Good News Dec00-May01

GOOD NEWS!
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point�s Accomplishments
December 2000 - May 2001
Compiled by News Services

Professor Patricia Kluetz of the interior architecture faculty and officers of the student chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers attended a national meeting in New York City at which the head designer of one of the most prestigious firms in the country praised UWSP, its interior design program and its students.
Dean Joan North of the College of Professional Studies was recognized
by the Professional and Organizational Development Network for her lifetime service to faculty professional develop-ment. North gave the keynote address to nearly 700 participants at the organization�s national meeting in Vancouver.
Jenni Nicewander Yang of Stevens Point, a senior music education, clarinet performance and Spanish major at UWSP, won the Collegiate Woodwind Competition in the Wisconsin Division of the Music Teachers National Confer-ence and was named first runner-up at the organization�s regional competition.
Richard Wilke, an international leader in the field of environmental education, was designated by the UW System Board of Regents as a Distinguished Professor in the College of Natural Resources. He joined other national leaders in creating the National Council for Science and Environment Report, 10 public education recommendations for Congress and federal agencies to consider.
Anna Haines, assistant professor of natural resources/UW-Extension, a land use planning specialist with the College of Natural Resources, received a three-year $236,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Co-authored by professor Gary Green at UW-Madison, the project will focus on social and economic constraints to job training in rural areas.
John Prais of Stevens Point, Dewey Sebold of Medford, and Jack LeDuc of DePere, 1968 political science alumni, created a new scholarship in honor of retired Political Science Professor Emeritus Mark Cates.
The Sacred and the Secular University, a book co-authored by Professor of History Jon Roberts and published by Princeton University Press, was included among �Choice�s� 37^th annual Outstanding Academic Titles list.
Net Check, a Web-based program allows incoming students to receive pertinent information through their computers and forego the extra time and long lines of Checkpoint.
The Student Involvement Complex in the lower level of the University Center was renovated to create 70 percent more area for the area that houses the offices of student organizations and student employment.
The Vincent A. Heig Ornithology Collection and the Charles A. Long Mammalogy Collection were named and dedicated to retired biology department faculty members.
The department of physics and astronomy and Alumni Relations hosted the department�s first alumni reunion in January.
Dean of Fine Arts and Communication Gerard McKenna was named among the state�s top music teachers by the Wisconsin Music Education Association in Teaching Music magazine, a national publication.
The UWSP Residence Hall Association (RHA) was recognized as the best in
the region by the Great Lakes Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls.
UWSP convened a regional conference to promote better understanding and cultural awareness of Hmong and Southeast Asian residents of Wisconsin including those who are students at the university. The meeting was funded through a $1,000 grant from the UW System Institute for Race and Ethnicity.
Associate Professor of Business and Economics Gary Mullins was named to a three-year term as chair of the Division of Business and Economics.
Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, who turned her grief over her son�s death into a crusade against hate crimes, spoke at UWSP.
The 27-member Youth Chamber Choir of St. Petersburg, Russia, visited and performed in Central Wisconsin as the guests of the UWSP Department of Music.
The Safety and Health Protection Program received a $7,000 training grant from J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc. of Neenah.
Associate Professor of History Theresa Kaminski edited and wrote the intro-duction to Enduring What Cannot Be Endured: Memoir of a Woman Medical Aide in the Philippines in World War II by Dorothy Dore Dowlen, published
by McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, N.C.
Associate Professor Benjamin Ofori-Amoah, a specialist in economic and urban geography, was appointed to a three-year term as chair of the department of geography and geology.
Assistant Professor of Biology Terese Barta raised a black Labrador for PAWS With A Cause, an organization that provides service dogs for clients with disabilities.
The UW System Accountability Report for 2000-2001 rated UWSP among the top three campuses in percentage of bachelor�s degree recipients studying abroad, number of students studying abroad and six-year graduation rates.
Joyce Farrell, assistant professor of mathematics and computing, wrote a book about computer programming published by Course Technology, a division of Thomson Learning.
Faculty and staff at UWSP garnered more than $6 million in grants from outside sources during fiscal year 1999.
Tim Walsh of Minocqua, a 1994 UWSP alumnus and graduate student in urban forestry, became a staff arborist for the National Arborist Association in Manchester, N.H.
More than 1,700 monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and personal papers, an extensive research compila-tion in environmental and wildlife studies, was donated to UWSP�s library in memory of Laurence R. Jahn.
UWSP graduating senior Stacey Schultz of Sheboygan Falls served a summer internship with National Geographic in its cartography department.
Bob Spoerl of Waupaca, president of Premium Brands of Stevens Point,
was appointed to a two-year term as the 17^th president of UWSP�s Alumni Association.
More than 1,500 friends of the UW System participated in UW-Day: Building Wisconsin�s Future, in Madison.
