UWM Report - June 2012

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FACULTY/STAFF NEWSLETTER Volume 33, Number 5, June 2012

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Three UWM friends and supporters receive honorary degrees

Magda Peck: a ‘bold, audacious goal’ for a new school

Summer heats up UWM dance scene

Geiger named UWM athletics director

SOIS joins iSchools

Lubar School ranked among top business programs

2012 SAC Excellence Awrds

College of Nursing joins national vets support project

Study explores link between smoking in pregnancy, autism

2012 UWM Alumni Association awards

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From left: Adam Bushman, Keleigh Rappaport and Michael Schulze were members of the team that developed a mobile app for campus parking.

HELPING STUDENTS LAUNCH THEIR OWN COMPANIES

by Laura L. Hunt

t’s something that every UWM student would want: an app that can find them a parking

space on campus. Milwaukee-based TAPCO (Traffic & Parking

Control Co. Inc.) was so interested in such a prod-uct, company officials assigned the task of creating it to a group of UWM students in a unique “product realization” course that challenges undergraduates to design and build a prototype of ideas suggested by local industries.

Students in the course work with industry for grades. But this month, any UWM student with a cool product idea might suddenly become an entrepreneur. The Student Startup Challenge (SSC) offers the opportunity to design new products to all students on campus and alumni who have graduated in the last two years.

Up to three teams will win $10,000 to create a prototype, buy equipment, get legal advice or cover business-related travel. The UWM Research Foundation (UWMRF) provides free business plan-ning support. Ideas must be submitted by June 30 to uwmstartupchallenge.com/.

A combined effort of the College of Engineering & Applied Science (CEAS) and UWMRF, the SSC aims to kick-start an entrepreneurial culture among students, says Ilya Avdeev, SSC director and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

The challenge isn’t just about ideas, says Avdeev. “When we pick a team we will want them to actu-ally succeed at launching their company within the year,” he says.

The inspiration for the SSC came from the product realization course, says Avdeev, who this semester co-taught the course with Nathaniel Stern, professor of art and design. The course, conceived by Chancellor Michael R. Lovell while he was dean

of CEAS, was modeled after one at the University of Pittsburgh, where both Lovell and Avdeev formerly taught. At Pittsburgh, the student-industry partner-ships produced 10 patents over several years.

“We wanted one outcome to be that it helps create intellectual property,” says Avdeev of UWM’s course. At least one of the six projects in this semes-ter’s course has generated a commercial interest, he adds.

The interdisciplinary approach that he and Stern have fostered in the course – blending engineering majors with industrial-arts and graphic-art majors – is another aspect that they hope will carry over into the SSC. The website contains a resource for students to find partners in other disciplines on the “shareboard.”

The SSC is a way for UWM students to use the theoretical knowledge they’re gaining from their education. UWM currently offers several courses across various colleges that teach entrepre-neurial skills.

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Ilya Avdeev (right), assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Nathaniel Stern, professor of art and design, are heading the Student Startup Challenge.

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ver the summer, we will be organizing our efforts to create a University of Wisconsin-

Milwaukee strategic plan during the 2012-13 academ-ic year. I am a big believer in the value of strategic plans. They are essential to defining who you are.

I have been involved in the creation of excel-lent plans during my career. Some examples for me have been strategic plans constructed for the Center for e-Design (a National Science Foundation-funded, multi-university initia-tive that I was part of at the University of Pittsburgh) and the Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium.

Indirectly, those plans had similarities to what we will be creating here at UWM because they took a diverse group of constituents that had multifaceted interests and brought them together to determine core values, to create a shared common vision and to define a clear set of objectives.

These plans were written with the involvement and buy-in of all stakeholders in their planning processes. In a similar fashion, drawing in all campus constituencies will be a key element here at UWM.

Together, we’ll look at such foundational documents as the new vision statement created during the 2011-12 academic year and the existing, multilayered mission statements, and use them to align the strate-gic direction we want to go.

This will be especially important in these days of dwindling traditional resources. We must newly define our priorities and consider the resource alloca-tions needed to achieve those priorities.

There is no better time than now to be embarking on this strategic planning process. UW-Milwaukee is changing faster than ever before, and a strategic plan can help us manage that change by specifically considering the kind of university we want to become and then using the strategic plan to take us in that direction.

It will be an expectation that campus units also be engaged in the strategic planning within their own department, office, school, college or division. Through this universal involvement, we can achieve campuswide buy-in and, ultimately, implementation of what is included in the strategic plan.

Regardless of whether you’re involved in the beginning of the strategic planning process in the next few months or get involved in the fall, I thank you for your continuing service to our university and hope you have an outstanding summer.

FROM THE CHANCELLOR

Creating our strategic planO

FALL WELCOME AUG. 29-SEPT. 7

Fall Welcome, previously known as Campus Kickoff, is a series of events and programs designed to welcome new and returning students to the UWM campus. Activities aim to assist students in navigating their transition to UWM and create a sense of belonging and excitement about being a Panther.

Fall Welcome features a week of fun and educational events, kicking off on Wednesday, Aug. 29. The events culmi-nate in UWM’s biggest event of the year, PANTHERFEST at the Marcus Amphitheater on Friday, Sept. 7.

More information about Fall Welcome can be found at fallwelcome.uwm.edu.

Last year’s PANTHERFEST attracted a crowd of more than 14,000 to the Marcus Amphitheater.

SOIS joins iSchoolsby Kathy Quirk

UWM’s School of Information Studies (SOIS) has been selected to join the international iSchools organization.

The iSchools organization, founded in 2006, is a worldwide collective of information schools that are dedicated to advancing the information field and interested in the connections among information, people and technology. The organization currently includes 36 institutions in 11 countries. Member schools are elected or invited.

SOIS is one of 23 U.S. information schools that are members of iSchools, and the only one in Wisconsin.

“We are very pleased and honored to have been admitted to the iSchools organization,” says Dietmar Wolfram, interim dean of SOIS. “As one of a small but growing number of iSchools internationally, our membership recognizes SOIS as a leader in the education of information professionals and a contrib-utor to information research.”

Geoff Nunberg of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and keynote speaker at the 2012 iSchools iConference, explained the concept in an interview on National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air”:

“It isn’t just about computer science anymore, either. That isn’t where you go to find out how technology changes people’s lives, and where it fails them, or how to make it less intrusive and more humane. Those are questions people are taking up at the schools of information that have sprung up at research universities like UCLA, Toronto and Washington – iSchools, for short. It’s a different ‘i,’ but it too stands in for a connection between tech-nology and the social world.”

SOIS was the only North American program admitted with the most recent group of three new members. Wolfram noted the importance of membership in the international organization in helping recruit top faculty and students.

“Being a member of the iSchool organization will boost the visibility and profile of the school,” says Iris Xie, SOIS professor and doctoral program director. “It will greatly help us recruit high-quality doctoral students, broaden and enhance the careers of our doctoral students and build a stronger doctoral program.”

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hree friends and supporters of the university were awarded honorary degrees at UWM’s

Spring Commencement ceremonies May 20. Urban agriculture pioneer Will Allen was honored at the morning ceremony and gave the commencement address. Jacquelyn Fredrick and Stephen H. Marcus were honored at the afternoon ceremony. Fredrick addressed the new grads; Marcus will deliver the commencement address at the December 2012 cere-mony. Here are profiles of the honorees.

WILL ALLENFounder and CEO, Growing Power Inc. Honorary Doctor of Agriculture

Will Allen, son of a sharecropper, former profes-sional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and longtime farmer, has become recognized as among the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy.

The founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Allen is widely considered the leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture.

At Growing Power and in community food proj-ects across the nation and around the world, Allen promotes the belief that all people, regardless of their economic circumstances, should have access to fresh, safe, affordable and nutritious foods at all times.

Using methods he has developed over a lifetime, Allen trains community members to become community farmers, assuring them a secure source of good food without regard to political or economic forces.

In 2008, Allen received the prestigious MacArthur “Genius grant” for his efforts to promote urban sustainable food systems. During 2010, Allen joined First Lady Michelle Obama as she launched the White House’s “Let’s Move” campaign to address issues affecting American youth and the risk of obesity.

Later that year, he was recognized as one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Since then, Allen has received numerous additional awards.

JACQUELYN FREDRICKPresident & CEO, BloodCenter of Wisconsin Inc. Honorary Doctor of Business and Public Health

Jacquelyn Fredrick became the fourth president and CEO of BloodCenter of Wisconsin on Dec. 1, 2001. She is the first woman to hold that position in the organization’s more than 60-year history.

Fredrick leads an internationally respected trans-fusion medicine organization that is the sole supplier of blood and blood products to 56 Wisconsin hospi-tals, and provides diagnostic laboratory, transfusion and hematology-related medical services to hospitals nationwide.

In February 2010, BloodCenter of Wisconsin became the first and only blood center in the United State to operate both a tissue bank and organ procurement organiza-tion. In addition, its Blood Research Institute is among the world’s premier blood research organizations.

When she became president and CEO of

the BloodCenter, Fredrick returned to an organiza-tion where she began her career in blood banking in 1981. She left to join the National American Red Cross in 1993.

At present, Fredrick serves as president of the AABB, an international professional organization for transfusion medicine and cellular therapies. She also serves on numerous boards of directors, is chair of the UWM Research Foundation Board and serves on the UWM Foundation Board, the UWM College of Health Sciences Dean’s Advisory Board and the Lubar School of Business Advisory Council.

STEPHEN H. MARCUSChairman, The Marcus Corporation Honorary Doctor of Business and Urban Development

Stephen H. Marcus is chairman of The Marcus Corporation, a Milwaukee-based company that is a leader in lodging and entertain-ment.

Marcus joined the company in 1962. He served as president from 1980 to January 2008 and as chief executive officer from 1988 to January 2009. He was

elected chairman of the board in 1991. Marcus’ leadership in The Marcus Corporation

and his involvement with community organizations have contributed to the growth and development of the City of Milwaukee. Marcus has focused on the restoration and expansion of properties in downtown areas in Wisconsin, Kansas and Oklahoma, ultimate-ly increasing the economic vitality of those regions.

Contributions to the wider community include current positions with the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and the Wisconsin Center District Board.

Marcus was recognized as the 2004 Wisconsin Business Leader of the Year for his attention to the greater good and his influential role in the community.

In 1993, he joined UWM’s Architecture & Urban Planning Design Council, which brought business and community leaders together to discuss key issues in development, design and construction in Southeastern Wisconsin.

In founding the Marcus Prize with the School of Architecture & Urban Planning, he has drawn international attention to the UWM architecture program, while providing UWM students the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most talented architects.

Three UWM friends and supporters receive honorary degrees

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UWM DAY AT STATE FAIR AUG. 5

UWM is once again sponsoring an entire day at the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday, Aug. 5.

Look for interactive displays and activ-ities from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the Central Mall. Expect appearances by Pounce and our athletic teams, performances by Peck School of the Arts students, demonstrations and exhibits by UWM’s 10 schools and colleges, and a Bookstore booth stocked with caps, T-shirts and more for showing your Panther Pride at the fair.

As a bonus, the Central Mall is really, really close to the cream puffs.

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Magda Peck: a ‘bold, audacious goal’ for a new schoolby Kathy Quirk

agda Peck, founding dean of UWM’s Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, is excited about

the opportunity to build a new school on the strong foundation already established.

“This is an incredible chance to grow something new for Milwaukee and the country,” she says.

Peck, who joined UWM in March, says exist-ing relationships among the school, the City of Milwaukee Health Department, and a broad array of community and academic partner organizations, offer unique promise for addressing public health issues here.

She was impressed by the passion and commit-ment of UWM and city officials like Mayor Tom Barrett, who interviewed her, she said during a recent event. At one point, Geoff Swain, the health department’s chief medical officer, flew a small plane from northern Wisconsin back to Milwaukee during his vacation to meet with Peck, Health Department Commissioner Bevan Baker and Susan Dean-Baar, then the Zilber School’s interim dean.

The fact that the late Joseph J. Zilber was will-ing to invest millions in developing a new school of public health also impressed her, she says.

“Milwaukee is a wonderful city, representative of the best and most challenging of urban America,” Peck says. Like other cities, Milwaukee faces complex health issues – infant mortality, teen preg-nancy, obesity and chronic disease, complicated by poverty and racism, she says.

AN AMBITIOUS AGENDAThe Zilber School, established in 2009, now

offers a growing number of master’s and Ph.D. programs, a certificate program and undergraduate courses. The faculty will double in the next two years, and the school will move to a new home just west of downtown Milwaukee in the Brewery complex later this year.

