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Past Issues
Two anonymous donors have given $12.5 million to build U's Translational Research Facility (TRF). U has requested $24 million in matching funds from the state for the facility as part of the $239.8 million capital request. Minnesota Senate included funding for TRF in its proposed bonding bill; neither the House nor Gov. Ventura recommended funding for facility. For more on TRF, see Star Tribune article by senior VP Frank Cerra at www.startribune.com/stories/535/
1913531.html.
U launched Vital Aging Network Web site (www.van.umn.edu) in conjunction with Minnesota's Vital Aging Summit March 26. Site features information and resources for people seeking personal direction, activities, services, and advocacy groups as well as state and national news about issues and initiatives related to aging.
Joint meeting of U Senate, Faculty Senate, and TC Campus Assembly will be March 28, 25 Mondale Hall. Broadcast locations will be UMC, 305 Selvig Hall; UMD, Kirby Student Center Garden Room; UMM, Behmler Hall Conference Room. For agenda, see www.umn.edu/usenate/u_senate/
020328agenda.html.
Public presentations by finalists for associate vice provost for multicultural and academic affairs will be 3 p.m. as follows: April 1, Tom Grayson Colonnese, U of Washington chair of American Indian studies, Ski-U-Mah Room, McNamara Alumni Center; April 4, Niloufer Merchant, St. Cloud State U professor and licensed psychologist, Ski-U-Mah Room; and April 9, Sallye Cooke McKee, U associate vice provost for Urban Educational and Community Partnerships, 7 Humphrey Center. Position description is at www.oma.umn.edu.
April Kiosk, faculty and staff newspaper, will be delivered to your mailbox this week individually addressed to you. This is an effort to ensure faculty and staff systemwide receive a copy. If you don't receive it, e-mail coven002@umn.edu. Stories this month include tributes to Wally Caryl and Thomas Morley, U efforts to recycle and conserve, and new feature, "Art Pick of the Month."
New U director of Design Center for American Urban Landscape is Ann Forsyth (effective July 15). Forsyth is an urban advocate, author, and associate professor of urban planning at Harvard Design School. The center, a research unit in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, was established in 1988 to address national urban design and planning issues.
New Design Institute Web site is at design.umn.edu. Site features information about the institute; U design minor; events; and Knowledge Circuit, online journal reviewing international conferences on design and digital media.
Accomplishments of U women will be celebrated April 3, 3-5 p.m., Weisman Art Museum. Reception and award ceremony will include presentation of Distinguished Women Scholars Award, Teamster Women Recognition Award, CS/BU Staff Award, Sharon L. Doherty Award, Mullen/Spector/Truax Women's Leadership Award, and Macpherson Memorial/Minnesota Alumnae Society Scholarships. For more information, call 612-625-2385.
Biannual Financial Systems User Network general membership meeting will be April 4, North Star Ballroom, St. Paul Student Center. For questions or membership information or to RSVP, call Mary Selisker at 612-625-3493 or John Vick at 624-8087.
Split Rock Arts Program is accepting registrations for weeklong workshops in creative writing, visual arts, design, and creative enhancement July 7-Aug. 17 at UMD and Cloquet Forestry Center. Reduced tuition rates are available through Regents Scholarship and Staff Academic Tuition Benefit. See
www.cce.umn.edu/splitrockarts or call 612-625-8100.
Position description for College of Natural Resources dean is available. Call 612-624-4250 or e-mail b-berw@umn.edu. Send applications and nominations to Dean Search Committee, College of Natural Resources, 235 Natural Resources Administration building.
March 20 Brief reported that Senate Committee on Finance and Planning (SCFP) proposed mandating a minimum 13-credit load per semester, accompanied by a new 75% tuition discount option for 13 credits and above. SCFP recommended 100% discount.
CROOKSTON--On March 20 Roseau High School students participated in a special project sponsored by UMC, Minnesota Agricultural Education Leadership Council, and Northwestern Minnesota Regional Sustainable Partnership. UMC students and faculty led sessions on animal reproduction and bioethics, cryogenic preservation of cells, and plant grafting and cloning. Project introduces agricultural science and biotechnology activities into existing high school curricula. See www.crk.umn.edu/ag/NWMNsci.
