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Inauguration for President Bruininks will be Feb. 28, 2003. Ceremony and related festivities will coincide with U's Founders Week Feb. 23–March 1. Mary Jo Kane, Tucker Center director, and John Adams, geography professor, are cochairs for the planning committee. Event details will be announced in the coming weeks.
Vikings have rejected on-campus stadium plan because it does not meet the requirements of an NFL-style entertainment venue in terms of infrastructure, traffic, and parking capacity. U and Vikings have explored joint-use stadium possibility since June as requested by the Minnesota Legislature.
U administrators will evaluate options and discuss next steps with the Board of Regents, faculty, students, and other key constituents. "Our biennial legislative request remains our top priority," said Richard Pfutzenreuter, U's chief financial officer and treasurer. "Our lease at the Metrodome expires in 2011, so this is a very real issue for the Gophers." For stadium updates, see www.umn.edu/stadium.
U epidemiology professors will combat tobacco-caused illnesses and death in developing countries with grants from Fogarty International Center, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Harry Lando will lead a tobacco cessation project in India and Indonesia, and Cheryl Perry will develop a smoking prevention program for 6th–9th graders in 44 schools in 3 Indian cities.
Senior VP Cerra is one of 12 current and former chief executive officers of academic health centers who will explore how academic health centers nationwide can fight bioterrorism. As a member of the Association of Academic Health Centers Biodefense Council, Cerra will help determine the roles and responsibilities for institutions and analyze potential options for the future, including collaboration in a biodefense network.
U plant biologist Cynthia Weinig has received the Young Investigator Award, which includes $1.7 million over 4 years, from the National Science Foundation's Plant Genomics Research Project. Weinig is investigating how plants modify their shape or form in response to crowding and competition for sunlight.
Faculty Senate and Student Senate will meet Dec. 5, 2:30–5 p.m., 25 Mondale Hall. Broadcast locations are UMC, 305 Selvig Hall; UMD, Kirby Student Center Garden Room; and UMM, Behmler Hall Conference Room. (U Senate and TC Campus Assembly will not meet until Feb. 27). See www.umn.edu/usenate/fsen/021205facagenda.html.
Diversity Institute is offering Diversity Explorations, a 3-day workshop for faculty, staff, managers, and trainers to learn concepts and models used to address diversity and multiculturalism in a variety of settings. For more information, see www.oma.umn.edu/di/diexplorations.html.
December Kiosk features include student alcohol consumption, black bear research, the Great Service Initiative, and a proposed postretirement health care savings plan for civil service employees. Find Kiosk in your mailbox or on the Web at www.umn.edu/urelate/kiosk.
CROOKSTON—UMC has been recognized as one of 10 NCAA Division II colleges with the highest student-athlete graduation rate improvement by USA Today and National Collegiate Athletic Association. UMC student-athlete graduation rates increased by 44%, comparing freshmen who entered in 1994 with those who entered in 1995.
UMC will hold its first Holiday Tour of Lights on the campus mall. Organized by several student groups, display will open to the public Dec. 6, 7–10 p.m., in conjunction with the Crookston Chamber of Commerce Winter Wonderland, and continue Dec. 7, 8, 13, 14, and 15, 5–10 p.m. nightly.
Josh Clark, information technology management senior, participated in the Fastest Geek Competition sponsored by PC Week magazine and Systemax in Las Vegas Nov. 18–22. Competition, aired on CNN and TechTV's "Tech Live," required contestants to install various computer components quickly and boot up the machine successfully.
DULUTH—Music Department will present Holiday Concert Series "Sounds of the Season" featuring U Singers, Concert Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Instrumental Chamber Ensembles Dec. 6 and 7,
7:30 p.m. and Dec. 8, 3 p.m. "Story Hour Concert" will feature the UMD Symphony Orchestra performing musical stories, including "Carnival of the Animals," Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. Both events are in Weber Music Hall. For tickets, call 218-726-8201.
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Campus Food Drive sponsored by AFSCME Locals 3801 and 3800 for local food shelves will continue through Dec. 18. Drop off nonperishable food items in front of Statesman office in Kirby Student Center.
