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Past Issues
Gopher golf teams and men's gymnastics will compete next year following a revised recommendation in 3-phase plan to trim a projected $21 million deficit in TC intercollegiate athletics. On April 11, VP Tonya Moten Brown announced proposal to eliminate the 3 teams effective July 1, 2002. Revised recommendation includes 2 goals team supporters must meet to extend teams beyond July 1, 2003: raise $900,000 by June 30 and then raise an additional $1.8 million by Feb. 1, 2003, which would extend the teams through June 30, 2005, at which time U will reevaluate the department's financial condition.
"By allowing one year, we will give the seniors a chance to finish their collegiate careers at the University of Minnesota and allow others to explore transfer options," said Moten Brown.
U will participate in national Take Our Daughters to Work Day April 25. For list of events at UMD, see www.d.umn.edu/umdhr/Todtw/2002; at
TC, see www.umn.edu/mnwomen/todw.html.
2002 President's Award for Outstanding Service recipients are Terence Collins, GC; Stephanie Dilworth, Department of Audits; Curt Knutson, veterinary medicine; Andy Lopez, UMM science and mathematics; Jeanne Markell and Deborah Zak, U of M Extension Service; Carol Miller, American studies; Susana Pelayo-Woodward, UMD Hispanic, Latino, Chicana Learning Resource Center; Kevin Roberts, IT; Thomas Shaughnessy, U Libraries (retired); Deborah Shubat, UMD biology; and Roby Thompson, Jr., Medical School.
Outstanding Community Service Award recipients are Hy Berman, history; Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, English; Helen Kivnick, social work; Nan Skelton, Humphrey Institute; David Taylor, GC; and Phuoc Thi-Minh Tran, Walter Library.
New FCC members elected from Twin Cities campus are Tom Clayton, CLA; Mary Jo Kane, CEHD; Marvin Marshak, IT. New AHC FCC members are Marc Jenkins, Medical School, and Ed Combe, School of Dentistry.
U researchers are participating in a national study for new lazy-eye treatment. Study, conducted by the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group at 47 clinical sites, shows that atropine eye drops administered once a day to children with amblyopia or lazy eye works as well as the standard eye patch. "What we’ve learned is that there is an alternative that helps prevent permanent vision impairment for children with amblyopia, an alternative with a higher acceptance rate and a better compliance rate with both parents and children," said C. Gail Summers, U Medical School ophthalmologist. Study appears in March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
Conference on historic landscape preservation will be May 2, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Snyder Building auditorium, at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. "Valued Places: History, Preservation, and Practice" will provide participants with tools for documenting, evaluating, and funding preservation sites such as parks, rural homesteads, and college campuses. Fee is $80 for arboretum members and $95 nonmembers. To register, call 952-443-1516.
Look for this month’s Kiosk in your mailbox and on the Web at www.umn.edu/urelate/kiosk (April 29). Features include a cover story on athletics at the U and an article on sustainability efforts on the TC campus. Systemwide summer programs for children and young adults are also listed on the Web site. Next issue will be published mid-June and will include a pull-out section on summertime activities on campus.
CROOKSTON--Student achievement award recipients include Steven Brandt, UMC Man of the Year, and Dana Prudhomme, UMC Woman of the Year. Bruce Brorson, associate professor of information technology management, received Most Supportive of Students Award, while Jennifer Loy Johnson, composition instructor, received Outstanding Educator Award. For more information, see
www.crk.umn.edu/newsevents
/notices01-02/awardsreception2002.htm.
Steven Brandt and Jean Korkowski were named UMC Athletes of the Year at annual awards social April 18.
Wildlife management student Dan Oberg is one of 5 students in the nation and the first in Minnesota to receive the Wildlife Leadership Award from Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
DULUTH--Chemistry professor Ron Caple received the 2001-02 Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Research. Award ceremony will be May 1, 3:15 p.m., 200 Chemistry. Caple will present "Organic Synthesis: the Science Behind the Art" (a layperson's overview) after the ceremony. Reception in Griggs Center follows presentation.
