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IN THE NEWS: (For an archive of activity in previous semesters, see the links to the left.)

Allen, M.D. (Professor, English, Fox Valley) His article entitled "Eduard Bertz's Rugby, Tennessee" was accepted by The Gissing Journal. It presents a history of the utopian British settlement in Tennessee, with particular reference to Eduard Bertz, its first librarian and a long-time correspondent of the Victorian English novelist George Gissing.(10/27)

Ann Applegate (Lecturer, Music, Marathon County), along with violinist Robert Schubert, performed a concert on Wisconsin Public Radio’s concert series “Live from the Elvehjem.”

Dana Atwood-Harvey (Assistant Professor, Anthropology & Sociology, Sheboygan) presented a paper at the Society for the Study of Social Problems conference in August 2004. The title of the paper was Activism in the Classroom: A project to facilitate community outreach. (08/15)

Mohamed Ayoub (Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Washington County) presented a paper entitled “Visualizing Molecular Orbitals: Studying Radical Addition Reactions of Alkenes with Hydrogen Halides” at the Council on Undergraduate Research 10th National Conference at UW-La Crosse, WI, in June 2004. (08/15). At the UW System Chemistry Faculties Meeting, at the UW-Milwaukee, this October he did another presentation, entitled “Teaching General Chemistry: A New Look at One- and Two- Electron Covalent Bonds in Hydrogen and Lithium Molecules” (10/27)

Bartlett, Michael (Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Marinette) presented at the Wisconsin affiliate of the national American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges. The conference was held at UW-Fond du Lac. The paper was entitled "PowerPoint: A possible Enhancement For College Algebra" and discussed the use of animations and the graphical interface available with MS PowerPoint to enhance the teaching and understanding in College Algebra courses.(10/27)

Bernhardt, Deborah (Lecturer, English, Baraboo) Her manuscript Echolalia will be published by Four Way Books in 2006. Her poems were recently published or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Court Green, Indiana Review and Quarterly West.(10/27)

Mark Brown (Professor, Philosophy, Marathon County) received a UW-Marathon County Summer Research Grant for his project titled The Divided Consciousness of Multiple Personality. (07/15) He will present a paper entitled , “Three Kinds of Weakness of the Will”, at the 2004 Southwestern Philosophical Society Meetings on November 13 in New Orleans.

Diana Budde (Assistant Professor, Art, Marathon County) received a UW-Marathon County Summer Research Grant to organize an exhibition of figure painting and sculpture titled In the Flesh. (07/15)

Angela Burger (Professor, Political Science, Marathon County) presented a paper entitled US Policy – Is It Promoting or Preventing Globalization? at the conference on “Globalization or Imperialism? Theoretical and Practical Perspectives,” hosted by the International Political Science Association, Research Committee 49. The conference was held at Mansfield College & the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK, and ran from July 2-4 2004. (07/15)

Oscar Chamberlain (Senior Lecturer, History, Barron County) has signed a contract with Ohio University Press for a book on Wisconsin and Michigan antebellum constitutions. He is presenting a paper on the suppression of an 1816 South Carolina slave rebellion at the Northern Great Plains History Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota in October 2004.(10/27)

Jim Dzimiela (Outreach Specialist, Barron County) presented a paper at the Northwest Wisconsin Criminal Justice Management Conference in Lakewoods Resort in Cable, Wisconsin. His presentation was entitled: “Career Planning, Assessment, Training and Education Opportunities for the Incarcerated.” (11/23)

Scott Emmert (Assistant Professor, English, Fox Valley), along with Michael Cocchiarale of Widener University, has edited a collection of essays entitled Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature which is scheduled to be published in fall 2004 by Praeger/Greenwood Press. (08/15)

Renee Gralewicz (Associate Professor, Anthropology/Sociology, Barron County) received a $9,659 UW System Institute of Race and Ethnicity research grant to gather longitudinal data about ethnic studies/diversity courses across all 26 campuses. She will be assessing the types of courses offered (mono- or multi- cultural as well as theoretical based or not) as well as researching enrollment trends. The grant allowed Renee to hire two research assistants for the summer and her research will help the UW System to evaluate the 3 credit ES graduation requirement. (07/15)

Nilhan Gunasekera (Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Marathon County) was first author on a paper titled "Nuclear Localization of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases using Single-cell Capillary Electrophoresis Laser-induced Fluorescence Analysis" accepted for publication in the journal Analytical Chemistry.

