Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs

Academic Affairs

Allied Health Professions

Biology

Chemistry

Counseling Services

Music and Theatre Arts

Physics and Astronomy

Condolences

Faculty/Academic Staff Forums
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs will present Faculty/Academic Staff Forums this fall 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.

       • Oct. 15: Lori Rowlett, philosophy and religious studies, with student collaborator Larry Troyer, "Vodun in New Orleans: The care and Feeding of the Loa." (Held in the Alumni Room, Davies Center.)
       • Oct. 22: Geoff Peterson, political science, "Everything I Learned About Politics I Learned from Jay Leno."

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.

Workshops:
    • A workshop on Professional Development Support Programs to discuss the following programs: Academic Staff Professional Development; Guest Lecturers, Artists and Other Professionals Program; Workshops and Special Projects; and Travel Support for Scholarly Presentations will be held Oct. 9 from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. as a brown bag lunch session in the Badger Room of Davies Center.

Academic Affairs
Ronald Satz will discuss the American Democracy Project on Wisconsin Public Radio's "The West Side" Oct. 7. The show can be heard on WHWC, 88.3 FM, beginning at 5 p.m.

Allied Health Professions
Dale B. Taylor presented "Applications of Music Therapy in Neonatal and Pediatric Care" at the 14th Neonatal Perinatal Pediatric Progress Conference Sept. 27 in Racine. The conference was sponsored by All Saints Healthcare and Southeastern Neonatology Associates, Ltd.

Biology
Amy Krist presented a talk titled "The Genetic Basis of
Host Parasite Coevolution: Condition and Genotypic Control of
Resistance" at the Midwest Conference of Parasitologists Meeting in June at Michigan State University. The talk was co-authored by Mark Dybdahl of Washington State University.

Chemistry
Michael Carney had a paper titled "Chromium(II) and Chromium(III) Complexes of Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine: Synthesis, Structures and Reactivity" accepted for publication in the journal Inorganic Chemistry. The paper was co-authored by UW-Eau Claire student Nicholas Robertson and chemistry faculty member Jason Halfen.

Counseling Services
Richard Boyum had his article titled "Making Resolutions for Behavioral Change" published in the autumn 2003 issue of Counselink, a publication of the Wisconsin School Counselor Association.

Music and Theatre Arts
Cheryl Starr served as chair of a panel discussion titled "Theatre Education as a Career" at the state conference of the Alliance for Wisconsin Theatre Educators Sept. 26 at UW-River Falls.

Physics and Astronomy
Doug Dunham had a paper titled “High Resolution Synchrotron Radiation-Based X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy Study of the Si-rich b-SiC(100) 3x2 Surface Oxidation" published in the July/August 2003 issue of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, Vol. 21, No. 4, pages 1876-1880. Co-authors were UW-Eau Claire student Sara Chamberlin; UW-Eau Claire graduate Sandra Mehlberg; P. Soukiassian, Université de Paris-Sud; J.D. Denlinger and E. Rotenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; B. Tonner, University of Central Florida; and Z. Hurych, Northern Illinois University.

Condolences
Condolences to Larry Schnack, chancellor emeritus, whose granddaughter, Victoria Schnack, died Oct. 4 in Eau Claire. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fall Creek. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Anderson Funeral Home in Augusta and one hour before services at the church. Read more in the Leader-Telegram online.

Condolences to the family of Robert Fetvedt, the director of McIntyre Library from 1965 to 1980. Fetvedt died Sept. 30 in Eau Claire.