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“Body Worlds” and UWM students at Milwaukee Public Museum

When a house is more than a home

Spring Commencement 2014

Lipinski named SOIS dean

Four receive honorary degrees

Turner honored with prestigious anthropology award

Two major gifts support Zilber School, Innovation Campus

SFS produces its first two doctoral graduates

UWM strategizes climate change policy for the Great Lakes

Solberg named Horizon League Player of the Year

he photo was baffling – tiny hammocks suspended from the roof of an open

pavilion. Senior history major Danielle Eyre put long hours into researching what role those “baby hammocks” played in Milwaukee’s history.

As she traced the story behind the photo, Eyre, who is entering the MA program in history at George Mason University this fall, developed research and writing skills she says will serve her well in graduate school and the job market.

That photo is just one small piece of the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, an ambitious 10-year effort to put together a comprehensive, care-fully authenticated resource with information on everything Milwaukee.

Lead editors for the project are Amanda Seligman, associate professor of history, and Margo Anderson, distinguished professor of history. Working in collaboration with senior editors Thomas Jablonsky and James Marten from Marquette, IT professionals and a team of students, they’re creating a printed and online version of the Encyclopedia.

“OUR GIFT TO THE CITY”“We really had the motivation to do this

because it’s such an important public project,” says Seligman, who worked on a similar project in Chicago. “It is our gift to the city.”

The print version will include 740 entries spread across 1,000 pages and more than a million words.

The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee started in 2008, and Seligman estimates it will be finished in 2017. Total cost is estimated at $2 million, of which $1.3 million has already been raised through contributions and grants from the

National Endowment for the Humanities and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

A preliminary website is online at emke.uwm.edu, and a comprehensive print bibli-ography is scheduled to come out this spring from Marquette University Press. The project’s Facebook page already has close to 500 “likes.”

The Encyclopedia differs from conven-tional histories, which tell the story of the city in a linear narrative from start to finish, says Seligman. With the Encyclopedia, researchers, journalists, students and anyone interested will be able to dip into the content at any point to learn more about a topic they’re interested in – whether it’s labor relations, Gertie the Duck or Hank Aaron.

STORIES AND “UNDERSTORIES”The online version will include thousands of

entries and photos, with all information based on original sources, footnoted and carefully fact-checked, says Seligman. In addition, the “under-stories” of some of the work – like Eyre’s detective work in tracking down the story behind the baby hammocks photo – will also be accessible.

Through persistent research and conversation with her faculty mentor, Eyre eventually found out that the pavilion was part of an early public health program for babies – allowing groups of infants to enjoy fresh air, swinging gently in the lake breezes.

The Encyclopedia will also include essays on various aspects of Milwaukee history and culture. Well-known local historian John Gurda, for exam-ple, is on the Editorial Board. “John’s wonderful

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UWM members of the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee team include (from left) Margo Anderson, Joan Baumgart, Danielle Eyre and Amanda Seligman.

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BLACK & GOLD SPIRIT DAY

Friday, July 18Show your Panther Pride on Friday,

July 18 – wear UWM logo clothing or black and gold. Go to spiritdays.uwm.edu for more info on Spirit Days activi-ties and great prizes!fter I learned I was to be named UWM Interim

Chancellor but before the announcement was made in April, I found myself listening a great deal to how people internal and external to UWM perceive our university.

The illustration frequently made was that UWM is at a crossroads. Since I’ve been so involved in the planning for UWM’s future for the last two years, first with all schools and colleges in their academic program planning and then with the campus strategic planning, it has been straightforward to respond to the crossroads illustration.

Based on the planning to date, involving so many people internal and external to campus, I’ve developed a platform for the future. I call this approach “Moving Forward Together.”

Moving Forward Together involves four key thrusts and three hallmarks.

THRUSTSFirst, we need to complete and implement our

strategic plan. At its heart is the central objective of creating a top-tier research university that is engaged in the community, striving for both a greater research profile and increased student success. Our vision and mission call for this, and hundreds of people have worked diligently for the last two years on the academic plans and strategic elements that will move UWM forward. With higher education changing rapidly, this is no time for the status quo, for that will actually move us backward.

Second, we must stabilize student enrollments and continue to enhance the quality of our educational experience. We exist for students: their education, their livelihoods and their futures.

In turn, our budget and our ability to realize our vision and mission depend on tuition generated by substantial student enrollments. Beyond enrollment numbers, we can build on the quality of the education that is received by our students through our teaching excellence and engaging students in our scholarship. Doing this, we will retain greater numbers and graduate more successful students.

Third, we must engage further our communities through research, education and service activities. UWM’s faculty research has global impact, and that is one large community! More locally, you can see the work of each of our schools and colleges as we engage in local, regional and broader endeavors.

Excellent examples are the College of Nursing’s Silver Spring Community Nursing Center, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare’s food and beverage work with Growing Power and College of Engineering & Applied Science’s nationally recognized work with Johnson Controls in battery and energy-storage advances.

If we are going to make a greater difference – to realize our mission of research and access – we will further embrace and focus in diverse areas to make a difference.

Finally, underlying these three areas is the need for us to work together to identify and obtain – creatively – new resources for these efforts.

We must address faculty and staff salary compression, because this is central to retaining our key talent and enabling the education of more Wisconsin residents. It’s also critical that we work toward base budget and GPR (general purpose revenue) resources for us to accomplish our objectives. Our future and the future of Milwaukee and Wisconsin overall depend so much on the future that we can create, particularly by working together.

It’s also important that we continue to press forward with Vision 20/20, The Campaign for UWM, given its central support for students, faculty and knowledge creation.

We will succeed in these four areas by Moving Forward Together. We have so many remarkable people, doing so many impressive things every day: thousands of faculty, staff and students working hard to educate, research and work with each other in powerful and important developmental ways.

All of these items, the strategic opportunities and the sobering challenges we face, require this unified front. I ask for your help to Move Forward Together.

HALLMARKSThe first will be clear communication and

transparency on our focused action areas. Working with shared governance, deans, UW System President Ray Cross, Student Association administration, the Chancellor’s Cabinet and community representatives, we will tackle a limited number of the most important issues facing UWM.

In the near future, by mid-June at the latest, I will share the resulting action plan for moving UWM forward during my period as interim chancellor.

Second, our campus has great depth of leadership: Having been a faculty member and administrator at UWM for 25 years, I know I can rely on our well-developed senior administration and shared governance groups. I will rely on all of them.

Third, I’ll serve as a relationship builder and ambassador to showcase the great things we are doing. The goal of such work is to enhance our research standing, our community visibility and the collective pride we have in UWM. Transition planning is well under way and will be aided by the relations I’ve forged over the years.

I said at the outset that UWM is perceived to be at a crossroads. I agree with that assessment and believe this is no time for standing still. We will move ahead, preparing UWM for its next chancellor and a strong future. I look forward to our work together and appreciate the opportunity to serve as interim chancellor.

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A FRESHWATER ODYSSEY

SATURDAY, SEPT. 1310 a.m.-2 p.m.

Celebrate the grand opening of the School of Freshwater Sciences’ newly expanded facility at UWM’s Harbor Campus. This celebration will feature tours, science demos, food, entertainment, and more!

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Lipinski named SOIS deanby Kathy Quirk

omas A. Lipinski has been named dean of UWM’s School of Information Studies.

Lipinski, a professor who served as director of the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University last year, will begin his new duties in Milwaukee Oct. 1.

A lawyer as well as a professor of information studies, Lipinski is a nationally known expert in copyright, information law and intellectual property issues related to privacy and free speech, ethics, freedom of inquiry and distance education. He is the author of four books and numerous articles and invited chapters on these issues.

Lipinski previously taught in UWM’s School of Information Studies and was founder and co-direc-tor of the university’s Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR). At UWM, he twice received the WISE (Web-based Information Science Education) Faculty of the Year Award for Excellence in Online Education from the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE).

An expert in copyright education and the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act of 2002, Lipinski gives numerous talks and presentations annually to librarians and educators on the issues they face in balancing freedom of information with intellectual property rights, particularly in cyberspace.

His most recent book, The Librarian’s Legal Companion for Licensing Information Resources and Service was called “the Bible for librarians” in one review. Another review referred to him as “one of

the great legal authori-ties in American librarianship.”

He currently is a member of the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy and chair of its Copyright Education Subcommittee. He also chairs the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Copyright Discussion Group, and is a member of the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations).

Prior to joining Kent State, Lipinski was execu-tive associate dean and professor in the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Lipinski earned his doctorate from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, his master of laws (LLM) from The John Marshall Law School and his law degree from Marquette University Law School. He earned his BA in history and his MLIS (Master of Library & Information Science) from UWM.

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Join UWM for an underwater adven-ture at the Milwaukee County Zoo. This fun-filled day includes a special UWM alumni and friends welcome and luncheon in the Peck Pavilion, admission and free parking for the NEW Stingray and Shark Bay exhibit.

$20/adults; $10/children 12 and under. Registration: alumnidirectory.uwm.edu/uwmzoo.

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and knows more about Milwaukee history than anyone,” says Seligman.

MILWAUKEEANS GET EXCITED – AND INVOLVED

Other cities like New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Indianapolis have created their own ency-clopedias, but Milwaukeeans seem to be particu-larly interested in their city and its history, says Seligman.

“People are willing to share their information. They’re knowledgeable and excited and want to help. They really understand the need for this project.”

For example, many of the photos Eyre sorted through and identified are contributions from local residents and families. She’s also worked closely with photographer Alan Magayne-Roshak, who chroni-cled life at UWM for 39 years and also documented numerous historical buildings in the city.

“This is a really great opportunity to get immersed in history and learn research tech-niques,” says Eyre, a nontraditional student.

The work of students like Eyre is really critical to the project, says Seligman. Many of the students involved in the project are history majors, but others from the School of Information Studies (SOIS), Urban Studies and other areas are contributing to the project.

In turn, the students are learning from the work, she adds. “Digital history skills are really critical today.”

Ann Graf, a former graduate student in SOIS, for example, compiled the 2,000 entries for the bibliography.

“It would be impossible to do this without the students on the front lines,” says Seligman.

Photo researcher Danielle Eyre eventually discovered that this photo showed a pavilion that was part of an early public health program for babies – allowing groups of infants to enjoy fresh air, swinging gently in the lake breezes.

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Four receive honorary degreesour notable leaders in their fields – law, engineering, history, and business and

public service – received honorary degrees at UWM’s 2014 Spring Commencement on May 18.

The honorees are:• John W. Daniels Jr., attorney, entrepreneur and

community leader, who received an honorary degree of Doctor of Business;

• Ashwani Kumar Gupta, a distinguished profes-sor at the University of Maryland and devel-oper of innovative technologies to reduce envi-ronmentally hazardous emission gases, who was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Energy and Engineering Science;

• Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of history and African American Studies at Harvard University, who was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of History; and

• Former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, businessman and public servant, who received an honor-ary degree of Doctor of Public Service and Education.

Here are short profiles of the honorary degree recipients.

John W. Daniels Jr.Honorary Doctor of Business from the Lubar School of Business

Daniels, chairman emeritus of the law firm Quarles & Brady LLP, is an outspoken cham-pion of education and public service.

His work in the legal field is nationally and internationally known. He is past presi-dent of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and was selected as one of the 50 Most Influential Diverse Attorneys in the United States by the National Law Journal. The Milwaukee Bar Association honored him as Lawyer of the Year, and Lawdragon featured him in the article “100 Law Firm Managing Partners You Need to Know.”

