management and a re-opening, set for mid-August, as Harbor Fish Market & Grille, Green Bay. That’s the last you’ll read of it here — we’re not in the business of promoting private businesses — but just wanted to share this info on the old Carlton East and a neighborhood fixture.
Editorial: ‘Legislators should recognize the value of higher education’
UW-Madison has lost a key environmental researcher to the University of Minnesota. Comments the editorial page of the La Crosse Tribune: “If this was an isolated case, it would be one thing. But this has happened before. And it will happen again as long as salaries for UW campuses do not keep up with peer institutions...” http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/08/08/opinion/editorial/edit.txt
UW researchers earn major grant to study stem cells
Announced earlier this week, a team of researchers from UW-Madison has been awarded an $8.9 million federal grant to investigate the fundamental power of embryonic stem cells and cells that have been reprogrammed to an embryonic state: their ability to become any cell in the human body. See http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=779606.
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