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Faculty/Academic Staff
Forums
The Office
of Research and Sponsored Programs will present Faculty/Academic
Staff Forums this spring semester. The programs will be held from 12:10
to 12:50 p.m. Wednesdays in the Presidents
Room of Davies Center, unless otherwise noted. Bring a brown bag lunch
or tray.
•
Jan. 28: Patricia Turner, history, "Recovering
the Social: Peasant and Village in the French Revolution."
•
Feb. 4: Steven Majstorovic, political
science, with student collaborator Caitlin
Lee, "Among the Hmongs in Wisconsin:
Political and Cultural Attitudes Among Age Cohorts." 
Faculty/academic staff
workshops and programs
The Office
of Research and Sponsored Programs announces the following workshop
for faculty and academic staff. A program deadline also is noted.
Workshop:
• A workshop
on Research and Scholarly Activity
to discuss the following programs: Summer
Extramural Grant Development, Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates,
University Research and Creative Activity Program
and Kell Container Corp. Scholarship
for Faculty/Student Collaborative Research
will be held Jan. 29,
from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. as a brown bag lunch session in the Badger
Room of Davies Center.
Program Deadline:
• Summer
Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grants, University Research
and Creative Activity and Kell
Container Corp. Scholarship for Faculty/Student Collaborative Research
deadline is Feb.
15. 
Academic Affairs
Ronald Satz had
his review
of Robert V. Remini’s book "Andrew Jackson and His Indian
Wars" published in the December 2003 issue of the Journal
of American History. 
Counseling Services
Richard Boyum
has accepted an invitation to serve on the advisory board for Off to
College, a national publication which focuses on helping students have
a successful transition into higher education. The publication is distributed
to high schools, colleges, universities and college-bound students.

English
Jack Bushnell had
his
essay titled "Writing through Science" published in the summer
2003 issue — a special issue on science and nature writing —
of the peer-reviewed journal Technical
Communication Quarterly.
Bruce Taylor
had his poems titled “The Belly and Its Members” and “The
Parable of the Pig and the Apple” published online in Literary
Salt, issue 4.
Mathematics
Simei Tong
and co-author Dale E. Alspach of Oklahoma State University had their
paper titled "Subspaces of Lp, p>2, Determined by Partitions
and Weights" published in Studia
Mathematica, Vol. 159, No. 2, 2003, pages
207-227. 
Condolences
Condolences to the family of Athene Dale. Dale, a nursing professor
at UW-Eau Claire for more than 20 years, died Jan. 15 in Eau Claire.
Full obituary.
Condolences to Beth DeRosier, McIntyre Library, whose
mother, Marjory Rylander, died Dec. 14, 2003, in Eau Claire.
Condolences to Leslie Foster, McIntyre Library, whose
brother, Richard A. Leonard, died Dec. 30, 2003, at Westchester Medical
Center, New York.
Condolences to the family of Jane M. Hibbard. Hibbard
died Jan. 7 in Eau Claire. She was the wife of the late Richard E. Hibbard,
who served as Chancellor of UW-Eau Claire. Full
obituary.
Condolences to Nanette Lunde, emerita, music and theatre
arts, whose father, Paul L. Gomory, died Dec. 22, 2003, in Bethesda,
Md.
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