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THIS ISSUE POSTED AUGUST 31, 1999
CURRENTS VOLUME 17, ISSUE 1
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TWEED MUSEUM NEWS
You won't want to miss the transition of the Tweed into a world filled
with works which utilize forms, concepts and systems of the plant world.
The Tweed Museum of Art is pleased to present the exhibition Botanica:
Contemporary Artists and the World of Plants. This exhibition officially
kicks off the celebration of Tweed's 50th Anniversary in the year 2000.
Botanica features artists who alternately use botany as a point of
departure, a primary subject, as an art material, and as a means of
discussing our difficult relationship with nature in a world overridden by
technology and industry. Botanica acknowledges the universal nature of its
theme, and the fact that art of high quality is produced in regional areas
as well as in urban centers. The exhibition will have great appeal to
lovers of art and plants, as well as those involved in environmental
causes, science educators and all ages of students. The exhibition runs
through October 12.
An artist lecture by Francis Yeatts Whitehead will be held at 6:30
p.m. on Tuesday, September 23.
"Botanica Family Day: Art and Science," will include hands-on
activities, demonstrations, music, food and fun for the whole family from
1 - 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 25. For more information call Peter
Spooner at 726
7056.
An artist lecture by Jean Humke will be presented at 6:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, October 5.
An artist lecture by Todd Bockley will be presented at 6:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, October 12.
For more information regarding the exhibitions and events mentioned
above, call Mary at the Tweed Museum of Art at 726-7823.
GRIGGS DINING CENTER
RE-OPENS
Join your friends for coffee or lunch in the relaxing atmosphere of Griggs
Dining Center. The facility will re-open on Tuesday, September 7, and is
available to all faculty and staff. Griggs is located on the second floor
of Kirby.
NORTHLAND @ WORK
Northland Business @ Work is scheduled for September 14 from 8 a.m. to 6
p.m. at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. This regional event is
presented by the UMD Center for Economic Development, the Duluth Chamber
of Commerce, and the Duluth News Tribune, with primary sponsorship by the
Iron Range Resources Rehabilitation Board and Iron Range Economic
Alliance. It will encompass a career fair and a business forum that will
bring job seekers and small business owners/employers together to learn
about the impact of technology and workforce issues on small business
owners and employees. Governor Jesse Ventura is invited as keynote
luncheon speaker and Alan Hald, founder of MicroAge and Chairman of Image,
Inc., is also a keynote speaker.
The Business Forum will feature five session tracks including
"eCommerce Applications in Small Business," "Emerging Technologies,
Investing in Technology Based Businesses," "Workforce Development in the
Northland," and "Where The Jobs Are." The Career Expo will also feature
two session tracks on Job Skills for Job Seekers and various workforce
issues, including often overlooked sources of employees and temporary
firms. For more information about Northland Business @ Work, call
726-7298.
CAMPUS NEWS
MASSAGE THERAPY
Are you stressed? Are you tense? Are you in need of a good back massage?
Here's your answer; massage therapy is available at UMD. Therapeutic deep
tissue, relaxation therapy and somatics is available to you every Monday
through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $25 for a half-hour
massage or $35 for an hour session. To set up your appointment call 726
7128 or stop by the Recreational Sports Office, in 121 SpHC between 8 a.m.
and 4 p.m.
ALPHA NU OMEGA REUNION
Alpha Nu Omega Fraternity's 40th Anniversary Reunion will be held
September 16 - 19. Many activities are planned. One special event is the
honorary membership induction of Ken Moran, former UMD photographer, into
the organization's Order of the Blue and White. Visit ANO's web site at
www.d.umn.edu/~alphanu or e-mail Hans Tronnes: tronnes@innocent.com for
more information.
NEW SEA GRANT DIRECTOR
Christine Maziar, vice president for research and dean of the Graduate
School, and UMD Chancellor Kathryn A. Martin, announce the appointment of
Carl Richards as director of the Minnesota Sea Grant College Program and
professor in the Department of Biology at UMD. Richards has worked with
the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) since 1989, most recently
as a senior research associate in the Center for Water and the Environment
and as program coordinator for Water Pollution Control Technology and
Aquaculture Programs. The Sea Grant Program, located on the UMD campus,
has system-wide responsibility and reports to the Office of the Vice
President for Research and the Graduate School. The program's mission is
to increase the understanding, assessment, development, utilization, and
conservation of ocean, Great Lakes, aquatic and costal resources.
PEOPLESOFT UPDATE
The University implemented an upgrade of the PeopleSoft software early in
August. With this upgrade, some of the panels that staff have been using
will be changing ‹ both in looks as well as functionality.
Look for training sessions in September for staff members who were
not on campus during the summer or those who did not attend the July
sessions. If there are questions contact Jackie Carlson at
jcarlso1@d.umn.edu or call 726-8799.
IS YOUR LISTING CORRECT?