Its goal is to join the 50 nationally accredited schools of public health in the U.S. In addition, the school has established an unusual partnership with the city’s health department, which will locate some

of its research and policy offices within the new school.

Peck, who joined UWM from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, is a nationally recognized expert in maternal and child health. Her work has focused on preventive care and the translation of science into effective programs and policies.

She is founding CEO and senior adviser of CityMatCH, a national public health organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of women, children and families in urban communities.

WHY MILWAUKEE?A number of factors influenced her decision

to come to Milwaukee, she says. “It is a sentinel American city, right sized for making change for the better. As Milwaukee fares, so will other cities across the nation for the next 20 to 50 years in urban health.”

She also liked the city’s “can-do” attitude toward change, and the fact that UWM wants to be part of the city’s transformation, she says.

The collaborative work UWM already is doing with local organizations to lower infant mortality is just one example of the multi-organization, multidis-ciplinary approach that typifies the Zilber School, she says. “Medicine and public health need to work better together to prevent babies from being born too small or too soon, or who don’t live to blow out their first birthday candle.”

She sees strong leadership in health care systems, community organizations and the university as an asset in developing collaborative research. “When we all work together effectively, our research will be translated into fresh and powerful solutions that yield new solutions for old problems.”

“The advantage of being in Milwaukee is that this is where some of the most complex problems are manifest,” she says, driven by incomplete access to healthcare, poverty, deteriorating infrastructure and environmental issues. “The most powerful solutions are not always medical. They require an interdisciplinary perspective that addresses social and environmental determinants of health.”

A POWERFUL CATALYSTHaving a strong school of public health will help

prepare a new generation of competent public health workers, and generate evidence-based solutions that can inform public policy, she adds.

She doesn’t downplay the challenges ahead. “Of course, it’s tough. But hard is not bad – it’s

just hard. It’s going to be a steep climb, particularly in this economic climate. But if not the bold, auda-cious goal of becoming among the best schools of public health in the nation that will make Milwaukee one of the healthiest cities in nation, why bother even doing it? And so it’s what must be done.”

The Zilber School of Public Health is not “the” answer to Milwaukee’s public health problems, says Peck, “but it can serve as a powerful catalyst in developing knowledge and capacity, policies and resources to change the current dynamic.

“It will serve as a go-to place for cutting-edge ideas and innovation in public health, and bring it to leaders from across the country and around the world. Our research agenda and education perfor-mance will be anchored in Milwaukee, but we will reach out to have an impact beyond this city.”

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2012 RESEARCH REPORT NOW ONLINE

Powerful ideas are energizing our research engine along the path to proven results.

From new lithium-ion batteries that will power tomorrow’s cars to global solutions for the freshwater crisis and new techniques for farming perch, research by world-class faculty at UWM is creating products, refin-ing processes, coordinating interdisciplin-ary projects and forming powerful partner-ships that effect positive change in engi-neering, freshwater, healthcare, the arts, education and more.

The best of this research is already making an impact on the people and plac-es of Southeastern Wisconsin and beyond.

The just-released 2012 Research Report celebrates our achievements. Review it online at researchreport.uwm.edu.

Magda Peck chats with Geoffrey Swain (center), chief medical officer, and Bevan Baker (right), commissioner, both of the City of Milwaukee Health Department, at a March welcome reception. Peck’s son, David Anderson, is in the foreground.

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he chancellor has asked me to launch an academic planning process, which will be a

top priority for Academic Affairs over the course of the next academic year. In consultation with several deans and campus governance leaders, a document

detailing the chancellor’s charge to the academic deans has been devel-oped to produce a UWM Academic Plan for 2013-18. The charge is excerpted below:

UWM is embarking on a strategic planning process that will help achieve our vision for the university:

We will be a top-tier research university that is the best place to learn and work for students, faculty and staff, and that is a leading driver for sustainable prosperity. We will accomplish this through a commitment to excellence, powerful ideas, community and global engagement, and collaborative partnerships.

Developing a vibrant and responsive program array is central to realizing our vision.

The strategic planning process begun with this letter is an opportunity for the UWM community to review the frame-work of our university while protecting and improving our General Education core and our program array, which have shaped the university experience across all disciplines over the last 50 years.

In addition, such planning enables us to determine programs that could be consolidated, put on hold, or retired while also helping us discern future program needs and future research (including interdisciplinary research) directions.

The task aheadThe deans are asked to engage the faculty and staff in

developing a vision of how their schools and colleges align with the university vision; they will soon receive information to help them plan their processes.

Planning should address the following questions and directions for both undergraduate and graduate programs and centers and institutes, as we plan for the next five years, 2013-18:• Whatwilltheschool/collegeprogramarraylooklikein

2018 and beyond – and why?• Wherearewelikelytoseeprogrammatic,researchand

enrollment growth – and why?• Identifyexistingcollaborativeprogramswithinyourunits

as well as across schools and colleges, and describe interdis-ciplinary areas or clusters that will become more prominent.

• Howshouldprogramsanddegreesofferedbyyourschoolor college alone or in collaboration with other academic units change over the next five years – and why?

• Listnewprograms,revisionstoexistingprogramsandprograms that could be “slowed down” or shelved – and why.

• Whichcentersorinstitutesalignwithyourschool/collegevision and how might these become stronger and connect or integrate with other centers?

I am eager to see this important work of refresh-ing and envisioning UWM’s academic plan begin.

In addition to the work at the school and college level, there will be a two-day retreat next spring semester for deans, shared governance representa-tives and others to review the plans in relationship to the UWM vision and within the strategic planning and the new budget model process.

The retreat will be followed by several meetings involving deans, shared governance representa-tives and the provost’s staff to iteratively shape an integrated UWM Academic Plan with cross-cutting themes.

The Academic Plan will be disseminated to the campus community and subsequently to the Board of Regents Education Committee.

FROM THE PROVOSTby Johannes Britz, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

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SCE SUMMER LANGUAGE CLASSES START JULY 9

by Cathy Prescher

From new formats to new focus, a whole new world of language learning starts this summer at UWM’s School of Continuing Education (SCE). Courses now run consecutively – beginner to advanced levels, summer to fall to winter to spring – making it possible to master an entire language in one year. A variety of courses meet personal and professional needs. Popular programs include:• NewelectivessuchasGetYourFeet

Wet with Japanese: www4.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm?id=25220.

• IntensiveSpanishI:www4.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm?id=25213.

• Traditionalcoursesinmorethan15 languages: www4.uwm.edu/sce/ languages.cfm.

• Convenientonlineprograms:www4.uwm.edu/sce/languages_online_ courses.cfm.Lubar School ranked among top business programs

by Beth Stafford

UWM’s Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business is ranked 97th in the nation and 70th among U.S. public universities by U.S. News & World Report for its undergraduate business program.

“We’re honored to be recognized among the Top 100 business schools,” said Dean Timothy L. Smunt. “This national ranking reflects what employers and our alumni have known for many years – that the Lubar School of Business offers outstanding, top-quality programs.”

The U.S. News Best Business Schools list is based on peer assessment from deans and senior faculty at undergraduate business schools accredited by

the Association of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). AACSB accredits only 5 percent of busi-ness schools in the world. The Lubar School has been AACSB-accredited since 1970.

With 3,700 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 26,000 business alumni, the Lubar School is a major source of business graduates for employers in Wisconsin and beyond.

The Lubar School’s part-time MBA program is ranked 18th in the Midwest (and 75th nationwide) by Bloomberg Businessweek. In addition, the school’s graduate tax program is ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation by TaxTalent.

UWM NIGHT AT MILLER PARK SEPT. 14

Be part of the crowd at this year’s UWM Night at Miller Park event on Friday, Sept. 14, when the Milwaukee BrewerstakeontheNewYorkMets!Join us at 5:30 p.m. at Helfaer Field for a family-friendly tailgate party. Special guests, including Pounce and UWM cheerleaders, will get you fired up for the 7:10 p.m. game.

Special ticket packages will be available and include the tailgate, enter-tainment and a game ticket. Watch the UWM Alumni Association website at uwm.edu/alumni for updates.

Chancellor Michael R. Lovell prepares to throw out the first pitch at last year’s UWM Night at Miller Park.

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WM’s Student Accessibility Center honored the 2012 winners of the Student

Accessibility Excellence Awards on May 11. The awards celebrate and honor faculty and staff who have demonstrated awareness of, and sensitivity to, students with unique needs. There are five 2012 winners:

MARGARET KIPP Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies

The nominator says, “Because of Kipp’s patience of steel, her non-biased attitude, dedi-cated approach, and her natural sense of adding structure, rather than anxiety, together with a very practical educational approach, I was able to do well in my classes.”

RICHARD MONTIProfessor, Foreign Languages and Literature, College of Letters and Science

According to the nominator, Monti’s excellence as a teacher makes him outstanding. For example, his lectures were described as so well delivered and taught that the student didn’t require a note-taker.

Monti’s teaching led the student to “love Latin so much that I considered linguistics as a field, despite the fact that I was so established in the sciences and determined to pursue particle physics.” Examples of how Monti provided assistance included extra time for exams, accommodations for absences due to migraines, extended office hours and encouragement throughout the semester.

SUSAN LIMAAssociate Professor, Psychology, College of Letters and Science

“Professor Lima went above and beyond any expectations to facilitate, share and encourage learn-ing,” says the nominator. “She always was positive, compassionate and patient.” The nominator adds that Lima understood how to teach students to learn, making her “the best teacher I’ve had in all my years – high school or college.”

JEANNE WAGNER Director of Field Programs, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare

Wagner, who served as the nominator’s profes-sor and fieldwork liaison, went “beyond the call of duty” by making sure the nominator had access to interpreters and videos with captions. Wagner also made sure that the nominator “stayed on top of things” concerning online and in-person classes by communicating with the nominator often via email and in person.

“Jeanne has been very supportive during my diffi-cult semester and without her support, I would not have successfully completed my classes to allow me to graduate this May,” the nominator says.

ANN WILLIAMS Lecturer, Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business

“The first time I met Ann Williams, I was impressed with her enthusiasm and kind ‘sense of being,’” says the nominator.

That thoughtfulness was illustrated when Williams realized that, following exams, class members got together in their respective teams and groups. A creative plan was devised that would allow the nominator to both have the extra time required for testing and be available for the after-test meetings. This allowed the student to “still meet with my group so that I felt included.”

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STRESS PROGRAM JUNE 13

“When Stress Overwhelms: Coping in Difficult Times,” a program coordinated by the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Mental Health and UWM Auxiliary Services, takes place on Wednesday, June 13, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Sandburg Flicks. The session is open to all UWM staff.

Normal, everyday stress can be overwhelming at times, but what happens when stress becomes too much and ham-pers our ability to cope effectively? This session will focus on identifying when we are in stress overload, learning positive coping techniques and emphasizing what we are already doing right to manage our stress.

Presenter Lynn Mucha is a therapist at Norris Health Center who has been at UWM since 2009. Prior to joining UWM, she worked at UW-Whitewater for 15 years, providing counseling for stu-dents, faculty and staff, as well as mental health and wellness outreach. Her areas of expertise include depression, anxiety, grief, and bereavement and life transition work.

Campus Employee Assistance Program personnel will be available to answer questions and provide information on their services.

Registration is required. To register, go to uwm.edu/employeedev and choose event 45586.

For more information or to request special accommodations, contact Norris Health Center Executive Director Julie Bonner at 414-229-5684.

Designing a three-dimensional map of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee main East Side campus for students, visitors and faculty/staff who have visual impairments was an unusual challenge, says Dennis Manley.

“You just have to think with your fingers,” says Manley, who ran the model shop in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning until his recent retirement. He and four students/shop techs – Steve Stoffel, Adam Bragee, Corey Bogenschuetz and Ben Ross – built the model.

The 3-D representation of campus is now installed in the Golda Meir Library for the use of anyone who wants to explore campus with their fingertips. The Student Accessibility Center (SAC) will also be able use it in orientation and mobility training sessions for students with vision impair-ments, according to Jean Salzer, senior counselor for the Blind and Visually Impaired program at the center.

The buildings are raised, but not to vertical scale. That’s because taller buildings would make it harder for users to feel their way around campus, and wouldn’t add information. Details like green space and the Maryland Avenue Bridge are in place, and names of streets and buildings are carved in. SAC is

creating Braille labels. Jacques du Plessis, associate professor of informa-

tion technology, came up with the idea as part of his research on information access for those with vision difficulty. Although a three-dimensional map of campus once existed, no one was sure what had happened to it. And, according to Manley, because of its size and taller vertical buildings, that map would have been difficult for users to navigate.