Asif Habib (Professor, Chemistry, Waukesha) worked with Kim Kostka and Marcus McEllistrem (UW-Eau Claire) on a starter grant from NSF for developing an URC (undergraduate research center) in Wisconsin. (10/27)

Holly Hassel (Assistant Professor, English, Marathon County) has been granted a one-course release for the Fall 2004 semester to work on her "Northwoods Writing Project Development." (08/15)

Shirley Hensch (Online Instructional Designer, Central Office) gave a presentation on a running an "e-mail free" online class at the International D2L Users Conference in August. In August, Shirley also gave a poster presentation on "Effective Online Discussions" and demonstrated two learning objects at the International MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) conference in Costa Mesa, California.(10/27)

Jack Hervert (Assistant Professor, Physical Education, Women’s BasketballCoach, Waukesha) has been named Junior College Coach of the Year by the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) for the third time. (09/22)

Jonathon Kasparek (Lecturer, History, Waukesha) had a condensed version of one chapter of his recently-published book, The Uniting States (Greenwood Press, 2004), included in the fall 2004 Wisconsin Academy Review. In it he describes the process of Wisconsin attaining statehood. He also has written the forthcoming Voices and Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Historical Society.(10/27)

Mary Duffy Kasum (Senior Lecturer, Foreign Languages, UW-Waukesha) presented a conference session on "Finding and Using Authentic Web-Based Classroom Resources" at the 2004 Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology (WETC) Conference in October in the Wisconsin Dells. The session included evaluation of internet resources, samples of hoax sites, fair use guidelines for teachers, and exploration of radio, television, museum and virtual travel sites as well as webquests and sites for peer-reviewed lesson plans.(10/27)

Karen Klamczynski (Director, Planetarium, Fox Valley) attended the Digistar Users Group annual conference in San Diego, California, in September 2004. This is an international group of planetarium professionals. She continues as the group's newsletter editor. IKaren also attended the Western Alliance Conference, a regional conference of planetarium professionals.(10/27)

Kim Kostka (Associate Professor, Chemistry, Rock) received a $70K Hewlett Packard, Technology for Teaching grant. This grant is funded for June 2004 to June 2005. The project- wireless teachnology to support instruction for nonmajors- will be funded in Spring 2005. Kim also received, together with Asif Habib, a NSF Planning Grant for Undergraduate Research Centers for the University of Wisconsin System. The UW Colleges received $30K for June 2004-June 2005 for a proof-of-concept portion of the grant. Students are undertaking research projects at UW-Rock and UW-Waukesha during the first two years of their chemistry instruction.(10/27)

Dean Kowalski (Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Waukesha) had his book, Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy, published by McGraw-Hill last November. By analyzing contemporary films such as ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Minority Report,’ Kowalski introduces philosophical themes in a novel and interesting way. Classic films, such as ‘12 Angry Men’ and ‘The Seventh Seal,’ are also included as well as television programs such as ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ and ‘The X-Files.’ Thought-provoking readings from traditional and contemporary sources are also used to improve student’s critical thinking skills (2/22)

Annette Kuhlmann (Associate Professor, Anthropology/Sociology, Baraboo) is presenting a paper entitled "Voices from Beneath the Earth: Women in Solitary Confinement" at the annual meeting of the American Society for Criminology in Nashville, TN. (10/18)

Jeff Leigh (Assistant Professor, History, Marathon County) had an an article titled Public Opinion, Public Order, and Press Policy in the Neoabsolutist State, Bohemia, 1849-1852, published in The Austrian History Yearbook (Volume 35, 2004). (07/15)

Ron Lippi (Professor, Anthropology/Sociology, Marathon County) led another field season at the archaeological site of Palmitopamba in northwestern Ecuador this past summer. Lippi directs a project consisting of archaeologists and students from the University of Missouri, University of Minnesota, Wayne State University, University of Michigan (formerly a student at UW—Marinette) and Ecuador’s Catholic University. The hilltop site in the tropical rainforest was the center of an ancient chiefdom and became an Inca fort shortly before the Spanish conquest. This is the third consecutive summer of excavations at the site. The project is funded mainly by the Butler Foundation of New Hampshire. Papers on the first two seasons of fieldwork were presented last year at U. of California—Berkeley, Harvard University, and at archaeology meetings in Santiago, Chile and Montreal, Canada.(10/27)

