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Featured Articles Rebecca Matter receives advising excellence award Chris Lind to retire; interim position announced Emam and Friends to open Artists Series Joseph Picconatto heads University Bookstore Gift memorializes alumna's persistence, spirit Faculty and staff can reconnect with former students at Alumni Association events More campus Web sites convert to new design Campus hosts successful Day of Caring UW System publishes newsletter from Institute on Race and Ethnicity |
Rebecca Matter receives advising excellence award Chris Lind to retire; interim position announced In the meantime, Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor Steven Tallant will appoint an interim assistant vice chancellor. As a result, the Office of Academic Affairs requests letters of application from faculty and academic staff interested in serving as interim assistant vice chancellor and director of the Center of Excellence for Faculty/Student Research Collaboration. The interim position will begin on a part-time basis Nov. 1, 2005. Effective Jan. 1, 2006, the position will be full time until a permanent assistant vice chancellor is hired. The interim assistant vice chancellor will be eligible to apply for the permanent position. See position responsibilities and application information. Emam and Friends to open Artists Series Joseph Picconatto heads University Bookstore Camille Weixel, previous University Bookstore director, is pursuing new career opportunities with Barnes & Noble College Booksellers. Gift memorializes alumna's persistence, spirit
The determined spirit of a successful teacher and businesswoman who graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 1969 is being memorialized by her husband through the creation of a scholarship in her name. Patricia Arts Rinaldi, who began her UW-Eau Claire college career at age 37 and earned a bachelor's degree in business education, died of cancer in 1999. Her husband, Emil Rinaldi, has endowed a fund through the UW-Eau Claire Foundation to create the annual Patricia Arts Rinaldi Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to an outstanding education major who graduated from a Wisconsin high school and demonstrates a passion for setting goals and persisting, sometimes through obstacles, on the path toward reaching a dream. Full story. Faculty and staff can reconnect with former students at Alumni Association events
Throughout the year, the UW-Eau Claire Alumni Association hosts events — on campus and throughout the nation in places where alumni live and work — that keep Blugold alumni connected to each other and to their alma mater. University faculty and staff members have found these events a great way to reconnect with former students. Upcoming events include:
Find more information in the online Alumni Events Calendar, and check the calendar regularly for new events in the works. More campus Web sites convert to new design
A growing number of UW-Eau Claire departments and units are updating their Web sites using the new campus Web site design templates, creating a look for their sites that is consistent with the design of the university's top-level Web pages. Some of the redesigned sites are listed on the Web Development Services site. There are many benefits to be gained from the use of the templates, including:
For more information, see Web Development Services' frequently asked questions page or contact the Web coordinator at web@uwec.edu.
Campus hosts successful Day of Caring
UW-Eau Claire's United Way "Day of Caring" activities brought in $761 (to date) as well as a barrel full of school supplies for area students. The Sept. 16 event to benefit United Way of Greater Eau Claire included a dunk tank, marshmallow golf, ice cream cones and a theme basket raffle. It's not too late to get your name in to win one of the following baskets:
Raffle tickets are one for $1 or six for $5. Stop by the respective departments/offices to buy your tickets or look for the baskets in Davies Center Sept. 29-30. The drawing will be held Sept. 30. UW System publishes newsletter from Institute
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September 19, 2005
Rebecca Matter, an academic adviser in Advising and New Student Initiatives at UW-Eau Claire, is the recipient of the 2005 Advising Excellence Award from the Wisconsin Academic Advising Association. The award, which Matter will receive
during a Sept. 21-22 WACADA conference in Sheboygan,
recognizes her interpersonal skills and caring attitude toward advisees, as well as her willingness to initiate and support advising programs that benefit students. An adviser at UW-Eau Claire for five years, Matter works primarily with students who have not yet declared a major, but her services are available to all students. 
Emam and Friends — a "virtual United Nations of an ensemble [that] has created some of the freshest, most entertaining and accessible World Fusion music ever" (Awareness Magazine) — will open UW-Eau Claire's Artists Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, in Zorn Arena.
The deliberately eclectic amalgam of people and musical heritages brought together by Emam combines elements from Indian, Turkish, Macedonian, Spanish and Eastern European folk idioms with jazz, rock and new age music. The concert will be preceded by a World Music for World Peace season opener celebration on the Central Campus Mall from 6 to 7 p.m. International foods will be sold at the outdoor event, which is sponsored in conjunction with the Student Life and Diversity Commission of the Student Senate. 
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