Daniels has also served the community tire-lessly as a board member and/or chair of lead-ing civic and cultural organizations. While on the Greater Milwaukee Foundation board, he helped shape the foundation’s expanding role in the community, including investments in alleviating poverty.

Daniels has a particular interest in educa-tion, leading reform efforts for K-12 schools as chairman of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and its Milwaukee Succeeds program.

Ashwani Kumar GuptaHonorary Doctor of Energy and Engineering Science from the College of Engineering & Applied Science

Gupta, a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, has developed many innovative technologies to reduce environmen-tally hazardous emission gases when burning fuels for automobiles, airplanes and power plants. His contributions help reduce such gases in the atmo-sphere, making engines and power plants more environmentally friendly.

His research also includes newly developed waste management studies, allowing waste mate-rials to be incinerated without emitting large amounts of hazardous gases.

He has given lectures and keynote speeches at major conferences in environmental and energy sciences, and seminars around the globe, includ-ing the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.

Gupta has also been a frequent guest speaker at UWM seminar series for students, faculty and staff members, and has provided advice to gradu-ate and undergraduate students working on research projects in the areas of renewable energy and reducing hazardous emissions.

Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamHonorary Doctor of History from the College of Letters & Science

Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas profes-sor of history and African American studies at Harvard University. She served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies from 2006-13.

A nationally recognized scholar in her field, she started her career in Milwaukee teaching American history and serving as an eighth grade counselor at Parkman Junior High School. A pioneering figure in African American women’s history, her published work spans a range of topics, including women in African American reli-gious history, race and gender theory, and civil rights.

She is the author of Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church: 1880-1920. She also updated and revised the late John Hope Franklin’s African American history survey, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, served as editor-in-chief of The Harvard Guide to African-American History and was co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates Jr., of the expanded, 12-volume The African American National Biography.

Herb Kohl Honorary Doctor of Public Service and Education from the School of Freshwater Sciences

Kohl served as the U.S. senator from Wisconsin from 1989 to 2013, and is currently a business-man, philanthropist and, since 1985, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.

After graduating from UW-Madison and earn-ing his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, Kohl embarked on a distinguished business and political career.

In 1985, Kohl purchased the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team to ensure the National Basketball Association franchise remained in Milwaukee. This was a stipulation when he sold the team earlier this year.

In 1988, he was elected U.S. senator from Wisconsin, and he served the state for the next 24 years. Kohl is a longtime philanthropist and supporter of education.

In 1990, he founded the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation, which each year awards $1,000 scholarships to nearly 200 graduating high school seniors, many of whom might not other-wise be able to afford a university education. The foundation also supports teachers, awarding thou-sands of fellowships to teachers and their schools in recognition of their superior ability to inspire learning.

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rudy Turner, professor of anthropology at UWM, was recently named the 2014

recipient of the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award in recognition of her outstanding history of service to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) and to the field of physi-cal anthropology.

She is further recognized for her service to her home institution, where she has carried out the duties of secretary of the university since 2008.

“Trudy has been a major force in bringing the discussion of ethical issues in biological anthropology to the fore in the AAPA with her service on the Ethics Committee from 1997-2004, and organization of ethics symposia and a resulting edited volume in 2005,” said Brenda J. Baker, a professor at Arizona State University who is on the AAPA Executive Committee.

Turner’s service to AAPA also includes arranging two national meetings held in Milwaukee (1991 and 2005), a four-year term as secretary-treasurer (2006-09) of the AAPA, and a term on the AAPA Executive Committee as chair of the Membership Committee. She is currently serving a five-year term as editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology.

She has also been active in the American Anthropological Association (AAA), serving on and chairing the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology (2003-06) and serving as chair of the Biological Anthropology Section (2006-08). With Judith Masters of the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, Turner founded and chairs the Primate Ecology and Genetics Group (PEGG), which is the South African Primatology

Association, now in its 12th year.

“The contributions that Trudy has made to the discipline are not limited to her service but include her substantial record of publication on vervet monkeys from a multidisciplinary perspective that incorporates genetics, endocrinology, ecology and behavior,” said Baker.

In addition to AAPA and the AAA, Turner has also given her time to organizations dedicated to research in her discipline. At the National Science Foundation (NSF), she was program director of the Physical Anthropology Section, and has frequently served on panels for both NSF and the National Institutes of Health.

“She is a natural mentor who has advised a large number of MA and PhD students, and myriad junior colleagues,” said Baker, who presented Turner with the award. “Her efforts have made a real difference in improving the status of women in anthropology.”

The award is named in honor of the late Gabriel W. Lasker, former AAPA president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, Executive Committee member, founding editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, and long-time editor of the journal Human Biology. Nominees do not have to be AAPA members.

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The Zilber Family Foundation is making a $400,000 gift to UWM’s Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health to establish the Vera Zilber Public Health Scholars program. Over the next four years, the gift will provide up to 16 doctoral and 48 master’s scholarships through this program.

“This is the largest scholarship gift the Zilber School has received,” said Magda Peck, founding dean. “It will have a transformational impact on students and on the future of the school.”

The gift will help recruit and retain students in the three newest master of public health tracks, whose fall 2014 launch recently was announced in the key areas of biostatistics, epidemiology, and public health policy and

administration, said Peck. “This gift signifies our great confidence

in Dean Peck and her efforts to create an outstanding new school with talented students and faculty,” said Susan Lloyd, president of the Zilber Family Foundation. “Our community needs a school that will be a catalyst for healthier communities through the education of well-prepared public health leader-practitioners.”

The merit-based scholarships will average $5,000 per year for master’s degree students and $10,000 per year for PhD students.

“Supporting full-time students can accelerate their path to graduation and entering the workforce,” said Peck. “This gift also supports

our becoming Wisconsin’s first nationally accredited school of public health.”

The late Joseph J. Zilber, founder of the Zilber Family Foundation, was born and raised in Milwaukee. He and his wife, Vera, who inspired him in his philanthropic efforts, lived and raised their children here. Among many civic contributions, he was instrumental in founding UWM’s School of Public Health, which now bears his name.

$400,000 Zilber gift establishes public health scholarshipsby Kathy Quirk

NICHOLAS FAMILY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS INNOVATION CAMPUS

UWM has announced a $750,000 gift from the Nicholas Family Foundation that will help grow the university’s new research park and science community, Innovation Campus.

Located near the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center in Wauwatosa, Innovation Campus is where business and industry meet aca-demic research to launch intellectual property for the new century. Its location will allow easier collaboration among leaders in industry, research and medi-cine, accelerating discovery that will support job creation and scientific inno-vation in Southeastern Wisconsin.

“Our family is eager to help UWM create a vibrant research community for both the public and private sectors,” says Lynn S. Nicholas, president of the Nicholas Family Foundation. “We value this opportunity to partner with UWM to create jobs for the region through the establishment of new companies and provide unique educational opportunities for students.”

The announcement coincides with the completion of the first building on the property, the Innovation Accelerator building, funded in part with a $5.4 million federal grant.

The new building houses five engi-neering faculty and eight health sciences faculty labs. In addition, it includes a state-of-the-art prototyping center for turning product ideas that meet clinical needs into actual working devices.

A UWM student-staffed mobile app incubator is also on site, bringing mobile app development capabili-ties closer to partners at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

This is the first substantial gift for Innovation Campus since construction of the building began last June. So far, Innovation Campus has received more than $5.5 million in gifts from local philanthropists.

Architectural plans for a second research building at the campus are now under way.

Present at an event announcing the Zilber Family Foundation gift were (from left) Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett; Michael Mervis, Zilber Family Foundation Board member; James Janz, vice president of the Zilber Family Foundation Board; Magda Peck, founding dean of the Zilber School; Steve Chevalier, secretary-treasurer of the Zilber Family Foundation Board; Susan Lloyd, executive director of the Zilber Family Foundation; and John Kersey, executive vice president of Zilber Ltd.

The newly opened Accelerator Building at Innovation Campus in Wauwatosa houses a prototyping facility for turning ideas into working devices.


n the UWM College of Nursing, faculty, staff and students enjoy a good laugh. In

fact, they sometimes have laughing sessions, just to relieve a little stress.

Occasionally, someone may roll their eyes at one of the college’s fun activities, says Dean Sally Lundeen, but overall, Nursing is considered to have one of the best climates at the university.

That wasn’t always the case. “Sometimes we’d go into meetings and people would just be glar-ing at each other,” she recalls of the climate more than a decade ago. “There wasn’t a sense of mutual respect, and we certainly were not having fun at work.”

But when she became dean, she set out, with the help of a climate committee, now part of the Best Place to Work initiative, to make changes. Nursing has slowly transformed its culture in ways that are both fun and substantive.

CLIMATE CHANGE FOR GOOD“The transformational changes in Nursing

are excellent examples of how we can engage all faculty and staff in activities that enhance our climate and culture in meaningful ways,” says Interim Chancellor Mark Mone. “This past spring we truly entered the next phase of our Best Place to Work [BP2W] initiative by engaging our senior leaders to take on their own school, college and division-based climate goals and actions.”

“While climate change often starts at the top, sustained change is not accomplished alone,” says Mone. “We are fortunate to have a wealth of passionate, committed people and senior leaders who believe in and advance the cause.”

Nursing’s Working Well Initiative Committee (WWIC) team leaders Dorothy Kidwell, secretary to the dean, and Bev Zabler, assistant dean, are good examples and discussed some of their work at a recent BP2W all-teams meeting. Members of several other BP2W teams also shared efforts large and small within their units or departments to make UWM a best place to work.

“It took time and it happened in phases,” says Kidwell of Nursing’s efforts.

“Any member of the faculty and staff can champion an idea for an event and bring it to the team for selection and addition to the WWIC calendar,” explains Zabler. Over the years, the College Champions have, among other things, added well workplace and positive workplace relationship-building events, including an annual Thanksgiving feast, Walking Wednesdays, provid-ing healthy treats for students at exam time, Taste of the World Potluck, chair massages and even an unexpected flash mob dance at a recent faculty/staff meeting.

Other changes have improved the culture and encouraged collaboration. Lundeen recalls several candidates for faculty positions who chose UWM over a university offering more money because of the positive climate.

ENGINEERING A NEW ENVIRONMENTComparatively, the College of Engineering

& Applied Science is in the beginning stages. “We didn’t know where to start,” says Dean Brett Peters. Initially, there was not much inter-est in some of the activities, but this is chang-ing as more faculty and staff participate and

become involved, according to Peters and Sarah Albertson, administrative assistant, who presented at the meeting.

Some efforts are informal, like encouraging staff and faculty to get involved in BP2W teams and encouraging them to attend campus events like First Fridays and staff meetings, where atten-dance is increasing. “You don’t always need a committee,” said Peters.

The college banded together to support the Run 4 Water April 5, which benefited the UWM Engineers Without Borders program. That effort involves a partnership with Guatemala to help develop sustainable clean water supplies.

STAR PERFORMERSStudent Affairs has put together a number of

efforts to help make the division a better place to work, according to a presentation by Ericca Pollack, director of the Student Success Center, and Sue McCarthy, assistant director of the Women’s Resource Center.

A Student Affairs Staff Development Committee offers professional development sessions on the fourth Tuesday of each month. The presentations have included social media, working with students who are veterans or active military, and building a fair and inclusive commu-nity.

The division has also established the STAR (Staff That Are Remarkable) awards to honor colleagues from across the university, including student employees, for their work and programs. The division holds an annual awards ceremony in April.

