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Vol.
39, No. 75, February 25, 2008 / Log
Archive
This is the LOG newsletter for faculty, staff and friends of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. We'll make the intro short and sweet because the content is somewhat long and chewy:
• UW-Green Bay selects five to present at Capitol
• Special offer: $10 tickets, San Jose Taiko
• New photos on HR site
• Comment on new conduct rules, if you can
• Women's swimmers take fourth straight title
• WIAA sectionals will draw thousands to Kress
• Women play Saturday, too
• Severtson recital is March 2
• Friday brown-bag features 'Beyond Titillation' artist
• Student is 'Enemy of the People'
• Coverage of Yingst/NASA milestone
• TV-11 story emphasizes rise of women in science
• Prof. Johnson's election recap
• Graphics students earn Addys
• TV games for Phoenix men
• Reminder: FMLA session is Thursday
• Theatrical presentation on cultural diversity
• LGBT issues
• Brazil destination for Cultural Cuisine
• Bird talk gets warm response
• More on the 'unicorn,' and Critical Thinking/Interdisciplinarity
• Reminder: Cofrin research
• Student grant applications
• Black Student Union wraps up Heritage Month
• Reminder: Panel on immigration issues
• Acid spill at UW-Madison
• Briefs: Conley, Harris, Tetzloff
Congratulations: Five student researchers selected to present at Capitol
UW-Green Bay has named its roster of five student researchers to represent the campus March 5 at the UW System's Posters in the Rotunda event at the State Capitol in Madison. It's a high honor for those selected:
• "E-Commerce Web Application for Automotive Sales and Inventory Management," by student Yuri Burrows of Green Bay, with Prof. Peter Breznay, Information and Computer Science, as faculty mentor/adviser
• "Echolocation signatures of bats at Bocos del Toro, Panama," Megan Harvey of Amherst and Crystal Osman of Luck; Prof. Amy Wolf, Natural and Applied Sciences
• "Wisconsin Emergency Management Survey: NOAA Weather Alert Radio," Bryan Hulbert of Appleton, William Johnson of De Pere and Trista Seubert of Green Bay; Prof. Terri Johnson, Public and Environmental Affairs
• "Religious Tolerance Among College Students," Ryan F. Mach of Green Bay; Prof. Terri Johnson
• "100 People of Green Bay," by photographer Jenna Neumann of Merrill; Prof. Sarah Detweiler, Art
We'll have a link with more details on each project in our next issue.
Special offer: $10 faculty/staff tickets for San Jose Taiko
Weidner Center Presents Inc. is extending a special ticket discount to UW-Green Bay faculty and staff for the Sunday (March 2) performance by San Jose Taiko at 2 p.m. in the Cofrin Family Hall. Show your University ID at the University Ticketing and Information Center this week to purchase tickets at $10. The ensemble weaves traditional Japanese sounds with other world rhythms such as African, Latin, Balinese, American rock and jazz. For more on the ensemble, http://www.wcpresents.com/SanJose.html.
New employee's photos on HR website
You can view new employee's photos and biographies on the Human Resources website by clicking on the following link: http://www.uwgb.edu/hr/Campuscommunity/employees/NewEmployees.htm. You can then click on "Retirees" to view a list of those who recently retired and "Years of Service" to see a list of people who recently achieved a service milestone.
UW System seeks comment on new conduct rules
On Monday, the University of Wisconsin System invited public comment on recommended changes to state rules regarding student conduct and conduct on university property. Fair enough, but the System's lengthy news release offers few clues to the layperson as to what these "improvements" to Chapters UWS 17 and UWS 18 might entail. Regent review is scheduled for April, so perhaps more context is forthcoming, but in the meantime, if you're up to the challenge, you can attempt to decipher the cryptography at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2008/r080225.htm.