Help make sure the individual listings section in the 1999-2000 UMD Campus
Directory has the correct information. Use the UMD Home page to look up
the information listed for you. Go to the "People" button
(http://www1.umn.edu/tc/lookup.cgi? advanced=1) on the UMD Home Page. Type
in your name and check the information. If necessary, mark changes on a
Human Resources Information Form (http://www.d.umn. edu/umdhr/Forms/) and
send to Human Resources, 255 Darland Administration Building. Changes made
after September 15 may not make it into the Campus Directory. If you have
questions, please call
726-7161.
CURRENTS SCHEDULE
Currents is printed regularly throughout the school year. The rest of the
Fall Semester 1999 schedule is as follows:
Deadline: Wednesday, September 8;
Print date: Tuesday, September 14.
Deadline: Wednesday, September 23;
Print date: Tuesday, September 28.
Deadline: Wednesday, October 6;
Print date: Tuesday, October 12.
Deadline: Wednesday, October 20;
Print date: Tuesday, October 26.
Deadline: Wednesday, November 3;
Print date: Tuesday, November 9.
Deadline: Wednesday, November 17;
Print date: Tuesday, November 23.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 1;
Print date: Tuesday, December 7.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 15;
Print date: Tuesday, December 24.
Submit items to Currents via e-mail at currents@d.umn.edu. Questions?
Contact Cheryl Reitan at 726-8996. Student intern, Jennifer Bahl helped
edit this issue of Currents. Currents can be viewed at
www.d.umn.edu/currents.
FACULTY/STAFF NEWS
Lisa Bartel, KUMD, wrote "He Rescued Me," a true story, for an on-line service called "Heartwarmers" last November. This summer, the national magazine Woman's World wrote an article about the story for their August 17th edition of the magazine. Recently Bartel's story is being considered as a finalist for a new book, The Best of the Heartwarmers.
Sabra Anderson, dean, College of Science and Engineering, has been named the Minnesota State Coordinator for ACE/NET, the American Council on Education's national women's leadership program.
Gloria DeFilipps Brush, professor and head, Department of Art, showed
three digital photographs in the SIGGRAPH 99 Gallery: TechnOasis
exhibition in Los Angeles in August. SIGGRAPH is the International
Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Eleven
prints
by Brush were acquired recently for the permanent collection of the
Akron
Art Museum in Ohio.
Mary Cameron, Department of Human Resources, will be taking an
educational leave this year to attend an Executive Program in Human
Resource Management at Syracuse University.
In April, at a special ceremony at Moscow State University, Ron Caple,
professor, Department of Chemistry, received a Diploma and Medal
as Honorary Doktor Causa of Moscow State University from Rektor V.A.
Sadovnichii. The ceremony was attended by forty chemists from Moscow State
and the Russian Academy of Sciences and also by the Science Attache
Officer of the American Embassy.
This prestigious award was given to Caple for his successful efforts
over the past 25 years in promoting research contracts and exchanges
between Moscow and U.S. universities. Caple's acceptance speech was given
in Russian.
Arlene Lodahl, UMD Stores, has nine abstract works displayed on paper at Jitters Coffee and Tea House in Duluth through the end of October.
Ron Marchese, professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
will be conducting archaeological research with the Austrian Institute
of
Classical Archaeology for the next three years at the ancient site of
Plataea, Greece. The site dates to at least the third millennium B.C.,
but
is important as the location for the final phase of the Persian invasion
of Greece where, in 479 B.C. the remnant of the Persian army under the
command of Mardonius, cousin to the Persian king Xerxes, was defeated by
the combine Greek army under Cleomenes, king of Sparta.
Marchese also has received the blessing of the Armenian Patriarch,
Mesrob III to continue his evaluation of the sacred textiles of the
Armenian churches of Istanbul. Many of the churches were badly damaged in
the recent earthquake that devastated western Turkey on August 17.
Marchese has also recently been asked by Oxford University Press to
evaluate a substantial monograph entitled "Roman Ideas: Their Origin,
Nature, and Function."
SEA GRANT
Cindy Hagley, environmental quality educator, published the paper, with co
author Barb Liukkonen, "Shoreland Education: Turning Shoreland Owners into
Shoreland Stewards," in the July 1999, Watershed & Wet Weather Technical
Bulletin.
Douglas Jensen, exotic species information center coordinator, gave a
presentation at a meeting of the Western Lake Superior Trollers
Association entitled, "Aliens in Our Waterways," in Duluth in May.
Jensen gave a presentation "Impacts of Non-Native Species on Lake
Superior Fisheries" at the Operation Pathfinder workshop held for thirty
teachers at UMD, in June.
Jensen gave a presentation "Update on Prevention, Control and
Management of Aquatic Nuisance Species in Minnesota" at a training session
for thirty Minnesota Conservation Corps (MCC) watercraft inspectors, at
MnDNR-Headquarters in St. Paul this
June. As the only program of its kind nationally, MCC staff will station
themselves at water accesses across Minnesota each season to inform
boaters about proper actions they should take to prevent the spread of
aquatic exotic plants and animals, like zebra mussels and Eurasian
watermilfoil, and inform them about state laws that prohibit transport on
public roads.