COLLABORATING FOR SUCCESSThe University Relations division has devel-

oped teams to work on projects that grew out of an all-division meeting, according to Mark Jacobson, web and mobile services manager, who is leading the effort. The broad areas include climate and culture, professional growth and collaboration.

The group sorted through hundreds of suggestions before determining which ones to tackle first. Some suggestions – like those related to parking – were better handled at a university-wide level, says Jacobson, and some of the ideas will take longer to put into effect.

However, others have already been completed. For example, by reconfiguring the Visual Design area in Sabin Hall and tearing down some cubi-cle walls, the team was able to develop a much-needed collaborative workspace.

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FROM THE PROVOSTby Johannes Britz, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Gesele Durham, Assistant Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and Director, Assessment and Institutional Research

UWM DAY AT STATE FAIR

SUNDAY, AUG. 38 A.M.-5 P.M.

UWM is once again sponsoring an entire day at the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday, Aug. 3.

The fair’s Central Mall will be the location for all things UWM. Look for giveaways, activities, games, face painting, music, sports clinics and photo ops with Pounce the Panther throughout the day, plus 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.

tarting in mid-February 2014, academic advisers in the College of Letters &

Science, College of Nursing, Peck School of the Arts and the School of Information Studies piloted the Student Success Collaborative (SSC), a data analytics tool developed by the Education Advisory Board.

By accessing and analyzing 10 years of student enrollment and academic performance data from UWM, the SSC combines technology, research, process improvement and predictive analytics to enable more positive student outcomes.

The collaborative unlocks insights about patterns of student success at UWM. These insights can then be used to enable more effective advising and collaboration among academic advisers, faculty advisers and their students to have earlier, more proactive and more data-driven conversations.

The SSC will benefit UWM in several key ways. By leveraging “big data” to identify where students tend to get stuck or slowed down on their way to graduation, the SSC helps identify pathways and support services that enable student success.

The SSC also provides students and advisers with course and academic-major success metrics, including alternative course and academic-major trajectories.

VALUABLE FEATURESUWM’s pilot was a resounding success.

Participating advisers were unanimous in support of moving the SSC from pilot to full campus implementation. In particular, they found the following features to be notably valuable:• Developing “watch lists” – advisers can create

specialized lists within the SSC to, for exam-ple, monitor end-of-term grades. Rather than keeping paper lists or stacks of files on a desk, the collaborative stores that informa-tion in an easily accessible space that can be enhanced by the other features offered by the analytics.

• Developing “reminders” – advisers can create a reminder to follow up with a particular student on a certain date – for example, to check on whether a student made an appointment if a request to meet was emailed to the student.

• Note-taking – the SSC includes a note-taking feature to document communication about a particular issue or discussion with a student.

• List creation – the SSC enables advisers to run lists of targeted groups of students to enable effective, targeted outreach. Running a list was perhaps the pilot advisers favorite feature and is a simple process of selecting criteria from an extensive menu. In essence, the SSC allows advisers to query the data without the need to have extensive training or experience to use the data warehouse.For example, an adviser selects the criteria to create a list of undecided students with more than 60 credits. That list can then be used to contact the students to discuss the process for declaring a major. A similar list can be run for students who only have an intended major (e.g., Psychology – Intended). In either case, these students have not formally declared a major. Contacting them about declaring their major earlier is increasingly important, because students cannot apply for graduation in PAWS if they have no formally declared major.

The pilot gave the participating advisers only an idea of what was possible with the SSC, and full implementation across the university will enable this powerful tool to be used to the fullest extent.

A PLAN FOR ‘PLAN B’

The SSC will be particularly valuable in helping at-risk, undeclared or in-transition students evaluate and compare alternative majors based on their predicted academic performance in any program, and leveraging analytics to help substantiate difficult advising conversations and interventions with students who may need a “plan B” program.

In light of the positive reaction and feedback, Academic Affairs and the deans have moved forward with a plan for full campus implementation over the 2014-15 academic year. Throughout the summer, work will begin to launch the collaborative across all schools/colleges, including training advisers in the tool and customizing risk indicators for each academic program.

SSC members have access not only to an innovative web-based student success platform, but also to a collection of services – from peer benchmarking to live webinars to national student success summits – designed to facilitate cross-membership learning and maximize the value of participation.

Academic advising has long been nationally recognized as a powerful and effective retention tool, and retention is one key to successful enrollment management. The SSC is one way we can empower our advisers to serve our students more effectively.

At a time when ‘big data’ is having a big impact on higher education, offering new powers of understanding through the manipulation of very large data sets, it is heartening to see UWM in the forefront of using these new capabilities to better serve our students.

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PANTHER PROWL 5K RUN/WALK

10TH ANNIVERSARYSUNDAY, OCT. 12

The UWM Alumni Association’s Panther Prowl 5K is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The certified run/walk through the UWM campus and upper Lake Park raises funds to support student scholarships.

Form a team, sign up as an individual, become a corporate sponsor or simply make a pledge to support this ever-popular campus event as it turns 10. Alumni and friends across the country can also participate by signing up to “Prowl Around the World” and getting a custom race packet sent to their door. For more info, go to pantherprowl.net.

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evrah Arndt came to Milwaukee armed with a bachelor’s degree in biology from

UW-Madison and took a job as a lab technician at UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences (SFS). The job turned into a career path that culminated last month with her doctoral degree.

For Benjamin Blair, the road leading to SFS and a PhD in water policy began with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from UW-Whitewater. He then moved to Milwaukee, lured by the city’s rising profile as a hub of water research and technology.

Arndt and Blair have become the first PhD graduates of UWM’s unique graduate school, and were among 160 doctoral degrees awarded at commencement on May 18.

DEVRAH ARNDT

Arndt was introduced to the field of toxicology while working in the lab of Associate Professor Rebecca Klaper, an expert in the effects of emerging contaminants in freshwater systems, like the Great Lakes. One of Arndt’s primary projects involved exposing fish cells to carbon nanomaterials – atomic-scale particles used to give commercial products various properties, such as dirt-resistance, strength or sun-blocking.

These particles are too small to be visible or to be removed by wastewater treatment processes and they end up in the water supply, where they may affect the health of people or aquatic life.

Arndt describes the work as both “interesting and exhilarating,” and so, when she got the chance to get her graduate training on human and ecosystem health with Klaper, she jumped at it.

“I knew I always wanted to work in water,” said Arndt, who is now working as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. “The school has a perfect location on Lake Michigan, and it also had some of the top freshwater researchers in the nation as part of its academic program. I feel very lucky to have gotten my PhD from this program.”

In 2011, she won a prestigious grant from the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Foundation, which funded her research for an entire summer.

“Another highlight of my doctoral journey,” she said, “was attending local and national conferences, which provided me access to the professional science community and allowed me to realize the importance of my research.”

BENJAMIN BLAIRWapaca native Benjamin Blair arrived in

Milwaukee looking for a way to apply his business degrees. So he took a few environmental engineering courses, including one in wastewater treatment, at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE).

“Through the courses I was taking at MSOE, I saw as a tremendous fit for someone with a background in finance to work in freshwater,” he said.

He wasn’t aiming at a career as an accountant – or as an engineer. But by following his interests he honed in on the policy and management track at SFS.

“I wanted a very interdisciplinary degree for a very interdisciplinary job,” he said. “This bridged the gap for me between environmental science and policy.”

Blair also worked with Klaper, but his focus was on the management implications of pharmaceutical and personal-care products in wastewater. His graduate school high point occurred at a non-academic conference in Denver.

“It was an event for pharmacists focused on pharmaceuticals in water supplies,” he said. “I just showed up because I was interested in the topic. And at one session, the speakers called attention to a published paper on pharmaceuticals found in Lake Michigan. It was a paper I had written.”

The incident took him completely by surprise. “To have a paper you wrote discussed by others at a national conference felt pretty good,” he said. “People must be reading it.”

Blair is currently at the University of Colorado Denver, where he teaches and conducts research on the policy and management of the hydrology of fracking.

Devrah Arndt (left) and Benjamin Blair (right), the first two doctoral graduates of UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, flank their adviser, Associate Professor Rebecca Klaper, after Spring Commencement.

SFS produces its first two doctoral graduatesby Laura L. Hunt

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LEARN FROM YOUR ‘SUMMER FAILCATION’

Think back on all of your summer vacations. Sure, some of them turned out pretty much as planned, but chances are some of them turned into a series of unfortunate and (hopefully by now) laughable events. Maybe this year it’s time to let the UWM School of Continuing Education (SCE) help you avoid another “Summer Failcation.”

Just plan ahead, get educated and follow these easy steps:• Submit the best (or worst) Summer

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• Discover wish-you-were-here course discounts. Huge weekly savings on specific program areas. Details are at uwm.edu/sce-summer.

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void buying things over public WiFi. Be very, very careful with your debit

card. That massive security breach of credit and debit card information at Target was just one of thousands last year. And you thought Facebook was on your side?

As concerns about security and privacy online increase, we talked with an expert, Derek Nazareth, associate professor of Information Technology Management in the Lubar School of Business. Nazareth specializes in privacy and security aspects of information systems, and his research includes a focus on the ethics of information systems.

Here are excerpts from that (off-line) conversation:

On the Target security breach, which recently cost the CEO his job:

“I thought they handled it rather poorly. They should have identified where it happened and what happened.

“Instead, they made a number of releases, and initial ones were a bit misleading. First they said data was not stolen, then they said debit card information was not stolen, then they said it was maybe encrypted – which it wasn’t.

“The news kept getting worse, coming out in dribs and drabs.

“And yet most folks have not paid that much attention to it. I asked my students if they stopped shopping at Target. It did not seem to be an issue for them.”

Why people didn’t pay much attention:“A combination of becoming blasé, as well

as people believing it’s not going to happen to them in that situation. Our assumption is nothing will go wrong. The majority of times it does not go wrong, but it does happen.”

And yet, there are three motives for hackers:

“There are three ways for thieves to use stolen credit and debit card information:• Some will sell it to others who will use it to

make purchases.• Others will use it to make big ticket

item purchases.• Another group will use it for small charges,

but on a large number of stolen accounts.“Thieves are getting very good at this.” But, you are more likely to fall victim to

this:“You go to an ATM, and there’s a little card

skimmer sitting on top of where you put your card. You don’t notice it, but it reads your

card in addition to the ATM reading it. If you look closely, you might also find a camera that can track your PIN number as well.”

One way to avoid this: “ATM skimmers are getting a lot more

common. Ideal targets are not ATMs at banks, but more remote, unattended locations, like gas stations.

“Take a look at the ATM. It takes 10 seconds to look, but we don’t.

“You also have to look carefully at your credit card statements. With a debit card, check online more frequently than the end of the month when your statement comes.”

Debit cards are useful, but:“Fraudulent charge protections for credit

and debit cards are quite different. With a credit card, it’s not your money; it’s the credit card company’s. You have up to 60 days after a statement is issued to work things out and there’s a $50 maximum liability if charges are shown to be fraudulent.

“With a debit card, it’s your money coming out of your account and it’s gone. You may be able to recover some or all of the debit charge, but it’s a long process to get it resolved.”

And, not so much for students:“If you are looking to build credit ratings

after graduation, [debit card] information doesn’t get reported. A debit card is not going to help you.”

And, not online:“Avoid debit cards for online buys. If an

item is defective, or not what you thought it was, it’s up to the merchant to refund the money. Also, you have no protection if it’s a scam.”