Du Plessis approached Bob Greenstreet, SARUP dean, about creating the map, and Greenstreet facili-tated the project launch. The modeling crew sprang into action, and DuPlessis’ SOIS colleague, Rakesh Babu, an assistant professor who is blind, and SAC provided feedback. Ewa Barczyck, director of UWM Libraries, offered the map a home.

Salzer estimates that there are 30 to 40 students with some degree of visual impairment who work with SAC every semester, and unknown numbers of faculty, staff and visitors. “The way it’s set up, it can actually be a cool model of the campus for anybody to use,” she adds.

“What everybody forgets is that the campus is a community, and what we did is helping a part of our community,” says Manley.

Let your fingers do the walkingBy Kathy Quirk

Student Accessibility Excellence Award winners (from left) Richard Monti, Jeanne Wagner and Ann Williams. Not present were Margaret Kipp and Susan Lima.

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College of Nursing joins national vets support project

by Kathy Quirk

WM’s College of Nursing has joined a nation-al effort to educate nurses so they are better

prepared to meet the needs of service members, veterans and their families. The project, Joining Forces, announced in April by First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden, involves more than 500 nursing schools and more than 150 state and national nursing organizations.

“The UWM College of Nursing is proud to be a part of this important initiative,” says Sally Lundeen, dean of the College of Nursing. “We will continue to find even better ways to prepare the next genera-tion of nurses to address the special health issues of veterans and to support them and their families in both hospital and community settings.”

Led by the American Nurses Association, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the National League for Nursing, in coordination with the U.S. departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, nursing organizations and schools have committed to educating current and future nurses on how to recognize and care for veterans impacted by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), depression and other combat-related issues, in ways appropriate to each nurse’s

practice setting. Some three million nurses are involved in the effort.

“Whether we’re in a hospital, a doctor’s office or a community health center, nurses are often the first people we see when we walk through the door. Because of their expertise, they are trusted to be the front line of America’s health care system,” said Obama.

“Nurses are at the center of providing lifesaving care in communities across the country – and their reach is particularly important because our veterans don’t always seek care through the VA system,” said Biden. “This commitment is essential to ensuring our returning service men and women receive the care they deserve.”

PTSD and TBI have impacted approximately one in six of the troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq – more than 300,000 veterans, according to the announcement. And, since 2000, more than 44,000 troops have suffered at least a moderate-grade traumatic brain injury.

Nursing leaders have also committed to dissemi-nating effective models for care and to sharing the most up-to-date information on these conditions across academic and practice settings.

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YEAR OF THE ARTSby Beth Stafford

Thanks to cross-campus support, the faculty, staff and students of the Peck School of the Arts are creating exciting plansfortheYearoftheArtsatUWMdur-ing the 2012-13 academic year.

UWM’sYearoftheArtswillhighlightthe 50th anniversary of the Peck School of the Arts, its influence in the Wisconsin arts community, and the contributions that the arts, creativity and innovation have in every discipline.

Through the planning activities, the Peck School has established new and reaffirmed partnerships with more than 25 on-campus partners and more than 20 community partners, as well as arts, edu-cation and conference organizations.

YearoftheArtsactivitieswillhopefullytouch every student and will create several world-premiere and signature programs for UWM and the general community. Moreover, this celebratory opportunity has reopened contact with UWM alumni.

TheYearoftheArtswebsitewillbelaunched soon, along with an announce-ment of events and activities planned to date.

Some key events include:FALL-ing – The UWM Dance

Department, Milwaukee Ballet Company and Present Music collaborate on a unique performance of new dance works.

The Klezmatics – An on-campus performancebringsthisNewYorkCity-based,GrammyAward-winningAmericanklezmer music group to Milwaukee, in collaboration with the Center for Jewish Studies.

“The Judgment of Midas” – World premiere of an original opera, in collaboration with Present Music.

“Tweets in Space” – This live performance event premieres at the Balloon Museum and IAIA Digital Dome in Albuquerque and Santa Fe as well as across the Internet and “in the stars.”

“Meet Me at the Avant Garde” – A new musical collaboration bringstogetherUWM’sGuitarProgramand Theatre Department.

Beyond the Score: A unique performance/educational event that offers a multimedia examination of a selected score, in collaboration with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

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Nursing students helped out and visited with veterans and other residents of Bay Pointe at the Atrium Retirement Center in Racine on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 2011.

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Summer heats up UWM dance sceneby Beth Stafford

ummertime means great dance at UWM. In addition to a new work by Professor Luc

Vanier, the season features two concerts by MFA candidates and the annual Dancemakers program of graduate student work.

“SOMATOPHOBIA” JUNE 22-24“Somatophobia,” by Professor Luc Vanier, will

be presented at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. June 22-24 at Kenilworth Square East, room 508.

“Somatophobia” is a dance/multimedia experi-ence looking to reconnect the audience and the movers to the subtle physical energies associated with ego, character, presence and embodiment. This new collaborative work integrates psychology, medi-tation, theater and music with dance to create an intimate experience about the fear of embodiment.

Collaborators include Christine Barclay, newly graduated from the UWM Music Department in Composition and Voice; Dance alumnus Steven

Moses, a Milwaukee choreographer and dancer; digital interactive designer Dominic Amato; Dance alumna Jaimi Patterson, Your Mother Dances company member; New York designer Edward Winslow; and sculptor/dancer Marissa Waraksa.

Tickets for “Somatophobia” are $17/general admission; $12/seniors, faculty, staff and alumni; $10/students. Tickets are available through the Peck School Box Office, 414-229-4308, or online at arts.uwm.edu/tickets.

MFA CONCERTS JULY 6-7, 12-13An MFA thesis concert, “Whole,” by Emma

Drave, will be presented July 6-7 in Kenilworth Square East, room 508, at 7:30 p.m. Pay-what-you-can tickets will be available starting a half-hour prior to show time.

A second MFA thesis concert, “Combustible Gate,” co-produced by the Department of Dance and Danceworks, features new choreography from New York artist and UWM student Juliana May. The performance is July 12-13 at 8 p.m. at Danceworks, 1661 N. Water St. Contact Danceworks at 414-277-8480 for tickets.

DANCEMAKERS JULY 27-28Dancemakers, a concert of graduate student work

presented on July 27-28, showcases work by the professional dancers and choreographers who travel to Milwaukee each summer to participate in the Dance Department’s acclaimed graduate program.

The concert is in the Mainstage Theatre and begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12/general admis-sion; $10/seniors, faculty, staff and alumni; and $8/students. Tickets are available through the Peck School Box Office, 414-229-4308, or online at arts.uwm.edu/tickets.

Front to back: Norielle Johnson, Gina Laurenzi, Carrie Martin and Devin Settle investigate various ways to interact remotely in preparation for “Somatophobia.”

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Fine Arts Quartet free Summer Evenings of Music by Beth Stafford

In honor of the Fine Arts Quartet’s 66th anniver-sary, all Summer Evenings of Music concerts are free and open to the public. Space is limited and tickets are required.

Those interested in attending should phone the box office at 414-229-4308 as soon as possible.

In recognition of this anniversary, Stephen Basson, former Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra principal bassoonist, will host pre-concert talks begin-ning at 6:30 p.m.

All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Helen Bader Concert Hall at the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts. All programs subject to change.

Sunday, June 10With guest pianist Xiayin WangBeethoven Quartet Op.18-2; Zimbalist Quartet(1959); Faure Piano Quintet No.2, Op.115

Sunday, June 17Haydn Quartet Op.74-2; Dohnanyi Quartet No.2; Beethoven Quartet Op.59-3

Sunday, June 24With guest pianist Menahem Pressler and guest string bassist Robert KassingerMozart Quartet KV 575; Debussy Estampes; Schubert “Trout” Quintet

Thursday, June 28With guest violist Guillermo FigueroaMozart String Quintet in D major, KV 593; Brahms String Quintet Op.111

The Fine Arts Quartet 66th anniversary season is supported in part by co-presenting sponsors Sheldon & Marianne Lubar Fund of the Lubar Family Foundation and Katharine and Sandy Mallin. Co-sponsor is Dr. Lucile Cohn.

Fine Arts Quartet members (from left) Ralph Evans, violin; Efim Boico, violin; Robert Cohen, cello; and Nicoló Eugelmi, viola

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omen who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning

autism, such as Asperger’s Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study by researchers involved in the U.S. Autism Surveillance Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“It has long been known that autism is an umbrella term for a wide range of disorders that impair social and communication skills,” says Amy Kalkbrenner, assistant professor in UWM’s Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, lead author of the study. “What we are seeing is that some disorders on the autism spectrum, more than others, may be influenced by a factor such as whether a mother smokes during pregnancy.”

The study was published April 25 in an advance online release by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Smoking during pregnancy is still common in the U.S. despite its known harmful impacts on babies. Kalkbrenner found that 13 percent of mothers whose children were included in the study had smoked during pregnancy.

Kalkbrenner and colleagues’ population-based study compared smoking data from birth certificates of thousands of children from 11 states to a database of children diagnosed with autism maintained by the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDMN). Of the 633,989 children, born in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998, 3,315 were identified as having an autism spectrum disor-der at age 8.

“The study doesn’t say for certain that smoking is a risk factor for autism,” Kalkbrenner says. “But it does say that if there is an association, it’s between smoking and certain types of autism,” implicating the disorders on the autism spectrum that are less severe and allow children to function at a higher level. That connection, she adds, needs further study.

Several studies of possible links between envi-ronmental factors and autism were published by Environmental Health Perspectives at the same time as Kalkbrenner’s study. “The CDC recently released data indicating that 1 in 88 children has an autism spectrum disorder, making such environmental stud-ies even more timely,” says Kalkbrenner.

Because autism involves a broad spectrum of conditions and the interplay of genetics and environ-ment is so complex, no one study can explain all the causes of autism, she adds. “The goal of this work is to help provide a piece of the puzzle. And in this we were successful.”

For a pdf of the study, go to: dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104556.

In addition to lead author Kalkbrenner, co-authors include: Joe Braun, Harvard School of Public Health; Maureen Durkin, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; Matthew Maenner, Waisman Center at UW-Madison; Christopher Cunniff, University of Arizona College of Medicine; Li-Ching Lee, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Sydney Pettygrove, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona; Joyce Nicholas, Medical University of South Carolina; and Julie Daniels, UNC Gillings School of Public Health.

Planetarium celebrates rare transit of Venus UWM’s Manfred Olson Planetarium will host

a special event on Tuesday, June 5, to celebrate the astronomical transit of Venus. “Transit of Venus” will feature outdoor viewing, an indoor plan-etarium show, live music and food from 5-7:30 p.m. Admission is $2.

A transit of Venus occurs when Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth. During the transit, Venus becomes visible as a black disk moving across the inner edge of the Sun.

The transit of Venus is a rare astronomical event that will not happen again until the year 2117. Prior to the 2012 transit, transits of Venus have been observed only six times since the invention of the telescope. The most recent transit, which was only partially visible in Milwaukee, was in 2004.

“I’m excited to have a summer astronomi-cal party around the transit of Venus,” says Jean Creighton, planetarium director and program presenter. Creighton will explain what we learn from transits of Venus and planets around other stars. In addition, the audience will see stars projected on the planetarium dome to show city and country skies

and prepare stargazers for upcoming summer evenings.

“Transit of Venus” will feature a cookout with brats for sale, along with live music by Canyons of Static and Dawn of Man. During the event, guests will be able to look through telescopes with special filters to see the transit. (Serious eye damage or blindness can result from viewing the Sun without special equipment.)

In the event of inclement weather, live viewing of the transit will be canceled but the indoor portion of the event will go on as scheduled.

For more information, visit planetarium.uwm.edu. Planetarium shows are family-friendly but not suggested for children under 4.

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Amy Kalkbrenner studies the possible link between smoking during pregnancy and certain forms of autism.

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ixteen alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who have distinguished themselves

through outstanding achievements in their careers and civic involvement have been named recipients of the 2012 UWM Alumni Association awards.

They were honored at the Alumni Association’s Signature Event May 19 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. The event featured a perfor-mance by comedian, impressionist and UWM alum-nus Frank Caliendo (’96).

The Special Life Achievement, Citizenship and Distinguished Alumnus award winners also were recognized during Spring Commencement ceremonies.

Here are profiles of this year’s award winners.

