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- Terese Barta, biology, is serving as a foster parent for PAWS with a Cause puppy.
- Benjamin Ofori-Amoah, geography, has been appointed chair of his department.
- Theresa Kaminski, history, edited a memoir of a World War II medical aide.
- Neenah business working with UWSP safety and health protection program to study safety issues.
- UWSP welcomes the Youth Chamber Choir of St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sun., Jan. 21.
- Judy Shepard, mother of hate crime victim Matthew Shepard, will speak at UWSP on Tues., Jan. 30.
- Old Main Society launched to recognize top UWSP donors.
- UWSP representatives to be featured at UW-Day in Madison on March 7.
- Bob Spoerl, Waupaca, has been named president of the UWSP Alumni Association.
- Senior Stacey Schultz to intern for National Geographic this summer.
- The environmental study papers of Laurence Jahn have been donated to the UWSP library.
- UWSP alumnus Tim Walsh now works for the National Aborist Association.
- Joyce Farrell, math & computing, has written a second edition of a programming language textbook.
- UWSP faculty and staff garnered $6 million in grants from outside sources during fiscal year 1999.
- Senior Jenni Nicewander was honored in a regional clarinet competition.
- Tom Bloom, English, has written "The Gatsby Files" about "The Great Gatsby."
- Anne Abbott, HPHD, has received a grant to continue health education.
- Chancellor Tom George has been appointed to an academic commission.
- Students teamed with a faculty member are presenting adoption research nationally.
- UWSP will receive $25 million in the next budget for the addition and remodeling of the Fine Arts Center.
- Susan DeRouchey named director of marketing for UWSP Extension.
- Chinese language classes will be offered at UWSP next year via distance education.
- UWSP will soon be able to observe the skies with a national telescope in Arizona.
- Corinne Dempsey, philosophy has authored a book about India's culture.
- The UWSP Alumni Association is offering a trip to Ireland.
- The 20th annual Eagle Walk will begin on Friday, March 16, at the UC.
- Sentry Insurance gift benefits programs and students at UWSP.
- Graduate student Nicole Kapellen has published an article in the journal for the National Stuttering Association.
- UWSP dance students took top honors at the American College Dance Festival Association regional event.
- Former governor and UWSP chancellor Lee Sherman Dreyfus has contributed $100,000 to the university.
- The Student Wisconsin Education Association at UWSP was honored with six out of seven state awards.
- The Suzuki end-of-the-year concert will honor Barbara Ziebell.
- Sandy Wasnserski, L&S technical support, will receive the Sargis Award.
- The College of Natural Resources has entered an agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Defense to manage lands at Fort McCoy.
- John Milbauer has received the Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Award for Leadership in Art.
- Ninety students will present research at the L&S undergraduate research symposium on Sat., April 21.
- Alek Baylee Toumi, foreign languages, has published a French play.
- Three summer theatre shows will be offered this year by the Department of Theatre and Dance.
- Former chancellor Lee Sherman Dreyfus will be recognized on Sunday, April 22, on the lawn of Old Main where he took his oath of office as governor.
- Trivia 2001, "Old Days," will bring hundreds of quiz teams to Stevens Point the weekend of April 20-22.
- Hungarian physics professor to serve as Fulbright Scholar at UWSP this fall to collaborate with Chancellor George.
- Michael Nelson, philosophy, and W. John Coletta, English, contributed essays to a recently published book on environmental ethics.
- Alumnus Michael Dombeck will be the keynote speaker at the Forest Service Symposium on Thurs., April 19.
- A scholarship has been created to honor a late member of UWSP's swimming and diving team.
- Portia Hamlar appointed as assistant to the chancellor for equity and affirmative action.
- Former UWSP administrator Bob Beeken will return to the Physics and Astronomy Department as chair.
- A scholarship has been established to honor former alumni director Karen Engelhard.
- The Student Wis. Education Association received a National Education Association (NEA) grant to continue its Latchkey afterschool program.
- A leader in gifted and talented programs, Dorothy Kennedy, education, will retire in June.
- Reference librarian Kathleen Heuvelman will retire after 31 years at UWSP.
- Benjamin Ofori-Amoah, geography, is part of a team that will develop the Geo Web Internet site.
- Two UWSP professors will do research in Morocco after winning a National Geographic Society grant.