Why hackers steal your data in the first place:

“A lot of hackers try to get in just to see if they can; it’s the challenge. Once in, they can lie low and see how much they can collect. They may expose weak security, or expose something they don’t approve of, or they may sell the information. Typically, a hacker will charge about $10 for a credit card number – given you’ve got a large number of cards to sell, that gets you a fair amount.

And three ways they do it:“During an online purchase, there are

three areas where you can expect to lose your credit information:• From hackers at your originating computer:

You could have keystroke capture software

that would log your user ID and passwords, or it can be looking at all those cookies on your computer.

• During transmission back and forth: We tend to assume that because we’re working online, information is encrypted and mostly it is. But you have to be careful about that.

• At the merchant: That’s where Target and other hackers come in. There’s not much you can do except tell them not to store your card information.”Oh, and:“Never use public Wi-Fi for financial

transactions. It’s usually unencrypted; someone else can be listening in.”

Your personal information gets used in other ways:

“A lot of folks are looking to mine your data, and the more you provide online, the more they can get from you, the more they can sell that to other people.

“The tables have turned. Previously, when an advertiser wanted to sell you stuff, this was viewed as selling products to a consumer. Now, we’ve come full circle, and what they are really selling is you to the advertiser. You are the commodity.”

Cookies aren’t always a treat:“Advertising cookies placed on your

computer are different than session management cookies, which have a business purpose. Ad tracking cookies are just to see what they can find out about you.

“Any time you visit the popular sites, you get whole bunch of them. A Wall Street Journal study of the top 50 websites found they placed an average of about 60 ad tracking cookies on your computer each time you visit. Some place as many as 230 cookies.”

And finally, what’s the deal with Facebook?“Think of Facebook just the way you think

of anyone else gathering information about you. They are gathering it not to help you, but to help them. If you look at Facebook privacy policies, they always change to benefit the organization. I’m not a user, not so much because of privacy issues, but because it would take up an incredible amount of my time.”

Online security? Be very, very carefulby Alex Vagelatos

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WM students – along with an instructor – are helping to explain the inner workings of a

heart, a knee and a liver.Students from the College of Health Sciences’

Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program and Clinical Associate Professor Carlynn Alt are volunteers at the Milwaukee Public Museum’s “Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life” exhibit, which runs through June 15.

It’s not that the exhibit has a shortage of ways to see the wonders of the human body; visitors should plan at least an hour at the exhibit. The UWM representatives – among hundreds of community volunteers who assist at the museum each year – work at a mobile cart that contains the specimens, along with thin cross-sections of a mid-thorax and its organs.

“This is a great opportunity to talk with people who have knowledge about the human body, as well as with those who don’t have much knowledge. It’s also an example of the community service and volunteerism which are a very important part of the profession of physical therapy and part of the UWM experience,” Alt said.

According to Alt, many visitors at the “Body Worlds” cart are particularly eager to see the human knee, which shows degeneration of the cartilage and offers an opportunity to point out the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), a ligament commonly injured in the knee joint. “We all have knee problems or know someone who has them,” she said, adding that physical activity and weight management can help maintain knee health.

The DPT is a clinical doctorate in physical therapy, a three-year professional program in the College of Health Sciences. Students enter as a cohort (there are 24 now) and spend their third year in clinical internships.

“From the very beginning, community experience is part of the program. There are many opportunities for students to engage in outreach,” Alt said. In their second week of class, for example, students were working at the Alexian Village retirement community. Alt and students recently completed a seven-week course in exercise and wellness for cancer survivors at Elite Sports Club–North Shore in Glendale.

This is the second time DPT students have worked at a “Body Worlds” exhibit – the first was in 2008, just a year after the program was implemented.

“Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life,” the latest exhibition from physician and anatomist Gunther von Hagens, features the body “throughout the human life cycle and across the arc of aging.” More than 200 plastinates – human specimens preserved through von Hagens’ invention, “plastination” – show the human body across youth, growth, maturity and advanced age, and from health to distress and disease.

Allison Beardsley is one of four DPT students at the UWM cart, where she shared her time with fellow second-year student Sarah Hardcastle.

“Some people approach us and say, ‘Just tell me what you know.’ Others ask a lot of questions,” said Beardsley, who is from Palo Alto, Calif. Part of the students’ preparation was speaking with a heart surgeon about the surgical aspects of the heart on display.

In all, the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) has 83 volunteers and two interns working at “Body Worlds,” including 30 students from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Like all museum volunteers, the students underwent training in museum policies as well as those of the exhibitor. The museum has more than 300 volunteers.

Having so many students necessitated evening training sessions, said Marge Schell, MPM’s volunteer coordinator.

“‘Body Worlds’ has strict guidelines,” Schell said. “Everything in the exhibit must be treated with respect at all times. We also went over how to work with the public, and answer questions from people of different ages with different levels of knowledge.”

Doctor of Physical Therapy students volunteer at the “Body Worlds” exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum: Kathryn Hurst, (from left), Francesca Parar, Clinical Associate Professor Carlynn Alt, Allison Beardsley, Sarah Hardcastle.

‘Body Worlds’ and UWM students at Milwaukee Public Museumby Alex Vagelatos

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TRAVEL WITH A TWISTby Cathy Prescher

Have you ever dreamed of seeing the incredible beauty of Costa Rica or experiencing the spectacular scenery and sites of Spain?

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers travel experiences of a lifetime with a very special UWM twist. During the next year, you will have the chance to travel to remarkable locations around the world on tours especially designed for adult travelers. UWM offers a worry-free travel experience with just the right blend of educational and leisure activities. See the world, make new friends and enjoy exceptional educational travel experiences.

COSTA RICA NOV. 30-DEC. 7Explore the beauty, warmth, tranquility

and excitement of Costa Rica. Take in views from above the rainforest, hike volcanoes and waterfalls, tour a coffee plantation, and explore museums and sights in the capital city of San José.

All meals, transportation, admissions and lodging are included.

SPAIN MARCH 11-22, 2015Enjoy the best that Spain has to offer

on this memorable travel opportunity filled with a spectacular array of cathedrals, fortresses, palaces, gardens and striking modern architecture.

Attend a free, no obligation information meeting on Wed., Aug. 6, from 6:30-8 p.m. at the School of Continuing Education.

To RSVP or for more information about either program, contact Kim Beck at 414-227-3321 or [email protected].


hen water policy scholar Jenny Kehl learned last fall that millions in federal grants designed

to protect the Great Lakes were threatened, she was surprised to learn why – climate change.

Funding behind the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) represent a federal investment in addressing what the lakes are most vulnerable to: environmental stressors and consumption patterns.

While many of the funded projects are making progress toward their restoration goals, others have not been able to integrate the anticipated impacts of climate change.

These, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), are at a high risk for failing without taking climate change into account.

As director of the UWM Center for Water Policy, Kehl convened a group of nationally renowned experts from the Great Lakes region in April to develop the first comprehensive strategy to incorporate the impact of climate change in Great Lakes policy.

The goal of the UWM assembly, held at the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread in Racine, was to leverage the university’s research capacity on Great Lakes issues through its unique School of Freshwater Sciences to advise the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in order to ensure GLRI’s long-term success.

The EPA, administrator of the GLRI grants, meets June 5-7 to begin discussions on improving the effectiveness of the 2015-19 GLRI action plan. The GLRI is the largest investment in the Great Lakes in two decades. A task force of 11 federal agencies developed the 2010-14 action plan.

“This effort kick-starts the proactive policy conversation to address a complex challenge,” says Kehl. “Climate change impacts everything from the tap water we drink to the price we pay for electricity to what kind of Great Lakes our children and grandchildren will inherit. It jeopardizes the political and economic stability of the region.”

The UWM-led group will present its recommendations to the Great Lakes Executive Committee, which includes representatives from both the U.S. and Canada, next month. The group also has been invited to present to the EPA Science Advisory Board and the EPA Advisory Board on Great Lakes Issues.

SCIENCE INFORMS POLICYA 2012 storm in Duluth, Minn., illustrates how

climate impacts can ruin projects designed to protect the Great Lakes.

Flash flooding in Duluth not only caused nearly $100 million in property damage, it also led to harmful algal blooms in Lake Superior, says Cameron Davis, senior adviser to the EPA Administrator on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

“That is a place where we never would have thought we had to worry about [algal blooms],” he says.

Such rapid growth of algae can release toxins into and deplete oxygen from the water, threatening aquatic life and the health of humans who eat fish or swim in the lake. Agricultural waste is a leading cause of algal blooms, but flash flooding can have the same effect by increasing storm runoff into the lakes.

Davis welcomed the scientific and policy focus on adapting to predicted effects of climate change in the Great Lakes. “Our goal is not just about resiliency,” he says. “I think we have to think longer term.”

RECOMMENDATIONSThe scientists convened by the Center for Water

Policy addressed this issue in two ways. First they identified the range of climate change impacts on restoration and management within six focus areas – near-shore health and non-point pollution; invasive species; toxic substances; habitat and wildlife protection; agricultural water use; and energy and water use.

Six policy briefs outline these threats, such as: • Wild variation in lake levels because of weather,

and more intense storms.• Dwindling of water resources that are currently

taken for granted.• Expanded ranges for invasive species that can

alter the aquatic food chain.• Accelerated transport of contaminants in

the lakes.• Mounting energy consumption with water-

reliant coal-generated power.• Agricultural demand for water is expected to

grow along with a longer growing season.Next, the group developed policy-based

strategies to integrate climate change impacts into future restoration projects in these focus areas. Collectively these strategies amount to a GLRI resource handbook. Some of the many recommendations include:• Adopting a numerical watershed-based

approach to pollution control.• Involving farmers in nutrient and land-use

policy formulation.• Expanding the region’s renewable energy

portfolio.• Galvanizing diverse constituencies of the Great

Lakes environment.• Calculating the “virtual water” that goes into

producing foodstuffs and goods.• Aligning Farm Bill incentives with local steward-

ship priorities.• Accounting for the true cost of water.

The full briefs can be found online at: centerforwaterpolicy.wordpress.com.

UWM strategizes climate change policy for the Great Lakesby Laura L. Hunt

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Director of UWM’s Center for Water Policy Jenny Kehl points to a need for a “proactive policy conversation” to address the wide-ranging ramifications of climate change on water quality.

A WONDERFUL NIGHT OF ART IN SPACE

Julie Lebo, a graduate student in art history at UWM, curated the “Art in Space” exhibit and sale at the Manfred Olson Planetarium in April. Local artists submitted an ecletic mix of space-themed art, including “Star Wars” prints fashioned into nameplates representing Milwaukee neighborhoods, a celestial view of a comet streaking over the Earth and paint-ings of space objects so realistic they almost could be mistaken for images from the Hubble Space Telescope. All of the art was up for bids, along with gift certificates from generous donors.

Director Jean Creighton presented a special planetarium show highlighting stunning photos she had taken during her recent mission aboard NASA’s SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), along with deep-space imag-es of brilliant nebulae and galaxies.

Proceeds of the art sale were shared by the UWM Planetarium and the artists.

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magine returning to the home you grew up in and being immersed in memories

and emotions.Visitors to an exhibit June 6-Aug. 17 at

INOVA can see what such a visit brought forth from Seattle artist Leo Berk.

“The Uncertainty of Enclosure: Leo Saul Berk” features a body of work inspired by the artist’s time in a very unconventional home designed by one of America’s most unconventional architects – Bruce Goff.

Berk was born in England. The company his father worked for transferred his father to Aurora, Ill., where Berk’s parents went house hunting. At the last moment, they came upon the Goff-designed Ford House and bought it, even though the real estate agent tried to talk them out of it.

