Teaching & Learning Symposium is today

Library to host faculty/staff open house

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs

English

Foundations of Education

Foreign Languages

Geography and Anthropology

Condolences

Teaching & Learning Symposium is today
UW-Eau Claire's Network for Excellence in Teaching will present the fourth annual Teaching & Learning Symposium for university faculty and instructional academic staff from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, in the Tamarack Room, Davies Center. During the symposium, members of NET's 2006-07 learning communities as well as others who have conducted scholarly work on teaching and learning will share posters, demos and short presentations. To register, send e-mail to NET@uwec.edu. See symposium schedule of events.

Library to host faculty/staff open house
All faculty and academic staff are invited to an open house at McIntyre Library from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29. Get to know the library, meet the staff and learn about the following:

• scheduling library instruction and working with library faculty
• putting class materials on reserve or e-reserve
• finding, using and keeping up with databases in your field
• library departments, services, procedures and more.

Tours will be given and refreshments will be served. For more information call 715-836-3858 or send e-mail to library.reference@uwec.edu.

Faculty/academic staff workshops and programs
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs is sponsoring a series of workshops this semester. Deadlines for submitting proposals also are noted.

Workshop:
        • A session providing information on grant-writing tips and strategies will be held Aug. 29 from 3 to 4 p.m. in McIntyre Library 5022.

Program Deadlines:
        • The Academic Staff Professional Development Program deadline for the first competition is Sept. 4.
        • The Faculty/Student Research Collaboration and Diversity Mentoring Program Grants deadline is Sept. 17.
        • The Faculty Sabbatical Leave Program deadline is Sept. 17.

English
Bruce Taylor (emeritus) recently had three of his short stories published. "Hiccup Tricks" was published in "Bar Stories," edited by Nan Byrne, Bottom Dog Press, 2007. "Neither Here Nor There" was published in a special issue on modern romance of The Arabesque Review, Vol. 2, issue 3; and "One of the Guys" was published in Slow Trains, Vol. 7, issue 1.

Foundations of Education
Rob Reid had two books published simultaneously by ALA Editions in June 2007. The first book, "Children’s Jukebox," second edition, is a subject index of children’s recorded music designed as a library resource book. The second book, "Something Musical Happened at the Library," is aimed at classroom teachers, music teachers and librarians, and features lesson plans and bibliographies that incorporate music and dance into literature-based programs. Reid promoted those books and a previous book "Storytime Slam" as one of three upstart authors at the second annual LibrarySparks Road Show. The trio conducted three workshops in Dallas and Houston, Texas, and in Somerset, N.J. Reid’s corresponding article titled “We’ll Sing a Song Together: Incorporating Music into Story Programs” has been published in the September 2007 issue of Book Links magazine.

Foreign Languages
Dominique Thévenin's book review of Yann Queffélec's "Ma Première Femme" was published in The French Review, Vol. 80, No. 6, May 2007. Thévenin also wrote the foreword to the book "Les Adolescents Dans Le Cinéma Français: Entre Deux Mondes," published by Mellen Press in July 2007.

Geography and Anthropology
Harry Jol, Douglas Faulkner, Arlen Albrecht (UW Extension) and UW-Eau Claire alumni Craig Sternberg and Neil Tromble presented a paper titled "Bottom and Sub-Bottom GPR Imaging Within Shallow Wisconsin Lakes: Benefits and Problems" at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Oct. 22-25 in Philadelphia, Pa. The paper was published in the meeting's Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 7:14.

Condolences
Condolences to Barb Hanson, Academic Affairs, whose father, James Hanson, died Aug. 1 in Eau Claire. Full obituary.

Condolences to the family of Jeanne Haughian. Haughian, who worked in the Chancellor’s Office at UW-Eau Claire in the 1970s, died Aug. 18 in Chippewa Falls. Full obituary.

Condolences to Pat Lee, Records and Registration, and her husband, Tom. Pat and Tom's daughter, Katie Lee, died Aug. 15 in Rochester, Minn. Full obituary.

Condolences to Amy TeBeest, Human Resources, whose father, Howard TeBeest, died Aug. 21 in Oostburg. Full obituary.