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Bone marrow drive set for
May 8
 UW-Eau
Claire's Epsilon Omicron chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, an international
honor society in education, will sponsor a bone marrow drive from noon
to 7 p.m. May 8 in the Arrowhead Room of Davies Center.
During the drive, participants will register for the
National Marrow Donor Program. The registry helps doctors find donor
matches for patients in need. According to the National Donor Program,
patients of all racial and ethnic backgrounds are in urgent need of
donors to survive, and the best chance for a marrow match is between
people who share the same heritage.
To join, people must be between the ages of 18 and
60, be willing to donate to any patient in need, and meet the health
guidelines found at the National Marrow
Donor Web site. More
information. 
Vice chancellor for student
affairs/dean of students finalist on campus May 5
Celestino Jose Limas, a finalist for UW-Eau Claire's
vice chancellor for student affairs/dean of students position, will
be on campus May 5. Limas, currently the chief student affairs officer
and dean of students at Carroll College in Waukesha, will present "How
Will Student Affairs Support Student Learning and the UW-Eau Claire
Strategic Plan?" May 5 at 1:30 p.m. in Davies Theatre. Members
of the campus community are invited to attend. More
information.
Associate vice chancellor
for academic affairs/dean of graduate studies finalist presentations
this week
The following finalists for UW-Eau Claire's associate
vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies position
will present "The Role of Associate
Vice Chancellor/Dean of Graduate Studies in a Comprehensive Liberal
Arts Institution" during open forums in Davies Theatre this week:
• Andrew Phillips,
interim associate vice chancellor for academic
affairs and dean of graduate studies at UW-Eau Claire. Open forum: May
5, Davies Theatre, 10 a.m.
• Colleen Willard-Holt,
director of initial teacher certification programs and coordinator of
elementary education program at Penn State Harrisburg. Open
forum: May 7, Davies Theatre, 10 a.m.
More
information.
Faculty/academic staff
workshops and programs
The Office
of Research and Sponsored Programs announces the following workshop
and program deadlines.
Workshop:
•
A Faculty
Development Workshop to discuss the Faculty
Sabbatical Leave Program will be held
May 7
from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. as a brown bag lunch session in the Presidents
Room of Davies Center.
Program Deadlines:
•
The Academic
Staff Professional Development Program
deadline is June
1.
•
The National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Incentive
deadline is June
6.
Center for
International Education
Jodi Simek and Kathryn
Hurd each were awarded a Wisconsin Association of International
Educators conference assistance grant and a WAIE travel grant for the
2008 WAIE conference April 7-8 in Milwaukee. Simek and Hurd were among
10 other statewide recipients and were the only candidates to receive
both awards.
College of Nursing and Health
Sciences/Counseling Services
Marge Bottoms
(emerita), College of Nursing and Health Sciences, received the Del
Perry Award from Eau Claire County Humane Association for her grant
writing work for the organization.
Katherine Schneider (emerita), Counseling
Services, received the Special Projects Award from the ECCHA for the
pet food for seniors project, which she accepted on behalf of the project’s
team of volunteers. Schneider was the innovator of the project. Bottoms
and Schneider received their awards during the ECCHA awards banquet
April 30 in Eau Claire.
Communication
Sciences and Disorders
Thomas King (emeritus) presented two
sectional sessions titled “ABCD: Access Basic Concepts for Devices”
at the Second Annual Northern Wisconsin Assistive Technology Conference
April 25-26 in Superior. He also presented “Aging: Exploring Parameters
of Lifespan Fitness” at the public science for adults Pizza Lab
No. 11 March 11 in Solon Springs.
Foreign Languages
Patrick Day presented a paper titled
"Ceci n'est pas une vie: Life and Counterlife in Philip Roth and
Patrick Modiano" at the annual meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association April 24-27 in Long Beach, Calif.
Geography
and Anthropology
Harry Jol was a co-author with Curt
Peterson, David Percy and Eric Nielsen (all of Portland State University)
on a paper titled “Groudwater Surface Trends from Ground Penetrating
Radar Profiles Taken Across Late Holocene Barriers and Beach Plains
of the Columbia River Littoral System, Pacifica Northwest Coast, USA.”
The paper was published in Geological Society of America Special Publication
No. 432, pages 59-76.
Sociology
Tarique Niazi
had his research paper “Environmental Federalism” accepted
as the lead presentation for the annual meeting of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, which will be held July 31-Aug. 3 in Boston,
Mass. Niazi’s presentation will be part of the meeting's environment
and law section.
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