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THIS ISSUE POSTED
AUGUST 29, 2000 To submit materials to Currents, e-mail currents@d.umn.edu
CURRENTS VOLUME 18 ISSUE 1
Campus Events
TWEED MUSEUM EVENTS
SUMMER AT GLENSHEEN
BIOTECH SCIENCE
ELDERHOSTEL
Tom Kerrigan is featured in a one person exhibition at the Tweed
Museum
of Art now through October 1. Kerrigan retired in 1999 as ceramics area
head in the Department of Art, where he began teaching in 1975. He is
known nationally for his innovative hand-built ceramics, for his
experimentation with clay bodies and for his unique clay forms, glaze
and surface designs and images. His art was inspired by the mood and
changing character of Lake Superior, and later, the southwest desert
landscape and plant life, indigenous motifs, and his continued quest
for
a personal statement via a spiritual order found in all these elements.
Now through October 15, the Tweed Museum of Art will also be
featuring "Works on Paper Series, Part III American Modernists: Prints
from The Annex Galleries." This exhibition features prints from The
Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, California, which specializes in American
prints of the 1920s through the 1940s. Referring to the events of their
time, some of these prints speak in distinctly American voices about
the
country's regions and social and political themes. Other artists,
influenced by European Modernist art movements, used drawing and
printmaking to experiment with the abstract art forms that thrust America
into the world art spotlight in the 1950s. A Community Curators Project
featuring guest Curator, Dr. Robert Leff runs in conjunction with this
exhibit.
Tweed also presents "The Helen Band Collection of First Nations Art
from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery." through October 15. The exhibition,
which makes its only U.S. appearance at the Tweed Museum of Art, contains
49 paintings by 23 artists, including eight works by Norval Morriseau, who
is credited with developing the Woodland painting style in the 1960s. An
artist lecture by Roy Thomas will be held from
6 - 8 p.m. on Thursday, September 14.
For more information, call Mary Rhodes at 726-7823.
The exhibit "Changing Chapeaus: Honoring a Century of Hats," will remain
on display through the summer months at the historic Congdon Estate. The
summer tour schedule runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 days a week,
including holidays.
Glensheen's collection of 80 men's, women's, and children's hats from
all
periods of the 20th century are included in the exhibit, and can be seen
throughout 17 rooms included on Glensheen's regular tour. Spring straw
hats from the 1910 era greet visitors in the reception room, while winter
fur hats from 1900 wait for cooler weather in the smoking room. The
exhibit includes boaters, cloches, turbans, picture hats, top hats and
many other styles popular during the 20th century. Accessories and
photographs of the Congdon family wearing stylish hats accompany the
exhibit.
Viewing the hat exhibit is included in the admission cost of the
regular house tour of Glensheen. Glensheen's living history tours continue
through Labor Day. For information,
call 726-8918.
University for Seniors begins its 12th year with the opening convocation
on Saturday, September 9, in 70 MonH. Registration, coffee and
conversation are at 9:30 a.m. with the program beginning at 10 a.m. The
keynote speaker is Colleen Belk, UMD biology department. Her presentation,
which is free and open to the public, is entitled "Scientific Implications
of Biotechnology: From Genetically Modified Foods to Human Cloning."
University for Seniors fall session begins the week of September 25.
Contact 726-7637 for more information.
Elderhostel presents a wilderness experience on the Gunflint Trail at
Nor'Wester Lodge from October 1 - 7. Stroll through the northwoods, delve
into the history of the fur trade and explore the area tree population.
Contact 726-7637 for more information.
Campus News
SEA GRANT FELLOWSHIP
Minnesota Sea Grant is looking for candidates currently completing a
Master's or Doctoral degree to participate in the Dean John A. Knauss
Marine Policy Fellowship Program. The program matches graduate students in
fields related to marine or Great Lakes studies with "hosts" in the
Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, or other institutions located in
Washington, D.C. Fellows receive a $38,000 stipend for a one-year term.
Apply by September 11, 2000 to Minnesota Sea Grant. For more information
check out the web site www.d.umn.edu/seagr or call 726-8106.
CSE NEWS
Dr. James P. Riehl has been named Dean of the UMD College of Science and
Engineering. He has been Professor and Chairman of Chemistry at Michigan
Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. He began his duties at UMD
on August 1.
STUDENT WEB CONTEST 2001
This student web contest is a great opportunity for students as well as
faculty members. The student has an opportunity to win $500 and the
faculty has an opportunity to have a web site for an undergraduate course
and/or Web-based materials for an undergraduate course.