- The UW System Board of Regents has named a retired UWSP alumnus to the UWSP Board of Visitors.
- Richard Wilke, natural resource management, has a leading role in making recommendations for environmental education nationwide.
- Retiree Byron Shaw has returned as UWSP’s first Campus Liaison for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing.
- UWSP continues to be rated among the safest campuses in the nation.
- Rod Gabel, communicative disorders, has inspired students to active research study.
- Museum Methods students exhibiting at Plover Heritage Park.
- John and Patty Noel of Stevens Point have pledged $1 million to help fund the Fine Arts Center addition.
- Charles Goan, music, retires after 34 years of teaching piano.
- International Programs will expand at UWSP, increasing study abroad programs.
- Student employees honored at leadership awards ceremony. Student employers were also recently honored.
- UWSP alumnus, local businessman and humanitarian John Noel will speak at the 2001 spring commencement on Sun., May 20.
A recent survey shows graduates reflect positively on time spent at UWSP.
Matthew Sherrell, a 1998 alumnus, received the Cornerstone Award from the National Residence Hall Honorary and Residence Hall Association at UWSP.
Holly Vander Heiden, Kaukauna, received a year's tuition with the Kathrin "Kitty" Saunders Sebold Scholarship.
UWSP photographers Tom Charlesworth and Doug Moore were honored in a national photo contest.
The Distinguished Alumnus Award was given to two well-known Wisconsin personalities-Dick Bennett and Fritz Wenzel.
Lowell Klessig, natural resources, will retire after sharing his energy and ideas on campus and beyond.
- Learning is Forever (LIFE) offers a variety of classes to retired community members and others.
- David Hillier, a botanist in the biology department, has retired after 30 years at UWSP.
- John Houghton, forestry, has been named the Vallier Treehaven Chair of Ecology for summer CNR student programming.
- James Arrowood, music, retired in May after 11 years of teaching and directing at UWSP.
- Bob Freckmann, a plant taxonomist in biology, has retired after 33 years of teaching but will continue to work in the UWSP herbarium.
- Tom Detwyler, geography/geology, has retired after 35 years of teaching.
Michael Dombeck returns to UWSP as the GEM Pioneer Professor and UW System Fellow of Global Conservation.
Emeritus professor Richard Schneider and his wife have donated $25,000 for a new gallery in the Dept. of Art and Design.
Brant Bergeron has accepted a dual appointment as Alumni Relations and University Relations director.
Charles Rochester Young, music, wins seventh consecutive award from composers organization.
Vicki Lobermeier, Small Business Development Center, selected as state star by national organization.
Gary Cumley, communicative disorders, has been chosen to a three-year term as leader of the School of Comm. Dis.
Eleanor Brush, communicative disorders, will retire in August.
Gretchen d'Armand, music, has retired after 17 years at UWSP.
Sue Kissinger, CNR, was named Environmental Career Counselor of the Year.
Chancellor George describes UWSP as "A Leader and a Partner" at his annual state of the university address.
John Heusinkveld has been named the new assistant director at Treehaven field station in Tomahawk.
Teachers are earning master's degrees in environmental education at UWSP.
A collection of Inuit and Native American objects have been donated to the UWSP Museum of Natural History.
- UWSP underwent a few changes to prepare for its 108th year, and an overflow of students means some will spend their first semester at the Point Motel.
A May 2001 graduate will serve on the National Student Advisory Council for the American Society of Interior Designers.
International programs and UWSP Extension have formed a partnership with UW-Marathon County for study abroad opportunities.
The Student Wisconsin Education Association won four awards at a National Education Association summer conference.
- Banker William Gavin Hegg has been named the first School of Education honorary alumnus.
- George Kung and Sonja Kung have retired from the Department of Mathematics and Computing.
- The work of Susan Morrison, art and design, is featured in The Brittingham Art Invitational.
- Padmanabhan Sudevan, psychology, was elected chair of the Faculty Senate for two years.
- Wes Halverson has been appointed as the watersheds center coordinator for the CNR.
- The Department of Theatre and Dance season will open with "Guys and Dolls" this October and also feature "A Christmas Carol," "Medea," "The Twilight of the Golds" and "Danstage 2002."
- Pauline Isaacson, founder of UWSP International Programs, will be recognized on Sun., Sept. 30.
- The Theatre and Dance Department won a grant to continue dance community outreach.
