Faculty/Academic Staff Forums

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Faculty/Academic Staff Forums
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs announces the final Faculty/Academic Staff Forum for spring semester. The program will be held from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. in the Badger Room of Davies Center. Bring a brown bag lunch or tray.

    • April 7: Sean Bulger, kinesiology and athletics, "Developmentally Appropriate Sport Education."

Allied Health Professions
Crispin Pierce had his manuscript titled "Exponential Modeling, Washout Curve Reconstruction and Estimation of Half-Life of Toluene and its Metabolites" accepted for publication in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. The manuscript was co-authored by Yili Chen, William R. Hurtle and Michael S. Morgan of the University of Washington.

Communication and Journalism/History
Jason Tetzloff will lead a book discussion series in March and April at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire. The first discussion, to be held March 29 at 7 p.m. in the Eau Claire Room of the library, will examine Joseph Ellis' Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation." Other books to be discussed include "In the Lake of the Woods" by Tim O'Brien — April 12; "The Oresteia" by Aeschylus — April 26; and "The Children's Story" by James Clavell — May 3. The series is part of a statewide initiative, "A More Perfect Union," sponsored by the Wisconsin Humanities Council.

English
Bob Nowlan gave a presentation titled "Queer Pedagogy: Issues and Experiences" at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies March 4-7 in Atlanta, Ga.

Foreign Languages
Patrick Day presented a paper titled “The Arab Question in Camus's 'L’Étranger'” at the annual meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters March 5 at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich.

Foreign Languages/Honors Program
Paul Hoff was a contributing writer of the textbook "Navegando 2: Annotated Teacher's Edition," EMC/Paradigm Publishing, 2004. He also served as a consultant for the "Navegando 2" student edition.

Kinesiology and Athletics
Jeff Oliphant had his article titled "Licensed Athletic trainers: A Traditional, Unique and Proactive Approach in Wisconsin Sports Medicine" published in the Wisconsin Medical Journal, Vol. 103, No. 1, 2004, pages 33-34. Oliphant, who is president of the Wisconsin Athletic Trainers' Association, co-authored the paper with Dan Trampf, chair of the WATA Reimbursement Committee.

Music and Theatre Arts
Alexandre Dossin will perform a solo concert March 21 at Madison’s Elvejhem Museum of Art for the Wisconsin Public Radio program “Sunday Afternoon Live from the Elvejhem.” The program will be broadcast live on WUEC, 89.7 FM, at 12:30 p.m. Dossin also was one of three judges for the final round of the WPR Neale-Silva Young Artists' Competition March 7 in Madison. The competition was established to recognize young Wisconsin performers of classical music who demonstrate an exceptionally high level of artistry.

Student Support Services
Bruce Ouderkirk's essay "Children and the Social Condition in John Steinbeck's Fiction," appears as a chapter in the book "John Steinbeck: A Centennial Tribute," edited by Syed Mashkoor Ali, Surabhi, 2004, pages 185-223. Published in Jaipur, India, this book features Steinbeck scholarship from India, Japan, England and the United States.