Wisconsin Humanities Council/Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters opportunities announced

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs

Development/Alumni Relations/Foundation

English

Foreign Languages

Foreign Languages/Latin American Studies

Geography and Anthropology

Kinesiology

Music and Theatre Arts

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Wisconsin Humanities Council/Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters opportunities announced
The following presentations will be held Feb. 7 at 12:30 p.m. in the Potawatomi Room, Davies Center, and at 4:30 p.m. in HSS 177:

Wisconsin Humanities Council:
        • Dean Bakopoulos, executive director, WHC, will discuss funding opportunities for humanities projects that engage the public; speakers bureau; and other activities promoting the humanities.

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters:
        • Michael Strigel, executive director, WASAL, will discuss the Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin Public Policy Initiative (Wisconsin Idea); gallery space for artists; and programs and publications on all aspects of Wisconsin.

For more information or to arrange to meet separately with one or both presenters, contact Karen Havholm, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, at havholkg@uwec.edu or 836-3405.

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs announces the following program deadline:
        • The UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity abstract and application deadline is Feb. 13.

Development/Alumni Relations/Foundation
Robin Leary recently was appointed by Gov. Jim Doyle to serve on the Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Board until May 1, 2009. Leary also is a member of the Eau Claire County Board.

English
Joel Pace co-edited the book "Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867," published in January by Longman (Pearson). The textbook, edited with Chris Koenig-Woodyard and Lance Newman, is the first to include British, American and Canadian Romantic-era writing in one volume. Koenig-Woodyard, Newman and Pace also edited and introduced a special issue of "Romanticism on the Net," a peer-reviewed journal indexed by the Modern Language Association Bibliography.

Foreign Languages
Twenty-five color slides taken by Roma Hoff (emerita) following the July 15, 1980, storm in Eau Claire are reproduced in the book "Spearhead Echo — The Storm of 1980" by Eau Claire native Lukas Hoffland.

Foreign Languages/Latin American Studies
José Valero and Stephanie Zighelboim's article "Don Alvaro o la fuerza del signo" ("Don Alvaro or the force of the sign") was published in Decimononica. Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production, Vol. 3, 2006, pages 53-71. The article can be accessed online.

Geography and Anthropology
Harry Jol and co-authors Timothy Fisher (University of Toledo), Walter Loope (United States Geological Survey), Derald Smith (University of Calgary) and Laura Moore (Oberlin College) presented a paper titled "GPR Studies Along the Present and Past Coastlines of the Great Lakes" at the Geological Society of America 39th Annual Meeting of the North-Central Section May 19-20, 2005, in Minneapolis. The paper was published in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 5, page 7.

Kinesiology
Jeff Lindauer and Sean Bulger (West Virginia University) presented a poster titled "Infusion of a Professional Development Curricular Strand Across an Undergraduate Exercise Science Program" at the National Association for Kinesiology and Physical Education in Higher Education Conference Jan. 6 in San Diego, Calif.

Music and Theatre Arts
Donald Patterson presented a lecture titled "Intermediate Level Concepts: Moving from the Method Book to Traditional Literature" for the Marshfield Area Music Teachers' Association Jan. 12 at the UW-Marshfield/Wood County Fine Arts Center.