Barry Liss (Assistant Professor, Communication and Theatre Arts, Marathon County) received a UW-Marathon County Summer Research Grant to research the rhetoric of Kenneth Burke through the Hugh Dalziel Duncan archives at Southern Illinois University. (07/15) His paper ‘Recovering the Enlightenment Aesthetic: Musings on the Emancipatory Force of Media Ecology’ received a top paper award from the Media Ecology Association and will be presented at the National Communication Association’s Annual Convention in November. (10/27)

Mark Lococo (Associate Professor, Communication & Theatre Arts, Waukesha) received a Chicago After Dark Award for best production of a musical for A Man of No Importance at the Apple Tree Theatre. Two performers from that production are also nominated for Joseph Jefferson Awards to be awarded in November. Mark is also going to direct Shaw's Misalliance, a joint production between Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and UW Madison, to be presented in the Mitchell Theatre in Madison February 25-March 12, and at the Chamber Theatre in Milwaukee April 16-May 1.(10/27)

Mahes Maheswaran (Professor, Mathematics, Marathon County) received a UW-Marathon County Summer Research Grant for his project titled Solution of Disk Equations. (07/15) He also presented a paper at a workshop on “The Nature and Evolution of Disks around Hot Stars” held at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. Maheswaran’s paper, which was titled “A Magnetic Rotator Wind-Disk Model for Be Stars,” describes a theory that he has proposed to explain the formation of disks. He participated in a workshop on “Massive Stars: From Photospheres to V-infinity” organized by UW-Madison. He also presented a paper titled “Magnetic Fields and Be Disk Formation.” (11/23)

James McCluskey (Senior Lecturer, Geography/Geology, Marathon County) received a UW-Marathon County Summer Research Grant for his project titled A Socioeconomic Atlas of Wisconsin. He also received a summer stipend from the Vaculty Alliance for Creating and Expanding Teaching Strategies (FACETS) to work on a second project titled A Comparative Study of the Visualization of Mapped Information in Online Geography Courses. (07/15)

Amy Mussell (Associate Academic Librarian, Sheboygan) is a contributer to Invitation to Poetry edited by R.Pinsky and M.Dietz (W.W.Norton, 2004)(10/18)

Michael Nofz (Professor, Anthropology/Sociology, Fond Du Lac) co-authored a paper with Sondra Gates (Adjunct Instructor of English at Kirkwood Community College) published in the International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management The paper is titled “From Knowledge Consumer to Knowledge Manager: Student Transformation in an Interdisciplinary Service Learning Course.” The paper presents an assessment of how students benefited from working with knowledge in community settings, contrasting this approach with more traditional approaches that tend to present knowledge as a product for student consumption.(10/27)

Alan Parker (Professor, Biological Sciences, Waukesha) co-hosted the 30th annual A.H. Smith Lakes States Foray in September 2004 at Upham Woods Environmental Center. This meeting gives Midwestern professional mycologists and their students the opportunity to do field collecting together and to discuss current research projects. Highlights this year included collecting fungi at the Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve and on Blackhawk Island. (10/27)

Sue Patrick (Professor, History, Barron County) attended the Northern Great Plains History Conference in Bismarck, ND in October. She presented a paper based on the results of her SoTL project to revise one of her classes (11/23)

Gregory Peters (Assistant Professor, Anthropology/Sociology, Fox Valley) received a the UW-Madison/UW-Colleges Summer Research Grant last summer which allowed him to complete a book chapter titled “Farm Dads: Reconstructing Fatherhood, the Legacy of the Land, and Family in the Fields of the Midwest” (Rowman and Littlefield 2005). He is also the co-author of “Farming for Us All: Postmodern Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability” (Penn State University Press, 2004). This February he also presented this research at Lawrence University in Appleton with a paper entitled “Who Grew Your Supper? Sustainability, Sense of Place and the Legacy of the Land”. (08/02)