- Research to continue on the Clam Lake elk herd with grant from Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
- Neale family donation of $2 million is the largest single gift ever given to UWSP.
- Ten faculty and academic staff members will be recognized at the annual fall assembly at UWSP on Thursday, Sept. 20.
- Fall Assembly speaker Betty Garcia-Mathewson will talk about understanding differences.
Diane Caporale, biology, has won a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant to study Lyme disease in Central Wisconsin.
A state-of-the-art genetic analyzer is being used as a teaching tool at UWSP, the only campus to provide DNA fingerprinting to campus community.
- Mark Seiler, foreign languages, has been named the WAFLT 2001 Distinguished Foreign Language Educator.
The College of Natural Resources has received $1 million in water-related grants $1 million in water-related grants from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Arthur Herman, philosophy professor emeritus, will present the talk "What is it that Women most desire in the World" on Wed., Oct. 31.
- The UWSP Foundation has elected new officers including new president John Ross of Waupaca.
- The UWSP Foundation reported at its fall meeting that giving nearly tripled over the last year.
- A new scholarship honors emeritus associate professor David Smith.
- Robert Miller, forestry, and Richard Rideout, Wisconsin DNR, have won an urban forest grant.
- Larry Weiser, economics, appointed program director for WCEE.
- A former head of the home economics department has bequeathed money for a scholarship.
- The College of Letters and Science will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Sat., Nov. 3.
- The University Child and Learning Care Center at UWSP is now caring for infants.
- Skyward, Inc. has established a scholarship for computer information systems students.
- The Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education at UWSP has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Golden Sands Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc.
- Officials at UWSP are helping students who are called to active duty in the military.
- Perry Cook, education, named StWEA Outstanding Teacher Educator of the Year.
- Gary Itzkowitz, sociology, is developing the Community Research Center on campus.
- UWSP International Programs founder Pauline Isaacson recognized.
Provost/Vice Chancellor Bill Meyer has announced his retirement effective on July 17, 2001.
Project Forward hopes to increase number of Hmong educators in Wisconsin.
Rory Suomi, HESA, had an article published in a special edition of BioMechanics journal.
A panel discussion to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor will be held Thurs., Dec. 6.
Nine sophomore students are getting paid while learning leadership in a new pilot program at UWSP.
David Chan, philosophy, has attended two conferences on bioethical issues.
"Echoes of Portage County Past" has been published by the editing and publishing class.
Outdoor EdVentures holding sale of used outdoor recreational items on Fri., Nov. 30.
Michael Dombeck, CNR, has received the 2001 Presidential Rank Award for his former role as chief of the USDA Forest Service.
Theresa Kaminski, history, honored with Wisconsin Library Award for her book "Prisoners in Paradise."
Two speech-language pathology graduate students will present their research at a national convention this month.
Amy Shaw, Stevens Point, and Barbara Borski, Stevens Point, are now heading the Conservatory for Creative Expression through UWSP Extension.
UWSP Foundation has distributed $100,000 in unrestricted funds.
UWSP is joining with Central Wisconsin to promote collaborative economic initiatives at the state Economic Summit II on Nov. 26 and 27.
Patty Dreier, CWES director, has published a book of poetry.
Nutrition and dietetics students have partnered with Wisconsin potato growers to publish a cookbook.
Nicaraguan children will receive backpacks filled with school supplies thanks to two UWSP students.
Wisconsin Forestree's Web site offers forestry activities and resources for educators.
Six students chosen for Chancellor's Excellence in Undergraduate Research Awards.
UWSP's Safety and Health Protection Program laboratory benefits from public and private support.
Wellness experts at UWSP featured in Worksite Health magazine.
A donation by Helen Godfrey supports a move for the UWSP child care center.
Randy Cray, economics, has been appointed to the state Dept. of Revenue's Forecast Advisory Council.
UWSP ROTC Ranger teams earned four first place designations at the annual Ranger Challenge at Fort McCoy.
UWSP is number one for doctorates in biological sciences.
Three students will travel to a Mexican village to deliver donations raised at UWSP.
Joyce Farrell, mathematics & computing, has published a book for introductory computer information systems students.
Faculty garnered more than $5.3 million in outside grants during fiscal year 2000.
UWSP will confer approximately 750 degrees during the two winter commencement services on Sat., Dec. 15. U.S. Rep. Dave Obey will address the graduates.
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