SPECIAL LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDThis special award is designed to recognize outstanding and original life experiences and accomplishments. In the history of the UWM Alumni Association, only 13 alumni have received the award.

MARY T. KELLNER, ’78 MS Educational Psychology

Mary T. Kellner, president and director of the Kelben Foundation, has made significant contribu-tions to helping children overcome economic and education disparities.

Together with her husband, Ted, and their Kelben Foundation, she has invested in numerous initiatives to improve education. Among the contri-butions to UWM are the Kellner Professorship in Early Childhood Education, the School of Education Kellner Scholarship and the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business Kellner Scholarship.

After completing her master’s degree, she worked as a counselor in the Mequon-Thiensville and Grafton schools, helping establish a model program to help other counselors identify early warning signs for students using drugs and alcohol.

As president of the Next Door Foundation, she helped develop Books for Kids, a program that has put hundreds of thousands of books into the hands of Milwaukee children. Through the “I Have a

Dream” project, she and her husband are sponsor-ing scholarships for all students in the Clarke Street School first grade class of 2008 who graduate from high school ready to enroll in college.

The Kellners are also leading a campaign to expand the Milwaukee College Preparatory Academy, a high-performing school chartered by UWM.

In addition to her MS from UWM, Mary Kellner earned a BS in Education from UW-Madison and her doctorate in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning at Cardinal Stritch University.

At the time she and her husband established the early childhood professorship, she expressed her passion for education. “I’ve seen how important it is for children to get a good start, especially when they don’t come from privileged backgrounds. So many children get to school and they start behind and never catch up.”

ALUMNI CITIZENSHIP AWARDThe Alumni Citizenship Award recognizes UWM graduates who have performed significant voluntary service beyond the call of business or professional duty.

DENNIS R. McBRIDE, ’76 BA JournalismDennis R.

McBride is the epit-ome of civic involve-ment and citizenship. He backs up his belief in Milwaukee with action, serving those who do not have a voice, both professionally and as a private citizen.

As a senior trial attorney in the Milwaukee

office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), McBride has litigated employ-ment discrimination cases throughout the Midwest. In 1996, the Federal Executives Association of Milwaukee recognized his contributions with its Community Service Award.

Despite a busy family and professional life, he ran for and was elected an alderman for the City of Wauwatosa in 2008. That’s in addition to coordi-nating the Hedge School at Irish Fest, volunteering for the Wauwatosa School District and the state Retirement Board, and writing a blog for the local newspaper.

He is passionate about UWM and its importance to the future of Southeastern Wisconsin. McBride has served four terms as a member of the UWM Alumni Association Board of Trustees, one term on the UWM Board of Visitors and one year as ex officio director of the UWM Foundation. In 1986, he was inducted into what is now UWM’s Bud K. Haidet Athletics Hall of Fame, and he supports UWM sports through attendance at games and at Hall of Fame banquets.

As a Wauwatosa alderman, he has been a leading advocate for the development of UWM’s Innovation Park, a technical park located near Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

In addition to his UWM degree, McBride holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from Princeton University and a JD from the New York University School of Law.


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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARDSThe Distinguished Alumnus Award celebrates outstanding UWM graduates whose professional achievements and commit-ment to the community bring honor to the university.

LAUREL BEAR, MD, ’80 BS Medical ScienceLaurel Bear is a

board certified pediat-ric specialist who has forged her own path, becoming a pediatric hospitalist (special-izing in the care of children who are hospitalized) before the term was even used.

Exposure to medi-cally fragile babies at St. Joseph’s Hospital

in Milwaukee led Bear to the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where she manages the NICU Developmental Follow-Up Program and created the first program in the nation to focus on follow-up for babies requiring heart surgery prior to their first birthday. (Bear received her MD degree from MCW in 1984.)

Bear also is a teacher, role model, community leader and international volunteer as well as a wife and mother. Outside of her practice, she has served with the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center’s Steve and Shari Sadek Family Camp Interlaken, the Nicolet School District and the Global Medical Brigade.

As medical director at Camp Interlaken, she also volunteers as camp doctor for a week or more each summer. In 2011, she completed two terms (six years) on the Nicolet School Board, serving as board president and vice president. For several years, she has joined Global Medical Brigade trips to Honduras, contributing pediatric knowledge as well as mentoring students who also volunteer.

Her husband, Brian Bear, is winner of the 2011 UWM Alumni Association Citizenship Award and a practicing OB/GYN whom Laurel Bear met while both were attending the Target MD undergraduate program at UWM. Following in her parents’ foot-steps, one of the couple’s three daughters graduated from UWM in May.

DONALD F. GATZKE, ’79 MARCH

The career of Donald F. Gatzke demonstrates the power of a UWM degree.

Gatzke is a professor and dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Under his leadership, UTA has risen to be one of the top design schools in the country. He has

guided the establishment of two research centers at the school and an innovative graduate certificate program in real estate development that focuses on property repositioning and turnaround strategies.

Gatzke is an invited jurer for design awards spon-sored by the American Institute of Architects around the country, and has been an advisor to several planning committees in both Texas and Louisiana. He has won multiple awards for design and research over the course of his career.

Previously, he had been dean at the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans.

There, as a member of the Vieux Carre Commission, he helped oversee preservation efforts in the French Quarter. After Hurricane Katrina hit the city, Gatzke, who was already at UTA, volun-teered with a team that re-created a New Orleans planning department after most of the former depart-ment’s employees had left.

His loyalty to UWM shines through in the form of annual gifts and support of the STAR Fund, a scholarship fund that is used to attract the best and brightest students to SARUP.

GEORGE L. KELLING, ’62 MSW George L.

Kelling has assisted communities across the world in manag-ing and confronting crime. Stan Stojkovic, dean of UWM’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, believes that in the last 40 years, Kelling has had a more significant impact on the creation of effec-

tive crime reduction strategies than any other U.S. academic or police professional.

After receiving his MSW from UWM, Kelling went on to earn his PhD in Social Welfare from UW-Madison. He is now professor emeritus in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University; senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute; and profes-sor emeritus in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.

He is known for his work on the importance of “broken windows” policing (take care of the little things and the big things will follow), and how police can become more engaged in their communities to improve the quality of urban life.

Police chiefs describe how Kelling develops his facts, theories and significant body of work by work-ing in the streets, neighborhoods and police cars of the subjects he writes about. He “walks his talk” – one of the reasons his work has resonated and influenced practitioners over the years.

In addition to his extensive writings, Kelling has taught and mentored a generation of master’s and doctoral students who have gone on to influential positions in policing or at leading universities and think tanks. Kelling is currently involved in writing a book on policing in Milwaukee, consulting with police departments and cities around the country, and lecturing.

LYMAN TSCHANZ, ’82 MBALyman Tschanz is vice president, Operations,

responsible for global operations leadership in the Engineered to Order (ETO) businesses at Rockwell Automation, and has direct oversight of four of the

company’s manu-facturing facilities in North America and Latin America.

Tschanz has more than 30 years of experience in general management and operations, mergers and acquisitions, and global business management in auto-motive, automotive aftermarket, electrical

equipment and industrial automation industries. He joined Rockwell Automation in 2006 as direc-

tor of operations and was named vice president, Operations, in 2008. With a team of more than 2,000 geographically dispersed employees, Tschanz has a broad knowledge of the company’s markets, customers, culture and people.

Most recently, he was involved in the expansion of Rockwell Automation manufacturing in Brazil, a key growth market for the company. He has also been instrumental in the company’s manufacturing growth in Mexico, leading the development of new facilities and the expansion of existing locations in that country.

In addition to his service to several community nonprofit organizations, Tschanz has demonstrated support of the Lubar School’s undergraduate programs, student organizations and institutional collaborations. He has aided industry-student interaction in the areas of information technology management, engineering, and supply chain and operations management.

Tschanz has also facilitated connections between industry, universities abroad and UWM. In addition, he frequently speaks to Lubar students on topics such as personal development and leadership, and preparing for life after college.

GRADUATE OF THE LAST DECADE (GOLD) AWARDSThe GOLD Award recognizes recent graduates who have achieved a measure of success in their fields, bringing credit to themselves and to the university.

School of Architecture & Urban PlanningBRETT M. LEONHARDT, ’05 BS Architectural Studies

Brett M. Leonhardt is recognized as a versatile leader within the building industry. He is currently taking part in a scholarship-internship with The Rockefeller Group awarded to two students annually by New York University,

where he is a master’s candidate for a degree in Real Estate Development Finance & Investment. Additionally, Leonhardt is co-chair of the Green Buildings + Campus Planning Committee at NYU.

Before taking his current position with Rockefeller, Brett worked at the firm HOK in New York on projects ranging from towers of more than 500 meters to complex, state-of-the-art hospitals. He has been involved in the design of two Leadership in

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Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum Certified projects, and several LEED Silver and Gold projects.

Leonhardt is a founding member of IMPACT, an organization at HOK that aims to connect all HOK offices in activities that support community, sustain-ability and volunteerism, and is a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.

Leonhardt is described as someone with “a lively curiosity and generous spirit,” which includes a devotion to SARUP alumni. Founder and modera-tor of the alumni group on LinkedIn, he also is coordinator of alumni gatherings in New York. As a member of the leadership committee of the Bob Greenstreet Honorary Scholarship (honoring the longtime SARUP dean), Leonhardt is one of the people instrumental in raising more than $30,000 this year.

Peck School of the ArtsKevin Horrigan, ’08 BFA Guitar Performance

As a gradu-ate of the world’s only bachelor’s degree program in finger-style guitar, Kevin Horrigan has promoted UWM to the world as winner of the 2011 International Finger Style Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kan.

Horrigan also won the 2011 Canadian National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, also a very prestigious competition. He is the only person in history to take first place at both contests.

Seven years ago, when UWM’s Peck School of the Arts (PSOA) created the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Music programs specializing in finger-style guitar, Horrigan was a business major at UW-La Crosse. He was taking some music elec-tives and found himself spending more time on those classes than he did working toward a business degree. He transferred to UWM and joined the new finger-style program.

John Stropes, director of guitar studies at PSOA, says Horrigan “distinguished himself while at UWM by composing instrumental solos with a happy funk groove using extended techniques – two-hands-on-the-fingerboard, percussion, right-hand string-stopping.”

Currently, Horrigan is working full time at We Energies, but the new guitar honors are helping provide inspiration to finish composing his first CD and move toward a full-time career in music perfor-mance and instruction.

Sheldon B. Lubar School of BusinessELIZABETH JACOBS, MD, ’09 Executive MBA

Elizabeth Jacobs has distinguished herself as an educator, researcher and practicing clinician. She serves as the associate dean for research at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

A nationally recognized researcher, she was appointed associate chief of staff for research at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Center in September

2011. One area of her responsibilities is building the research program at the VA Medical Center through collabora-tions with regional academic partners, including UWM, where she mentors junior faculty.

Prior to her faculty appoint-ment, Jacobs trained

at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, the University of Arkansas Health Science Center and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. She has been a faculty member at the Medical College since 1989 and is recognized for her mentoring of young scientists.

She is an accomplished clinician, and has published more than 65 original investigations. Jacobs serves as a contributing editor to journals including the American Journal of Physiology: Heart.

As part of her long-standing commitment to advancing her field, Jacobs is active on many committees and associations. She has served on a number of National Institutes of Health Study Sections, including Respiratory and Integrative Biology, and Translational Research.

School of EducationDARRELL L. WILLIAMS, ’07 PhD Urban Education

Darrell L. Williams, principal of Casimir Pulaski High School, is an educator and scholar who has served Milwaukee Public Schools for almost 20 years. He is also a military officer with more than 20 years of leadership experience.

At MPS, he has taken some of the most challenging schools in Milwaukee and created a higher level of structure, discipline and education focus, according to Latish Reed, assistant professor of administrative leader-ship, who nominated Williams.

Williams works collaboratively with students, parents and community to improve schools. He also takes time to mentor new administrators, and has been active in the community and the education profession through numerous organizations.

As principal of Whittier Elementary, he organized parents and community members to rebuild a tot lot devastated by fire. At John Burroughs Middle School, he developed the Twilight Program, an inter-vention for retained and overage students, offering night classes. He also established a junior chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers at the school, the only one in an MPS school. At the same time, he increased student achievement in mathemat-ics and reading, and reduced suspension rates.

His work was honored by the Milwaukee Times with a Black Excellence Award in Education.