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Annual Northwest Urban Forestry Workshop will be April 5, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Youngquist Auditorium, Agricultural Research Center. For more information, call Center for Adult Learning at 218-281-8681.
DULUTH--Women's ice hockey team captured the 2002 NCAA National Championship for the 2nd consecutive year March 24 by defeating Brown University 3-2. UMD will host 2003 NCAA National Championship Games at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center.
Outdoor Program held grand opening festivities March 27 for new Indoor Climbing Center bouldering addition. Addition features 700 square feet of climbing surface, including climbing surface across the 10-foot-high ceiling.
Techfest 2002 will be April 5, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Kirby Student Center Ballroom. Event will feature examples and demonstrations of the latest technologies and innovations at UMD. Call for proposals is ongoing; all departments and programs are encouraged to participate. Call 218-726-6975 or e-mail spihlaja@d.umn.edu. See www.d.umn.edu/itss/etrg/techfest.
MORRIS--"Opening the Door: Sharing the Craft of Teaching at UMM" by Academy of Distinguished Teachers will be April 1, 4-6:30 p.m., Oyate Hall. Events include address by vice chancellor for academic affairs John Schwaller. Reception will follow.
First Senior Salute Day was March 26 in the Student Center. UMM jazz artists and Pounce the Cougar entertained. UMM seniors had photos taken with friends; signed a class banner that will be saved for alumni events; and used one-stop exit shopping for ordering caps and gowns, learning about alumni networking, and filling out a senior survey.
ROCHESTER--Mayo Medical School and the U's School of Public Health will offer a dual doctor of medicine and master's of public health through courses available at UMR. Also offered are executive master of public health degrees and regents certificates in core concepts in public health practice.
TWIN CITIES--March 13 Brief reported TC campus ranked 26 in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) award dollars for 2001; ranking is for Medical School (out of 122 medical schools). School received $115.7 million, placing it 11th among public universities. Department of medicine ranks 30th among 114 departments with $28.73 million in NIH funding.
2002 Northern Stars Leadership Conference will be April 6. Top high school sophomore leaders from around the state will interact with U student leaders and participate in sessions to enhance leadership skills. Departments, units, or programs interested in participating, call 612-625-2008.
Child Language Lab is looking for children ages 8-13 who have normal hearing and cognitive abilities to participate in a study to determine if children with language delays show a general slowing of response time across motor, cognitive, and language tasks compared to children with typical language. For more information, call Meredith Bailey-Orr at 612-625-9326.
Celebration to remember the life and career of Wally Caryl, former emergency management director who died Feb. 18, will be April 1, 3-6 p.m. (short program 3:45 p.m.), Williams Arena Club Room. April 1 marks Caryl's planned retirement date and 35 years at U.
Events: GradFest 2002 will be April 3, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and April 4, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Field House. See www.bookstore.umn.edu or call 612-625-6564.
• Grant writing workshop for junior faculty members, research fellows, and senior graduate students will be April 4, 8:30---4:30 p.m. and April 5, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Radisson Metrodome ballroom. To register, call 626-9545.
• "Managing Multiple Tasks" workshop, April 8, 10-11:30 a.m., 180 Humphrey Center. Register by April 1; call 626-9178.
Lectures: "China's Economic Development and Cooperation: The U.S. and the World," by Zhenghua Jiang, National People's Congress of China vice chair, will be April 2, 4 p.m., Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Center. Call 612-624-1002.
• Tucker Center's spring distinguished lecture, "Emerging Faces and Visions of Sport: Female Athletes with a Disability," will be April 2, 7-9 p.m., Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum.
• McKnight Summer Fellows presentation, "We Are All One Light: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Vision Quest" and "Computer-Human Interfaces," will be April 3, 3-5 p.m., Nolte Library.
• CURA Housing Forum, "The Housing Agendas of Mayor R. T. Rybak and Mayor Randy Kelly," April 5, noon-1:30 p.m., 1-126 Carlson School. To RSVP, call 625-1551.
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