“THAT HOUSE SHAPED ME”It was a life-changing decision for Berk, who

lived there from ages 6-13. “It completely changed the trajectory of my

life. I honestly don’t think that I would have been an artist had I not lived in the house. That house shaped me, and that’s really what I was trying to think about when I was there, how architecture can really shape someone, how it can transform in a positive way,” Berk told an interviewer in 2011.

Berk has been creating works based on the Ford House since 2011. The INOVA exhibit will bring together this body of a dozen works for the first time in its entirety.

The exhibit will feature sculptures, photographs and videos that reimagine Goff’s unusual choices in building materials, forms and shapes. All are based on Berk’s recollections of growing up, his historical

research and his examination of how the house affected his growth as an artist.

INOVA Director Sara Krajewski knew Berk from her time at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle.

She accompanied Berk on a visit to the Ford House, and their explorations of the structure’s impact on him became the basis for the exhibit.

“I think of it as living inside a sculpture,” Krajewski said of the Ford House. “It’s an artistic expression, not just a container to reside in.”

ARCHITECTURE – AND ARTThe Ford House is one of the few of

Goff’s residential projects still standing. Goff worked in Chicago and Berkeley, Calif., before teaching at the University of Oklahoma. He died in 1982. He was known for his eclectic designs, idiosyncratic floor plans and use of recycled materials.

The Ford House is a prime example. The orange steel ribs that form the circular structure of the house were salvaged from World War II Quonset huts, and they come together to make a skylight. The exterior wall is made of coal interspersed with chunks of green glass that Goff found in a plate-glass factory in St. Louis. All the wood is cypress. On interior and exterior surfaces are World War II surplus

hemp rope lines.Works at INOVA will include “Clinkers” – a

true-to-scale photograph of the glass cullet in an exterior wall lit from behind by the setting sun – and “Waking to his Dream,” a sculpture based on the home’s domed ceiling as it was originally drawn by Goff.

During a 10-day residency at UWM in March, Berk worked with students in the Peck School’s Digital Craft Research Lab to collaborate on two pieces, including a design in Corian based on the unusual exterior walls.

“One of my goals at INOVA is to get artists, students and faculty together. It’s such a valuable experience for students to have a connection and collaborate with professional artists outside of their teachers,” Krajewski said.

Berk and Sidney Robinson, an architectural historian and current owner of the Ford House, will speak at the opening on Friday, June 6. On June 11, Chicago-based ensemble Third Coast Percussion will premiere compositions based on Goff’s musical pursuit of manipulating piano rolls.

After the exhibit closes, it will travel to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle in February 2015.

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A still from Berk’s video “Carousel” (2011)

A view of the Ford House in Aurora, Ill., with exposed steel ribs.

Peck School student Alissa Fedor (left) and Leo Berk working on art for his INOVA exhibit.

“Clinkers” (2012) features a photo of the glass embedded in an exterior wall lit from behind by the setting sun.

“Waking to his Dream,” (2011) is a sculpture based on the home’s domed ceiling as it was originally drawn by architect Bruce Goff.


he four-concert Fine Arts Quartet Summer Evenings of Music opened June 1 with Joseph

Haydn’s Quartet Op. 77-2 – the last complete string quartet the Austrian composer ever wrote – and will close with a string sextet by Tchaikovsky, likely to finish with the Russian composer’s typical flourish.

The Summer Evenings of Music all feature the world-renowned Fine Arts Quartet, UWM’s Quartet-in-Residence since 1963. Remaining dates are Sundays, June 8, 22 and 29. Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts.

The Fine Arts Quartet began performing regularly in 1946 while playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. With different membership over the years, the quartet has made scores of recordings and toured extensively. They perform four times during the academic year at UWM, in addition to the Summer Evening concerts. Violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico (who have been playing together nearly 30 years), interim violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez and cellist Robert Cohen perform in such cities as New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing and Toronto.

Timothy Noonan, senior lecturer in music history and literature at the UWM Peck School of the Arts, will host free pre-concert talks beginning at 6:30 p.m. before concerts on June 8 and 29. Steve Basson, retired Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra bassoonist, will host the free pre-concert talk on June 22.

Printed programs contain details about each piece, so Noonan said he typically talks about “bigger, broader ideas.”

“Joseph Haydn composed 68 quartets over a long career, and the last one he completed was Op. 77-2. He wrote Op. 103 in his 70s, when he was frail and weak and about finished with composing. This unfinished string quartet includes only the second and third movements, typically the slow movement and the minuet, while the first and last movements [which Haydn did not write] in a quartet are both fast,” Noonan said.

Haydn’s Op. 103 will be performed June 22.Noonan also expects to talk about Juan

Crisóstomo Arriaga – known as the Spanish Mozart because of the similarities between the two composers. He and Mozart were prodigies, composing at an early age. Born on the 50th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, Arriaga died in 1826 at age 19. In his short life he wrote three string quartets, and the Fine Arts Quartet will perform Arriaga’s final work – Quartet No. 3 – on June 8.

CONCERT SCHEDULE

June 8: Arriaga Quartet No. 3; Bruckner Quartet; Mendelssohn Quartet Op. 44-1

June 22 (with guest pianist Alon Goldstein and bassist Rachel Calin): Haydn Quartet Op.103; Mozart Piano Concerto KV 467; Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 2

June 29 (with guest cellist Alexander Hülshoff and violist Gil Sharon): Mozart Quintet KV 406; Strauss “Capriccio”; Tchaikovsky Sextet “Souvenir de Florence”

Tickets are available at the Zelazo box office and online at arts.uwm.edu/tickets.

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SUMMER ASTROBREAKS FEATURE UWM PHYSICISTS

AstroBreaks are free shows on select Wednesdays from 12:15-12:45 p.m. at the Manfred Olson Planetarium. This summer’s programs feature guest lecturers from the UWM Physics Department.

JUNE 11Guest Lecturer: Phil Chang

“A star is born: How stars form from the interstellar gas.” Stars, like humans, are born, live and die. Explore the fascinating processes of star formation in the cosmos.

JULY 9Guest Lecturer: Laleh Sadeghian

“The mystery of dark matter.” Dark matter can’t be seen directly, but evidence suggests that it outweighs ordinary matter – all of the atoms that make up stars, galaxies and clouds in the cosmos – by a factor of four to one. Sadeghian will discuss the evidence for dark matter and what it could be.

JULY 16Guest Lecturer: Astrid Lamberts

“Playing detective with stars.” By looking at dead stars, astronomers learn about the evolution and composition of all types of stars. Learn how astronomers can learn about stellar life by looking at the intriguing and beautiful remnants they leave behind.

AUGUST 20 Guest Lecturer: Laura Nuttall

“Kilonovae: The source of all gold on Earth?” Kilonova explosions occur through the collision of a pair of superdense objects called neutrons stars, or a neutron star and a black hole. Quite different from supernovae, these events are much dimmer; in fact, only one kilonova has ever been reported. Nuttall will discuss these fascinating events, and how our jewelry might be made of colliding-star stuff!

AUGUST 27Guest Lecturer: Sydney Chamberlin

“When galaxies collide: detecting gravitational waves with pulsars.” Using observations of pulsars – rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit radio pulses – we can observe the gravitational signature of merging supermassive black holes.

This summer, the Manfred Olson Planetarium offers a very special Friday night show, a celebration of the summer solstice and Wednesday AstroBreaks featuring guest speakers from UWM’s Department of Physics (see schedule at left). For more information, visit planetarium.uwm.edu.

How to be an AstronautFridays, June 20-July 18. No Show July 4.7-8 p.m. & 8:15-9:10 p.m.Tickets: $2Ever wonder what it is like to work for NASA?

This program will give audience members a glimpse of Jean Creighton’s time aboard NASA’s SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) and the experience of training as a “Junior Varsity Astronaut.” Audiences will also learn about the role astronauts play in space exploration and observation. Astronaut stories will unfold, from childhood excitement for astronomy to their return home from space.

Summer SolsticeTuesday & Wednesday, June 17 & 18Celebrate the longest day of the year with the

UWM Planetarium! The summer solstice party will feature a special planetarium show that highlights summer solstice traditions from around the world. As always, guests also will be treated to a tour of the current night sky.

The Fine Arts Quartet (from left): Ralph Evans, violinist; Efim Boico, violinist; Robert Cohen, cellist; and Juan-Miguel Hernandez, interim violist.

Summer at the planetarium

Jean Creighton (right) and teammate Kathy Gustavson of Nicolet High School pose in front of SOFIA.


SPORTS ROUNDUPBy Tim Prahl

The Golden Panther Awards May 11 highlight-ed the academic and athletic achievements of more than 300 Panthers who are student-athletes.

Swimming standouts Erika Pliner and Chris Jenkyns claimed the Panther Senior Athlete Award, given to the two seniors who have best combined academic, athletic and community excellence.

Swimmer Emily McClellan and soccer standout Laurie Bell repeated as the UWM/Army National Guard/ROTC Athletes of the Year, while track standout Simbi Laaro was honored with the James Wright Special Recognition Award.

Other honorees included Kelsey Holbert (women’s soccer), Vienna Behnke (women’s soccer) and Riley Spitzig (men’s swimming & diving), who were recognized for having the high-est grade point averages in the department.

The individuals with the highest grade point average on each team were also recognized, as were the individuals with the top 10 GPAs in the department.

The highest team grade point averages in the department belong to men’s soccer and women’s tennis, two groups honored with the Raise Your Sights Award. In the fall semester, more than two-thirds of the student-athletes posted a 3.0 GPA or better, and Panther Athletics has now recorded 26 straight semesters of a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0.

The men’s basketball and women’s track & field teams captured the Horizon League Community Service Award.

This year’s senior class was also recognized during the ceremony, a group with an incred-ible list of accomplishments. In fact, over the last four years, UWM teams have claimed 23 Horizon League titles and made eight NCAA Tournament appearances.

Individuals have been named All-American 11 times and Academic All-American three times in the last four years, while Milwaukee has had 17 Horizon League Athletes of the Year.

The event included a number of other awards created and voted on by student-athletes. Marquis Johnson (track & field) and Natalie Johnson (swimming & diving) were named Newcomers of the Year, while Mitch Ghelfi of baseball and Laaro were honored as Comebacks of the Year.

Bell and Diana Diel were honored for their Standout Performances, while K.J. Heger and McClellan were recognized for Record-Breaking Performance of the Year. Honored with the Strength and Conditioning Awards were Julie Kolinske (volleyball), McClellan, Mike Lucchesi (swimming & diving) and Pat Wilson (baseball).

The Panther women’s soccer team captured Best Team Moment honors and the Michael Poll Spirit Award. The men’s soccer victory over Marquette was honored for Best Upset, while men’s track & field claimed the award for Best Team.

Panthers honor finest student-athletes at Golden Panther Awards

Solberg named Horizon League Player of the Year

Senior UWM baseball standout Ryan Solberg has been named Horizon League Player of the Year, the league office announced May 20.

Solberg was also honored as a member of the All-Horizon League First Team.

Solberg is capping his UWM career with a phenomenal senior season. Heading into post-season play, he led the Horizon League with his .371 batting average, .575 slugging percentage, 96 total bases, seven home runs and 24 stolen bases.

In addition to topping the conference in those five categories, he is also second with 41 runs batted in, second with his .452 on-base percent-age and third with 62 hits.

The speedy outfielder also leads the team with 11 doubles and has scored 29 times. His 24 stolen bases have tied the UWM school record for steals in a season.