College of Engineering & Applied ScienceTIEN NHUT NGUYEN, ’05 PhD Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Tien Nhut Nguyen stands as an exemplar of UWM’s academic strength. A tenured associate professor of computer engineering at Iowa State University, Nguyen has succeed-ed at a university that is widely considered stronger than UWM. His training here shows that UWM’s

real quality is higher than its current reputation. Nguyen was one of the very best doctoral

students ever to graduate in computer science from UWM. He won the Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award for three consecutive years. His course grades were perfect and he was quite productive, publishing more than a dozen conference papers and conduct-ing high-quality research on software configuration management.

At Iowa State, he has built a talented team of PhD students with whom he has published almost 40 papers. He is on the editorial boards of two inter-national journals and has served as a reviewer for eight others.

In 2008, Nguyen was awarded the Litton Industries Professorship, which supports young faculty who exhibit a potential for leadership in electrical or computer engineering research, have a recognized commitment to excellence in teaching and collaborate with industry.

College of Health SciencesJULIE KINZELMAN, ’02 MS Health Sciences

Julie Kinzelman is an active research scientist and director of the City of Racine Health Department Laboratory. She holds an academic appointment at the University of Surrey, where she earned her PhD in Public Health and Environmental Microbiology in 2005, as well as

positions at UWM (College of Health Sciences and School of Freshwater Sciences) and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Her research focuses on the implementation of rapid monitoring methods and developing applied science solutions to improve surface water quality. She is part of a network of researchers who are concerned with the health of the Great Lakes.

Ongoing collaborative projects include the devel-opment and implementation of tools to identify pollution sources at Great Lakes beaches, supporting regional watershed restoration plans, developing sustainable best management strategies to improve water quality and increasing laboratory capacity for rapid testing. In the future, rapid tests will replace older methods that took up to 24 hours to notify the public of unsafe swimming conditions.


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Kinzelman has authored more than 25 papers and three book chapters, and has given more than 100 presentations in relation to these efforts. Her many research grants have allowed her to mentor graduate and undergraduate students from 14 differ-ent academic institutions.

School of Information StudiesUMASHANIE REDDY, ’08 MLIS

Umashanie Reddy is manager of diver-sity services at the Calgary (Alberta) Public Library. She works closely with local immigrant-serv-ing agencies and the federal government to serve the city’s diverse populations.

She is currently managing the Library Settlement Services

Project, funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. This project, the second of its kind in west-ern Canada, provides services to newcomers to help them feel welcomed and settled in Calgary.

Before earning her master’s degree at UWM, Reddy worked in South Africa for 18 years as a librarian at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Before immigrating to Canada, she fought a lengthy battle with cancer. She earned her bachelor’s and honours degrees in Library Science from the University of South Africa with distinction, winning the faculty medal for best performance.

She is a strong promoter of Canadian multi-culturalism and won the Calgary Public Library’s Inaugural Dragons’ Den Award for a DVD she developed in multiple world languages to introduce newcomers to the library.

One faculty member who taught Reddy summed up: “Umashanie is a remarkable person, having experienced apartheid in her home country and immigration to a new one, while suffering from a life-threatening disease.”

College of Letters & ScienceAMY TURIM, ’06 BA Sociology

Every accomplish-ment on the resume of Amy Turim can be tied to her experi-ences and passions while at UWM.

In her professional and personal lives, Turim has established herself as a recog-nized voice for people living in poverty.

Her job at Jomela Properties includes

managing housing programs for families living below the poverty line and for young people emerg-ing from the foster care system.

On a volunteer basis, she lobbies for community improvement, working for the Garden Homes Land Compact on urban food gardens, youth activities and cleanups. She was chosen to join the Reader Advisory Committee by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board. Later, she became a community columnist for the paper, addressing topics such as

race relations, healthy eating and housing patterns.Turim also volunteers at the Guest House,

the largest publicly funded emergency shelter in Milwaukee, and has helped advocate for home-owners facing foreclosure with the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA).

An outstanding representative of UWM, Turim graduated summa cum laude and was a member of both Honors College and three honors societies. She competed with the UWM Mock Trial team as a student and is still involved, serving as a coach and judge.

College of NursingKRISTIN HAGLUND, ’02 PhD Nursing

Kristin Haglund, associate professor of nursing at Marquette University, is a nurse practitioner, educator and researcher who focuses her efforts on the significant prob-lems of Milwaukee adolescents – teen pregnancy and violence.

She has done extensive research on

adolescent sexuality, sexual risk reduction behaviors and dating violence. In 2010, she was named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to conduct research on the relationship between drinking and sexual involve-ment among adolescents in England.

She earned her MSN and FNP (Family Nurse Practitioner) degrees at UW-Oshkosh and her BSN in nursing from Marquette. Before teaching at Marquette, she worked as a nurse practitioner for the Milwaukee Adolescent Health Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin and as a public health nurse for the City of Milwaukee.

Those who nominated Haglund mentioned both her research and her teaching. One cited her ability to collaborate with others, both within the nursing profession and in other disciplines, on research. Others mentioned her leadership in mentoring students.

One doctoral student she mentored wrote: “Dr. Haglund exemplifies excellence – she has found the balance between teaching and research and has done both exceptionally well. She is a shining example of the rigor and excellence that UW-Milwaukee expects of its doctoral students.”

Helen Bader School of Social WelfareGRETCHEN MEAD, ’04 MSW

Gretchen Mead is founder and director of the Victory Garden Initiative (VGI), an effort that combines her training as a clinical social worker with her interests in gardening and the environment.

Mead is recognized nationally as being in the forefront of the local food movement, educating resi-dents about the benefits of community gardening, mobilizing neighborhoods toward local food produc-tion and making possible the creation of numerous garden plots.

In part, VGI resulted from Mead’s work in direct patient care with Aurora Health Care and her view of the impact of the food system on her clients. She saw many health problems climbing at an alarming rate, especially among those who relied on cheap, overly processed staples and food banks.

Mead launched VGI from her own front yard in Shorewood, Wis. The fourth annual Victory Garden Installation Blitz expanded in 2012 from a single Saturday to a week, May 19-26, with volunteers installing hundreds of residential gardens.

Associate Professor Deborah Padgett, chair of the UWM Department of Social Work, describes how Mead’s passion and commitment inspire students via classroom presentations. “While most social work students are invested in individual-level change efforts, Gretchen has helped them understand the importance of what social workers call ‘macro’ change and to envision how this type of change is possible.”

GOLD Award recipient Gretchen Mead

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Talisma Software Facilitates Strategic, Personalized Recruitment Efforts

This past fall, the Department of Recruitment and Outreach (DRO) put into action a new tool to streamline, customize and manage campus recruitment efforts focused on prospective UWM students. Named Talisma, the software package automates communications and interactions with prospective students in a manner that can be tracked and coordinated within a broader recruitment or outreach campaign that targets the prospective student’s areas of interest.

With its versatility and functionality, Talisma is at the top of customer relationship management (CRM) systems.

“Talisma fully utilizes automation to integrate activities,” said Jan Ford, Executive Director, DRO. “It allows us to be strategic, systematic, personalized and responsive in managing and building relationships with others. As far as functionality and what we can do, it’s extraordinary.”

A New EraPrior to Talisma, DRO responded or reached out to students mainly by using

information stored in PAWS (Panther Access to Web Services). Information about a prospective student was, and still is, collected each time there is contact with that individual. This can happen through a visit program, telephone call, email, letter, campus tour, referral, or through efforts of DRO representatives, dubbed the “road warriors,” who visit high schools and college fairs and collect information from prospective students using contact cards. This information was then entered into the PAWS system. Combined with electronically loaded information gleaned from ACT scores and applications submitted to the University, DRO staff could then query PAWS data based on a variety of parameters (demographics, areas of interest, test scores, etc.) and from there, tailor communications accordingly.

“It was a reactive way of doing things,” said Matt Rismeyer, DRO senior information systems analyst and Talisma project manager. “PAWS is a great repository for information but once we conduct a query, there’s no way to automate, personalize and track communication, or points of contact, with prospective students.”

With Talisma, all of this is possible. Streamlined data entry of contact cards is now done directly into Talisma, and is made much more efficient—with data entry time dropping from five minutes needed per card to about ninety seconds. Cards can also be entered remotely while “on the road,” allowing for immediate and automated email follow-up. There are also web-based contact options that result

in the creation of a prospective student record. Depending on a student’s areas of interest, materials can be customized and personalized to address the student and their interests directly, even in automated responses. Communication can be distributed by mail, email, or online chat. Text capabilities are being considered.

“We can set up ‘campaigns’ in Talisma much like when we would run queries in PAWS,” said Rismeyer. “Except, once we set the parameters, whenever new prospective students enter the system, they automatically enter a flow of interactions and touchpoints, receiving the communications they need. It’s continuous, and our ability to be as strategic and specific as we want in our targeting is phenomenal.”

Coordinated and Trackable Efforts

By entering information and coordinating communication efforts through Talisma, a strategic and systematic approach to reaching out to prospective students becomes possible. This summer, other schools and colleges will access and utilize the system, bringing together what at one time were disparate communication efforts from multiple units on campus. The ability to track and sequence which communications are sent to which prospective students or what recruitment efforts are taking place across campus helps prevent a prospective student from receiving repeat communications, or communications that do not fall within their relevant interests.

“Talisma allows us to be current—to use a balanced complement of communication avenues to better respond to how today’s students communicate, receive and process information,” said Ford. “Once schools and colleges are up and running, we will be able to coordinate and truly integrate campus efforts to strategically build personal, customized relationships with prospective students that are purposeful, impactful and lasting.”

For more information about Talisma and how it can be integrated into your student communications, contact Jan Ford at [email protected].

“It allows us to be strategic and systemic in managing and building relationships with others. As far as functionality and what we can do, it’s extraordinary.” Jan Ford, director, DRO

UWM IT Infrastructure Program to Reach Important Milestones this Summer Initiative will implement a redesigned network configuration for campus

Last December, Chancellor Michael R. Lovell approved significant funding to update the core network of the UWM campus and the UWM IT Infrastructure Program was born. Designed to replace aging network equipment no longer supported by the vendor but critical to the continued operation of the campus network, the UWM IT Infrastructure Program also aims to implement a redesigned network configuration for campus. Moving towards a new “layered” network on campus as designed by the UWM IT Infrastructure Program team will allow for a greater quality of service and the flexibility to meet future campus needs.

In addition to replacing the core network, the UWM IT Infrastructure Program will:

• Allow for increased flexibility and functionality under the new “layered” network design

• Support the campus expansion of UWM WiFi

• Provide enhanced network security for further protection of confidential data

This spring, the new equipment was ordered and has arrived. University Information Technology Services (UITS) staff then met with consultants for a “white-boarding” session to design the new architecture for the core network. Equipment is currently being tested and placed in simulated operational scenarios in advance of its placement throughout campus this summer.

“By the end of the summer, the core network infrastructure will have been replaced,” said Paula Brossard, project manager, UWM IT Infrastructure Program. “It’s very exciting to see this project come to fruition.”

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Future UWM Email/Calendaring Options Being WeighedTeam chartered to gather campus requirements and provide final recommendation

A team has been assembled to work on the UWM Email/Calendar Service Project. Tasked with evaluating and recommending a future service option for UWM email/calendaring needs, the team will build off the work completed by the UWM Email/Calendaring Evaluation Working Group last year. The working group had considered four options based upon a criteria that included cost, security, usage and support, accessibility, and general strengths/weaknesses.

The four options included:

• Continued on-campus hosting of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite software (branded pantherLINK)

• Off-campus hosting of the Zimbra product

• Outsourcing to Google Apps for Education

• Outsourcing to Microsoft Live@EDU

The UWM Email/Calendar Service Project team will evaluate these options further as they gather University requirements for an email/calendaring service before making a recommendation to Chancellor Michael R. Lovell and his Cabinet

for a final decision. Currently, the team is meeting with and interviewing faculty, staff and students to gather the information.

“Right now we’re taking the first steps in this very important process,” said BobbyJo Morse, project manager, UWM Email/Calendar Service Project. “We can’t thank enough everyone who was a part of the UWM Email/Calendaring Evaluation Working Group for all of their hard work that has pointed us in the right direction. We plan to continue to listen to campus stakeholders in an effort to provide them with an email/calendaring service option that best fits their needs.”

For more information about the UWM Email/Calendar Service Project, visit EmailFuture.uwm.edu.

UWM WiFi Expansion in Full SwingService in Bolton Hall effective June 10

UWM WiFi is on the move, expanding into four campus buildings by the end of the summer. Work has already begun to bring the service to Bolton and Lubar Halls, including instructional spaces, with Lapham Hall and Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (EMS) to follow.

