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UW-Eau Claire Foundation, YMCA
to receive $10 million in estate gifts
Learn more about the Campus Physical
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UW-Eau Claire researchers work
to find lost native village visited by
Lewis and Clark
UW-Eau Claire undergraduate contributed
to new Geological Society publication
UW-Eau Claire hosting nursing
students from Sweden
UW-Eau Claire Theatre presents
Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’
UW-Eau Claire groups plan activities
to observe Human Rights Week
Do your part to reduce utility
expenses
Last Call!
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UW-Eau Claire Foundation, YMCA
to receive $10 million in estate gifts
Two Chippewa Valley organizations will receive
an estimated
$10 million in estate gifts from the son of a longtime UW-Eau Claire
faculty member who retired more than a half century ago.
The UW-Eau Claire Foundation and the Eau Claire YMCA recently were notified
they will receive at least $4 million each as beneficiaries of a trust
from the estate of Lt. Col. George L. Simpson Jr. He was the son of
Col. George L. Simpson Sr., one of UW-Eau Claire’s first faculty
members, and Marie (Stannard) Simpson, a member of the university’s
first graduating class in 1917.
The UW-Eau Claire Foundation also will receive $2 million as an outright
gift from the estate, bringing the total gift to the university to at
least $6 million, said Foundation President Carole Halberg. Full
story.
Learn more about the 2005-17 Campus
Physical Development Master Plan
Do you have questions about UW-Eau Claire's future
facility development over the next several years? Do you want to know
how the university went about developing the master plan proposal? Are
you curious about how the plan will impact enrollment or parking? If
so, check out the new Planning
for the Future Web page. You'll find answers to 10 commonly asked
questions as well as links to several informative documents. 
UW-Eau Claire researchers work
to find lost native village visited by Lewis and Clark
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| Students collecting data
near Slusher Lake, which according to maps drawn by Lewis and
Clark was historically the Clatsop River with an outlet to the
ocean. The maps also indicated a
small Clatsop Tribe encampment in the area. |
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| Research team at Slusher Lake.
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A team of students and faculty
from UW-Eau Claire are celebrating the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
by trying to find a lost Native American encampment the explorers visited
during their three-year expedition 200 years ago.
This fall 11 UW-Eau Claire students spent a week on the West Coast studying
the Washington and Oregon coastlines and searching for the Clatsop Indian
village that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark visited during the winter
of 1805. The students are part of a capstone geography class taught
by Harry Jol, associate professor of geography and anthropology.
“I’ve had an interest in the Lewis and Clark expedition
since I was a child when my parents took me to some historical Lewis
and Clark sites while on a family vacation,” said student researcher
Jeremy Treague, a senior geology and computer science major from Danbury.
“I never imagined I would be trying to discover one of these historic
sites and help reconstruct the environment that these early explorers
saw along the West Coast.” Full
story.
UW-Eau Claire undergraduate contributed
to new Geological Society publication
A UW-Eau Claire alumna is delighted that she
appears as a contributor in a new book, “Ground Penetrating Radar
in Sediments,” now available from the Geological Society Publishing
House.
The special publication includes the work of several UW-Eau Claire faculty
members — Karen Havholm, Garry Running and Harry Jol — who
Nicole Bergstrom collaborated with on student/faculty research during
her years at UW-Eau Claire. Just before she graduated with a bachelor
of science in geology, Bergstrom, who is from Green Bay, was given the
opportunity to travel to London with her professors to help present
the research published in this book at a conference held at the Geological
Society headquarters. She described the trip as “amazing”
and the “best experience” of her undergraduate career. Full
story.
UW-Eau
Claire hosting nursing students from Sweden
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| Karin Olsson, Christoffer Hansson and Jaana
Matikainen are visiting the School of Nursing to participate in
classes as well as various clinical experiences. Also pictured (back
row) are faculty coordinators of the visit CeCelia Zorn and Susan
Peck. |
Three undergraduate student nurses from the University
College of Borås, Sweden, are visiting the UW-Eau Claire School
of Nursing for five weeks. Karin Olsson, Jaana Matikainen and Christoffer
Hansson are here to observe and learn about differences in nursing practice
and health care in the United States and Sweden and to trade ideas and
experiences with nurses and nursing students here, with a special focus
on leadership and management.
The three students will be auditing a part of the “Management
and Leadership in Nursing” course taught by Karen Witt, associate
professor emerita, as well as experiencing clinical settings and touring
health facilities in the Chippewa Valley.
Each of the students also will leave the campus for several days. Jaana,
who has a special interest in geriatrics and palliative care, will tour
some health care facilities in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area. Christoffer
will go to the Marshfield Clinic and hospital in Marshfield and explore
his special interest in cardiac and end-of-life care. Karin, who is
interested in Native American culture, will spend several days at the
Ho-Chunk Health Care Center in Black River Falls.
CeCelia Zorn hopes this will be the first of many student exchanges
between UW-Eau Claire and the University College of Borås. There
is a tentative plan for several UW-Eau Claire student nurses to visit
Sweden in May 2004.
 UW-Eau
Claire Theatre presents Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’
The UW-Eau Claire department of music and theatre
arts is in its second week of presenting Anton Chekhov’s “The
Seagull,” directed by Terry Allen, professor of music and theatre
arts. The play can be seen at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9-13 at the Kjer Theatre.
Full story.
UW-Eau Claire groups plan activities
to observe Human Rights Week
UW-Eau Claire will observe Human Rights Week
2003, including International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, with a number
of activities sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire chapter of Amnesty International
and the Student Life and Diversity Commission. Full
story.
Do your part to reduce utility
expenses
To help reduce UW-Eau Claire’s costly electrical
bills, the Physical Plant Planning Committee of the University Senate,
Facilities Planning and Management and the Teaching and Learning Technology
Development Center ask you to:
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Turn your computer monitors off at night.
Do not turn off your CPU — "log
off" instead.
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For weekends, short vacations and extended
absences, turn off your monitor and "shut
down" your CPU.
Be
aware that when you turn your computer on after an extended absence,
it will be slow, as it is processing updates from the system.
Last
Call!
The Dec. 15
issue of the University Bulletin
will be the final one for fall semester. Notices for that issue must
arrive in the News Bureau, Schofield 201, by Monday,
Dec. 8. The first issue for the 2004 spring
semester will be dated Jan. 26, 2004.
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