Women's swim team wins fourth straight Horizon title
The Green Bay women's swimming and diving squad continued its Horizon League dominance by winning its fourth consecutive conference title Saturday night (Feb. 23) in Akron, Ohio. Kari Helland capped the meet by taking gold in the 3-meter diving competition to follow overall champ Lauren McGraw's earlier title in the 1-meter. For the Phoenix men, Alex Hill won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 45.18, finishing the four-day meet with a pair of league titles and recognition as Co-Men's Swimmer of the Meet. The Phoenix men placed fifth. For more, http://uwgbathletics.cstv.com/sports/c-swim/recaps/022308aac.html.
WIAA sectionals make it a big week — with thousands of visitors — to Kress
It's tremendous exposure for the new Kress Events Center and UW-Green Bay with a key target audience. A schedule conflict has moved WIAA sectional basketball games away from the old Brown County Arena and, for this year only, onto campus. Getting a look at the state-of-the-art Kress will be high school students, parents and fans — probably 4,000 per session — from schools playing for the right to advance to Madison:
• Thursday Doubleheader (Feb. 28)
Boys Division I sectional semifinals
Bay Port vs. Ashwaubenon, 6 p.m.
Appleton East vs. Kaukauna, 8 p.m.
• Friday Doubleheader (Feb. 29)
Boys Division II sectional semifinals
Marinette vs. Valders, 6 p.m.
Waupun vs. Plymouth, 8 p.m
• Saturday (March 1), two separate title games
Division II, 5 p.m.
Division I, 8:30 p.m.
The Kress will also host the WIAA girls basketball sectionals the following weekend (March 6-8).
Phoenix women helped make WIAA games possible here
It was the willingness of the Phoenix women's basketball program to move Saturday's big game vs. UW-Milwaukee to earlier in the day (a 1 p.m. start) that cleared the calendar for the WIAA high school games to be played here. We'll have more on the Phoenix, and special promotions and alumni events for Saturday, in our next Log.
Faculty pianist Severtson offers March 2 recital
Pianist and UW-Green Bay faculty member David Severtson will present a free recital at 4 p.m. Sunday (March 2) in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center. The program will include "Papillons," op. 2 by Robert Schumann; Ballade in A-flat Major, op. 47 by Frederic Chopin; and Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960 by Franz Schubert. For program notes and more on Severtson, http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-42.htm.
Friday brown-bag features 'Beyond Titillation' artist
From noon to 1 p.m. this Friday (Feb. 29), artist Tsehai Johnson will talk on the theme "Strangely Familiar" at a brown-bag gathering in conjunction with this week's opening of the new Lawton Gallery exhibit. Johnson will talk about her work including her ceramic installation in UW-Green Bay's "Beyond Titillation: Ceramic Sculpture and the Body." The brown-bag is open to all.
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Reminder: "Beyond Titillation" opens at 4:30 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 28) with a reception at the gallery in Theatre Hall. Co-curators Summer Zickefoose and Dr. Stephen Perkins will deliver a talk at 5 p.m. to open "this provocative national exhibition of contemporary mixed-media ceramic sculpture." For more on the exhibit, http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-40.htm.
Weishaar takes lead as 'Enemy of the People'
Joshua Weishaar, a junior theatre major from Westfield, Wis., has the leading role of Dr. Thomas Stockmann in the UW-Green Bay production of the Henrik Ibsen drama "An Enemy of the People." The play opens Friday and Saturday, Feb. 29 and March 1, in the University Theatre, and continues next week. For details and a complete cast list, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-39.htm.
Coverage of Yingst and NASA's first all-female team
Aileen Yingst, a planetary geologist and director of Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium headquartered at UW-Green Bay, was part of the first all-female science team to command the Mars Rover Spirit. "...This was more of a social achievement — one giant step for womankind," Yingst told the Green Bay Press-Gazette, at
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/GPG0101/802230656/1207.
