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Tip Sheet for the week of June 8-12, 2009

RELEASED: June 8, 2009

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Classes begin today, June 8, for students enrolled in UW-Eau Claire's eight-week summer session, which runs through Friday, July 31.

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Beginning today, more than 2,000 new UW-Eau Claire freshmen and their parents will visit campus during 15 June orientation sessions (and one session on Aug. 24). The new freshmen will learn more about their academic programs, register for fall classes and learn about university resources and campus life. Their parents and guests will interact with fellow parents, current students and university staff. For more information contact Jacqueline Bonneville, UW-Eau Claire's coordinator for new student orientation, at 715-836-3487 or bonnevjk@uwec.edu.

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Two area UW-Eau Claire students are among those participating in a new summer chemistry research program funded by a highly competitive National Science Foundation grant. Tim Andrews, Eau Claire, a senior chemistry major, and Erin Stuckert, New Auburn, a junior chemistry and math major, are two of four UW-Eau Claire students serving as research mentors to four students from regional two-year colleges. The students, under the direction of UW-Eau Claire chemistry faculty members, are collaborating in pairs on research projects in the areas of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry; biochemistry; and materials science. Two goals of the new program are to offer research opportunities to students from institutions that cannot provide them and increase the diversity of students pursuing careers in the sciences. For more information contact program director Dr. Alan Gengenbach, UW-Eau Claire associate professor of chemistry, at 715-836-5518 or gengenaj@uwec.edu.

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UW-Eau Claire's 2009 Summer Events series will kick off today, June 8, with Jazz at Noon and Music on the Mall concerts on the Central Campus Mall. Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnics to the concerts. More about the concerts and other Summer Events:

  • Jazz at Noon will take place at noon weekdays through June 26 and feature UW-Eau Claire student and alumni musicians. (Rain site: The Terrace, Davies Center)
  • Blue Max will perform today's Music on the Mall concert at 7 p.m. Music on the Mall concerts will take place Monday evenings through July 28. (Rain site: The Cabin, Davies Center)
  • The Fresh Start Farmers Mart will run from 7:30-11:30 a.m. June 11 on the Central Campus Mall.
  • The first Summer Sounds concert, featuring the Sonora Reed Trio, will be held from 2-3 p.m. June 14 in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Summer Sounds concerts will take place Sunday afternoons through July 26, with no concert July 5.

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