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Dennis Brissett Memorial Lecture Series will feature Stanton Peele who will present "A Moral Vision of Addiction" May 3, 3 p.m., 142 School of Medicine. Goal of lecture series is "to promote novel and insightful approaches to cultural analysis and criticism." For more information, call 218-726-6364.
Ninth annual UMD Nightwalk for Campus Safety will be April 29, 9-10 p.m. Campus administrators, faculty, staff, and students are invited to participate in the walk, which will cover all outside (and several inside) areas of campus. Safety recommendation comment forms will be available. Meet at Kirby Student Center information desk at 9 p.m.
MORRIS--Walter Fisher is new coordinator for the Diversity Community Outreach Program in the Minority Student Program (MSP). MSP received a 3-year $141,000 grant from Otto Bremer Foundation to establish the program, which includes Ambassadors for Cultural Exchange and Minority Alumni Mentorship Program.
"In This Moment," original composition by senior music education major Aaron Perrine, was performed by U of M, Twin Cities Concert Band April 23 at Ted Mann Concert Hall. UMM alumnus Tim Diem is assistant director of the band.
Eight student musicians will perform in 2002 Honors Recital May 9, 8:30 p.m., Humanities Fine Arts recital hall. Students are Joshua Pauly, trumpet; Rebecca Thoennes, piano; Stephanie Seagren, flute; Nicole Stiklestad, mezzo-soprano; Sarah Howes, soprano; Jessica Nelson, bassoon; Bridget Barfnecht, clarinet; Joel Vanderheyden, tenor saxophone.
ROCHESTER--UMR and its U Center Rochester partners launched the TELEPro project April 16. Project is a technology renovation to provide greater access and capabilities for organizing and delivering educational programs.
Thai ambassador, His Excellency Sakthip Krairiksh, presented "Speaking on Thailand: Its Resources and Role in Our Global World" as part of U Center Rochester Visiting Scholar Series April 18.
TWIN CITIES--College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture building will be named Ralph Rapson Hall. Minneapolis architect Rapson headed School of Architecture for 30 years beginning in 1954. Formal dedication is scheduled for Oct. 5 when college will celebrate the opening of its newly expanded facility. The 50,000-square-foot addition houses an auditorium, gallery, library, studio and classroom spaces, and administrative offices.
Book Drive for Kids with Goldy and Clifford, organized in March by CEHD alumni society, collected 350 books. Barnes and Noble contributed $6,300 from store sales to the drive to buy more books. Books are given to young readers tutored by CEHD students.
Individuals planning to obtain a U Card April 25 should visit the Rec Center location. The main U Card office and St. Paul Gym location will be busy that day because both locations are giving special ID cards for Take Our Daughters to Work Day.
Visit U Bookstores with your child April 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. for free balloons, treats, and a 15% discount on U clothing or children's books. Call 612-625-6564.
Events: Grand opening of Walter Library will be May 1, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. President Yudof and former Gov. Arne Carlson will give brief presentations. For more information, call 612-626-7698.
• Opening festivities for Digital Technology Center include "The Reality of Simulated Actors" by Alvy Ray Smith, academy award winner for alpha channel concept and digital paint systems, May 1, 5 p.m. (4:30 reception), 401 Walter Library.
Lectures: "Winds of War, Winds of Change: Politics and Policy in a Post-September 11 World," April 25, 8 a.m.-noon, Humphrey Institute. Cost $35. See www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/policy-forum.
• "Northern Light/Northern Darkness? Rethinking Modernism After the Demise of the ‘Master Narrative:' Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950," April 25-27, Radisson Hotel Metrodome. Call 612-625-8549.
• "African American Males at the University: Who Applies, Who Is Accepted, Who Attends?" April 29, 12:15-1:30 p.m., 103 Appleby Hall.
• Gubernatorial debate on the environment by Republican candidates, April 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Center. See info@mnlcv.org.
• "Slavery Reparations," presentation and book signing by Randall Robinson, May 9, 6 p.m. (5 p.m. reception), Humphrey Institute. RSVP by May 1; call 672-3852.
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