Faculty/Academic Staff Forums

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs

English

English/Women's Studies

Geography and Anthropology

Music and Theatre Arts

Births and Adoptions

Condolences

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.
      • Feb. 18: Tali Lee, biology, with student collaborator Deb Freund, "Plant Growth and Metabolic Responses to Global Change: Insights from Oak Plantations in the Upper Midwest and Poland."
      • Feb. 25: Zoltan Grossman, geography and anthropology/American Indian studies, "Unlikely Alliances: Treaty Conflicts and Environmental Cooperation Between Native American and Rural White Communities."

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs announces the following program deadlines for faculty and academic staff.
Program Deadlines:
    • Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grants, University Research and Creative Activity and Kell Container Corp. Scholarship for Faculty/Student Collaborative Research deadline is Feb. 16.
    • The Academic Staff Professional Development Program deadline is March 1.
    • The Summer Extramural Grant Development Program deadline is March 1.

English
Nadine St. Louis, emerita, and UW-Eau Claire English education student Jenna Hovind presented a poetry workshop for seventh- and eighth-graders Feb. 4 at South Middle School in Eau Claire.

English/Women's Studies
Barbara Kernan had her article titled "The Parson Weems 'Weighed' But Not 'Disposed of': The Use of Biography in Early Children's Literature" published in The CEA Critic, a journal of the College English Association.

Geography and Anthropology
Roger Thiede, emeritus, had his chapters on Russia and the Eurasian states of the former Soviet Union published in "World Regional Geography: A Development Approach," edited by David Clawson and Merrill L. Johnson, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2004.

Music and Theatre Arts
Jody Sekas' theatrical design work is on display in a show titled “Willing Suspension of Disbelief” through Feb. 25 at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire. The exhibit shows some of the “behind-the-scenes” design processes that Sekas has employed in the past to help transport audiences into other periods, times, locations and characters’ lives.

Births and Adoptions
Cotsy Jones, McIntyre Library, is proud to announce the birth of her granddaughter, Lauryn Michele Jones, born Jan. 22 in Mauston to Russ Jones and Nikki Turner. Lauryn, Cotsy's third granddaughter and 12th grandchild, also is the niece of Andrea Jones, Records and Registration.

Condolences
Condolences to the family of Richard deGrood. DeGrood, professor emeritus of philosophy and religious studies, died Feb. 8 in Eau Claire. Full obituary.

Condolences to Joanne Mellema, Student Health Services, whose mother, Josephine Mellema, died Feb. 12 in Sibley, Iowa.