Faculty/Academic Staff Forums

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs

Biology

English

Foreign Languages

Geography and Anthropology

Music and Theatre Arts

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. 22: Geoff Peterson, political science, "Everything I Learned About Politics I Learned from Jay Leno."
       • Nov. 5: Garry Running, geography and anthropology, "Geoarchaeology on the Canadian Prairies: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Human-Environment Interaction. (Held in the Ojibwa Room, Davies Center.)

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

        • The Guest Lecturers, Artists and Other Professionals Program and the Workshops and Special Projects Travel Program deadline is the first working day of the month.

Biology
Amy Krist and co-authors Jukka Jokela, University of Oulu,
Finland; Jurgen Wiehn, Orion Corporation; and Curt Lively, Indiana University; had their paper titled "Effects of Host Condition on Susceptibility to Infection, Parasite Development Rate and Parasite Transmission in a Snail-Trematode Interaction" accepted for publication in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

English
August Rubrecht was a featured teller at the third annual Riverbend Storytelling Festival Oct. 10-11 in West Bend.

Foreign Languages
Dominique Thévenin had a review of Danièle Sallenave's "D'amour" published in The French Review, Vol. 77.1, October 2003, pages 206-7.

Geography and Anthropology
Harry Jol and co-authors Charlie Bristow, Derald Smith, UW-Eau Claire graduate Brian Junck and Peter Putnam recently had their article titled "Stratigraphic Imaging of the Navajo Sandstone Using Ground Penetrating Radar" published in the journal The Leading Edge, Vol. 22, No. 9, pages 882-887. In addition, Jol and co-author Roger Young had their article "An introduction — Ground Penetrating Radar in Unconsolidated and Consolidated Sediments" published in the special section on ground penetrating radar in the same journal.

Music and Theatre Arts
Alan Rieck and Gary Schwartzhoff conducted the Honor Choir during the annual Choral Fest Oct. 11 at UW-Eau Claire. The Festival Choir, which included 175 students from Wisconsin and Minnesota, performed at the third and final concert of the festival. Women's Concert Chorale, conducted by Rieck, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, conducted by Dan Newman, and Concert Choir and The Singing Statesmen, conducted by Schwartzhoff, also performed during the two-day festival.

Condolences
Condolences to the family of Arden Berg, who died Oct. 10. Berg was a retired groundskeeper at UW-Eau Claire. Full obituary.

Condolences to the family of Ruth Johnson, who died Oct. 7. Johnson was a retired professor of English at UW-Eau Claire. Full obituary.

Condolences to the family of John Morris, who died Oct. 11. Morris was a retired professor of English and former administrator at UW-Eau Claire. Full obituary.