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Past Issues
Board of Regents will meet March 7-8, 600 McNamara Alumni Center. Agenda topics include TC athletics, public art on campus, and policy alternatives to improve graduation and retention rates. For full agenda, see www.umn.edu/regents.
President Bush met with U leaders and educators in a 35-minute roundtable discussion March 4. Participants included President Yudof, CEHD dean Yussen, and U mathematics education student-teacher Jesse Tejeda, who discussed Bush's education reform package and teacher preparedness. "It was a very positive discussion," Yussen said. "President Bush was very engaging and made a special point to elicit comment from each person. He is obviously very committed to this agenda [the reauthorization of elementary and secondary education act]."
U is collaborating with Minneapolis Public Schools and Minnesota Federation of Teachers to help new teachers in urban districts succeed by offering a reduced teaching load, on-site mentoring, and
continued professional development during the first year of teaching. Yudof flew to Washington, D.C., with Bush March 5 to attend a White House conference on preparing tomorrow's teachers.
U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 for the U in Raygor v. Regents. Case, the first the U has argued before the nation's highest court, concerned the power of Congress in relation to that of state governments. "The court clearly agreed with the U that Congress did not, and cannot, dictate to the state's time periods for filing claims in state courts," said general counsel Mark Rotenberg.
U's Immigration History Research Center received $250,000 from the National Park Service for its Documentation of the Immigrant Experience initiative. Project will make original historical source materials more widely available, create new historical documentation on immigration, and assist ethnic communities in preserving their histories.
School of Dentistry and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) opened Hibbing Community College Dental Clinic March 1. Clinic is first joint educational initiative between school and the MnSCU system and marks a significant expansion of the U's Community Oral Health Programs.
Adult stem cells have the ability to restore function in laboratory animals with stroke, according to U neurosurgery and Stem Cell Institute researchers. Stem cells were isolated and expanded from human bone marrow and transplanted into lab rats 7 days after an ischemic stroke injury of the brain. "The ability of bone marrow stem cells to differentiate into cells that are typically found in the brain and restore function in laboratory animals with stroke holds promise for people who have experienced a stroke," said principal investigator Walter Low. More studies will be done before clinical trials are initiated. Research was published in March Experimental Neurology.
On Feb. 28, President Yudof challenged 97 undergraduate department and discipline representatives to prepare the U's students for a global world by integrating study abroad opportunities into all majors. Challenge is related to U's 3-year Study Abroad Curriculum Integration project funded in part by the Bush Foundation. For more information, see www.UMabroad.umn.edu or call Lynn at 612-624-4525.
U Card can now be used as a calling card--10¢ per minute on domestic calling (in-state included) with no surcharges or monthly fees. For more information or to register, see ucardcalling.umn.edu.
Info-U 2002, U of M Extension Service's 24-hour information access to various topics, including money management, parenting, household pests, and gardening, is now available. Call 612-624-3263 for a brochure or see www.extension.umn.edu/info-u.
New Southwest Asian Languages Web site is at lrc.lib.umn.edu/dsala.htm. Site, launched by U Libraries, includes partial set of Urdu poetry and instructional recordings in Pushto, the language of the Pashtun people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Recordings were developed in 1965 as part of the U Pakistan Peace Corps Project. Instructional Punjabi language recordings will soon be added.
American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant applications will be accepted until April 1. Grant is for instructors and assistant professors who have no independent national funding and are engaged in cancer-related research. Research areas include analysis of developmental biology, gene regulation, or alternation of intracellular or extracellular processes that may lead to an improved understanding or therapy of potential or actual oncogenic events in prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells. Funding is available up to $20,000. For applications, call 612-626-1926 or e-mail micek003@umn.edu.
Applications for College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences associate dean-extension/agriculture, food, and environment capacity area leader are due March 20 or until suitable candidate is found. Only internal U candidates will be considered. See www.coafes.umn.edu or e-mail Gregory Cuomo at cuomogj@mrs.umn.edu.