Glensheen Historic Estate will offer holiday brunches 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday, Thursday, and weekends through Dec. 22. Self-guided house tours begin at 9:30 a.m. Prepaid reservations required; 218-726-8910.
MORRIS—President Bruininks will visit UMM
Dec. 6–7 to tour the campus; meet UMM students, faculty, and staff (3:45 p.m., Science Atrium); and attend the UMM Concert Choir's Carol Concert. Public is invited to meet Bruininks and his wife, Susan Hagstrum, at a community breakfast Dec. 7, 8:30 a.m., Prairie Inn Cougar Room.
Trustees of the Frank W. Veden Trust have established the Frank W. Veden Memorial Scholarship, which will be awarded annually to UMM students from Otter Tail County. Veden completed his undergraduate degree at the U and graduated from the School of Dentistry. The first award recipient is Alisa Greenwaldt '06, Henning.
Office of Community Service and Volunteerism is partnering with Black Student Union and Morris Area High School students for the Toys for Tots drive.
TWIN CITIES—Gopher women's basketball team ranked No. 12 in Dec. 2 Associated Press Top 25 Women's College Basketball Poll. Ranking is highest in school history, bettering the No. 14 ranking held last week and for a week in 2001–02 season. Team has been ranked in the AP polls since Jan. 21, 2002.
School of Dentistry students and faculty have treated 63 public program patients in Fergus Falls as part of the school's ongoing community outreach program.
2003 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges will feature students from 2,300 institutions, including 21 from TC campus. Nominations were based on academic achievement, community service, leadership in extracurricular activities, and potential for continued success.
Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library is now open in Rapson Hall. All telephone numbers remain unchanged: circulation and information, 612-624-6383, reference service 626-7538.
U Libraries will move 160,000 lesser used books (not circulated in at least 12 years) from the Dewey Decimal collection in Wilson Library to Minnesota Library Access Center beginning January 2003. For more information, see www.lib.umn.edu/books/dewey or call 612-626-7960.
Housing and Residential Life has furnished apartments available in December for visiting faculty and staff. One-bedrooms rent for $58 per night; 2-bedrooms are $68 with 3-night minimum. Apartments are in University Village and Roy Wilkins Hall. For more information, see umn.edu/housing/visitors/tempGuestHousing.shtml or call 612-624-2994.
Campus Club will reopen on the 4th floor of Coffman Union Jan. 21 with new executive chef. To reserve facility for an event or to request membership information, e-mail platt@umn.edu.
Campus Courier department is now offering off-site computer media storage. Pilot program focuses on small- to medium-sized IT or IS departments that need off-site storage of computer data. For more information, call Grant Tragethon at 612-625-6055.
Afro American and African studies instructor Wynfred Russell and some of his students have organized a campaign to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in African immigrants and African American communities in conjunction with World AIDS Day. Events through Dec. 8 include performances by Eager Artists, 14-member South African troupe. For full event list, see www.umn.edu/urelate/newsservice/newsreleases/02_11aidsawareness.html.
Events: CS/BU Women's Initiative "Surviving Winter, CS/BU Style" will be Dec. 5, 11:30 a.m.–
1 p.m., 140 Nolte Center. Create holiday cards and scented lotions and enjoy a free lunch. For more information, call 612-625-2385.
o U Child Care Center is celebrating Peace Week (Dec. 2–6) with a book sale, featuring books on peace and kindness, Dec. 4–5. Call 627-4014.
o Panel discussion, "Crime and Punishment: the Minnesota Connection," with Minnesota mystery writers William Kent Krueger, M. D. Lake, John Sandford, and Deborah Woodworth will be Dec. 13, 4 p.m., 120 Andersen Library. RSVP by Dec. 10 to stangret@umn.edu or 624-9339.
o Mesopotamian cuneiform texts exhibit will run through Dec. 20, James Ford Bell Library in Wilson Library. Selection of clay tablets, prisms, and cones are from U Library collections and Science Museum of Minnesota; see special.lib.umn.edu/rare/cuneiform.
o Exhibit, "Time and Space Constructed: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Tapestry," will run through Jan. 26, Goldstein Gallery.
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