Nominations sought for Excellence Award

Faculty/Academic Staff Forums

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs

Continuing Education

English

Foreign Languages

Geography and Anthropology

Geology

Management and Marketing

Nominations sought for Excellence Award
The Administrative and/or Professional Academic Staff Awards Committee invites nominations for the annual Excellence in Performance Award to be given in fall 2006. The UW-Eau Claire Foundation will present $1,500 to the recipient. Any administrative and/or professional member of the academic staff with a 50 percent or greater appointment may be nominated for the award. And, any member of the faculty, academic or classified staffs, administration or student body is welcome to nominate someone. Nominees will be considered for three years.

Nominations should be forwarded to the Administrative and/or Professional Academic Staff Awards Committee, Chancellor's Office, Schofield 204. The nomination deadline is March 3. For additional information or nomination forms, contact committee chair John Stupak, physics and astronomy, at stupakjl@uwec.edu or 836-3196.

Faculty/Academic Staff Forums
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs will present Faculty/Academic Staff Forums this semester. The programs will be held from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. Wednesdays in the Presidents Room of Davies Center. Bring a brown bag lunch or tray.

        • Feb. 15: Kristy Lauver, management and marketing, "Organizational Safety."
        • Feb. 22: Teresa Sanislo, history, "Embodying Germanic Masculinity: Patriotism, Physical Culture and the Politics of Style in the German Gymnastics Movement 1810-1820."

A list of all Spring 2006 Faculty/Academic Staff Forums can be viewed online.

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs announces the following program deadlines:
        • The UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity abstract and application deadline is Feb. 13.
        • The deadline for Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grants, University Research and Creative Activity Grants and Kell Container Corp. Scholarships for Faculty/Student Collaborative Research is Feb. 15.

Continuing Education
Libby Thurston and Ann Rupnow attended the Learning Resources Network Institute Jan. 30-Feb. 3 in Savannah, Ga. Both outreach specialists took certification exams during the conference. Thurston received certification in program planning, and Rupnow received certification in program planning in the area of contract training. 

English
John Hildebrand's book "A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays" is a finalist for a 2006 Minnesota Book Award in the category of science and nature writing. Hildebrand presented a reading from the book Feb. 6 at the Rhinelander District Library.

Foreign Languages
Manuel Fernández presented "Working Through the Revolution: León Ichaso's Azúcar amarga" at the 31st Annual Conference on Literature and Film Feb. 4 at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla.

Geography and Anthropology
Harry Jol co-authored a paper titled "Geophysical and GIS Investigations of the Oak Openings Sand Ridge in NW Ohio" with D. Stierman, B. Mitchell, B. Skudon, D. Krantz and T. Fisher (all from the University of Toledo), which was presented at the Geological Society of America 39^th Annual Meeting of the North-Central Section May 19-20 in Minneapolis. An abstract of the paper appeared in the meeting's Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 5, page 16.

Geology
Kent Syverson and 2005 geology alumnus David Mans, now a graduate student at Ottawa University, recently had the following published: "Surficial Geology of the China Lake 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Kennebec County, Maine," Augusta, Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Report 05-18, 11 p, 2005; and "Surficial Geology of the China Lake 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Kennebec County, Maine," Augusta, Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 05-6, scale 1:24,000, 2005. Syverson, Mans and D.B. Locke (Maine Geological Survey) also had the following published: "Surficial Materials of the China Lake 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Kennebec County, Maine," Augusta, Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 05-7, scale 1:24,000, 2005.

Rama Yelkur, Subhra Chakrabarty (Mississippi State University) and Soumava Bandyopadhyay (Lamar University) had their article titled "Ethnocentrism and Buying Intentions: Does Economic Development Matter?" accepted for publication in the Marketing Management Journal, 2006.

Condolences
Condolences to Bob Sampson, communication and journalism, whose mother, Juanita Sampson, died Jan. 25 in St. Paul, Minn.