Invitation to participate in review of  Educational Support Services

Faculty/Academic Staff Forums

Center for International Education

English

Foundations of Education

Geography and Anthropology

Physics and Astronomy

Invitation to participate in review of  Educational Support Services
A review of  the Educational Support Services unit, which includes the Academic Skills Center, Services for Students with Disabilities and Student Support Services, will be conducted Nov. 15 and 17 by a committee made up of the following members:  Sue Moore, Records and Registration, chair; Rose-Marie Avin, economics; Michael Weil, College of Arts and Sciences; Ashley Miller, student; and Stephanie Reid, student. Open sessions to gather feedback will be held Nov. 15 in the Ho-Chunk Room of Davies Center and Nov. 17 in the Eagle Room of Davies Center. If you would like to participate in a group session, contact Dorothy Nelson at nelsondo@uwec.edu or 836-5182. You also may contact any of the committee members to share comments or suggestions about Educational Support Services.

Faculty/Academic Staff Forums
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs will present its final Faculty/Academic Staff Forum for the fall semester. The program will be held from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. in the Ojibwa Room of Davies Center.

        • Nov. 15: Karen O'Day, art & design, "Native Art in Central America, circa 800-1900."

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

Center for International Education
Susan Lochner and UW-Eau Claire students Erin Polnaszek, Eric Pugh and Arianna Wilcox presented a session titled "Trusting Your Colleagues: Students and Professional Staff Working Together" at the Region V NAFSA conference Nov. 6 in Madison. Lochner also presented a session with colleagues from AustraLearn and UW-Milwaukee titled "Alumni Programming: Getting All You Can from Your Returnees."

Colleen Marchwick and colleagues from UM-Morris and Michigan State University presented a session titled "Creating Opportunities for Education Students to Teach Abroad" at the Region V NAFSA conference Nov. 6 in Madison.

English
Bruce Taylor recently had his story "Neither Here Nor There" published in The Arabesque Review: An International Journal of Culture and Dialogue.

Foundations of Education
Rob Reid gave two presentations for the youth services section of the North Carolina Library Association Nov. 2 and 3 near Greensboro, N.C. The topics were on intergenerational story programs and presenting literature to elementary school-age children. Reid's story program article titled "All Around the Kitchen" will be published in the December 2006 issue of LibrarySparks magazine.

Geography and Anthropology
Harry Jol and co-authors Sandy Vanderburgh (University College of the Fraser Valley), Curt Peterson (Portland State University), Karen Havholm and Jim Phipps (Grays Harbor College) presented a paper titled "Coastal Foredune Genesis and Growth: a Ground Penetrating Radar Perspective" at the Association of American Geographers 102nd Annual Meeting March 7-11 in Chicago. The abstract of the paper was published on CD-Rom.

Physics and Astronomy
Scott Whitfield and co-authors recently had their article titled “Resonance induced deviations of beta from 2.0 for rare gas s-subshell photoionization” published in the November issue of the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 39, L335-L343, 2006. The paper investigates small effects in the photoionization process of krypton and xenon atoms which arise from relativistic interactions. The photoionization process is one in which atoms absorbing light of a sufficient energy can expel electrons. Investigation of the ejected electrons can then reveal important information about the basic interaction of light and matter. The experimental measurements detailed in this paper are found to be in qualitative agreement with state-of-the-art calculations, indicating that while theory can give a qualitative explanation of the observations, it is still lacking in giving a completely quantitative account of the experimental data.