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Additional new faculty/academic staff appointments
for 2003-04
• Reiko Clark (2003);
Lecturer — Foreign Languages. B.A., Turumi U., Japan; M.A., Hofstra
U.; Ph.D., U. of Northern Colorado.
• Angela L. Neff
(2003); Consultant — Continuing Education. B.A., UW-Eau Claire.
• Cameron W. Schuknecht
(2003); Lecturer — Kinesiology and Athletics. B.A., Wartburg Col.;
M.S.E., U. of Kansas.
Faculty/academic
staff workshops and programs
As a special service to faculty and academic staff, the Office
of Research and Sponsored Programs is sponsoring a series of workshops
to describe the various programs available to them. Program deadlines
also are noted.
Workshops:
• A Research
Workshop to discuss the Faculty
Sabbatical Leave will be held Sept.
8 from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. as a brown
bag lunch session in the Badger Room of Davies Center.
• A Research
Workshop to discuss the following programs:
Faculty/Student Research Collaboration,
Student Travel for the Presentation of Research Results and
Small Research Grants will be held Sept.
11 from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. as a brown
bag lunch session in the Badger Room of Davies Center.
Program Deadlines:
• Faculty/Student
Research Collaboration Grants deadline
is Sept. 15.
• The Faculty
Sabbatical Leave Program deadline is Oct.
1. 
Academic Affairs
Provost Ron Satz
was one of three invited speakers at a session titled "Introducing
the American Democracy Project" at the American Association of
State Colleges and Universities Summer Meeting, “Preparing Citizens
for Our Democracy: The Role of Universities in Civic Engagement”
July 31-Aug. 3 in Snowbird, Utah. A portion of his presentation is currently
on The
New York Times Web site. Satz is a member of the AASCU National
Planning and Implementation Committee for the American Democracy Project
and is available to talk with campus and community groups about the
national project and UW-Eau Claire campus activities.
Accounting and Finance
Susan Haugen
had her manuscript titled “Managing Global Training Utilizing
Distance Learning Technologies and Techniques: The United States Army
Readiness Training” published in the spring 2003 issue of the
Managing Global Transitions International
Research Journal published by the University
of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. Co-authors were Wallace Wood, Bryant
College; David Douglas, University of Arkansas; and Robert Behling,
Arrowrock Technologies.
Activities and Programs
Derek Wallen’s
brochure for the 2003 Summer Session Programs series, and his instructor's
guide to the UW-Eau Claire textbook rental system received awards of
excellence in the University & College Designers Association’s
33rd annual design competition. The works will appear in the 2003 UCDA
Design Show at the association’s annual conference Oct. 12-15
in Boston, Mass. The brochures were written and edited by Juelie
Sires. Full
story.
Art & Design
Jane Herrick
had her drawing titled “Shedding” accepted into the 16th
Northern National Art Competition, which opened July 29 and will run
through Sept. 12 at the Nicolet College Gallery in Rhinelander.
Communication Disorders
Lisa LaSalle
and UW-Eau Claire communication disorders alumna Jennifer Sue Carlson
attended the International Fluency Association Fourth World Congress
on Fluency Disorders Aug. 11-15 in Montreal, Canada. LaSalle presented
a paper titled “Clinician’s Slow Speech Rate Model and Children’s
Fluency.” Carlson presented a paper based on her master’s
thesis, completed in May, titled “Slow Rate Effect on the Fluency
of Preschoolers Who Stutter: Clinician-Child Adjacent Utterances,”
with LaSalle as the second author.
Mathematics
James S. Walker
gave a plenary talk titled “Wavelet-Based Image Processing”
at the Fourth International Society for Analysis, Its Applications and
Computation Congress Aug. 12 in Toronto, Canada. He also organized a
special session titled “Time-Frequency Analysis, Wavelets and
Applications,” during which he presented a joint paper co-authored
by UW-Eau Claire alumna Amanda Potts titled “Time-Frequency Spectra
of Music.” Simei Tong
presented a paper, co-authored by Dale E. Alspach, Oklahoma State University,
titled “Subspaces of Lp, p>2, Determined by Partitions and
Weights” at the same meeting in a special session titled “Banach
Spaces of Analytic Functions.”
Music and Theatre Arts
Michael Cunningham
recently received an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers. The ASCAP awards are based on the unique prestige value
of each writer’s catalog of original compositions, as well as
recent performances in areas not surveyed by the society. Recipients
are selected by an independent panel made up of journalists, musicians
and faculty from throughout the country. Full
story.
Condolences
Condolences to Kathryn Proctor Duax, music and
theatre arts, whose father, Ross Brady Smiley, died Aug. 15 in Rosalie,
Texas.
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