The expansion will replace PROWLnet, the University’s current wireless service, and provide the capacity to meet the needs of the increased proliferation of wireless devices on campus. Using a capacity-planning model, more than 600 access points will be installed in the initial four buildings as a part of the UWM WiFi Phase 1 expansion.

Building occupants impacted by installation efforts will receive communications two weeks prior to work beginning and throughout the process. New signage on campus building doors will delineate whether PROWLnet or UWM WiFi is the wireless service in the building.

Get Your Devices ReadyAs UWM WiFi rolls out across campus, now is the time to set up personal and University-owned laptops, smartphones and tablets for the service. For personal devices, visit UWMWiFi.uwm.edu for manual set-up instructions, as well as an automated tool for Windows 7 devices. It is important to note that in order to set up a device, an individual must be present in a location where UWM WiFi is available. Faculty and staff with University-owned devices should consult with their local IT professional about device set-up.

Visit UWMWiFi.uwm.edu for information about the service and expansion.

New Login Process for Desire2Learn (D2L) Beginning last month, individuals seeking to log-in to D2L are now directed to a landing page where they choose between two authentication options: one for using an ePantherID and password and one for non-ePanther accounts. UWM students registered for classes through PAWS as well as faculty and staff who work on a D2L course site as an instructor or teaching assistant must use the “UWM ePanther Account Login” option. UWM instructors using special accounts to see their D2L course site from a student’s perspective must login using the “non ePanther Account Login” option. Other individuals who must use the “non-ePanther Account Login” option include those without an active ePantherID and password such as students and instructors in most non-credit, continuing education and professional development classes, students registered through an institution other than UWM, guest students and instructors, and non-UWM research project collaborators.

Once a login option is selected, individuals simply enter their user name and password to be directed to the D2L MyHome page.

With this change, D2L joins a growing list of services enrolled in UWM’s Identity and Access Management’s (IAM) Enterprise Single Sign-on (ESSO) initiative that simplifies and enhances the process of authentication and management of individual accounts. Logging in through this new method allows individuals to access other services under the ESSO umbrella without reentering their credentials. As such, it is important to remember when leaving D2L to both log out of the service as well as close the browser.

The new iPadWith the stunning Retina display.

5MP iSight camera. And ultrafast 4G LTE.

Visit the UWM TechStore to “test drive” and

purchase the new iPad!

Bolton Hall 225AHours: Monday–Friday

9:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Tuesday until 6:30 p.m.

Web: TechStore.uwm.edu

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

ndy Geiger, former athletics director for five NCAA Division I programs including Ohio

State and Stanford University, has been named athletics director at UWM. He begins immediately.

“We believe Andy Geiger possesses the leader-ship qualities to bring stability and continuity to UWM Athletics during this transitional phase,” said Chancellor Michael R. Lovell. “During his extremely distinguished career, Andy has gained an unparalleled breadth of experiences that will allow him to fully support our coaches and to significantly enhance the collegiate experiences of our Athletics Department’s greatest asset: UWM’s student-athletes. His administrative and facilities-development expertise will also be immensely help-ful as UWM embarks on a campuswide strategic planning process.”

“The opportunity to be part of the leadership team at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is ideal for me,” said Geiger. “I am ready to apply the experience of 35 years as a Division 1 athletics director to the student-athletes, coaches and staff at UWM. I look forward eagerly to being part of the UWM community.

“Especially meaningful personally is the fact that I will be working just a few blocks from where my father was born and raised. So this is, in a unique way, a kind of homecoming.

“And so, with great energy and a deep commit-ment to serve UW-Milwaukee, I am proud to say ‘Go Panthers.’”

Horizon League Commissioner Jon LeCrone said: “Andy Geiger is one of the outstanding leaders in intercollegiate athletics, and Milwaukee is fortu-

nate to have someone of his experience and wisdom to guide its program. We are excited to have him as part of our Horizon League family, and we all will benefit greatly from his expertise.”

Among Geiger’s many honors are being named to the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Hall of Fame in 2010 and receiving the Division 1A Directors of Athletics 2009 Homer Rice Award, which is presented annually to an athletics director with a distinguished career who has made a significant impact on the profession and intercollegiate athletics.

At Ohio State, Geiger led one of the largest athlet-ics departments in the country, with 36 sports and nearly 1,000 student-athletes for 11 years (1994-2005).

During that time, student-athletes excelled both in the classroom and in their sports. In his final two years, Ohio State had more student-athletes named to the Academic All-Big Ten Team than any other school. Teams won 15 national championships.

He oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars of construction projects, including the building of six athletic facilities and the renovation of four others.

Among the construction projects:• Jerome Schottenstein Center (basketball, $110

million construction budget, 19,200 seats);• Bill Davis Stadium (baseball, $4.7 million, 4,450

seats);• Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium (track and field,

and soccer, $11 million, 10,000 seats); and• Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatics Pavilion (swim-

ming and diving, $33 million, 1,400 seats).He also oversaw the $194 million renovation of

Ohio Stadium from 1999-2001 that pushed its capac-ity for football to more than 101,000 seats.

According to Ohio State University, the renova-tion employed a creative financing plan in which no university or student monies were used during the renovation process.

In addition to Geiger’s service to Ohio State, he was athletics director at the University of Maryland (1990-94), Stanford (1979-90), University of Pennsylvania (1975-79) and Brown University (1971-75).

Geiger named UWM athletics director

Kyle Rechlicz has been named the new head coach for UWM Women’s Basketball. She comes to the Milwaukee Panthers from UW-Madison, where she served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Badger Women’s Basketball for the 2011-12 season.

“We believe Kyle is the right person for the future of UWM Women’s Basketball,” said Chancellor Michael R. Lovell. “Her outstanding experience as a coach, recruiter and player will carry on the strong tradition of our basketball program and make her a wonderful successor to Sandy Botham.”

Said Rechlicz: “I am looking forward to build-ing a championship Horizon League program that features an exciting style of basketball, focuses on student-athletes being prepared for life after their playing days, and links the student body, community and alumni to Panther Women’s Basketball.

Many Wisconsin basketball fans may better know

Rechlicz as Kyle Black, who was a key member of very successful UW-Madison women’s basketball teams from 1998-2002. For the 2000-01 and 2001-02 teams that went to the NCAA Tournament, she served as co-captain and was named to the Academic All-Big 10 Team.

Since her playing days, Rechlicz has been associ-ate head coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of Dayton (2007-11), and assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Cleveland State (2003-07).

Rechlicz, who was brought back to her alma mater in April 2011 by first-year head coach Bobbie Kelsey, directed the UW-Madison recruiting efforts that led to the signing of five highly regarded players and one transfer from Connecticut.

She also assisted with all aspects of on-court coaching, with specific responsibility for player preparation and skill development of guards.

Rechlicz is new women’s basketball coach

Andy Geiger (left) is welcomed to UWM by Chancellor Michael R. Lovell.

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NEW MEDIA VIEWING ROOMGroups from two to 20 people can now watch

videotapes, DVDs, Blu-Ray discs and international DVDs on a 55-inch LCD monitor in a new viewing room in the Media and Reserve Library (lower level west wing, Golda Meir Library).

The space is intended for educational use by UWM faculty, staff and students for up to four hours at a time.

Users must present their valid UWM ID for admission to the room, and are responsible for the condition of the room and the equipment.

It is available either on a first-come, first-served basis or by reservation via an online form on the Media and Reserve Library’s website at www4.uwm.edu/libraries/media/mediaviewform.cfm.

FUND ESTABLISHED TO UNDERWRITE OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS’ AUTHOR FEES

The UWM Libraries are committed to support-ing the ability of our faculty and researchers to participate more fully in the scholarly publication process. There are currently more than 7,500 open access journal titles, and some of these require that the authors pay a fee once their article is accepted for publication.

The UWM Open-Access Publication (UOAP) Fund has been established to underwrite article processing fees for open-access journals. The fund is supported through Indirect Funds made available to the UWM Libraries. The campus Task Force on Scholarly Communication and Open Access devel-oped this plan.

Information about eligibility and funding is avail-able at www4.uwm.edu/libraries/uoap/.

UWM LIBRARIES

BRAND-NAME VS. GENERIC

What’s in a Name? It is no surprise to anyone who has had to get a

prescription drug recently that the cost of medicine continues to rise.

Americans are now spending well over $100 billion a year for prescription drugs – more than double what was spent in 1990.

By being a smart health care consumer, you can help control your out-of-pocket costs for medications prescribed by your doctor.

Thanks to mass advertising, we have brand-name bias that encourages us to buy a recognized item over a lesser-known counterpart. This is true from jeans to orange juice to medications.

Sometimes well-known brands are superior, but not always. Not, for example, when it comes to prescription drugs.

New drugs, like other new products, are developed under patent protection. When the patent expires, other manufac-turers can apply to the FDA to sell a generic version of the brand-name drug.

Because the generic manu-facturer does not have to repeat all of the costly research for the drug, generics can cost substantially less than brand-name equivalents. In most cases, generic drugs are as effective as brand-name drugs.

But that does not mean that the FDA does not take a careful look at the generic drug before it is released to the marketplace. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tests new generic drugs to make sure that they are safe and effective.

To gain FDA approval, a generic drug must:• Have the same active ingredients as its brand-

name twin; • Be identical in strength, dosage form and method

of administration; • Have the same use indications – and have the

same patient information inserts as the original medication;

• Be bioequivalent – the drug has to act on the body in the same way the brand-name drug does;

• Meet batch requirements for identity, strength, purity and quality; and

• Be manufactured under the FDA’s Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulations. All drug manu-facturers have to meet the same high standards for both brand-name and generic medications.

What is the difference between a generic and brand-name medication?

A generic drug contains all of the same active ingredients and must be equivalent in strength and dosage to the brand-name product. However, the

inactive ingredients can be different. Inactive ingredients are used to

keep a tablet from crumbling, add bulk to make it large enough to handle, or give an appealing taste or color.

Why would you want to choose a generic drug over a brand-name drug?

About half of all the drugs on the market are available in

generic form – and may save you 20 percent or more compared to the cost of a brand-name drug. The aver-age cost of a generic drug is $12-$15 compared to $65 or more for brand-name drugs.

The co-payment you pay through the Navitus Health Solutions prescription drug

program reflects this, as you will only pay a $5 co-payment for most generic drugs, compared to higher co-payments for brand-name medications.

How do you get a generic drug?Ask your doctor if a generic option is available

and appropriate. Your doctor can indicate on the prescription that the pharmacist can substitute a generic drug.

Your doctor should always make the final deci-sion about what’s best for your health and medical treatment. Asking your doctor to prescribe generic medications when they are available and appropriate is a smart way to reduce your health care costs.

By choosing generic drugs whenever possible, you will not only reduce your out-of-pocket costs, but save money for the State Group Health Plan and, in turn, help control rising health care costs.

BENEFITS

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES• Electronic submissions only, either by email document or

Internet (see addresses below).

• If an entry requires diacritics or other special marks, a hard copy of the entry noting such marks should be faxed to 414-229-6443 as a backup to the electronic submission.

• Enclose names to appear in boldface type in < >. Also enclose all material to be italicized.

• Do not submit grant information to Report. The “Grants” section is supplied by UW System via the Graduate School.

DEADLINES

Issue DeadlineNo July or August issuesSeptember Fri., July 27October Fri., Aug. 24November Mon., Sept. 24December Wed., Oct 26No January 2013 issue

E-mail submissions: [email protected] submissions: wwww4.uwm.edu/news/publications/report/ftr-form.cfm

PEOPLESHELDON B. LUBAR SCHOOL OF BUSINESSBelle Rose Ragins, Jorge Gonzalez, Kyle Ehrhardt and Romila Singh have recieved the 2012 Dorothy Harlow Meritorious Paper Award for the best paper submitted to the Annual Academy of Management Meeting. Their paper, “The spillover of community racial diversity and diversity climate to the workplace,” summarized a study in which employees reported stronger intentions to leave their communities, and ultimately their workplaces, when living in communities with poor diversity climates. The study was funded by grants from the UW Institute for Race and Ethnicity and the UWM Institute for Diversity Education and Leadership, and also supported by the Roger L. Fitzsimonds Distinguished Scholar Award that Ragins received in 2010. The award will be presented at the August 2012 National Academy of Management Meeting in Boston.

EDUCATIONCURRICULUM & INSTRUCTIONRaquel Oxford presented “Integrating social justice issues into the world language curriculum and related disci-plines” at the Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference held at the Indian Community School, Franklin, Wis., April 21.