This marks the third time Solberg has received Horizon League postseason honors. A year ago he was named Second-Team All-League as a utility player, and he was also named to the All-Newcomer Team as a freshman.

Chris Jenkyns

Emily McClellan

Simbi Laaro

Lauri Bell


Call: 414-229-4040Toll-free: 877-381-3459Visit: GetTechHelp.uwm.edu

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Office 365 goes live July 28The Office 365 Project Team has identified the least disruptive, most technologically favorable time-

frame within which to transition UWM’s pantherLINK email and calendar customers to the Office 365 collaborative suite.

In May, with the endorsement of UWM’s IT Policy Committee (ITPC), the Chancellor’s Cabinet accepted the Project Team’s proposal to arrange a brief email and calendar “holiday” from Friday, July 25, 2014, at 12:01 a.m. until Monday, July 28, at 6 a.m., when Office 365 will “go live.”

STEPSBeginning Friday, July 25, at 12:01 a.m.:

• All new email and calendar appointments sent to @uwm.edu addresses will be routed to Office 365.• PantherLINK will be reconfigured to allow customers to access their historical email and calendar

data until the data migration has been completed.• The migration process will first move customers’ most recent email and calendar data to the

new system.On Monday, July 28, at 6 a.m., customers will have access to their new Office 365 accounts.The email and calendar “holiday” is necessary so the Office 365 Project Team can ensure the most

effective data transfer before Monday, July 28. The UWM Office 365 site features information about the transition, a link to Learning TECHniques

course offerings that will help customers prepare and more: uwm.edu/o365.

SHOPPING FOR A NEW COMPUTER? STRUGGLING TO KEEP AN OLD ONE RUNNING? UWM TechStore and UWM TechRepair can help

In this interview, UWM TechStore Manager Paul Gunderson describes the resources and services available through the UWM TechStore and UWM TechRepair.

What products are sold at the UWM TechStore? We sell all Apple Macintosh computers, all

models of iPad and iPod, as well as Apple parts and accessories. We also sell Dell laptops – primarily from the Inspiron and XPS lines — as well as printers, cables, accessories and supplies for both Apple and PCs.

Are your prices comparable to what I would find at a retail store?

Yes! Our prices are as competitive as we can make them. Obviously we don’t have the buying power of the big box stores, but we are typically close, or less expensive, depending on a number of variables.

What advantages are possible when making university purchases through the UWM TechStore?

Speed and convenience. Institutional buyers will find basic items that they might need immediately, such as power adapters, Ethernet cords, surge suppressors and more. In addition, we provide unbi-ased technology consultations. For Apple purchases, we can easily place large and custom orders on behalf of our customers.

We are located in the heart of campus – right where the action is. We know the needs and require-ments of UWM schools, colleges, its degrees and certificate programs. Since our sales associates are primarily students, they understand the mindset and priorities of student shoppers. Finally, we work closely with our sister store, UWM TechRepair, to offer certified warranty service for Apple and Dell computers and tablets.

Does the UWM TechStore offer personal discounts for faculty and staff?

Yes. Apple offers educational discounts to faculty, staff and students – including accepted students and parents making purchases on their behalf. Dell offers educational discounts to the same group, as well as alumni.

I have a virus on my computer. Will UWM TechRepair remove it?

Yes! UWM TechRepair will remove viruses from student computers up to two times each semester for free. Virus-protection solutions are available for personal computers at antivirus.uwm.edu. Additionally, UWM TechRepair will install parts and operating systems, diagnose hardware and soft-ware issues, and recover lost data (when possible). Turnaround time depends on their queue, and their rates are reasonable.

Is UWM TechRepair an Apple Authorized Service Provider?

Yes! The technicians are certified by Apple (not an easy task, believe me!) to provide both warranty and after-warranty support. Certification gives them full access to the Apple tool kit – diagnostics, special tools, parts ordering and complete escala-tion rights in the Apple system. Technicians are required by Apple to follow a very specific protocol to ensure the best possible service outcome.

The computers in our department lab should be replaced. Do you offer consultation services?

Departments should first consult their local technical support personnel. The UWM TechStore will gladly provide help, as needed. We’ve assisted with large purchases for a variety of academic departments. All institutional Apple purchases are to be made through the UWM TechStore. We have

knowledge of special volume pricing, can explore special warranty possibilities, and more.

The UWM TechStore is in Bolton Hall 225A. Watch our website for more information, discounts and promotions: uwm.edu/techstore.

UWM TechStore Manager Paul Gunderson


CIPD The Center for Instructional & Professional Development

This summer, the Center for Instructional and Professional Development (CIPD) offers a variety of opportunities to engage important issues in teaching and learning, including a half-day retreat, a series of workshops and a book discussion.

The focus for the summer is active learning in a variety of contexts. In addition, CIPD will offer professional development workshops for graduate students and coordinate the annual orientation for new graduate teaching assistants.

Seating is limited, so please register on CIPD’s website: www4.uwm.edu/cipd/. Contact Connie Schroeder for further information at [email protected] or 414-229-5764. Contact Matt Russell at [email protected] for graduate teaching assistant programs or events connected to CIPD’s participa-tion in UWM’s Digital Humanities initiative.

BOOK DISCUSSIONEngaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in the Classroom, by John C. Bean (Jossey-Bass, 2011)

CIPD and its partners will facilitate three infor-mal book discussions for this well-received book that explores practical strategies, individual experiences and current research on incorporating writing assignments that promote higher-level thinking.

Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical-thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion and debate.

This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantita-tive/scientific literacy, blended and online learn-ing, and other current issues. Information on the book is available here: tinyurl.cm/engagingideas. • Book Discussion, Part I: Friday, June 6, 1-3 p.m.,

Golda Meir Library E175• Book Discussion, Part II: Friday, July 11, 1-3 p.m.,

Union 344• Book Discussion, Part III: Friday, Aug. 8, 1-3 p.m.,

Golda Meir Library E175

WORKSHOPSDesigning Your Own Course: Two-part workshop

This two-part intensive workshop, Designing Your Own Course, helps instructors create or significantly revise a course for an upcoming semester.

Make a course your own by making the changes you’ve always wanted to. Participants will receive the Learner-Centered Course Design booklet with examples of each course design component, and begin using the seven-part design process during the workshop.

The result of this in-depth workshop will be greater intentionality and transparency in your design for learning and increased confidence that your course components are connected and coherent. Lunch provided.• Designing Your Own Course Part I: Friday, June

13, 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Union 340 Part I will guide you in framing your questions

about student learning and designing your course to get students to achieve the learning you intend.

You will develop a course framework that uncovers the course’s big ideas and write course learning outcomes that reflect your goals. • Designing Your Own Course Part II: Friday, July

18, 11:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Golda Meir Library E175 Part II will guide you in developing grading

schemes, crafting assignment criteria and rubrics, and embedding low-stakes assessments that help you know if your students “get it.”

ACTIVE LEARNING CLASSROOMSBreakout Groups and Group Projects

UWM is in the process of constructing five active learning classrooms in the Northwest Quadrant (NWQ) that incorporate flexible furni-ture, grouped seating, advanced technology and a commitment to interactive learning.

Using these spaces effectively implies rethink-ing a traditionally designed course in order to support increased student responsibility for their learning and a reliance on collaboration. However, perhaps no other pedagogical strategy elicits more complaints than group work.

How can you ensure collaboration rather than piecemeal work? How can you encourage inte-grating and synthesizing information, as well as thinking critically together?

Participants will receive a booklet of small-group strategies. Bring a course syllabus and a specific assignment, and begin constructing an effective semester-long small-group assignment using five core principles. Future NWQ instruc-tors are strongly encouraged to attend.• Part I: Friday, June 27, 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.,

Union 340Setting up groups: Overview of Principles of

Group Collaboration – Principle 1: Interdependence• Part II: Friday, July 25, 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.,

Union 344Principles 2-5, Sample Team Project Analysis,

Design Team Projects

RETREATPart-time Academic Staff with Teaching

Responsibilities Retreat: Is Homework Obsolete?Friday, Aug. 15, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Union 181

You are invited to meet other part-time academic staff with teaching responsibilities at an interactive, half-day retreat designed to help you succeed in getting students to prepare for class.

What are reasonable expectations for class participation? How can we assign meaningful work, provide useful feedback on it, and make out-of-class preparation worthwhile for our students and us?

Through discussion and small-group activities, we will examine how to maximize student engage-ment outside of class. Participants are invited to bring their ideas for successful student prepara-tion. You will receive materials during the retreat. Lunch provided.

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT/GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOPS

Developing Your Statement of Teaching Philosophy Wednesday, June 18, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Golda Meir

Library 190/Library Instruction Room BJob applications often ask for “statements of

teaching philosophy,” but few of us may have seen what many of these statements look like and have little practice writing our own.

In this interactive session, we look at some samples and proceed through a sequence of writ-ing and discussion activities designed to help you identify what you value in your own teaching and how that is represented in concrete activities in the classroom.

This is a working session, and the intent will be to come away with real strategies for approaching your first draft.

Creating a Teaching PortfolioWednesday June 25, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Golda Meir

Library 190/Library Instruction Room BFor those graduate teaching assistants hoping

to get academic jobs at teaching-focused institu-

tions, a teaching portfolio will be a vital part of any successful job search.

As with all your job search materials, it is impor-tant to start developing a teaching portfolio well in advance of your search and to have a plan for main-taining those materials regularly and efficiently.

This workshop will explore the elements you will need in your portfolio, offer strategies for developing a portfolio that represents a learner-focused instructor, and explore several online services and tools for maintaining your portfolio through graduation and beyond.

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT ORIENTATION

Monday & Tuesday, Aug. 18-19, Lubar Hall N140Every August, CIPD provides a two-day orienta-

tion for the more than 200 new graduate TAs and PAs who will begin teaching for the first time at UWM. This special teaching orientation confer-ence familiarizes new teachers with the many resources available to them at UWM. In addition, several workshops are offered, providing a forum in which to pose and address questions related to the experience of classroom teaching, teaching assistantships and project assistantships at UWM. Registration for the orientation sessions is avail-able through the CIPD website.

CIPD CONSULTATIONSCIPD staff will meet with UWM instructors

and faculty members upon request for a private consultation about teaching and/or individual course design. All meetings and materials are confidential, formative and developmental, not part of university faculty review processes.

In an individual consultation, CIPD staff members offer collegial support informed by research on learning and teaching. We will not tell you how to teach, but we will ask questions and explore possibilities so that you can meet your own teaching and learning goals.

Consultations typically focus on areas such as: • Assessing and enhancing a current course.• Creating a new course or revising an existing

course, assignment or syllabus.• Understanding and measuring what students

are learning. • Exploring new pedagogical techniques or

different approaches to class or course design.• Interpreting comments and numerical results

from Student Evaluation of Teaching forms.Go to www4.uwm.edu/cipd/Consultations/ for

more information and to request a consultation.

UWM LIBRARIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES LAB

The UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab, a collaborative effort among the UWM Libraries, CIPD and the College of Letters and Science, is an interdisciplinary space aimed at bringing together faculty, academic staff and advanced graduate students from across campus to explore the digital humanities, investigate ideas for new projects and emerging pedagogies, and contrib-ute to ongoing projects.

The lab provides a space to share technical skills, gain access to appropriate equipment and software, and discover interdisciplinary, collab-orative opportunities for researchers at all levels of expertise and interest in the field.

