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Past Issues
Regents will meet March 13–14, 600 McNamara Alumni Center. President Bruininks and VP Maziar will present the budget for remaining fiscal year 2003, which includes amendments in response to Gov. Pawlenty's Feb. 7, $25 million emergency cut to U spending. Bruininks will also lead discussion of framework for making decisions about 2004–05 budget. For full agenda, see www.umn.edu/regents.
President Bruininks presented U's response to the governor's budget recommendation to Senate Higher Education Committee March 11. He gave a similar presentation to House Higher Education Finance Committee March 5. For his presentation, see www.umn.edu/urelate/govrel/030503house.
Broadcast of President Bruininks's Feb. 28 inauguration ceremony is available at www.umn.edu/inauguration. Also at Web site are highlights from the 2-week online guestbook. More than 100 well-wishers sent greetings to Bruininks between Feb. 24 and March 10.
Future of Academic Health Center (AHC) schools and colleges is tied to future of the U, said senior VP Cerra. "We need to explain carefully and succinctly [to legislators] that these cuts to the U mean we'll have to cut health programs too," he said. "It means there will be problems with health care access in communities throughout the state as we raise tuition and cut recently expanded programs."
At AHC Brown Bag Briefing March 4, Cerra gave overview of state cuts to U's budget this fiscal year and 2004–05, including impact on AHC schools and the AHC tobacco endowment. Governor has recommended replacing endowment funds with a cigarette tax proposal (6.5 cents per pack); proposal would generate $21.5 million next year, said Cerra, essential for survival of nursing program in Rochester, pharmacy program in Duluth, dental clinic in Hibbing, and for hiring physician-scientists in the Medical School. For his presentation, see www.ahc.umn.edu/2003briefing.
U's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy staff are consulting with federal officials on BioWatch program, effort to sample the air in major metropolitan areas daily for pathogens terrorists might use. Program is running in New York City, and testing equipment is being set up in 20 metropolitan areas, according to an official in the federal Department of Health and Human Services. An air-monitoring program used during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City served as prototype for the system.
U's Digital Technology Center (DTC) received 2 ES7000 supercomputing systems worth $2.4 million from Unisys Corp. DTC Supercomputing Institute will use systems in its Unisys Laboratory for large-scale data analysis. Faculty in DTC Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering will use systems in research on visual representations of intensive scientific computations.
New U deputy grievance officer is Mary Tate, director of minority affairs and diversity at Medical School. Tate will assist U grievance officer Carolyn Chalmers with employment complaints filed by faculty, staff, and students. Chalmers will continue to work with grievances filed within AHC, while Tate will focus on complaints outside of AHC.
U's Great Conversations series on corporate responsibility will be March 17, 7:30 p.m., Ted Mann Concert Hall, TC campus. Norman Bowie, Elmer L. Andersen Chair for Corporate Responsibility at Carlson School, and Thomas Dunfee, Joseph Kolodny Chair of Social Responsibility in Business at Wharton School, U of Pennsylvania, will discuss various issues including scandals and congressional actions. Tickets are $27, with 20% discount for U faculty, staff, and students; call 612-624-2345. Event will be broadcast live at UMM Science auditorium.
EVPP office is seeking applications and nominations for associate vice provost for student affairs position. Responsibility of U's chief student affairs officer includes policy development and overseeing cocurricular services and programs that support students' educational and personal development. For position description, see www.osa.umn.edu.
CS/BU preretirement seminar will be March 24, 210-215 Donhowe. Employees ages 55 and over have been sent informational packets and may choose to attend 1–3 p.m. session or 5–7 p.m. session. To register, complete registration form in packet or for more information, call Employee Benefits at 612-624-9090. Faculty and P&A seminars are scheduled for April.
Brief March 5 reported that U's human factors research team has completed field testing of Federal Transit Administration's new transit lane technology. Researchers mentioned are from HumanFIRST program in U's Center for Transportation Studies.
CROOKSTON—Women's History Month speakers include Heidi Heitkamp, former attorney general for North Dakota, who will present "Lessons I Have Learned," March 18, 7 p.m., Kiehle Auditorium; and Barbara Handy-Marchello, associate professor of history at U of North Dakota, speaking on "Land, Liquor, and the Women of Hatton, North Dakota," March 26, noon, Youngquist Auditorium.