TV-11 story emphasizes rise of women in science
In the two decades since enrollment of women in UW-Green Bay math and science majors reached parity with men, women have continued to make significant gains. TV-11 talked not only to Yingst, but engineering Prof. Patricia Terry and NAS student Hope Stephenson on Friday. Their video is online at http://www.myfoxnewisconsin.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5857153&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1.
Prof. Johnson offers recap on Wisconsin Primary for Merens show
Political scientist and UW-Green Bay Prof. Terri Johnson, all over the media the past few weeks, capped it off with a post-primary talk with Ben Merens on his Wisconsin Public Radio show. Check the archives for his 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, edition at
http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/ideas_audioarchives.cfm?Code=bme.
UW-Green Bay graphics students will receive Addy Awards
Prof. Toni Damkoehler shares word that three UW-Green Bay graphic communication students will be awarded Northeast Wisconsin student Addy Awards at the Fox River Ad Club's advertising awards program this Friday (Feb. 29).
Kevin Heins will receive a gold Addy in the student category for posters for his concept, design and illustration on habitat loss for birds because of global environmental conditions.
Abe Clark will receive a silver Addy in the student category for campaign series for his poster, brochure and fund-raising mailer for a campaign to raise awareness of the effects of global warming on the polar bear population.
Ryan Falkner will receive a silver Addy award in the student category for brochures for concept, photos and design of a multi-page sales brochure for the Hummer brand.
Two TV games for Phoenix men this week
Coach Tod Kowalczyk and his Phoenix men's basketball team are entering a key stretch at home, with Resch Center games at 7 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 28) vs. Illinois-Chicago and Saturday (March 1) vs. Loyola. Catch the action in person, or tune in to the final two WACY TV-32 broadcasts of the year.
Reminder: FMLA info session for supervisors is Thursday (Feb. 28)
The session takes place from 1 to 2 p.m. this Thursday in IS 1034. Human Resources says the program is designed to provide supervisors with a basic understanding of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. A 30-minute DVD will dramatize scenarios commonly encountered by supervisors, followed by Q&A. Addressed will be qualifying reasons for FMLA, eligibility requirements, and the length of leave an employee is allowed to take. In addition, the recent expansion of the FMLA and its application to military families will be covered. No need to pre-register. Just mark your calendar and attend.
March 4: Theatrical presentation tackles issues of cultural diversity
SST Communications presents "Synergy from Others: Cultural Diversity on Campus" from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 4 in Jean Weidner Theatre of the Weidner Center. This interactive program is open to the entire campus community. SST Communications is a theatre-based training company that combines factual information with comedic and dramatic vignettes to motivate audiences towards solutions. Their March 4 visit will highlight obstacles such as stereotyping and garbled communication, and suggest how to move the valuing of diversity from rhetoric to reality. The Academic Staff Professional Development Programming Committee is the sponsor, with a campus diversity grant helping to cover costs. RSVP attendance to Linda Parins parinsl@uwgb.edu, or 465-2944.
Next meeting for LGBT issues group is March 5
The next meeting of SAFE Ally, the LGBT faculty/staff issues group on campus, will be Wednesday, March 5, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Counseling and Health conference room, (SS 1400). The group is open to any faculty or staff member interested in discussing issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, faculty and staff in higher education as well as at the UW-Green Bay campus.
Brazil is future destination for Cultural Cuisine Luncheon
Time to start thinking "warm weather." The University Union and Sodexho can help set the mood by serving up some tropical food... mark your calendar for April 10 at noon in the Phoenix Room. Watch for a menu in an upcoming Log newsletter.
Talk on cold-weather birdfeeding gets warm response
We're told Vicki Medland's Downtown Third Thursdays talk last week drew an appreciative audience of several dozen bird lovers who wanted to learn more about how to help our feathered friends make it through this tough winter. Her presentation included recommendations of which seed mixes are favored by different birds — if you love cardinals, give them sunflower seeds, and peanuts — how to place your birdfeeders, which designs work best, and how to contend with wily squirrels. She also shared the results of the "Great Backyard Bird Count," in which 46 species were reported sighted in Green Bay in December.