Go to www4.uwm.edu/libraries/dhlab to find upcoming events, or email Matt Russell ([email protected]) to set up a time to discuss a potential project.

SUMMER 2014 CIPD PROGRAMS


LIBRARIES HONOR MEMORY OF MARTIN JACK ROSENBLUM

The Libraries have honored the memory of Martin Jack Rosenblum by dedicating books in three of his areas of activity: Harley-Davidson, poetry and music.

Rosenblum, a beloved senior lecturer in the UWM Department of Music, died unexpectedly in January.

He donated a large collection of his research and letters to the Libraries’ Archives in 2012. A centerpiece of the donation was a set of corre-spondence between himself and several noted poets and writers who were friends and colleagues between 1965-2002.

Max Yela, head of Special Collections, and Rebecca Littman, music librarian, chose these three books to honor him: • The Big Book of Harley-Davidson, by Thomas C.

Bolfert.• Droles de Journal, by Carl Rakosi.• The Gibson Les Paul: The Illustrated Story of the

Guitar That Changed Rock, by Dave Hunter. Explaining the choices, Yela says: “Marty was

the official historian of Harley-Davidson and played a significant role in establishing the Harley-Davidson Museum. He was also a poet and scholar of poetry, and wrote an unpublished biography of the Objectivist poet Carl Rakosi.

“And Marty was a guitar scholar and collector, and well-noted rock and roll musician. He founded the rock and roll certificate program at UWM and was an official celebrity-spokesman for the Gibson company.”

The three books will be inscribed with this note:In Memoriam Dr. Martin Jack Rosenblum, 1946-2014. Scholar, poet, musician, educator, historian, archivist, husband, father, friend.

FLESSAS FAMILY GIFT TO ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

The UWM Libraries recently received a gener-ous financial gift to establish the Margaret and John Flessas Memorial Fund and support the collecting, preservation and outreach activities of Archives and Special Collections.

Members of the Flessas family made the gift following their discovery of the “March on Milwaukee” digital collection, an online resource that provides access to documents from the local civil rights movement (marchonmilwaukee.uwm.edu).

John Flessas was very active in Milwaukee’s civil rights struggle and devoted his lifetime to social justice work. He was a political cartoonist for the Soul City Times and the Milwaukee Star, both black newspapers in the 1960s.

A portion of the gift was specifically designated to create an internship in Archives and Special Collections. Emma Cobb, a graduate student in UWM’s School of Information Studies, is currently gaining valuable experience in both departments.

The gift also supports a professional position in the Archives. Timothy Cary is organizing the historical records of the Metropolitan Integration Research Center (MIRC), an organization founded in 1977 to study racial segregation in Milwaukee, educate the public about the causes of segregation and advocate for reform.

Michael Doylen, assistant director of the UWM Libraries who oversees Archives and Special Collections, expressed his gratitude for the gift.

“With these funds, we are able to undertake special projects and initiatives that would otherwise have been delayed or not acted on,” he said. “I’m especially grateful for the funding to provide a student with work experience in preparation for her career in our profession.”

AGSL FELLOWS FOR 2014

The American Geographical Society Library provides short-term fellowships to scholars who live beyond commuting distance of Milwaukee, through two separate fellowship programs.

The Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowship, established in 2000, has been awarded to two scholars in 2014:• Alex McKay, retired researcher, Gloucester,

Australia, to research the papers of Francis H. Nichols in the AGS archive.

• Betsy Reese, adjunct faculty member, Department of Geography, Geographic Information and the History of Cartography, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine, to research the schooner Bowdoin and the explorer Donald B. MacMillan, utilizing the AGS archive.These scholars were awarded the McColl

Research Program Fellowship, initiated in 2006:• John Cloud, NOAA historian, to research indig-

enous American ethnography and cartography.• Elisabetta Tarantino, research assistant on the

European Cultures in Translation Project, Oxford University, England, to study geogra-phy and geographical lore in John Rastall’s play, The Four Elements (circa 1519).

• Mirela Altic, professor, Department of History, University of Zagreb, Croatia, for her research titled “The Peace Treaty of Versailles: The Role of Maps in the Reshaping of the Balkans in the Aftermath of WWI.”

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PEOPLEEDUCATIONCURRICULUM & INSTRUCTIONBarbara L. Bales gave three keynote addresses at three universities in Japan as part of the national confer-ence, “Consider Our Educational Reform from the Viewpoint of Local Districts, Nations and Globalism”: “Restructuring Teacher Education in the United States: Finding the Tipping Point,” Tokyo Education Liberal Arts University, March 11; “Moving from Local to National Control: Teacher Education in the United States,” Shizuoka University, March 13; and “The Tipping Point in Teacher Education Policymaking in the United States,” Kyoto University, March 15.

DeAnn Huinker, “Principles to Actions: Defining Core Practices of Teaching Mathematics,” keynote presenta-tion at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, New Orleans, April 11, 2014.

Peg Smith and DeAnn Huinker, “Teaching Practices that Support Student Learning in the Common Core Era,” keynote presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, New Orleans, April 8, 2014.

EDUCATIONAL POLICY & COMMUNITY STUDIESGary L. Williams was interviewed about his involve-ment as co-chair of the Social Development Comission’s Task Force on Youth and Poverty in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 16, 2014.

HEALTH SCIENCESCENTER FOR AGING & TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCHJinsung Wang, Shancheng Bao, Yuming Lei and Jeffrey Binder, “Savings in visuomotor adaptation following an unlearning session with or without visual feedback,” poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference, Boston, April 6, 2014.

CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL DATA & LANGUAGE PROCESSINGJake Luo, “Data-driven approaches for enhancing clini-cal and translational research and evaluation,” present-ed at UWM Informatics Day, 2014.

LETTERS & SCIENCEPSYCHOLOGYM. Frahmand, N. Nowak and Ira Driscoll, “Relationships between sex steroid hormones and cog-nition in men and women,” poster presented at the UW System Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Milwaukee, April 2014.

A. Murali, N. Nowak and Ira Driscoll, “Learning land-marks in a computer maze,” poster presented at the UW System Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Milwaukee, April 2014.


For the RecordDeborah Hannula proposed and served as chair of a mini-symposium, “The Relational Memory Theory: Inspiring Novel Predictions Two Decades Post-Inception,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, April 2014.

E.L. Belleau, L.E. Taubitz and Christine L. Larson, “Rumination related neu-ral dysfunction in depression,” poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Bethesda, MD, April 24-26, 2014.

J.L. Hanson, T.A. Miskovich, J.P. Newman, A.R. Baskin-Sommers, M.R. Koenigs, D.M. Stout, N.L. Balderston, K.A. Kiehl and Christine L. Larson, “Increased mid anterior cingulate local gyrification in psychopaths,” poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Bethesda, MD, April 24-26, 2014.

K. Haworth, L.E. Taubitz and Christine L. Larson, “Gender differences in reward sensitivity,” poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Bethesda, MD, April 24-26, 2014.

T.A. Miskovich, W.S. Pedersen, E.L. Belleau and Christine L. Larson, “Decreased cortical gyrification associ-ated with trait anxiety,” poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Bethesda, MD, April 24-26, 2014.

W.S. Pedersen, N.L. Balderston, T.A. Miskovich, E.L. Belleau, D.H. Schultz, Fred J. Helmstetter and Christine L. Larson, “Independent effects of novelty and valence on the amygdala BOLD response,” poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Bethesda, MD, April 24-26, 2014.

D.M. Stout, A.J. Shackman, T.A. Miskovich and Christine L. Larson, “Unnecessary storage of threat in work-ing memory: A proximal mechanism underlying anxiety and worry,” poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Bethesda, MD, April 24-26, 2014.

L.E. Taubitz and Christine L. Larson, “Reduced effectiveness of reward in enhancing visual search efficiency in remitted MDD and low reward sensitiv-ity,” poster presented at the annual meet-ing of the Society for Affective Science, Bethesda, MD, April 24-26, 2014.

Ciera Lewis, Ashley Billig, Rachael Wandrey and Katie Mosack, “Even Though You Have HIV, Don’t Let HIV Have You: An Inductive Thematic Analysis of Attitudes Towards Having HIV,” poster presented at the UW System Symposium, Milwaukee, and the Annual Psychology Graduate Student Symposium, UWM, April 2014.

Ashley Billig and Katie Mosack, “Let’s talk about sex, baby: UWM students’ sexual attitudes, behavior and communication,” presented at the annual Association for Graduate Students in Psychology Symposium, Milwaukee, April 2014.

Ashley Billig and Katie Mosack, “College students’ negotiation of sexual encounters and sexual relation-ships,” presented to the UWM Norris Health Center Peer Educator Program, Milwaukee, April 2014.

JOSEPH J. ZILBER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTHRuth Etzel gave the Evan Frankel Lecture in Environmental Health in Children at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, April 23, 2014.

HELEN BADER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFARESteve Brandl started as a regular WUWM commentator on April 22, explaining Milwaukee’s criminal justice issues to public radio listeners in his essay, “How do statistics inform our understanding of crime?”

David Pate discussed “Efforts to Solve Wisconsin’s High Black Male Incarceration Rate” April 22 on his regu-lar WUWM segment. Blake Randol presented “Examining the Barriers to Cold Case Processing and Forensic DNA Testing in Washington State” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual conference in Philadelphia, spring 2014.

Blake Randol presented “Modeling a Decade of Organizational Change in Municipal Police Departments: A Longitudinal Analysis of Technical, Administrative and Programmatic Innovations” at the American Society of Criminology annual conference in Atlanta, fall 2013.

STUDENT AFFAIRSCENTER FOR COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING, LEADERSHIP & RESEARCHDemetria Bell Anderson was recently elected to serve on the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) Board of Directors. She previ-ously served on the NACA board in 2012-13. She has served as a Leadership Fellow Mentor and presented several educational sessions during NACA national conventions and conferences. Anderson has also been published in Campus Activities Programming, the NACA’s award-winning magazine.

RESTAURANT OPERATIONSSandburg Cafe has won a Silver 2014 Loyal E Horton Dining Award in the category of Residential Dining–Special Event for its Fire & Ice event on Oct. 30,

2013. This is a national award presented by NACUFS (The National Association of College & University Food Services). Matthew Powers will accept the award at the NACUFS conference in July.

PUBLICATIONSEDUCATIONCURRICULUM & INSTRUCTIONSteve Leinwand, Daniel J. Brahier and DeAnn Huinker (lead writers), Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All, Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014.

Steve Leinwand, DeAnn Huinker and Daniel Brahier, “Principles to Actions: Mathematics Programs as the Core for Student Learning,” Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Vol. 19, 2014, p. 516-519.

LETTERS & SCIENCEECONOMICSMohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and M. Hajilee, “Impact of Exchange-Rate Variability on Commodity Trade between U.S. and Germany,” Empirica: Journal of European Economics, Vol. 40, 2013, pp. 287-324. Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and R. Zhang, “The J-Curve: Evidence from Commodity Trade Between U.K. and China,” Applied Economics, Vol. 45, No. 31, pp. 4333-4342. Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and J. Xu, “The S-Curve Dynamics of U.S.-Mexico Commodity Trade,” Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2013, pp. 33-48.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURESusan G. Mikos and Michael J. Mikos, “Kresy w obiektywie Louise Arner Boyd, amerykanskiej eksploratorki,” pp. 451-454 in Pogranicza, Kresy, Wschod a Idee Europy, Anna Janicka, Grzegorz Kowalski and Lukasz Zabielski, eds., Bialystok: Colloquia Orientalia Bialostocensia, 2013.

