Fourth Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium set for Aug. 27

ORSP early program deadline announced

Center for International Education

Counseling Services

Foreign Languages/History

Condolences

Fourth Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium set for Aug. 27
The Fourth Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium will be held Monday, Aug. 27, from 1 to 4 p.m. (location to be announced). The Network for Excellence in Teaching will sponsor the event, which will include presentations by 2006-07 learning community members and poster presentations. The application deadline for poster presentations is July 13. For more information, contact Linda Carpenter at carpenlj@uwec.edu or 836-2298.

The early-bird Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Grants deadline is July 16. Please note that the individual college deans' offices may set earlier deadlines for their review processes. The regular deadline for this program is Sept. 15.

Guidelines for writing proposals for this program are available online. For more information, contact Karen Havholm at havholkg@uwec.edu or 836-3405.

Center for International Education
Cheryl Lochner-Wright's article “An Integrated Approach to Fulbright Promotion and Advising” was published in the June issue of the U.S. Fulbright Program Adviser Newsletter of the Institute of International Education.

Counseling Services
Katherine Schneider had her essay "The Working World: Before and After the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990" published in the recently released book "Disabled Faculty and Staff in a Disabling Society: Multiple Identities in Higher Education," edited by M. Vance and published by AHEAD.

Foreign Languages/History
Matt Waters' article “Media and its Discontents” appeared in the  Journal of the American Oriental Society, 125.4, 2005, pages 517-533, published in June 2007. The piece is a review article of the book "Continuity of Empire: Assyria, Media, Persia," edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi, Michael Roaf and Robert Rollinger, Padova, 2003.

Condolences
Condolences to the family of Gilbert Tanner. Tanner, a UW-Eau Claire associate professor emeritus of geography, died June 28 in Richmond, Va. See Leader-Telegram article about Tanner.