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Dr. Rose-Marie Avin to Receive UW System Women of
Color in Education Award
EAU CLAIRE — Dr. Rose-Marie Avin, professor of economics
at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, will receive a UW System
Women of Color in Education Award.
Each UW System campus was asked to select a woman to receive the
recognition during the UW System's 29th Annual Women's Studies
Conference April 15-16 in Madison.
A member of UW-Eau Claire's faculty since 1987, Avin has extensive
teaching and research experience in Latin America and has been
recognized for her distinguished contributions in the field as
the recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Award in Brazil
in 2000. She has received a second Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad
Award to India during the summer of 2005.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
Celebration Set for Jan. 17
The Eau Claire Human Rights Coalition will sponsor a Martin Luther
King Jr. birthday celebration Monday, Jan. 17.
"A Dream for All People" is slated for 5-6:30 p.m. Jan.
17 at the Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley in
downtown Eau Claire. A social time is planned for 5-5:30 p.m.,
with a formal program to begin at 5:30 p.m.
The program will feature the singing of the Black National Anthem
and innovation; the reading of the "I Have a Dream"
speech; elementary and middle school children presentations about
Martin Luther King Jr.; a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student
presentation about Martin Luther King Jr.; children's art projects;
and cake and celebration.
The Eau Claire Middle Level Invitational Choir from Eau Claire
public schools and the North High School Jazz Ensemble will perform
during the program.
The Children's Museum of Eau Claire will provide activities for
children during the program.
For details about the event, contact Cynthia Gray-Mash at grayca@uwec.edu
or go to www.echrc.org.
UW-Eau Claire McNair Scholars to Present Research Findings
Nine seniors in the McNair Scholars Program at the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will present their research to their fellow
scholars and mentors, interested faculty, staff, department heads,
deans and community members on three successive Thursday evenings
in December. The 30-minute presentations of research and findings
will begin at 6 p.m. Dec. 2, 9 and 16, in Room 227 of the Nursing
Building.
Named to honor Ronald McNair, the African-American astronaut who
perished in the Challenger explosion, the McNair Scholars program
is a federal TRIO program that assists eligible low-income, first-generation
students to prepare for and enter graduate programs leading to
a doctoral degree. Each year at UW-Eau Claire, ten to twelve new
undergraduate McNair Scholars embark upon two years of intensive
mentoring, specialized curricular and co-curricular offerings,
collaborative research and paid internships, all of which groom
these candidates for graduate school. Participants include academically
talented low-income, first-generation students and students from
groups traditionally underrepresented in doctoral programs. McNair
Scholars are chosen via faculty nomination.
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$40,000 Gift to UW-Eau Claire Foundation Establishes
Spanish Language Immersion Program
Elementary students from the Eau Claire Area School District will
have the opportunity to begin learning Spanish language and culture
thanks to a $40,000 gift from the Presto Foundation to the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation.
This is a great opportunity for elementary students to develop
a significant interest in Spanish, and because there will be a
longer exposure to the language there will be more development
of language proficiency," said Paul Hoff, UW-Eau Claire professor
of Spanish and foreign language education and director of the
Honors Program.
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UW-Eau Claire Student Recognized for Leadership in Civic Service
The Wisconsin Campus Compact recently awarded a Presidential Civic Leadership Award to University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire senior Mark Lee.
The award is given to individuals who WiCC officials feel have demonstrated commitment to furthering the civic purpose of education in postsecondary settings. WiCC is a coalition of 31 college and university presidents in Wisconsin who support service-learning and civic engagement partnerships between campuses and the communities they serve.
A business administration major from Appleton, Lee received his award with others being honored at the State Superintendent's PK-16 Institute on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement held last month in Madison.
Earlier this fall, Lee also was a nominee for the prestigious Howard Swearer Student Humanitarian Award, given to several students annually by the national Campus Compact.
One of Lee's recognized accomplishments was the formation of a volunteer service organization, Students Building Communities Through Service. Along with two of his UW-Eau Claire friends and two students from other UW-System schools, Lee took the fall semester of 2003 off to help underprivileged people in the southern United States and Mexico.
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