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Ross Hier, assistant wildlife manager for Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and UMC adjunct faculty, received award for "outstanding contributions to Minnesota's wildlife and natural resources" from Minnesota chapter of The Wildlife Society. Wildlife management student Daniel Oberg received chapter's Student Conservationist Award; he is 4th UMC student in past 6 years to receive award.
Bede Student Center, built in 1921, is closed. Student support services have moved to other locations on campus and demolition crew will begin hazardous material abatement in preparation for building's demolition in mid-May. Construction will follow for new student center scheduled to open September 2004. For more information, see www.yhr.com/www/New_Projects/UMC%20Student%20Ctr.
DULUTH—Alworth Institute of International Studies will host John Mearsheimer, codirector of Program on International Security Policy at U of Chicago, speaking on international relations and issues of national security. Lecture is March 27, 7:30 p.m., 4th floor UMD Library rotunda. Free and open to the public.
Center for Ethics and Public Policy panel discussion on "What's in Store for Affirmative Action?—Important Aspects of the University of Michigan Case Before the Supreme Court" will be March 24, 4 p.m., 120 Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
Meg Bye, human rights director for city of Duluth, will speak March 26, noon, 323 Kirby Student Center.
MORRIS—UMM will host 500 junior high students participating in health-related displays and seminars during annual Stevens-Traverse (Counties) Public Health-sponsored Youth Health Day March 12.
About 200 farmers and rural community leaders will attend March 13 Renewable Energy Workshop in UMM's Science Building. Sponsors include UMM, West Central Research and Outreach Center, and Minnesota Department of Commerce Energy Office.
Spanish professor Vicente Cabrera Funes will read from his latest novel, La Sombra del Espía, March 19, 7 p.m., Turtle Mountain Café, Student Center, and April 21, 7:30 p.m., Ruminator Books, St. Paul. Both readings will be in English. Book was first published in Cabrera's native Ecuador in March 2002.
TWIN CITIES—U bookstore at Coffman Union is open. President's wife, Susan Hagstrum, and representatives from U's Board of Regents and Kerlan Collection of Children's Literature participated in ribbon-cutting ceremony March 4. Store, which is one of the largest university bookstores in the nation, has more than 200,000 titles from 3,500 publishers worldwide, including university press titles and U faculty authors. Portion of sales during grand opening went to Kerlan Collection; $5,000 was raised. For store hours or grand opening month specials, see www.bookstore.umn.edu.
Phillips Neighborhood Clinic, partnership between Academic Health Center, Community-U Health Care Center, and Center for Health Interdisciplinary Programs, will open Mondays, 6–9 p.m. (starting March 10) at Oliver Presbyterian Church, 2647 Bloomington Ave. S. Clinic will offer uninsured and underinsured people in neighborhood basic health screening, acute medical care services, physical therapy, and referrals to other health care providers. Medical interpreters will be available.
Events: Classical and Near Eastern Studies presents Rudens ("The Rope"), ancient Roman musical comedy, March 13, 4–5 p.m., 125 Willey Hall. Free; questions, call 612-625-5353.
o 2003 Grammy Award-winning Dave Holland Big Band headlines Northrop Jazz Series March 15, 8 p.m., Ted Mann Concert Hall. Tickets are $30 and $24 (faculty and staff discounts available); call 624-2345.
o Film, Shanghai Ghetto, about Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution, will be March 20, 7 p.m., Lagoon Theater. Tickets are $5 from China Center; call 624-1002.
Lectures: "Savings and Investing Seminar," by Employee Benefits, will be March 13, 9:30–11:30 a.m., 210 Donhowe. To register, call 612-624-9090.
o CURA's "The Rental Housing Affordability Crisis in the Twin Cities: An Analysis of the Data and Policy Options" will be March 14, noon–1:30 p.m., L-110 Carlson School.
o Impact of state budget cuts for individuals with disabilities and those who support them is subject of policy forum March 18, 10:15 a.m.–noon, Ramsey County Public Library, Roseville. For more information or to register, call 625-1842.
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