PSYCHOLOGYJ. Whittle, M.M. Schapira, K.E. Fletcher, A. Hayes, J. Morzinski, P. Laud, D. Eastwood, K. Ertl, L. Patterson and Katie E. Mosack, “A randomized trial of peer-delivered self-management sup-port for hypertension,” American Journal of Hypertension, April 22, 2014 (e-pub ahead of print).

James M. Otis, Michael K. Fitzgerald and Devin Mueller, “Infralimbic BDNF/TrkB enhancement of GluN2B currents facilitates extinction of a cocaine-condi-tioned place preference,” The Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 34, 2014, pp. 6057-6064.

SOCIOLOGYAnthony De Jesús, Giovani Burgos, Melissa Almenas and William Vélez, “Bifurcated Boricuas: A Multilevel Analysis of Cultural and Economic Factors Influencing Marriage Patterns of U.S. Puerto Ricans,” The Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Vol. 24, 2014, pp. 156-178.

NURSINGKaren Kaufmann Rauen, Kathleen J. Sawin, Tera Bartelt, William P. Waring, Merle Orr and R. Corey O’Connor, “Transitioning Adolescents and Young Adults with a Chronic Health Condition to Adult HealthCare – An Exemplar Program, Rehabilitation Nursing, Vol. 38, 2013, pp. 63-72.

HELEN BADER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFAREBlake M. Randol, “Modeling the influ-ence of organizational structure on crime analysis technology innovations in municipal police departments,” International Journal of Police Science and Management, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2014.

Blake M. Randol and M.J. Gaffney, “Citizen perceptions, social capital and citizen participation in community based policing programs,” Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2014.

Blake M. Randol, “The Auburn System,” in Encyclopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice, J.S. Albanese, ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

GIFTS, GRANTS & CONTRACTSAPRIL 2014

ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNINGADMINISTRATIONUWM FoundationSupports Marcus Studio and PrizeGreenstreet, Robert – Miscellaneous $30,000

CONTINUING EDUCATIONURBAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTWI Dept. of Public InstructionRefugee Education and Integration Service Center (REISC)Rai, Kalyani – Public Service $20,000

WI Dept. of Public InstructionGEAR UP Program Evaluation ServicesSyam, Devarati S. – Public Service $40,000

EDUCATION CONSULTING OFFICE FOR RESEARCH & EVALUATION (CORE)UW-MadisonEducator Effectiveness Pilot Evaluation Extension 2Jones, Curtis J. – Public Service $55,120

EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATIONInternational Society for Technology in EducationEditor, Journal of Research on Technology in Education Edyburn, Dave L. – Public Service $15,000

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCECIVIL ENGINEERING & MECHANICSNational Institute of AerospaceNational Institute of Aerospace Revolutionary Aerospace System Concepts Academic Linkage – Lunar Wheel DesignEl Hajjar, Rani F. – Public Service $2,000

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCEUW-MadisonDevelopment of Improved Status Estimation Algorithms for Batteries and Ultracapacitors in Demanding Applications Including Stop-Start OperationNasiri, Abdolhosein – Research $74,997

Ashley Chapa, Library Services Assistant–Advanced, UWM Libraries Josh Ebert, IS Business Automation–Senior, Letters & Science Information TechnologyMargarita Garnica, Police Officer, University PoliceKelly Helinski, Police Officer, University PoliceVictor Herpin, Police Officer, University Police Samantha Lesperance, Human Resources Assistant, UITSStephanie Plavec, Accountant-Journeyman, Finance & Administrative AffairsAmanda Thompson, Payroll & Benefits Specialist,

Human ResourcesAnthony Verkuilen, Locksmith-Journeyman, University Housing

WELCOME, NEW CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES


For the RecordMATERIALS ENGINEERINGU.S. Army Synthesis and Processing of Advanced Materials Including Metallic, Polymeric and CeramicRohatgi, Pradeep K. – Research $100,000

MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGU.S. Dept. of EnergyEstablishing an Industrial Assessment Center at UWMYuan, Yingchun; Church, Benjamin C.; Reisel, John R.; Rohatgi, Pradeep K.; Wornyoh, Emmanuel Y. – Public Service $88,000

National Science FoundationCAREER: Environmental Sustainability of Next-Generation Lithium Ion Batteries for Electric VehiclesYuan, Yingchun – Research $77,255

FRESHWATER SCIENCESAdministrationUW Sea Grant ProgramConstructing a Lake Michigan Nearshore Ecosystem ModelBootsma, Harvey A; Liao, Qian – Research $86,940

National Science FoundationREU Site: Aquatic Sciences Research at the School of Freshwater SciencesCuhel, Russell L.; Aguilar-Diaz, Carmen – Research $106,922

National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Governing Complex Commons: Policy Networks and the Local Ecology of Games Berardo, Alfredo R. – Research $46,446

GENERAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION DEVELOPMENT Purdue University DOC-EDA: Planning Program and Local Technical Assistance Program Ruffolo, Carmela – Public Service $20,000

LETTERS & SCIENCE ANTHROPOLOGY Alliant Energy Archaeological Investigations for Lake Delton, Sites 47SK0038 (BSK-0191) and 47SK0640 (BSK-0052) Haas, Jennifer R. – Research $3,269

City of Oak Creek, WIArchaeological Investigations for Parcels Along S. 5th Ave. in Oak CreekHaas, Jennifer R. – Research $4,184

City of Waukesha, WIUWM-CRM Technical Proposal 2014- 077 Qualified Archaeologist – Professional Services, City of Waukesha Haas, Jennifer R. – Research $21,000

City of Weyauwega, WI City of Weyauwega Archaeological Review Haas, Jennifer R. – Research $1,824

Orchard Lakeview Estates LLC UWM-CRM 2014-087 Archaeological Investigations at 47RO181 (Taylor House Group), Indian Summer Estates, Rock County, WIHaas, Jennifer R. – Research $6,249

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Understanding and utilizing a unique association between rhizobia and rice Prasad, Gyaneshwar – Research $5,497

FIELD STATION WI Dept. of Natural Resources Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern Baseline Wildlife Population Assessment Reinartz, James A. – Research $75,000

GEOGRAPHY UW-MadisonImpacts of climatic and land cover changes on streamflow and water quality in the Milwaukee River basinChoi, Woonsup; Wu, Changshan – Research $14,230

PHYSICS NASAU.S. Participation in the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on the Japanese Experiment Module, UWM Co-I Anchordoqui, Luis A. – Research $44,554

CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory A Mid-Infrared Search for the Outer Companion in a Millisecond Pulsar Triple System Kaplan, David L.A. – Research $5,000

US Dept. of Energy SISGR: Structure from Fleeting Illumination of Faint Spinning Objects in Flight Ormandy, Alex O.; Fung, Russell; Schwander, Peter – Research $150,000

National Science Foundation Time-Resolved Protein Structure from Non-Crystallized Molecular Ensembles Saldin, Dilano Kerzaman; Schmidt, Marius – Research $211,000

POLITICAL SCIENCE National Science FoundationCollaborative Research: Voter Mobilization and Electoral Subversion in the WorkplaceReuter, Ora John E. – Research $327,797

PSYCHOLOGY National Institutes of HealthEffects of Physical Activity and Marijuana Use on Frontolimbic Functioning During Adolescence: An fMRI StudyMedina, Krista L. – Research $462,281

Williams Syndrome AssociationDeveloping Treatments to Improve Psychosocial Functioning of Children with Williams SyndromeKlein-Tasman, Bonita P.; Lee, Han Joo – Research $120,000

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCESSociety of ActuariesModeling Severity and Measuring Tail Risk: Statistical Methods, Tools, PerspectivesBrazauskas, Vytaras – Research $23,000

WUWMCorporation for Public BroadcastingCommunity Service Grant 2014Szychlinski, David E. – Public Service $13,864

NURSINGDEAN’S OFFICESusan G. Komen for the CurePartners in Pursuit of the Promise grant project 2014-15Millon Underwood, Sandra – Public Service $73,729

UW-MadisonFamily Connectedness for New and Expectant MothersBaisch, Mary Jo – Public Service $4,711

UW-MadisonWAWH P/C UW-Madison WPP Racine-Kenosha Birthing ProjectJohnson, Teresa S. – Public Service $43,299

JOSEPH J. ZILBER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTHADMINISTRATIONMedical College of WisconsinSchool-Community Partnership for Mental HealthFlorsheim, Paul W. – Public Service $2,600

UW-MadisonThe Young Parenthood Project: A Father Engagement Strategy for Healthy FamiliesFlorsheim, Paul W. – Public Service $248,447

UW-MadisonNo Longer an Island: Creating a Place-Based Men’s Peer Outreach and Leadership NetworkHarley, Amy E. – Public Service $46,036

HELEN BADER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFARE SPECIAL PROJECTS RESEARCH GROUPOffice of National Drug Control PolicyHigh-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA)/UWM CollaboratorStojkovic, Stan – Public Service $1,323,219

STUDENT AFFAIRSATHLETICS–ADMINISTRATIONUWM FoundationSupport Swimming Program Scholarship – Kuehneisen Swim & Dive ScholarshipBraun, Amanda – Miscellaneous $17,690

UWM FoundationSupport Women’s Volleyball ProgramBraun, Amanda – Miscellaneous $200

MEN’S BASKETBALLUWM FoundationSupport Men’s Basketball Program – Riesch ScholarshipBraun, Amanda – Miscellaneous $5,000

Period 10 – April 2013 Year-to-Date

Federal Total Federal Total

Research $ 1,125,646 $ 1,697,900 $ 14,489,607 $ 24,656,884

Instruction $ -206 $ 202,911 $ 2,815,724 $ 3,617,852

Public Service $ 566,489 $ 1,050,038 $ 2,175,980 $ 10,687,931

Student Aid $ 202,200 $ 210,200 $ 37,042,830 $ 37,046,254

Other $ 38,956 $ 55,817 $ 1,895,521 $ 3,133,256

TOTALS $ 1,933,085 $ 3,048,750 $58,419,456 $79,176,971

Period 10 – April 2014 Year-to-Date

Federal Total Federal Total

Research $ 1,524,184 $ 1,954,877 $ 15,079,952 $ 23,098,700

Instruction $ -0- $ -0- $ 1,374,500 $ 1,807,554

Public Service $ 1,411,126 $ 1,962,756 $ 2,680,787 $ 11,687,437

Student Aid $ 179,833 $ 179,833 $ 36,760,256 $ 36,760,256

Other $ -0- $ 52,890 $ 2,041,857 $ 3,117,378

TOTALS $ 3,115,143 $ 4,150,356 $ 57,937,351 $76,471,324

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 2013

FY 2014


Photography by Peter Jakubowski

Cheered on by a full house of family and friends, members of the Class of 2015 crossed the stage of the U.S. Cellular Arena on May 18 to receive their diplomas from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Nearly 3,000 graduates were awarded degrees during two commencement ceremonies. Grads at both were greeted by outgoing Chancellor Michael R. Lovell, UW System Regent Margaret Farrow and UWM Alumni Association Board President David Misky.

At the Black Ceremony, former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham were awarded honorary degrees. Higginbotham delivered the commencement address. John W. Daniels Jr. and Ashwani K. Gupta were awarded honorary degrees at the Gold Ceremony. Both addressed the grads. (See page 4 for more on the honorary degree recipients.)

Here are some highlights of the university’s happiest event. Congratulations to all of our new Panther alumni.

SPRING COMMENCEMENT 2014

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