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CROOKSTON--Women's basketball coach Mike Curfman was named Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Coach of the Year. Team finished in the top half of conference with a 16-11 overall record and 11-7 conference record.
Story of Minnesota's first full-term U.S. congresswoman, Coya Knutson, is the topic of a one-woman show called "Coya Come Back." Show will be performed by its writer, Kathy Ray, on March 6, 8 p.m., in Bede Ballroom and is sponsored by UMC's Concerts and Lectures Committee.
DULUTH--Head of the Lakes Jazz Festival will be March 9, 7 p.m., in Marshall Performing Arts Center. Nationally known saxophonist Ernie Watts will perform with UMD Jazz Ensemble I under the direction of assistant professor of music Ryan Frane. Call 218-726-8208 for tickets.
Events for "disABILITY Awareness" March 5-9. Keynote address, "Celebration of Abilities," by Geri Jewell will be March 7, 7 p.m., in Kirby Student Center Ballroom. Jewell, from "Facts of Life," was first person with a visible disability to become a regular performer on national TV. A workshop will precede address, 1:30-4 p.m., in Kirby Student Center Garden Room.
Satellite teleconference "Assistive Technology and Universal Design" will be March 11, 12:30-2:30 p.m., 173 Kirby plaza. Free and open to the public.
MORRIS--U communication kiosk, with Internet access, has been installed inside the north entrance of the Student Center. Kiosk is one of 4 expected to be installed on campus this year. Other locations will be Science Building and Humanities Fine Arts (HFA).
Debra Blake, assistant professor of English, will present the March 7 faculty seminar, "Women Must Defend Themselves: Violence, Resistance, and the Rewriting of La Llorona in Chicana Fiction and Life History Texts," 5 p.m., 6 HFA. Reception is at 4:30 p.m.; discussion will follow presentation.
ROCHESTER--On Feb. 22, UMR and UMD School of Business and Economics (SBE) hosted a recognition event for the pioneering group of students accepted to the Rochester M.B.A. program offered by SBE. Event included comments from Regent Neel, UMD vice chancellor for academic affairs Vince Magnuson, and SBE dean Kjell Knudsen.
TWIN CITIES--Ground was broken Feb. 28 for new facility to house the Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing (MAST) system, which tests structures for their ability to withstand earthquakes, explosions, high winds, and other stresses. U's MAST system, funded by the National Science Foundation in February 2001, will be one of 12 in the nation. For more about facility, see www.umn.edu/urelate/newsservice/}
newsreleases/01_03quake.html.
Nomination deadline for Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing Faculty Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing has been extended to March 15. See cisw.cla.umn.edu or call Ann at 612-626-7583.
Events: Cancer Center Open House, March 10, 4 p.m., 425 East River Road, will feature information on advances in cancer research through hands-on activities, demonstrations, speakers, and tours. See www.cancer.umn.edu or call Michael Weinbeck at 612-625-4441.
• Reading by Robert Bly, U Libraries Distinguished Writer 2002, March 11, 3:30 p.m., 120 Andersen Library. Bly will be introduced by 2001 recipient Louis Jenkins.
• "Brunch with the Bald Eagles," March 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Raptor Center. Cost of $55 includes bus transportation, brunch at Boat Works, presentation by center director Pat Redig, and tour of National Eagle Center. Call 624-9753.
Lectures: Kermit Olson Memorial Lecture on the health effects of viewing plants by behavioral scientist Roger Ulrich, will be March 6, 4 p.m., 110 Green Hall.
• "Coming Full Circle: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security, and Health," March 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 42 Earle Brown Center. See www.coffman.umn.edu/earth.
• Linguistics series begins with "Varieties of Cleft Constructions and Why they Exist," March 8, 3:30 p.m., 229 Nolte Center.
• Design Institute (DI) Insight series will address current visual communication issues: Lisa Strausfeld (DI fellow) March 12, Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler (Hoefler Type Foundry) March 19, and Michael Rock (New York design studio) March 26. All lectures 7 p.m., Walker Art Center. See www.walkerart.org/tickets.
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