Stop by and pick up information, guidelines, and rules from Sheri
Pihlaja,
in 109 Bohannon.
REC SPORTS PASSES
The Annual Facilities Pass is now on sale for $91 and the Annual Life
Fitness Pass is on sale $100. The All Rec Sports Pass for $191 is also
offered. It combines both Annual Facility and Life Fitness passes. Once
again if an Annual Facilities or Life Fitness pass is purchased by October
6th, UMD employees may use payroll deduction. All deductions will begin on
the pay period ending October 8 for the October 18 paydate. Passes for
Fall Semester are on sale now. Questions? Call the Rec Sports Department
at 726-7128.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
RESEARCH GRANTS
The National Institute of Health has recently awarded a research grant to
support the Minnesota Blood Pressure and Stress Study (BPASS) which
focuses on effects of stress on various hormones, blood pressure, heart
rate, and other measures. Researchers in the Behavioral Medicine
Laboratory, including principal investigator, Mustafa al'Absi, Ph.D, are
working to better understand the impact of blood pressure and hormonal
responses to stress on health. These researchers have shown that stress
increases blood pressure and can change how the heart functions during
stress among healthy people. They have also shown that stress alters
various hormones in the body. These responses are particularly strong in
people with a family history of high blood pressure (hypertension). The
new research at the UMD School of Medicine is geared towards understanding
the impact of stress on the body, with the hope that it will ultimately
lead to determining how stress influences the risk for hypertension and
heart disease. The researchers are currently recruiting participants
to take part in ongoing studies. Participants should be generally healthy,
between the ages of 20-65 years, and interested in understanding more
about their body and how it is affected
by stress. Men and women, smokers and non-smokers are welcome.
The benefits of participating include the satisfaction of knowing
that the program is contributing to the advancement of science.
Participants will receive payment and information on blood pressure, heart
rate, and cortisol.
Those interested in participating can contact The Minnesota Blood
Pressure and Stress Study (BPASS) Behavioral Medicine Laboratory at 726
8896 or 726-8332. You can also e-mail: malabsi@umn.edu.
NEW FACULTY ORIENTATION
New Faculty Orientation will be held from 10 a.m. until noon on Friday,
September 1, 2000 in Griggs Center.
GLBT OFFICE NEEDS BOOKS
The new office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Services is in
need of used books on gender, sexual orientation, GLBT Studies and similar
topics for a resource library. Please call 726-7300 for info or drop off
books in front of the door at 66 Campus Center.
PREPARING
TOMORROW'S TEACHERS
The Education Department, thanks to principal authors Joan Karp and Karen
Keenan, has been awarded a three year, $3,278,114 U.S. Department of
Education grant. It will prepare technologically literate pre-service
teachers to meet the needs of American Indian, low income, and
disenfranchised students in rural and urban settings. Partners in this
initiative include Duluth Public Schools, Fond du Lac Ojibwe Schools,
Apple Computer, Texas Instruments, and Better Education.
Significant innovations include teams of school teachers, university
education faculty, and arts and science faculty working together to plan
and implement units of instruction for children in local schools, the use
of videoconferencing strategies to bring diversity into UMD's Education
Department classrooms, and the integration of technology into the UMD
curriculum to prepare teachers. Questions? Contact Joan Karp at 726-6538
or e-mail jkarp@d.umn.edu.
WEB EVENTS CALENDAR
It is time to get all UMD events posted on the UMD Web Calendar of Events.
The events URL, http://www.d. umn.edu/umdevents, is advertised in dozens
of publications. Chancellor Martin and the UMD community feel strongly
that it is important to have all of UMD events listed in one place.
You can find the Events Calendar for UMD on the Home page. Click
the blue "Calendar" bar, then click the "Events" link. If you need a "How
To" instruction sheet,contact Cheryl Reitan, at 726-8996, or e-mail
creitan@d. umn.edu.
NEWS FROM UMD STORES
Campus Books: Get a free Jansport T-shirt with the purchase of any Jansport
Backpack from September 1 - 16 in Campus Books.
The UMD Stores will serve cake, punch and coffee in the Kirby Student
Center on September 2 from 1 - 3 p.m.
Take $1 off any four or five Subject Notebook from September 11 - 16 in Campus
Books.
There will be a drawing for a free Sony Personal Sound System from September
11 - 16 in Campus Books. No purchase necessary.
The last day to return fall semester textbooks without proof of cancellation
is September 18 in Campus Books.