The UWSP Foundation launched the Old Main Society, a group to recognize its leading donors, and announced the 2000 Annual Fund campaign exceeded its goal by more than $30,000.
Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia, Beliefs about Protection and Fertility, a book about Eastern European clothing written by Professor of Interior Architecture Patricia Williams, and published by Berg at Oxford, England, received Honorable Mention for the Katherine Briggs Folklore Prize from the British Folklore Society.
The 20^th annual Eagle Walk, a 200-mile trek across Wisconsin, raised money
for land preservation and endangered species.
The UWSP Alumni Association sponsored a one-week trip to southern Ireland.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Corinne Dempsey authored her first book, Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in India, published by Oxford Press of New York.
Professor of Psychology Nancy Bayne, who served for two years as acting special assistant to the chancellor for equity and affirmative action, was appointed to the position of associate vice chancellor for personnel and budget in the Office of Academic Affairs.
Through a renewable three-year agreement, students and faculty at UWSP are able to use a 0.9 meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson.
Through distance learning technology sponsored by UW System�s Collaborative Language Program, UWSP students can study the Chinese language with the help of a native speaker who will facilitate the local class and offer tutoring.
The planned UWSP Fine Arts Center addition will receive $25 million in the next biennial state budget. John and Patty Noel, UWSP alumni and co-founders of Travel Guard International and the Noel Group, pledged $1 million to help complete the addition.
Susan DeRouchey, �79, of Stevens Point, returned to campus as the director of marketing services for UWSP Extension.
Seniors Stephanie Perry of Kohler and Dave Houston of Pittsville are the second generation of students who joined Professor of Psychology Doug Henderson in studying issues associated with adoption and presented their findings at a meeting of the National Adoption Congress.
Chancellor Tom George was named a commissioner for the newly created Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory Commission. Its goals are to promote collaboration in using advanced, computer-based teaching and learning products at the college and university level.
Professor of Health and Human Development Anne Abbott and founder of the �Choice to Renew� weekend retreat, received a $2,500 Lisa J. Cudahy Community Health Grant from the Wisconsin Women�s Health Foundation.
Associate Professor of English Tom Bloom completed a computerized encyclopedia of information about F. Scott Fitzgerald�s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, and the era of the 1920s.
A scholarship memorializing Bill Gelwicks, a former Freeport, Ill., resident and record-setting member of the swimming and diving team at UWSP, was chartered with the UWSP Foundation.
Michael Dombeck, �71, �74 master�s, recently resigned chief of the National Forest Service, returned to his alma mater as the keynote speaker at a Forest Service Symposium planned and coordinated by students from Professor Doug Post�s Biology 100 classes. Later he returned to UWSP as GEM Pioneer Professor and UW System Fellow of Global Conservation, a new position to help lead planning and development of the Global Environmental Management (GEM) Education Center within the CNR.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Michael Nelson and Professor of English W. John Coletta contributed essays for a recently published book, Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment.
rofessor Laszlo Nanai, faculty member in physics at the University of Szeged in Hungary, was awarded a four-month Fulbright grant that enables him to spend the fall semester as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at UWSP and collaborate on research with Chancellor Tom George and other science faculty.
Lee Sherman Dreyfus, 40^th governor of Wisconsin and former chancellor of UWSP, was honored with the place-ment of a red granite marker at the exact spot on the front lawn of Old Main where he took his oath of office as governor 22 years ago. At the event, Dreyfus announced his contribution of $100,000 to the UWSP Foundation.
Under the leadership of Department of Theatre and Dance Chair Ken Risch, three programs, �The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,� � Brighton Beach Memoirs,� and an evening of 10-minute plays, were offered at UWSP under the name of North Star Summer Theatre.
Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages Alek Baylee Toumi published a new French play, the second part of a trilogy in which Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir return to life.
John Milbauer, professor of music at Humboldt State University, Arcata, Calif., a Marshfield native, pianist, educator and advocate for taking classical music to a wider audience, won the Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Award for Leadership
in Art.
Ninety students from the College of Letters and Science presented their research from a variety of disciplines at UWSP�s Second Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
The College of Natural Resources has agreed to a five-year U.S. Department of Defense cooperative agreement to help natural resources managers achieve optimal management of 59,000 acres of public lands at Fort McCoy near Sparta.
The 34^th American Suzuki Talent Education end-of-the-year concert honored longtime program assistant Barbara Ziebell, who retired from a 24-year career with the UWSP Suzuki program.
Sandra Wanserski, technology support specialist for the College of Letters and Science, was chosen by her colleagues to receive the Carolyn Rolfson Sargis Award, which honors classified staff members who epitomize the standards of outstanding and dedicated service and special contributions to the university.
Julia Butterfly Hill, environmentalist, writer and poet who spent two years living in a 1,000 year old redwood tree, was the keynote speaker during UWSP�s Earth Week events.
