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Condolences

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs announces the following program deadlines:

    • Faculty/Student Research Collaboration Grants deadline is Sept. 15.
    • The Faculty Sabbatical Leave Program deadline is Oct. 1.

Adult Health Nursing
Joan Stehle Werner and Ruth Tanyi, who received a master's degree in nursing from UW-Eau Claire in 2002, had their article titled "Adjustment, Spirituality and Health in Women on Hemodialysis" published in the August issue of Clinical Nursing Research.

Biology
Paula Kleintjes, recent UW-Eau Claire graduates Jill Sporrong and Chris Raebel, and Stephen Thon of the West Central Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources had their paper titled "Habitat Type Conservation and Restoration for the Karner Blue Butterfly: A Case Study from Wisconsin" published in Ecological Restoration, Vol. 21, pages 107-115. Jodi Swanson, one of Kleintjes' current research students, had her photo of a Karner blue butterfly published on the journal cover. Kleintjes, recent UW-Eau Claire graduates Anita Christensen and Lori Lyons, and William Barnes (emeritus), had their paper titled "Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Inhabiting Stands of Reed Canary Grass Phalaris Arundinacea on Islands in the Lower Chippewa River, Wisconsin" published in Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 35, pages 79-83.

Sasha Showsh, recent UW-Eau Claire graduate Amy Sekorski and Heidi T. Klessig, an Eau Claire physician, had their article titled "The Use of Intradiscal Antibiotics for Discography: An in Vitro Study of Gentamicin, Cefazolin and Clindamycin" published in the March issue of Spine, Vol. 28, No. 15, pages 1735-38.

Foreign Languages
Mary C. Iribarren had her article titled “Vocablos de tipología vasca en el italo-romance. Otra hipótesis de contacto de lenguas” published in the refereed journal Fontes Linguae Vasconum studia et documenta, May-August 2003, No. 93, pages 343-358.

Eva Santos-Phillips had her article titled "Power of the Body in the Novella 'The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and of her Heartless Grandmother' and the Film 'Eréndira'' published in the Film and Literature Quarterly, Vol. 31.3, 2003, pages 118-123.

Geography and Anthropology
Harry Jol presented results of his summer research in Israel at the International Conference on Archaeology, History and Technology, Sept. 7, 9 and 10 at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, Conn. The three-session conference examined the significance of the findings of the University of Hartford’s archaeological excavations in Israel, as well as the role that new technologies play in the work. Full story.

Music and Theatre Arts
Richard Nimke directed a summer stock production of "Annie" in June at Theatre L'Homme Dieu in Alexandria, Minn. Theatre L'Homme Dieu is a professional summer theatre employing students from throughout the Midwest, and professional and equity actors, directors and designers.

Physics and Astronomy
Doug Dunham had is paper titled "Atomic Structure of Si-rich 3C-SiC(001)-(3x2): A Photoelectron Diffraction Study" published in Materials Science Forum, Vol. 433-436, 2003. Co-authors include A. Tejeda and E.G. Michel, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; P. Soukiassian, Université de Paris-Sud; J.D. Denlinger and E. Rotenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Z. Hurych, Northern Illinois University; and B. Tonner, University of Central Florida.

Lauren Likkel presented a poster titled "Near-Infrared Emission Lines from Compact Planetary Nebulae: Molecular Hydrogen and Ionized Iron"at the conference "Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae III — Winds, Structure & the Thunderbird" July 28-Aug. 1 in Mt. Rainier, Wash. Co-authors were recent UW-Eau Claire graduate Kevin Bartig, current student Jessica Bruch, and H. Dinerstein and D. Lester of the University of Texas at Austin.

Political Science
Ali Abootalebi's latest article, "Civil Society and Iran's Quest for Democracy," may be viewed online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Iranian Studies Group Web site.

Sociology
Donald Nielsen presented a paper titled "Myth and Science in Freudo-Marxism: Religious Themes in the Writings of Wilhelm Reich, Erick Fromm and Herbert Marcuse" at the annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion Aug. 15-17 in Atlanta, Ga.

Condolences
Condolences to J. Kenneth Davidson Sr., sociology, whose wife, Josephine Frazier Davidson, died Aug. 25 in Athens, Ga.