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Past Issues
U will receive $1,099,611,000 in general fund spending under the Omnibus Higher Education Finance Bill passed by the House and Senate May 19. Gov. Pawlenty is expected to sign the bill. The amount is a reduction of $196,260,000 from the U's funding but is $15 million more than the governor proposed in his budget. No action has yet been taken on the capital bonding bill. U is requesting authorization for all projects that were vetoed last year.
House and Senate allocated $2 million to facilitate the partnership between U and Mayo Clinic on biotechnology and medical genomics. The appropriation is for 2 years, and the U and Mayo must match the money dollar for dollar. The funding will cover costs of the collaboration, including salaries, but does not include capital expenditures.
In response to financial challenges, U of M Extension Service will establish a new model for service delivery with 20 regional offices beginning January 2004. Currently, there are 87 extension offices in the state—one in each Minnesota county. Counties may choose to fund a local satellite office with flexibility to purchase the services they need. U currently provides 42% of extension funding, 26% comes from counties, and 32% comes from the federal government.
President Bruininks is asking colleges and units to provide information about existing summer youth programs, or the potential to develop programs if private funding were available. Send this information to him at upres@umn.edu. "Local and state budget constraints have led some cities to decrease or even eliminate their summer programs," he said. "I am hopeful that the U can step in to offer these youngsters some options, provided that we can identify appropriate funding from outside (non-U) sources."
U has submitted a proposal requesting $275 million from the National Science Foundation to establish the National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (NUSEL) at the Soudan Mine Underground Research Site. If approved, NUSEL would include underground laboratories at depths of 4,760 and 8,200 feet. U already operates an underground physics laboratory at Soudan, and the new facility would add research in geology, microbiology, and energy storage.
International Service and Travel Center and Global Campus will merge July 1 to form Learning Abroad Center, which will be U's office for study, work, internship, volunteer, and travel opportunities worldwide. Merger will allow new unit to share resources and expertise. Center will be in 230 Heller Hall, with travel information and materials available in 94 Blegen.
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition will host "Creating Teacher Community: International Conference on Language Teacher Education" May 29–31, Radisson Hotel Metrodome, Minneapolis. See carla.acad.umn.edu/conference2003/LTE.html.
Departments are encouraged to allow more lead time for International Student and Scholar Services to process visa documents for international students due to complications with the new SEVIS system. More information at www.isss.umn.edu/SEVIS/SEVIS.html.
Recipients of the 2003 President's Award for Outstanding Service are Ann Beattie, manager, Payroll Services; Lance Brockman, professor, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance; Janice Hogan, professor, Department of Family Social Science; Thomas McRoberts, associate director, Continuing Education, UMM; Leonard Polakiewicz, professor, Institute of Linguistics; Terrie Shannon, associate professor of education, UMD; Gregory Vercellotti, senior associate dean for education, Medical School; Mahmood Zaidi, professor, industrial relations, Carlson School of Management.
Society for Conservation Biology will hold annual meeting June 28–July 2 at Duluth Convention Center. Hosted by the UMD Natural Resources Research Institute, Continuing Education Program, U Sea Grant Program, and Conservation Biology Graduate Program, the meeting will bring together more than 1,200 biologists to discuss interactions between land and water. For more information, contact Kris Lund at 218-726-7810 or see www.conservationbiology.org/2003.
U Veterinary Teaching Hospital is changing its name to U Veterinary Medical Center to more accurately reflect its advanced care and outpatient services. For more information about VMC services, call 612-624-1919.
Participants are needed for a clinical trial by Cancer Center researchers of a new breast cancer vaccine that is created with a patient's own cancer cells. Participants must have stage II or III breast cancer. For more information, call 888-226-2376 or 612-624-2620.
Note: Brief will not be published May 28 due to the Memorial Day holiday.
Wendy Pradt Lougee, U librarian and McKnight presidential professor, won the 2003 Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award. Award recognizes an academic librarian who has made significant contributions in the area of library automation or management and has made notable improvements in library services and research.
H. Wesley Balk, who died March 21 at age 70, was honored at Rarig Center May 19. Balk taught at the U from 1966 to 1994 and was a member of the Minnesota Opera.
