Faculty/Academic Staff Forums

Academic Skills Center

Allied Health Professions

Chemistry

Communication Disorders

Foreign Languages

Psychology/Women's Studies

Teaching and Learning Technology Development Center

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.
       • Nov. 5: Garry Running, geography and anthropology, and collaborator Karen Havholm, geology, "Geoarchaeology on the Canadian Prairies: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Human-Environment Interaction." (Held in the Ojibwa Room, Davies Center.)
       • Nov. 12: Mehdi Sheikholeslami, accounting and finance, with student collaborator Andrea French, "Form 20-F Reconciliation and the Accuracy of Analysts' Earnings Forecasts."

Academic Skills Center
Patti See gave a presentation titled “Movie Moments: ‘Doing’ Feminism Before ‘Talking’ Feminism” at the 28th Annual Women’s Studies Conference, “Women's Sphere: Reconfigured Traditions,” Oct. 24-25 at UW-Stout.

Allied Health Professions
Doug Olson and Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher (Nursing Systems) presented their study findings and initial conclusions about the roles and responsibilities of directors of nursing in long term care at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aged national conference Oct. 28 in Denver, Colo. Olson and Jennifer Johs-Artisensi gave a presentation titled “Training Future Leadership for a Noble Profession — An Academic and Provider Partnership Model” at the same conference.

Chemistry
Stephen Drucker had his paper titled "Triplet Excited States Probed by Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy" accepted for publication as a feature article in the Journal of Molecular Structure. UW-Eau Claire student collaborators Jason Van Zanten, Nicholas Gagnon, Nathan Pillsbury and Emily Gilles co-authored the paper.

Communication Disorders
Thomas W. King presented a sectional session on human factors in assistive technology at the 21st annual Closing the Gap International Conference on Assistive Technologies in Rehabilitation and Special Education Oct. 15-18 in Minneapolis, Minn.

Foreign Languages
Mary C. Iribarren presented a paper titled “/s/ y /q/: Historia de dos distinciones fonéticas y fonológicas” at the IV Congreso Internacional de Historiografía Lingüística Oct. 22-25 at the Universidad de La Laguna, Spain. The paper has been accepted for publication in the Actas del Congreso.

Psychology/Women's Studies
Susan C. Turell gave a presentation on her retrospective study of women leaders and the early influences that helped them achieve their leadership status at the annual Wisconsin Consortium's Women's Studies Conference Oct. 24 at UW-Stout.

Teaching and Learning Technology Development Center
Jonathan Paver co-presented a workshop titled "How Do You Know They Understand? Two Models for Assessing Learning Using WebCT" at the League for Innovation 2003 Conference on Information Technology Oct. 21 in Milwaukee. Paver received a grant from the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs to offset his travel expenses.