More on the 'unicorn,' and talk of Critical Thinking/Interdisciplinarity
The Instructional Development Council invites all faculty and staff to an open discussion of Craig Nelson's 1999 essay "On the Persistence of Unicorns: The Trade-Off between Content and Critical Thinking Revisited." (The "unicorn" is the notion that teaching critical thinking conflicts with teaching content. In his analysis of student cognitive development, Nelson also argues that mature critical thinking must be interdisciplinary — a conclusion that has important implications for how we teach at UW-Green Bay.)
The discussion is Friday (Feb. 29) from 3:30 to 4:45 in the Union's 1965 Room. Nelson's essay is available on electronic reserve (under David Voelker) and is accessible at: http://ereserve.uwgb.edu.ezproxy.uwgb.edu:2048/misc/misclist.html.
Wednesday reminder: natural areas research
UW-Green Bay students will report on research they conducted in University natural areas (on topics such as phragmites ecology, Great Lakes invasives, deer browse and others) at the Cofrin Grants Student Research Symposium from 2 to 5 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 27) in the Christie Theatre. For details, http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-38.htm.
Next year's Cofrin Grant presenters? Apply now'
Thanks to a generous endowment from the families of Dr. David Cofrin and the late John Cofrin, annual awards are awarded for student research on the Cofrin Arboretum and the other UW-Green Bay natural areas. Students interested in applying for the upcoming year are reminded that the March 31 deadline isn't far away. To learn more, visit http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity.
Black Student Union highlights culture this week
"Black Like Me: A Montage of Black Culture" is the theme for Black History and Heritage Month events wrapping up this week.
Remaining events:
• Tuesday, Feb. 26, noon, Phoenix Rooms, University Union — "Black Like Me: A Montage of Black Culture," a program featuring poems, music and re-enactments.
• Wednesday, Feb. 27, 5 - 7 p.m., American Intercultural Center — "X vs. King," a discussion and comparison of the thinking and styles of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., moderated by Buffy Ruffin, AIC multicultural adviser.
• Thursday, Feb. 28, 11 a.m., Ecumenical Center — Soul Food luncheon, free and open to all.
Reminder: Panel on immigration issues is Tuesday
"Go Back to Where You Came From? An Immigration Panel" is 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26 in Phoenix Rooms A and B of University Union, organized by the student Social Work Club. Details at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-36.htm.
Chemical spill clears UW building
A chemical spill in UW-Madison's Engineering Hall forced chemists to evacuate, but no one was injured and everyone returned safely to the building. See http://www.madison.com/tct/news/273999.
Briefs
Prof. Bill Conley, Business Administration, is the author of a pair of articles that appeared in the December 2007 and January 2008 issues of The International Journal of Systems Science. The first article, "Simulation optimization and correlation with multi stage Monte Carlo optimization," features his new CTSP multivariate correlation coefficient. The second article, "Ecological optimization of pollution control equipment and planning from a simulation perspective," uses computer statistical optimization to deal with various pollution control problems.
Jay Harris, International Projects Coordinator, attended a forum in Washington, D.C. this past weekend on collaboration and creative ideas in international education, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's International Programs Service. For an exhibit featuring UW-Green Bay's Journey to Jordan program, Harris was joined by staff from the Embassy of Jordan and the U.S. Department of State. Forum attendees included representatives from federal, state, and local government, business leaders, educators and education administrators. Harris also participated in a meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Public Diplomacy.
"Shall the Indian Remain Indian?: Native Americans and the Women's Club Movement" is the title of a presentation by Lisa Tetzloff, director of Student Life and a doctoral candidate at Purdue University, set for 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in the Union's 1965 Room. Her research focuses on Native American women in the late 1800s and early 1900s and their barrier-breaking participation in women's organizations convened for both cultural study and social action.
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