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CROOKSTON—Award recipients at the annual Faculty and Staff Celebration May 15 include: Stephanie Helgeson, assistant director, athletics, Distinguished Professional and Administrative Award; John Zak, editor, University Relations, Distinguished Civil Service and Bargaining Unit Award; Laurie Wilson, counselor and assistant education specialist, and Pam Holsinger-Fuchs, director, Student Activities and Service Learning, Outstanding Community Service Awards; Tom Feiro, senior environmental health and safety technician, United Staff Association Employee of the Semester; and Susan Brorson, professor of marketing and management, Distinguished Teaching Award.
DULUTH—School of Business and Economics (SBE) received a gift of $4.5 million from Sharon and Joel Labovitz. Gift is dedicated to construction of a new building for the SBE. Joel Labovitz, a 1949 UMD graduate and a senior fellow in SBE, is chairman of Labovitz Enterprises.
UMD's Center for Economic Development held its 11th annual Joel Labovitz Entrepreneurial Success Awards May 21 at the Duluth Convention Center. The "Labo Awards" recognized 56 successful entrepreneurs in northeastern Minnesota.
Thomas Johnson, director of UMD Large Lakes Observatory, has been awarded the International Association of Limnogeology 2003 W. H. Bradley Medal for "his contributions to the global lake society and his impressive research accomplishments." Johnson has made noteworthy contributions to understanding the history, ancient climatic conditions, and sedimentary processes of Lake Superior and Lakes Turkana, Victoria, and Malawi in East Africa.
MORRIS—Summer Scholars Program, July 13–25, offers scholastically talented high school juniors a chance to join other Upper Midwest students to get a taste of campus life and earn two college semester credits. Students currently in their junior year who rank in the top 20 percent of their class are eligible to apply and choose from several courses of study. For more information, see www.mrs.umn.edu/cerp/youth/summerscholars.
UMM faculty members have received a grant to develop cross-disciplinary assessment tools for all levels of teaching and learning activities from classroom assessment to program assessment. Recipients are Dian Lopez, associate professor of computer science; Katherine Benson, associate professor of psychology; Michelle Page, assistant professor of education; and Jenifer Cushman, assistant professor of German.
ROCHESTER—VP Maziar recently spoke on mentoring girls at an event hosted by UMR and the IBM Rochester Women's Networking Group to increase girls' interest in science.
UMR's annual Graduate Celebration May 16 featured the graduation of the first doctoral candidates from programs available in Rochester.
TWIN CITIES—Robert Feigal has been named chair of the Department of Preventive Sciences at the School of Dentistry. Feigal is currently the Samuel D. Harris Professor of Pediatric Dentistry and associate dean for Graduate Programs and Facilities at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry.
Events: Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend interview presentations and offer input in selection of the associate vice provost for Student Affairs. Finalists Laurie Hayes and Donald Peters have already given their presentations. Remaining 3 presentations will be 1:30–2:30 p.m., Minnesota Room, McNamara Alumni Center: Laura Koch, May 21; Gerald Rinehart, May 27; and Wanda Overland, May 29. For more information, see www.osa.umn.edu.
U of M Alumni Association will hold its 99th Annual Celebration and 100th anniversary kickoff May 29,
5:30–9 p.m., Coffman Union. Harvey Mackay, Twin Cities businessman and author of four New York Times bestsellers, will headline. Individual, group, and student tickets are available until May 22. For more information, see www.alumni.umn.edu/annualcelebration or call 612-624-2345.
Lectures: Five finalists for the 2003 Minnesota Book Awards will read May 22, 5:30 p.m., Andersen Library. Readers will be Earl Fleck, Chasing Fire: Danger in Canoe Country; Patricia Condon Johnston, representing the authors of OJIBWE: Waasa Inaabidaa (We Look in All Directions); Janet Lawson, Audrey and Barbara; Brian Leehan, Pale Horse at Plum Run; and Jan Neubert Schultz, Firestorm. For more information, contact Lanaya Stangret at 612-624-9339 or stangret@umn.edu
Hermann Scheer on "The Solar World Economy—Safe Energy for the 21st Century" May 28, 1–2 p.m., Humphrey Center, Cowles Auditorium.
See more events online at events.tc.umn.edu.
For TC campus events and lectures to be considered for publication in Brief, they should first be submitted to the online calendar referenced above. For more information, call 612-625-5826.
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