Kristine Prahl (Lecturer, Biology, Marathon County) attended the Midwest Institute for International and Intercultural Education in Kalamazoo.(09/22)

John Pruitt (Assistant Professor, English, Marshfield) His entry on Thomas Dibdin has been accepted for the forthcoming Dictionary of Literary Biography on Nineteenth-Century British Dramatists, and I’ve been invited to revise and resubmit my article “Robert Dodsley’s Drama Museum” to Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900.(10/27)

Dan Putman (Professor, Philosophy, Fox Valley) was the recipient of the 2003-2004 Barrington-Musolf Award. He was selected for his book Psychological Courage, which investigates the intersection between Classical Virtue Ethics and contemporary philosophical and psychological concerns about self-deception, delusion, and obsessive forms of behavior.

Travis Ramage (Student Services, Baron County) was awarded a grant from the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) Board to conduct a field study. The study is entitled: Identifying and Applying Strengths to Improve Academic Performance of First semester, High Risk College Students Attending UW-Barron County Using the StrengthsFinder^® Assessment Instrument.(09/22)

Barbara Reinhart (Assistant Professor, Art, Waukesha), has a ceramic sculpture included in the book, 500 Figures in Clay; Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form. Published by Lark Books this fall.(11/2)

Vickie Richmond-Hawkins (Director, Continuing Education, Marathon County) is the recipient of the 2004 Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers' Anthony J. Gradisnik Award. This award is given in recognition of the Adventure in Language day campus, summer language immersion experiences she organizes for elementary students in north central Wisconsin. (07/15)

Heidi Rosenberg (Assistant Professor, English, Barron County) has a short story accepted for publication in the upcoming issue of Oynz Review. The story is entitled “One Bedroom, A Large Linen Closet, Off The Green Line: A Real Estate Diary.” She also will be presenting a paper that explores the manner in which students make meaning of or misinterpret their instructors’ written comments at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco in March 2005 (11/23).

Margaret Rozga (Professor, English, Waukesha) published several poems:“Wind Fall,” in the (October 2004) issue of Wisconsin Trails.(09/22) "To California Where Rhymes Fail," in V.Suarez and R.Van Cleave (eds.) Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America (University of Iowa Press). "Estuarian Politics," "Figuring Out the World," and "Cities of Brotherly Love" in Pedestal Magazine online at www.thepedestalmagazine.com (10/18). Her poem "Alabama Bound" is included in the 2005 issue of Out of Line, an annual literary journal with a peace and justice focus edited by Sam Longmire and published by Garden House Press (2/15).

Sara Rudolph (Associate Professor, Communication and Theatre Arts, Marathon County) received a UW-Marathon County Summer Research Grant to work on volume one of a two-volume series of essays titled Recasting Mental Illness: Building Understanding through Textual Analysis, Characterization, and Live Performance. (07/15)

Lisa Seale (Professor, English, Marathon County) discussed Robert Frost’s speaking engagements and readings on Wisconsin Public Radio’s University of the Air. (09/22) She attended the annual Robert Frost Scholars' Symposium, held this year at Georgetown University, in October (10/27).

Connie Sexauer (Assistant professor, History, Marathon County) was part of a panel at a Civil Rights Symposium at UW-Stevens Point commemorating the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Abbas Taheri (Professor, Economics, Fox Valley), along with his UW-Madison colleague, Dr. Rodney Stevenson, was invited by the U.S. Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration/American Statistical Association to submit a research proposal for an EIA/SAS summer Fellowship. He and Dr. R. Stevenson presented a paper at the 24th conference of the International Association for Energy Economics in Washington, DC in July, entitled Environmental Compliance and U.S. Industrial Productivity. This is the culmination of the pair’s earlier research collaboration that was funded through a UW-Madison/UW-Colleges Summer Research Grant. (10/27)

Jim Veninga (Dean, Marathon County), spoke on the humanities and civil society at the Summit on the Public Humanities at Aspen Institute, Aspen Colorado. The Summit was sponsored by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Indiana Humanities Council with support from The Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also gave a presentation at the 30th anniversary program of the Texas Council for the Humanities in Austin (11/23).

Colin Wang (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Marathon County) attended the Midwest Institute for International and Intercultural Education in Kalamazoo. (09/22)