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Vol. 39, No. 137, July 9, 2008 / Log Archive

This is the LOG newsletter for University faculty and staff in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where (some) folks are wondering if the return of Ron Wolf — he and his wife explain they love the area and want it to be their retirement home — coupled with the rumored return of Brett Favre, signals some sort of turn-back-the-clock-to-1996 scheme. Get Holmgren back and it’ll be just like that movie “Space Cowboys.” In real news today:

• Redlands award is named for Lockard
• Note: New phone numbers for relocated AIC and Student Life
• Reminder: Retirement party is Thursday for Marie Stephenson
• Cofrin grants help four to study natural areas
• Another Davis follows the birds

• UW-Green Bay’s Nonn has women-in-science/aviation link to EAA
• She’ll be giving free plane rides on the 26th
• Student president reminds campus of U-Pass launch
• Parent says ‘thanks’ for U-Pass
• Total Guitarist Camp

• Oshkosh provost will take interim top job at Parkside
• NY Times says newest hires more moderate
• State of Ohio woos military vets
• Colleges look at privatizing health coverage for students

Lockard gets award named for him at alma mater
Prof. Craig Lockard, an alumnus of the University of Redlands (that’s in California, outside San Bernardino), will have a history award named after him, according to an e-mail from a history professor there. The university’s history department will give the award to an accomplished senior planning to pursue a Ph.D. in history. The department named the prize after Lockard because the UW-Green Bay Social Change and Development professor was a Redlands history graduate who went on to a distinguished career as an author, scholar and teacher.

Relocated AIC and Student Life have new phone numbers: Please make note
The AIC and Student Life have moved offices and with them come some new phone numbers. Here's a listing of the new phone numbers for the staff of the American Intercultural Center and the Office of Student Life:

Student Life:
Lisa Tetzloff – 2464
Tina Tackmier – 2220
Grant Winslow – 5676
Sheila Carter – 2036
John Landrum – 2532
Program Development Assistants – 2519
Ambassadors – 2894

American Intercultural Center and Office of Student Life shared front desk – 2720

AIC:
Diana Borrero-Lowe – 2720
Mai Lo – 2720

Reminder: Retirement party is Thursday for Marie Stephenson
After more than three-and-a-half decades, she’s calling it a campus career. You are cordially invited to join the Human Biology faculty and staff as they wish Marie Stephenson well in her retirement. Date, time and place: 3 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, in Lab Sciences Building Room 468. “Hope to see you there! Cake and punch will be served.”

Grants help UW-Green Bay students study natural areas
Four UW-Green Bay students will receive grants from the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity to support research projects on UW-Green Bay’s managed natural areas. This year’s honorees are undergraduates Meagan Davis, sophomore, Green Bay; Matthew Flentje, senior, Manitowoc; Ethan Kaiser, senior, Boyceville, Wis.; and graduate student Linda Filo, Green Bay. Davis will assess campus cliff-swallow colonies. Flentje will conduct surveys of owls at all five natural areas managed by the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity. Kaiser will get his hands dirty by measuring the differences in earthworm abundance in burned vs. unburned grasslands in the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum. Filo will investigate the ecological effects of timing of removal treatments of the invasive plant Phragmites australis (the common reed) at Point au Sauble Nature Preserve. For more on the grants program and each project, try http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-162.htm.

Davis follows family tradition in watching the birds
The grant earned (see previous item) by Meagan Davis, an Environmental Science major, will be used to pursue research started by her parents more than a decade ago. Her research on cliff swallows in the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum will help identify critical feeding areas and sources of nest-building materials. It will also describe important interactions between the campus cliff swallow population and other species, including humans. Research on the University’s cliff swallows was started in 1997 by her parents, UW-Green Bay Prof. Gregory Davis and UW-Green Bay research associate Jennifer Davis.

UW-Green Bay’s Nonn has women-in-science/aviation link to EAA
Lidia Nonn, director of the Institute for Research, will play a leading role and serve as a mentor in the Women Soar workshop program for girls in grades 9-12 in conjunction with the EAA AirVenture event in Oshkosh later this month. The two-day workshop July 28 and 29 will also feature Theda Star flight nurses, female astronauts, female fighter pilots and commercial pilots.

If you know a young woman who might be interested, she can find out more about Women Soar and all the cool activities at http://www.airventure.org/2008/events/women_soar.html. Applications are due Friday (July 11).

She’ll be giving free plane rides to ages 8-17 on the 26th
Despite the high price of aviation gas…. and as a preface to the AirVenture activities just down the road… on Saturday, July 26, at Brennand Airport in Neenah, Lydia Nonn and friends will be offering free airplane rides to young people ages 8-17 as part of the EAA Young Eagles program. The basics of aerodynamics will be discussed as bird’s eye views of the Fox Valley are provided by the volunteer pilots. The program gives young people an opportunity to go flying in a general aviation airplane. Nonn says she volunteers for Young Eagles because it shares goals similar to UW-Green Bay precollege programs, Phuture Phoenix, Space Camp and others: getting kids interested in science and the importance of education.

To learn more, click http://www.youngeagles.org/programs/youngeagles/info.asp. Nonn volunteers for both the Young Eagles and for Angel Flight — her hanger will be the ground support to United Health’s Theda Star helicopter when it flies into the Brennand event for tours and demonstrations. Other aircraft will be on display and pilots will be available to answer questions.

Student president reminds campus of U-Pass launch
Already shared campuswide but repeated here for the record: As of July 1, the UW-Green Bay U-Pass program was launched offering all those with UW-Green Bay ID cards the opportunity to ride any bus, on any route, at any scheduled time for absolutely free. This includes all students, faculty, and staff with a UW-Green Bay ID. The service is partially underwritten by student fees.

Parent says ‘thanks’ for U-Pass
Maybe you missed it… in a recent “Cheers or Jeers” column in the Press-Gazette, the parent of a new UW-Green Bay freshman offered high praise to the new bus-ride arrangement:
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080707/GPG0602/807070593/1269/GPG06

Total Guitarist Camp will take students ‘to the next level’
Students entering grades 8 through 12 will explore styles including rock, jazz, classical and Latin at UW-Green Bay's Total Guitarist Camp July 27 through Aug. 1. Students of acoustic and electric guitars with at least one year of experience are encouraged to attend. For more, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-161.htm.

Oshkosh provost will take interim top job at Parkside
UW-Oshkosh Provost Lane Earns has agreed to serve as interim chancellor for UW-Parkside in light of the failed search at the Kenosha/Racine-area campus. See the UW System Web site at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2008/r080709.htm.

NY Times says newest faculty hires tend to be moderates
There has always been some truth to the conventional wisdom, says the New York Times, that most college professors tend to hold liberal political beliefs. The generation that will succeed the Baby Boomers, a recent story suggests, is a good deal more moderate. Look for the Wisconsin references at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/arts/03camp.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin.

State of Ohio woos military vets with tuition discount
In an effort to attract more veterans to Ohio’s public universities, Gov. Ted Strickland has announced the state will extend in-state tuition to all veterans attending college on the G.I. bill: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/education/09vets.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin.

Colleges look at privatizing health coverage for students
Wisconsin Public Radio carried a piece recently on students paying for medical care on UW campuses. Check the list of stories for the July 8 entry at http://www.wpr.org/news/newsheadlines.cfm.

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