Cindy Cate, education, attended the SMART Board Technology for the K-12 Classroom Level I Workshop in Milwaukee.
Leslie McClain, education, presented “Cherishing the Heart of Education: Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion in Schooling Culture” at the Schooling Tibetan Children Multi-Nationally Conference at the University of California: Irvine in Santa Ana, Calif. McClain co-presented with a colleague from the University of Arizona, “Wisdom and Compassion in Democratic Leadership: Perceptions of the Bodhisattva Ideal” at the European Conference on Educational Research in Vienna, Austria,
Barbara Mihm, business and economics, had her research, “Using A Wiki as a Group Communications Tool,” published in the American Journal of Business Education, Volume 2 Number 4. The work was a result of the UW System Intercampus Communities of Practice Grant for the development of curriculum that involves technology for millennium students in which our campus participated.
Lisa Bardon, education, presented “I Used to be a Good Mom” and “Addressing Student Mental Health Needs in our Culturally Diverse Schools: Lessons Learned from State Initiatives” at the Minnesota Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference in Duluth, Minn.
Christine Gould, education, presented “Stakeholder Perceptions of Teacher Characteristics: A Focus Group Approach” and “Developing a State Level Licensure Program: First Steps,” at the 18th Biennial Conference on Gifted and Talented Children in Vancouver, Canada. Gould and colleagues from UW-Whitewater co-presented “Teaching Gifted Students in Wisconsin: Needs Assessment Results and Collaboration Activities” at the Wisconsin Research Seminar on Improving Educator Quality in Wisconsin Dells.
Kym Buchanan, education, presented "Increasing Authenticity and Ownership with an Experimental Course Management System" at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning in Traverse City, Mich.
Robin Tanke
, chemistry, $2,023 for “Preparation, Characterization and Reactivity Studies of Germanium Compounds.”Kristin Thielking, art and design, $5,000 for “New Glass Research at Urban Glass,” Brooklyn, N.Y.
Robert Wolensky, sociology, $3,523 for “Mine Labor Wars: Conflict, Competitiveness, and Control in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1916-1936.”
Chris Yahnke, biology, $2,737 for “The Importance of Natural History Collections in Latin America: Towards Forming a Partnership Between the UWSP Museum of Natural History and the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay.”
Mike Zach, chemistry, $3,442 for “AAO Membranes for Making Nanostructured Materials at UWSP.”
Samantha
Kaplan,
geography and geology, $6,998 from Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources for
“Changes in Alkalinity of a Northern Wisconsin Glacial Seepage Lake
Under Drought Conditions.”
Randy Champeau, WCEE, $2,071,800 from U.S. Army Research Office/Dept. of Defense for “Development of Sustainable Alternative Energy.”
Brian Sloss, coop fishery research, $15,000
from Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources for “Wisconsin Butler’s Gartersnake
and Plains Gartersnake Microsatellite DNA Study Plan.”
Tracy Feldman, biology, $4,700 from Wis.
Dept. of Natural Resources for “Demography and Population Monitoring of
a Rare Endemic Plant, Fassett’s Locoweed.”
Daniel Isermann, water resources, $24,600 from Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources for “Prevalence and Impacts of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) in Three Lake Winnebago Fish Populations.”
Jeremy Solin, K-12 Forestry Education program, $10,000 from UW-Madison for “Earth Partnership for Schools.”
Anne Hoffman, student health promotion, $745 from Wis. Department of Transportation (UW System) for “Alcohol Education and Prevention Project.”
Paul McGinley, Watershed Science and Education, $448,835 from the National Science Foundation for “MRI: Mass Spectrometry Facility for Research, Education and Outreach on Drinking and Ground Water Quality.”
Michael Demchik, forestry, $1,000 from the Wis. Wildlife Federation for “Karner Blue Butterfly Restoration: Lupin as a Predictor of Karner Blue Use.”
Bobbi Kubish, CNR advising and recruitment, $28,132 from the USDA Forest Service for “Diversity Internship Collaboration.”