Save the date: Academic year kickoff is Aug. 21 UW-Eau Claire employees are invited to attend the All-Employee Breakfast and Opening Meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 21, in Zorn Arena. Breakfast will be served starting at 7:30 a.m., and the opening meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. The meeting will include Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich's state-of-the-university address, as well as the presentation of the annual faculty and staff excellence awards. Employees are welcome to come and go to and from the meeting as their schedules require. An academic year opening meeting for evening shift employees who cannot attend the morning event is planned for 8 p.m. Aug. 21 in the Presidents Room of Davies Center.

Corporate donors support new sales competition
Thanks in part to two $50,000 corporate donor gifts to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation, business students in the upper Midwest will be able to participate in a sales competition to be hosted by the UW-Eau Claire College of Business Nov. 15-17.

The Great Northwoods Sales Warm-Up, supported by Hormel Foods and Cintas Corp., is a development opportunity for students interested in sales as a career. At the competition, students will make sales presentations that will be evaluated by a panel of sales professionals. They also will participate in a job fair and professional development workshops. There will be time for networking at a reception Thursday night, a dinner Friday night and an awards banquet on Saturday.

In addition to the two major sponsors, Hormel and Cintas, the competition also has sponsorship from Enterprise Rental-A-Car, Larson Companies, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network and Silver Spring Gardens Inc. Full story.

Continuing Education adds conference services
UW-Eau Claire Continuing Education/UW-Extension has added conference and meeting services to its array of programs and services. Three packages — core, extended and full — allow businesses, organizations, colleges and departments to choose the package that best meets their needs. Service options include program planning and management; marketing and promotion; registration; financial management; hiring and contracting; and CEUs and contact hours. For additional information call 715-836-3636, visit the Continuing Education Web site or send e-mail to ce@uwec.edu.

Darlyne Cain

'Super Size Me' poster

Free concerts, films continue
• Music on the Mall: Darlyne Cain will present an outdoor concert at 7 p.m. today on UW-Eau Claire's Central Campus Mall as part of the university's seventh week of free Summer Session Programs. Full story.

• Summer Cinema: The Summer Cinema series will present "Super Size Me " (2004) at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, through Thursday, July 26, in Davies Theatre. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock takes an irreverent look at the fast-food corporations that have molded American culture and the politics that have combined to make us the fattest nation in the world.

Tuesday's screening will be preceded by an informal discussion at 6 p.m. in the Skylight Lounge, Davies Center, led by nutritionist Diane Dressel. Free beverages and healthy, locally grown snacks will be provided. Full story.

	Dr. Mark Mowry
Dr. Mitra Sadeghpour		Dr. Beverly Soll

• Summer Sounds Series: UW-Eau Claire voice faculty members Dr. Mitra Sadeghpour, soprano, and Dr. Mark Mowry, tenor, will present a free Summer Sounds Series recital at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 29, in Phillips Recital Hall in the Haas Fine Arts Center. Sadeghpour and Mowry will be accompanied by pianist Dr. Beverly Soll, UW-Eau Claire's arts/special events coordinator. The recital will feature songs of Franz Schubert, W.A. Mozart, Giacomo Carissimi, Reynaldo Hahn and Erik Satie, as well as English songs by Libby Larsen (Cowboy Songs), Benjamin Britten and Frank Bridge. Full story.

Summer Bulletin
Published weekly during the summer session by the UW-Eau Claire News Bureau. News items and notices should be sent to the News Bureau, Schofield 201, by 10 a.m. Thursday for publication in the following week’s issue. E-mail submissions to Julie Poquette at poquetjm@uwec.edu are encouraged. Faculty/staff news items are published on a space-available basis.