Raquel Oxford was selected as a Wisconsin Teaching Scholar for 2012-13.

EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATIONP. Snyder, T. McLaughlin, Mary McLean and M.L. Hemmeter presented “Impact of Professional Development on Preschool Teachers’ Use of Embedded-Instruction Practices” at the Conference on Research Innovations in Early Intervention held in San Diego Feb. 23.

HEALTH SCIENCESHEALTH SCIENCESA. Patnaik, S.M. Wcislak, L.C. Cantley and Jennifer A. Doll, “Metformin increases lipolytic metabolism and PEDF expression in prostate cancer cells,” poster pre-sented at the Prostate Cancer Foundation Annual Retreat, Lake Tahoe, CA, Sept. 22-25, 2012, and at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 31-April 4, 2012.

P.N. Venkatasubramanian, P.S. Fitchev, C.B. Brendler, B.A. Plunkett, G.M. Morgan, M.L. Cornwell, J. O’Leary, J. Pruitt, A. Stadnik, M. Burright, M.S. McGuire, A.M. Wyrwicz and Jennifer A. Doll, “Metabolic and functional analysis of peri-prostatic adipose tissue from prostate cancer patients,” poster presented at the Prostate Cancer Foundation Annual Retreat, Lake Tahoe, CA, Sept. 22-25, 2012.

P.N. Venkatasubramanian, S.E. Crawford, P.S. Fitchev, C.B. Brendler, B.A. Plunkett, B. Abroe, M. Mafi, G. Morgan, M.L. Cornwell, J. O’Leary, J. Pruitt, A. Stadnik, M.J. Burright, M.S. McGuire, A.M. Wyrwicz and Jennifer A. Doll, “Periprostatic fat from obese patients promotes prostate cancer growth,” poster presented at the American

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Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 31-April 4.

LETTERS & SCIENCEANTHROPOLOGYTrudy Turner has been named editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, an official publication of the American Association of Physical Anthropology. She will serve a five-year term.

PHILOSOPHYMargaret Atherton was a featured speaker at the 2012 Philosophy Capstone at Hampden-Sydney (VA) College April 10-11. Her talk was on “Spirits and Substances.”

Luca Ferrero presented a paper, “The Stability of Intentions,” in a symposium on Diachronic Agency at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 6.

William Wainwright delivered a lec-ture on “Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Epistemology” at Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH, on Feb. 17.

PSYCHOLOGYC.L. Casnar, L.A. Kais, F. van der Fluit and Bonita P. Klein-Tasman presented a poster, “Fine Motor Abilities in Young Children with Neurofibromatosis-1,” at the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society held in Montreal in February.

Karyn Frick was invited to give a Neuroscience Program Colloquium at Florida State University on March 14. The title of her talk was, “Building a bet-ter hormone therapy? How understand-ing rapid effects of estrogens could lead to new therapies for age-related memory decline.”

Fred Helmstetter gave a lecture on memory and the brain sponsored by the Biology Department at St. Norbert’s College in DePere, WI, on March 23. It was the featured address to kick off the college’s National Brain Awareness Week activities.

Michael Hynan presented a webinar for the National Premature Infant Health Coalition on May 9, “Acute Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Postpartum Depression in Parents of NICU Babies.”

K.M. Janke, Bonita P. Klein-Tasman, S.J. Hunter, J.H. Tonsgard and M.J. Schuett presented a poster, “Relations Between Cognitive Functioning and Early Academic Skills in Preschool-Aged Children with NF1,” at the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society held in Montreal in February.

L.A. Kais, S.M. Berka, Bonita P. Klein-Tasman, S.J. Hunter, J.H. Tonsgard and D.A. Haberman presented a poster, “Interrelations Among Social Skills, Attention Problems and Intellectual Functioning in Young Children with Neurofibromatosis-1,” at the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society held in Montreal in February.

Anajli Rameshbabu, Diane Reddy and Ray Fleming presented “Correlates of Negative Health in Call Center Shift Workers” at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting held in New Orleans April 11-14.

Diane Reddy, Ray Fleming, Laura Pedrick (Academic Affairs), Christina Wade, Danielle Jirovec, Jessie

Deininger, Amanda Brouwer, Katie Ports and Anjali Rameshbabu pre-sented “U-Pace Instruction Produces Deep Learning in Academically Underprepared Undergraduates” at the Innovations Conference held in Philadelphia in March.

F. van der Fluit and Bonita P. Klein-Tasman presented a poster, “A Case Study of Co-occurring 15q13.3 dele-tion and Williams syndrome,” at the Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities held in Annapolis, MD, in March.

F.M. Espil, M.R. Capriotti, J.A. Johnson, C.A. Conelea and Douglas W. Woods presented a poster, “Assessing the rela-tive contributions of tic frequency and tic intensity functional impairment in youth with chronic tic disorders,” at the 45th annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Toronto.

F.M. Espil, M.R. Capriotti, E.M. Ricketts, C.A. Conelea and Douglas W. Woods presented a poster, “Self-reported medica-tion use and outcome in a community sample of children with chronic tic dis-orders,” at the 45th annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Toronto.

L. Graham, M. Freitag, W. Fitts, R. Ghaffarian, M.B. Himle, M.R. Walther, S. Franklin, L. Ely and Douglas W. Woods presented a poster, “Using videoconfer-ence to disseminate behavior therapy for tics: parent and clinician outcomes from a randomized pilot trial,” at the 45th annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Toronto.

E.J. Ricketts, B.C. Brandt and Douglas W. Woods presented a poster, “Cause of Hair Loss on the Social Evaluation of Female Hair Pullers Engaging in Preventative Disclosure of Trichotillomania,” at the 45th annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Toronto.

E.J. Ricketts, I. Snorrason, C.A. Flessner M.E. Franklin and Douglas W. Woods presented a poster, “Body focused repeti-tive behaviors in pathological skin pick-ing,” at the 45th annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Toronto.

I. Snorrason, R.P. Olafsson, C.A. Flessner N.J. Keuthen, M.E. Franklin and Douglas W. Woods presented a poster, “Skin picking scale: Factor structure and psy-chometric properties,” at the 45th annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Toronto.

C.T. Wetterneck, C.A. Flessner, Douglas W. Woods, E.B. Lee, R. Manos and D.S. Steinberg presented a poster, “Personality characteristics and experiential avoidance in trichotillomania: Results from an age and gender matched sample,” at the 45th annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Toronto.

HELEN BADER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFAREAnne Basting lectured at the University of Toronto March 23 on the topic of “Forget Memory: Representations of Memory Loss.”

Anne Basting was lead facilitator for Reel Aging, a gathering of media makers work-ing on the topic of aging and their poten-tial dissemination partners, in Washington, D.C., March 24-27.

Anne Basting presented on the Penelope Project as part of a symposium at the American Society on Aging in Washington, D.C., March 29.

Michael Fendrich and Lisa Berger were interviewed on WUWM on April 5 for the story “The dangers of energy drinks and high-alcohol drinks.”

Jung Kwak was a panelist on the 4th Street Forum April 22 program, “Dying Wisely and Well.”

Stan Stojkovic was interviewed by WHAD on March 1 for a story on reduc-ing prison costs.

Stan Stojkovic was interviewed by TMJ4 on March 27 for the story “John Doe investigation launched into Milwaukee police strip search.”

Stan Stojkovic was interviewed by FOX6 on March 27 for the story “District attor-ney may be looking into claims against MPD officers.”

Stan Stojkovic was interviewed by WUWM on April 5 for the story “Experts call allegations of police strip searches ‘shocking,’ praise investigation.”

Stan Stojkovic and Rick Lovell were interviewed by FOX6 on April 20 for the story “UW-Milwaukee graduate gets credit for uncovering terror plot.”

STUDENT AFFAIRSRECRUITMENT & OUTREACHJan Ford presented a session, “Customer Relations Management – The Final Frontier,” at the annual national confer-ence of AACRAO (American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers) in Philadelphia in early April. The session addressed the acquisition, development and September 2011 launch of UWM’s prospective student CRM system. Housed in the Department of Recruitment & Outreach, the system, called Talisma, will be deployed to schools and colleges in July.

PUBLICATIONSHEALTH SCIENCESOCCUPATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYO. Shechtman, Bhagwant S. Sindhu and P.W. Davenport, “Using the ‘Visual Target Grip Test’ to Identify Sincerity of Effort during Grip Strength Testing,” Journal of Hand Therapy, April 9, 2012 (e-pub ahead of print).

LETTERS & SCIENCEANTHROPOLOGYBettina Arnold, “The Vix Princess redux: a retrospective on European Iron Age gen-der and mortuary studies,” pp. 215-232 in La Arqueología funeraria desde una perspectiva de género, Lourdes Prados Torreira, ed., Madrid: UA Ediciones, 2012.

Bettina Arnold, “Gender and temporal-ity in Iron Age west-central Europe,” pp. 85-112 in “Temporalities and Periodization in Human History: Conversations across the Disciplines of History and Archaeology,” Mary Jo Maynes and Marynel Ryan, eds., Special Section, Social Science History, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2012.

ECONOMICSMohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and A. Ratha, “S-Curve Dynamics of Trade Between Sweden and Her Trading Partners,” Economic Systems, Vol. 35, 2011, pp. 355-362.

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and M. Hajilee, “How Fast Wages Adjust to Prices: A Multi-Country Analysis,” Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31, 2011, pp. 2404-2413.

INTERDISCIPLINARYAneesh Aneesh (Sociology), Patrice Petro (English) and Lane Hall (English), eds., Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices, Rutgers University Press, 2011.

PHILOSOPHYWilliam Wainwright, “Theistic Mystical Experiences, Enlightenment Experiences and Ineffability,” in Philosophy and the Christian Worldview: Analysis, Assessment and Development, David Werther and Mark Linville, eds., New York: Continuum, 2012.

PSYCHOLOGYMatt W. Specht, Douglas W. Woods, John Piacentini, Lawrence Scahill, Sabine Wilhelm, Alan L. Peterson, Susanna Chang, Hayden Kepley, Thilo Deckersbach and Christopher Flessner, et al., “Clinical characteristics of children and adolescents with a primary tic disor-der,” Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, Vol. 23, 2011, pp. 15-31.

B.T.P. Tucker, Douglas W. Woods, C. Flessner, S.A. Franklin and M.E. Franklin, “The Skin Picking Impact Project: Phenomenology, Interference and Treatment Utilization of Pathological Skin Picking in a Population-Based Sample,” Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2011, pp. 88-95.

Douglas W. Woods, J.C. Piacentini, L.D. Scahill, A.L. Peterson, S. Wilhelm, J.T. Walkup, et al., “Behavior Therapy for Tics in Children: Acute and long-term effects on secondary psychiatric and psychosocial functioning,” Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 26, No. 7, 2011, pp. 858-865.

J.E. Grant, D.J. Stein, Douglas W. Woods and N.J. Keuthen, Trichotillomania, Skin Picking, and Other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, Washington, D.C: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., 2012.