Marketplace:
Receive 20% off all room supplies through September 16.
Computer Corner:
Apple Computer will be in the Kirby Student Center from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on
Saturday, September 2.
CURRENTS SCHEDULE
Currents is printed regularly throughout the school year. The remaining Fall
Semester 2000 schedule is as follows:
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Print date: Tuesday, September 12.
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Print date: Tuesday, November 7.
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Print date: Tuesday, December 5.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 13;
Print date: Tuesday, December 19.
Submit items to Currents via email at currents@d.umn.edu. Questions? Contact
Cheryl Reitan at 726-8996. Currents can be viewed at www.d.umn.edu/currents.
Faculty and Staff News
Gloria DeFilipps Brush, professor and head, Department of Art, has
work in the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Midwest Photography
Invitational XI which travels over the next nine months to: University of
Cincinnati; UW Madison Union Gallery; Wabash College, Crawfordsvile,
Indiana; Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana; Hope
College, Holland, Michigan; and Lakeview Museum of the Arts and Sciences,
Peoria, Illinois.
She also had work in the Print Center, Philadelphia, 74th Annual
International Exhibition, March May 2000. The work was selected by
Therese Mulligan, curator of photography, The George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York. The work traveled this August to the Long Beach
Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, New Jersey.
The soundwork of Leif Brush, professor, Department of Art, is included on the CD ZERO, a collection of international artists, experimental composers, noise makers and other audio creators, curated by Colin Fallows. ZERO was commissioned by the Foundation for the Arts and Creative Technology (FACT), and published with support from the Liverpool School of Art in the U.K.
Timothy Colburn, associate professor, Department of Computer Science, presented a paper entitled "Information, Thought, and Knowledge" at the 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics in Orlando, in July. Colburn has also been named book review editor for Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science.
Paul N. Deputy, Dean of the College of Education and Human Service
Professions, has been elected to the MACTE (Minnesota Association of
Colleges of Teacher Education) board for a term of three years. Terrie
Shannon, Head of the Department of Education was elected to serve aone
year term on the MACTE board.
Nancy Lettenstrom, assistant professor in the Art Department currently have a drawing included in the Northern National Art Competition, on exhibit at Nicolet College in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The juror for the exhibition was Betsy Damon, a St. Paul mixed-media artist. The exhibition runs through September 8.
James H. Fetzer, McKnight Professor of Philosophy, presented a paper entitled "Future Conflicts in Evolution and Psychology" to the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amherst, Massachusetts, in June. He presented a second paper, "Information and Representation," to the 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, in July. He also served as a member of the International Program Committee for the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen, Norway, in August, which he was unable to attend but where his paper, "Virtual Universities: The Very Idea," was presented in his absence.
Kenneth FitzGerald, assistant professor, Department of Art, will be
included in the American Center for Design's 23rd annual 100 Show for his
magazine, The News of the Whirled #2. The 100 Show recognizes significant
trends in communication design and is selected by a panel of
internationally-renowned jurors. The winning designs are compiled into an
annual publication and a traveling exhibition. Whirled is the product of a
University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship
and also includes work by design faculty colleague and assistant professor
Catherine Ishino, and UMD design program graduate Jessica Durrant. For
free copies of Whirled, e-mail kfitzge1@d.umn.edu.
FitzGerald's essay "Seen and Not Seen" is also included in the
recently
released book Graphic Design and Reading, published by Allworth Press.
Another of his writing projects, "The Last Wave," was used as the theme of
the spring #54 issue of Emigre magazine.
Deborah Petersen-Perlman, director, UMD Office of Equal Opportunity,
has
been awarded certification as an Equal Employment Opportunity and
Affirmative Action professional. To achieve this certification, she had to
complete 54 hours of classroom training in equal opportunity and the law,
affirmative action plan development, and complaint processing, counseling
and resolution.
Rip Rapp, Archaeometry Lab and Geological Sciences, presented the
introductory plenary lecture at the recent five-day conference in Beijing
on "Chinese and World Archaeology in the 21st Century". This conference
was attended by over 200 scholars from more than 10 countries. While in
China Rip was asked to be one of 20 scholars world wide to contribute to a
volume celebrating both the 50th anniversary of the Chinese Institute of
Archaeology and the beginning of the 20th century.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS
Donna Forbes, associate professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
presented a demonstration of the computer program NeuroView at the Slice
of Life Workshop and Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium in Salt
Lake City, Utah in June. This annual meeting focuses on the latest
applications of computer technology in medical and/or health-related
education. Participants in this year's meeting came from throughout the
United States plus two other countries. NeuroView has been developed with
Arlen Severson, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, to aid
in teaching neuroanatomical structure and terminology to medical students.