UWSP�s chapter of the Student Wisconsin Education Association received six out of seven state awards at the annual state representative assembly and four awards at the organization�s national conference including top Grant Project Award for the organization�s Latchkey Program. The Latchkey Program received a $1,000 National Education Association grant to continue its work on after school programming at Jefferson Elementary School in Stevens Point.
Dances created by students Candace Jablonski, New Berlin, and Edward Oroyan, Green Bay, took top honors at the American College Dance Festival Association regional event at the University of Illinois.
A $56,000 gift from Sentry Insurance was used to benefit scholarships, fine arts events, community relations, athletic teams, a distinguished professorship and many other activities at UWSP.
Nicole Kapellen of Plymouth, a graduate student in communicative disorders, published an essay, �A Stutterer�s Journal,� in a newsletter of the National Stuttering Association. Kapellen wrote the piece as an assignment for a course taught by Assistant Professor Rodney Gabel. Gabel has been a role model and mentor to several of his students who have discovered the joys and reward of doing research.
Mike Pagel, associate director of career services, was named the 2001 Outstanding Environmental Career Counselor, and Susan Kissinger, coordinator of advising and recruitment for the CNR, was voted Environmental Career Counselor of the Year by the Environmental Career Center of Hampton, Va.
Theresa Wessels of UWSP Alumni Relations and Jill Basler of Soma House, an adolescent group home, were
named Employers of the Year, and Brian Alford, Mosinee, information processing consultant in the University Library, was named Student Employee of the Year during Student Employment Week at UWSP.
International Programs plans to double student participation through a new initiative to double the number of short-term programs, offer existing programs more often and target Asia for business study.
Six faculty members completed a semester as UWSP�s second group of participants in the Teacher/Scholar in Residence Program. The three-year pilot program gives selected faculty one-quarter release time to devote to scholarly activity.
�Work and Play at the Dawn of the 20^th Century,� a collection of exhibits built by 26 students under the supervision
of Ed Marks, curator of education at UWSP�s Museum of Natural History and Professor of Biology Bob Freckmann, were displayed over the summer at the Portage County Historical Society�s Heritage Park Museum in Plover.
UWSP, rated among the safest campuses in the country in 1999 by Crimes Against Persons Index Inc., continues to be a safe place to go to school, according to UWSP�s latest campus crime and security report compiled by Don Burling, chief of security and police.
Byron Shaw, a water quality specialist who retired last spring, has accepted a quarter-time appointment as UWSP�s first Campus Liaison for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing.
DuWayne R. Kleinschmidt of Wausau, a retired educator, was named to a three-year term on the UWSP Board of Visitors. The board advises and assists UWSP in communicating with its publics as well as counsels the chancellor on ways to enhance the university.
A $1,000 scholarship was established by the Alumni Association to honor Karen Engelhard, retired longtime director of Alumni Relations.
Professors Kevin Hefferan and Keith Rice of the Department of Geography and Geology were awarded a $16,000 grant from the National Geographic Society to support field research in the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Sports�

UWSP ranked sixth in the Sears Director�s Cup standings, which measure the top overall NCAA Division III athletics program. The finish was the highest in school history and the third top 10 finish in four years. The finish was the highest of any WIAC school.
Seven UWSP sports placed in the top 10 of the country (womens cross country, womens soccer, mens and womens swimming and diving, mens and womens indoor track and field and mens outdoor track and field). Five of the sports had their highest national finishes ever.
Of UWSP�s 20 sports, 16 were nationally ranked at one time during the season.
Twelve of 20 sports qualified teams or athletes for NCAA Division III tournament competition.
Three athletes won NCAA Division III track and field individual national championships (Leah Juno - Women�s Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field, Jesse Drake and Chris Horvat - Mens Indoor Track and Field). The Pointer mens team was third in the outdoor meet and fourth at the indoor nationals, marking their highest finishes ever. The womens team had its highest ever indoor finish at fourth place.
UWSP had 31 athletes named first-team All-Americans, including athletes in 65 different events or sports. Three athletes were named first-team All-Americans in three different sports and two athletes were named in two different sports. Included was swimmer Randy Boelk, who was a first-team All-American in seven different events.
UWSP had four Academic All-Americans and six Academic All-District selections, giving the school 10 Academic All-Americans in the past two years. Soccer player Marie Muhvic was the first UW-Stevens Point female ever to earn first-team honors. Leah Juno was a second-team selection in track and field and third-team in cross country. Soccer player Margaret Domka was a second-team performer.
UWSP had four WIAC Athletes of the Year, five WIAC Coaches of the Year and five WIAC Scholar Athletes
The womens soccer team won its eighth WIAC title in nine seasons and finished third at the NCAA Division III championships. The Pointers finished 22-5 overall, which was the third highest single-season total in Division III history. They outscored opponents 111-17, making them the fourth highest scoring team in Division III history.
The mens basketball team won its second straight WIAC championship and finished 18-7 overall. The title was UWSP's conference best 20th all-time championship.

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