GIFTS, GRANTS & CONTRACTSAPRIL 2012

ACADEMIC AFFAIRSTRIO&PRECOLLEGEPROGRAMSMilwaukee Public Schools MPS GEAR UP Knowledge Is Power, Saturday Institute and Summer AcademySnow, Deloise – Extension & Public Service $236,305

CENTER FOR URBAN INITIATIVES & RESEARCHBoardStarGreater Milwaukee On Board – BoardStar Changes/Additional FeaturesBatson, Terry L. – Extension & Public Service $10,449

Milwaukee Public SchoolsMPS Office of Research & Evaluation SupportBatson, Terry L.; Davis, Gerald S. – Extension & Public Service $4,968

Milwaukee Public SchoolsMPS Office of Research & Evaluation SupportDavis, Gerald S.; Batson, Terry L. – Extension & Public Service $39,590

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For the Record

ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNINGADMINISTRATIONUWM FoundationMiscellaneous Projects in Urban DesignGreenstreet, Robert – Extension & Public Service $500

UWM FoundationSupports Spancrete StudioGreenstreet, Robert – Instruction $10,000

PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTSFILMUWM FoundationSupport for Annual LGBT Film/Video FestivalYeo, Rob – Miscellaneous $10,000

SHELDON B. LUBAR SCHOOL OF BUSINESSBOSTROM CENTERUWM FoundationReal Time Enterprises Fund Smunt, Timothy L. – Instruction $15,000

CONTINUING EDUCATIONBUSINESS OUTREACHUW-ExtensionSmall Business Development Center Peterson, Tim A. – Extension & Public Service $193,578

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCECIVILENGINEERING&MECHANICSHyundai Motor CompanyResearch of strain measurement by digital image correlation technique in a vehicle componentEl Hajjar, Rani F. – Research $91,220

SPAWARMeasuring Current and Turbulence by the Particle Imagery Velocimeter and Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter for Propeller Wash Study in Two Navy HarborsLiao, Qian – Research $49,507

INDUSTRIAL&MANUFACTURINGENGINEERINGUW-MadisonDeveloping Fast Equalizers for Battery Charge EqualizationZhang, Liang – Research $42,760

MATERIALSENGINEERINGSchunk Graphite Technology Copper Intercalated Graphite Church, Benjamin C. – Research $7,000

MECHANICALENGINEERINGNational Science FoundationExperimental and numerical studies of droplet formation and cell/bacteria encapsulation in micro-channels for high-throughput electrical measurement of bioreactionChang, Woo Jin – Research $100,205

FRESHWATER SCIENCESADMINISTRATIONAquaculture Research CorporationYellow Perch Aquaculture DevelopmentBinkowski, Fred P. – Extension & Public Service $14,440

National Institutes of HealthMicrobial Community Profiles – Identify New Indicators of Waterborne PathogensMcLellan, Sandra L.; Tsonis, Anastasios – Research $381,623

WATER INSTITUTEUW Sea Grant ProgramAquaculture Advisory Services for the Great Lakes Region – Urban Aquaculture

Binkowski, Fred P. – Extension & Public Service $91,038

HEALTH SCIENCESCENTER FOR URBAN POPULATION HEALTHUW-MadisonWisconsin Initiative for Health Research (WiNHR)Cisler, Ron A. – Extension & Public Service $33,706

UW-MadisonThe Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)Galvao, Loren W. – Extension & Public Service $14,769

HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCESAmerican Society of BiomechanicsThe effects of plantar fasciitis on multi-segment foot running gait kinematicsCobb, Stephen C. – Research $2,000

LETTERS & SCIENCEANTHROPOLOGYWI Dept. of TransportationUWM-WDOT Interagency Agreement for Archaeological ServicesRichards, John D. – Research $157,500

Ryan SpeiserArchaeological Investigations of Uncatalogued Burial Site WT-0019/BWT-0116, Pike Lake, WIRichards, Patricia B. – Research $2,958

BIOLOGICALSCIENCESWI Dept. of Natural ResourcesAn assessment of the status of the American badger in Wisconsin using genetic and ecological techniques in a GIS frameworkLatch, Emily K. – Research $18,000

National Science FoundationNovel motility and protein secretion machinery of Flavobacterium johnsoniaeMcBride, Mark J. – Research $5,650

National Science FoundationCollaborative research: Do lianas alter carbon,

nutrient and water dynamics in tropical for-ests? A large-scale experimental testSchnitzer, Stefan A. – Research $29,030

CHEMISTRYNational Science FoundationScience Literacy and Undergraduate Success: Incorporating Scale as a Theme in Introductory ChemistryMurphy, Kristen L.; Geissinger, Peter – Research $196,380

PSYCHOLOGYUniversity of CaliforniaBrain mechanisms of impaired episodic memory in schizophreniaHannula, Deborah E. – Research $17,180

Sigma XiAttentional bias to reward in depression – Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of ResearchLarson, Christine L. – Research $800

UWM LIBRARIESAGSLIBRARYNational Endowment for the HumanitiesSaving and Sharing the AGS Library’s Historic Film Collections II: Acetate Negatives and Motion Picture FilmBarczyk, Ewa E. – Extension & Public Service $280,000

NURSINGDEAN’S OFFICEWI Dept. of Health Services Wisconsin Well Woman Program 2011-12 Millon Underwood, Sandra – $30,280

PROGRAMSSusan B. Komen for the Cure MilwaukeePartners in Pursuit of the Promise Millon Underwood, Sandra – Extension & Public Service $113,773

JOSEPH J. ZILBER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTHADMINISTRATIONAutism SpeaksPerinatal Exposure to Airborne Pollutants and Associations with Autism PhenotypeKalkbrenner, Amy – Research $72,012

National Institutes of HealthEnvironmental Influence on T-cell Leukemia: Role of Notch and AHR SignalingLaiosa, Michael D. – Research $243,624

HELEN BADER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFAREADMINISTRATIONWI Dept. of Children and FamiliesLong-Term Child Welfare Training 2011-12 McMurtry, Steven L.; Rose, Susan J. – Instruction $1,050,040

SPECIALPROJECTSRESEARCHGROUPOffice of National Drug Control PolicyHigh Intensity Drug Trafficking Area/UWM CollaboratorStojkovic, Stan – Extension & Public Service $1,020,366

STUDENT AFFAIRSATHLETICS/ADMINISTRATIONUWM FoundationUse to Support Head Men’s Basketball Panther Fund ProgramDirector – Miscellaneous $5,000

SPORTS MEDICINEUWM FoundationSupport Sports Medicine Program – Two Intern PositionsDirector – Extension & Public Service $2,000

Period 10 – April 2012 Year-to-Date

Federal Total Federal Total

Research $ 957,579 $ 1,365,132 $ 17,142,658 $ 24,469,397

Instruction $ -0- $ 1,073,718 $ 2,195,974 $ 4,410,409

Public Service $ 1,300,366 $ 2,077,399 $ 4,025,436 $ 10,104,952

Student Aid $ 413,786 $ 413,786 $ 39,946,177 $ 39,995,023

Other $ -166,973 $ -151,973 $ 1,730,183 $ 3,881,727

TOTALS $ 2,504,759 $ 4,778,062 $ 65,040,429 $82,861,508

Period 10 – April 2011 Year-to-Date

Federal Total Federal Total

Research $ 1,313,006 $ 1,822,794 $ 16,687,079 $ 25,810,865

Instruction $ -0- $ 103,145 $ 2,341,221 $ 6,538,180

Public Service $ 478,472 $ 478,639 $ 4,276,153 $ 10,781,260

Student Aid $ 211,171 $ 215,633 $ 37,755,554 $ 37,830,280

Other $ -0- $ -0- $ 2,070,607 $ 3,995,208

TOTALS $ 2,002,649 $ 2,620,211 $63,130,614 $84,955,794

Grant information is prepared by the Graduate School. More detailed grant information also is available on the Web at: graduateschool.uwm.edu/research/data-policy/ awards-and-expenditures/.

EXTRAMURAL AWARDS - PROGRESS TO DATE

FY 2011

FY 2012

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Summer workshops at the Peck School

The Peck School of the Arts offers a number of exciting summer workshops open to individuals at beginner through advanced levels. For more information or registration, call the box office at 414-229-4308 or visit arts.uwm.edu.

MUSICThe Music of Leo Kottke Guitar WorkshopFriday-Sunday, July 27-29UWM offers an intensive, three-day workshop on the music of guitarist/composer Leo Kottke which will bring together unparalleled resources for the study of three of his compositions. Archival video, enhanced computer capabilities and specifically designed pedagogical materials will enable partici-pants to study these pieces in depth. Students should have at least some intermediate facility on the guitar and be able to read tablature. The workshop is taught at Kenilworth Square East, and also is available as a series of individual lessons via Skype. For more information about this distance-learning option, contact John Stropes, director of Guitar Studies, Finger-Style Guitar, at [email protected] or 262-994-8710. A residential option is available at Kenilworth Square. Contact UWM Guest Housing at [email protected] or 414-229-6588 and specify that you are reserving for the Leo Kottke Workshop.

JEWELRY & METALSMITHING WORKSHOPSJewelers and metalsmiths of all skill levels can expand their skills with exciting and challenging summer workshops. Although recommended levels are indicated for some workshops, they are open to all levels. Participants will investigate a variety of techniques and processes, learn new ways to solve problems in metal and explore their creative potential. Those interested may take all 12 workshops or pick the ones that intrigue them most.

All workshops are conducted in the Art Building. Fee for the intensive four-week Introduction to Jewelry & Metalsmithing is $900; all other work-shops are $150. Specific information is available at arts.uwm.edu/metals.

INTRODUCTION TO JEWELRY & METALSMITHINGMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, May 29-June 239 a.m.-1:45 p.m. Develop design skills and technical competency, and explore metalsmithing as an art form. This four-week intensive course is a noncredit intro-duction to major aspects of metalworking and jewelry. No prerequisite.

SAWING AND PIERCING: Make Pop-up EarringsSaturday & Sunday, June 23 & 24 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Make your first pair of pop-up earrings as you learn the fundamentals of jewelry making: sawing, piercing, filing, sanding, forming and basic soldering. A great workshop for beginners!

EMBOSSING AND SOLDERING: Make a Sleeved Ring Monday-Wednesday, June 25-276-9 p.m. Learn how to emboss and incorporate a variety of metals in your design of a sterling-silver sleeved ring. Roller printing, hammering, soldering and patination techniques will be covered. Recommended prerequisite: Sawing and Piercing workshop.

ENAMELING: Make a Pendant Saturday & Sunday, June 30 & July 1 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Learn the ancient technique of cloisonné enamel-ing. By layering and fusing a variety of opaque and transparent glass powders, students will create a one-of-a-kind, colorful pendant. No prerequisite.

CHAIN MAKING AND SIMPLE CLASPS: Make a Bracelet Monday-Wednesday, July 9-11 6-9 p.m. Learn a variety of wire-working techniques, from twisting and hammering to small-scale soldering and simple clasp construction. Create a one-of-a-kind bracelet with a variety of metals, from sterling silver to copper. The options are limitless. Recommended prerequisite: Sawing and Piercing workshop.

WORKING WITH STEEL WIRE: Making Steel Rings and Pendants Saturday & Sunday, July 14 & 1510 a.m.-4 p.m. Explore the process of working with steel wire in jewelry. Cut, bend, shape and use sterling-silver and gold solder to create three-dimensional

forms. Make samples using the processes and then create a variety of jewelry forms, from rings to pendants. Recommended prerequisite: Sawing and Piercing workshop.

TRAPPINGS: BEZELS AND TABBING: Make a Ring Monday-Wednesday, July 16-18 6-9 p.m. Have you always wanted to add stones or other materials to your jewelry? Learn the process of creating bezels and tabs to trap a variety of materials, from the traditional stones to plastics. Design and create a silver band and then solder your handmade “trapping” to set your material or stone! Recommended prerequisites: Sawing and Piercing workshop; Embossing and Soldering workshop.

ADVANCED SOLDERING: Make a Container with Fitted Lid Saturday & Sunday, July 21 & 2210 a.m.-4 p.m. Take your metalsmithing skills to the next level. Learn advanced techniques in large-scale silver soldering and fabricate a container with riveted lid using 18-gauge copper and brass. Students will also dive into various surface techniques, including roller printing, hammering, sawing and piercing, and patination. Recommended prerequisites: Sawing and Piercing workshop; Embossing and Soldering workshop.

DIE FORMING: Make a Tea Strainer Monday-Wednesday, July 23-256-9 p.m. Explore the process of hydraulic die forming and decorative sawing and piercing to create your own tea strainer. Use acrylic dyes to make a three-dimensional sterling-silver form that you can customize with your own designs. Recommended prerequisite: Sawing and Piercing workshop.

POWDER COATING: Give That Object Some Color Saturday & Sunday, July 28 & 2910 a.m.-4 p.m. Bring a plain metal object and learn the tech-niques of powder coating – metal prep, masking, shooting color and curing. Students will make samples using these processes and will have the opportunity to color objects made in earlier workshops. No prerequisite.

METAL FORMING: Make a BowlMonday-Wednesday, July 30-Aug. 16-9 p.m. Use the metal-forming process of sinking to create a bowl, and explore other copper and steel metal-shaping techniques such as angle raising, English wheel and air planisher. No prerequisite.

BRONZE CASTING: Make a Bronze Relief Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 4 & 5 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Design and carve bonded-sand scratch blocks, and prepare them for metal casting. Metal finishing and patination techniques will be applied to the cast object. Students will have the opportunity to participate in pouring their mold. No prerequisite.

METAL FABRICATION AND MIG WELDING: Construct Small-Scale Fabrication Tools and Sheet-Metal Bending Break Monday-Wednesday, Aug. 6-86-9 p.m. Explore the process of MIG Welding and various metal fabrication techniques. Introduction to basic steel fabricating tools and equipment – 4½” hand grinder, cut-off wheels and abrasives, band saws, rolling mill for rod and sheet, sandblasting, buff-ing and drill press. No prerequisite.

by Beth Stafford

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