Jensen gave an invited presentation on "Ballast Water Mediated
Introductions of Aquatic Nuisance Species" at the Transportation Research
Board's Summer Ports, Waterways and International Trade Conference, at the
DECC, in July. The Transportation Research Board is a unit of the National
Research Council, a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal
operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National
Academy of Engineering.
NRRI NEWS
Subhash Basak presented the following papers at the recent QSAR Gordon
Conference, in Tilton, New Hampshire: "A Hierarchical QSAR Approach for
Predicting Property/Activity of Chemicals," authored by Basak, Greg
Grunwald, Brian Gute, Denise Mills, Krishnan Balasubramanian (Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University) and Alexandru
Balaban (Polytechnic University, Bucharest, Romania) and "Topological
Indices as Molecular Descriptors for QSAR," authored by Balaban and
Basak.
The poster/ abstract "Contamination of Mafic Magmas by Crustal
Material in the Layered-Igneous Complex of Duluth, Minnesota," was
presented recently at the Rouyn-Noranda Symposium 1999 on Ore Forming
Processes in Dynamic Magmatic Systems by Mark Severson, Jean Lefrance,
(former NRRI Visiting Research Fellow), Ed Sawyer, Sarah-Jane Barnes.
Lafrance, Sawyer, and Barnes are from the Universite du Quebec a
Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS - September 4 - November 27
Saturday, September 4
Football: UMD vs. MN State- Mankato, 6 p.m., Griggs Field.
Monday, September 6
Official Holiday, Campus Closed.
Tuesday, September 7
Classes Begin.
Griggs Dining Center Re-opens.
Tuesday, September 14
Northland Business @ Work, 8 a.m.- 6 p.m., DECC.
Thursday, September 16- Sunday, September 19
Alpha Nu Omega Reunion.
Saturday, September 25
Botanica Family Day: Art and Science, 1 p.m.- 4 p.m., Tweed.
Football: UMD vs. Southwest State, noon, Griggs Field.
Soccer: UMD vs. Moorhead State, 4p.m., Griggs Field.
Sunday, September 26
F Soccer: UMD vs. MN- Crookston, 1 p.m., Griggs Field.
Friday, October 1
Soccer: UMD vs. Bemidji State, 7 p.m., Griggs Field.
Saturday, October 2
Football: UMD vs. Moorhead State, Homecoming Game,
2 p.m., Griggs Field.
Tuesday, October 6
Jean Humke lecture, 6:30 p.m., Tweed.
Soccer: UMD vs. St. Scholastica, 7 p.m., Griggs Field.
Tuesday, October 12
Todd Bockley lecture, 6:30 p.m., Tweed.
Friday, October 15
Women's Hockey vs. Finnish National, 7:05 pm., DECC.
Saturday, October 16
Football: UMD vs. Northern State, noon, Griggs Field.
Soccer: UMD vs. Concordia- St. Paul, 4 p.m., Griggs Field.
Women's Hockey vs. Finnish National, 7:05 pm., DECC.
Sunday, October 17
UMD Soccer vs. Winona State, 1 p.m., Griggs Field.
Men's Hockey vs. Canadian National, 7:05 p.m., DECC.
Thursday, October 21
Into the Woods, 8 p.m., MPAC.
Friday, October 22
Women's Hockey vs. Bemidji State, 7:05 p.m., DECC.
Theatre: Into the Woods, 8 p.m., MPAC.
Saturday, October 23
Women's Hockey vs. Bemidji State, 7:05 p.m., DECC.
Theatre: Into the Woods, 8 p.m., MPAC.
Sunday, October 24
Theatre: Into the Woods, 8 p.m., MPAC.
Wednesday, October 27
Theatre: Into the Woods, 8 p.m., MPAC.
Thursday, October 28
Theatre: Into the Woods, 8 p.m., MPAC.
Friday, October 29
Men's Hockey vs. Colorado College, 7:05 p.m., DECC.
Theatre: Into the Woods, 8 p.m., MPAC.
Saturday, October 30
Women's Hockey vs. Ohio State, 2:05 p.m., DECC.
Men's Hockey vs. Colorado College, 7:05 p.m., DECC.
Theatre: Into the Woods, 8 p.m., MPAC.
Sunday, October 31
Women's Hockey vs. Ohio State, 1:05 p.m., DECC.
Saturday, November 6
Football: UMD vs. Winona State, noon, Griggs Field.
Sunday, November 7
Soccer: UMD vs. North Dakota State, 1 p.m., Griggs Field.
Friday, November 19
Women's Hockey vs. MN State- Mankato, 8:05 p.m., DECC.
Saturday, November 20
Women's Hockey vs. MN State- Mankato, 7:05 p.m., DECC.
Thursday, November 25
Thanksgiving Holiday, Campus Closed
Friday, November 26
Thanksgiving Holiday, Campus Closed
Men's Hockey vs. Michigan Tech, 7:05p.m., DECC.
Saturday, November 27
Men's Hockey vs. Michigan Tech, 7:05 p.m., DECC.
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