NRRI NEWS
Subhash Basak and collaborators published the following papers in the
July/August, 2000, issue of the Journal of Chemical Information and
Computer Sciences which contains papers presented at the 1999 NRRI
Symposium on Applied Mathematical Chemistry, organized jointly by Basak
and Milan Randic: "Use of Statistical and Neural Net Approaches in
Predicting Toxicity of Chemicals" by Basak, Gregory Grunwald, Brian Gute,
Krishnan Balasubramanian, University of Arizona and David Opitz, Vol. 40,
pp. 885
890, 2000; "Topological indices: Their Nature and Mutual Relatedness" by
Basak, Alexandru Balaban of the Polytechnic University, Bucharest,
Roumania, Grunwald and Gute, Vol. 40, pp. 891-898, 2000; "Construction of
High Quality Structure-Property-Activity Regressions: The Boiling Point of
Sulfides" by Randic, from Drake University, and Basak, Vol. 40, pp.
899-905, 2000; "Simple numerical Descriptors for Quantifying Effects of
Toxic Substances on DNA Sequences" by Ashesh Nandy, from the Indian
Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta and Basak, Vol. 40, pp. 915-919,
2000; "QSPR Modeling: Graph Connectivity Indices Versus Line Graph
Connectivity Indices" by Basak, and Sonja Nikolic, Nenad Trinajstic, from
Rugjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, Dragan Amic and Drago Beslo,
from The Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia, Vol. 40, pp.
927-933, 2000.
Calender of Events
September 1 - September 30
Friday, September 1
New Faculty Orientation, 10 a.m. until noon, Griggs Center
Soccer: St. Cloud State, 4 p.m., Griggs Field
Saturday, September 2
Bulldog Bash Kick Off
Football: Minnesota State-Mankato, 6 p.m., Griggs Field
Monday, September 4
Soccer: Northern Michigan, 1 p.m., Griggs Field
Saturday, September 9
University for Seniors, "Scientific Implications of Biotechnology: From
Genetically Modified Foods to Human Cloning," 9:30 a.m., 70 MonH
Cross Country: Lester Park Invitational, 10:40 a.m., Lester Park
Football: St. Cloud State, 6 p.m., Griggs Field
Tuesday, September 12
Volleyball: Minnesota State-Moorhead, 7 p.m., Romano Gym
Wednesday, September 13
Artist Lecture Series: Arin Kuklis, graphic designer, 2 p.m., Tweed
Thursday, September 14
Artist Lecture Series: Roy Thomas, Woodlands painter, 6 p.m., Tweed
Friday, September 15
Special UMD Theatre Student Scholarship Fundraiser: Me & JFK, written
and performed by Tom Isbell, 8 p.m., MPAC
Saturday, September 16
Soccer: Minnesota State-Mankato, 1 p.m., Griggs Field
Football: UM-Crookston, 6 p.m., Griggs Field
Tuesday, September 19
Artist Lecture Series: Pamela Bannos, photographer, noon, Tweed
Volleyball: Bemidji State, 7 p.m., Romano Gym
Faculty Artist Recital: David Schmalenberger, percussion, 7:30 p.m., 90
Bohannon Hall
Wednesday, September 20
Alworth Institute Lecture: "Letting International Criminals Go Free? The
U.S. And the International Criminal Court," John Washburn, 7:30 p.m.,
Kirby Rafters
Thursday, September 21
Spectrum Lecture Series: "The Sur-Real World: Media Manipulation and Me,"
Irene McGee, 7 p.m., Kirby Ballroom
Friday, September 22
Faculty Artist Recital: Tina Thielen-Gaffey, voice, 7:30 p.m., Tweed
Tuesday, September 26
Artist Series: Minnesota Opera, The Barber of Seville, pre-concert
lecture, 6:30 p.m.; opera, 7:30 p.m., MPAC
Friday, September 29
Eddy Lecture Series: "Developmental Apraxia," Edythe Strand, 5 p.m., Kirby
Ballroom
Volleyball: Winona State, 7 p.m., Romano Gym
Satuday, September 30
Cross Country: Superior National Invitational, 10:45 a.m., Two Harbors
Eddy Lecture Series: "Developmental Apraxia," Edythe Strand, 8:30 a.m.,
Kirby Ballroom
Volleyball: Concordia, 3 p.m., Romano Gym
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