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Currents
THIS ISSUE POSTED OCTOBER
10, 2000
CURRENTS VOLUME 18, ISSUE 4
To submit material to Currents, e-mail currents@d.umn.edu
TWEED MUSEUM EVENTS
The Tweed Museum of Art will be featuring "Works on Paper Series, Part
III, American Modernists: Prints from The Annex Galleries" now through
October 15. This exhibition features prints from The Annex Galleries,
Santa Rosa, California, which specializes in American prints of the 1920s
through the 1940s. A Community Curators Project featuring guest curator,
Robert Leff runs 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.
As a special thank you to UMD students, faculty and staff the Tweed
Museum of Art will host a campus preview and party for the upcoming "All
System Go" exhibition from 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. on Thursday, November 2, as
part of the 50-year anniversary celebration. Refreshments will be
served.
"All System Go," an exhibition bringing together the works of nearly
fifty art and design faculty from the University of Minnesota campuses in
Duluth, Morris and Minneapolis-St. Paul, will be shown from November 4 -
December 21.
For more information, call Mary Rhodes at 726-7823.
GLENSHEEN NEWS
Glensheen's fall exhibit, "Changing Colors: American Impressionism," runs
through October 31. The exhibit features more than a dozen original art
works collected by Chester A. and Clara B. Congdon to furnish their home,
Glensheen, when it was built in 1908. Among the art works are numerous
paintings by David Ericson, a local Duluth artist of national reputation
as an American Impressionist. Other artists works to be exhibited include
Lawrence Mazzanovich, Edward H. Potthast and Childe Hassam. The exhibit
features one or more art works in each room of the Congdon home included
on the regular Glensheen tour.
GRADUATE/PROFESSIONALS
The Head of the Lakes Graduate and Professional School Day will be held
from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11 in the Kirby Ballroom.
Visit
with representatives from approximately 20 graduate and professional
schools. For information access Upcoming Job Fairs on the Career Services
web page at http://careers.d.umn.edu.
ARTIST LECTURE SERIES
One of UMD's former undergraduates, Kirk Tingblad will speak at noon on
Wednesday, October 11 in the Tweed Lecture Gallery. Tingblad is now an
animation artist for Warner Bros. in California. Tingblad created Pinky
and the Brain as well as other award-winning animation projects. UMD is
especially proud of Kirk for winning an Emmy Award for Pinky and the
Brain.
HISPANIC/LATINO/CHICANA
HERITAGE CELEBRATION
The speaker, Father Roy Bourgeois will talk on "Close the School of the
Americas" at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11 in 323 Kirby. Bourgeois
is a Maryknoll priest who has been imprisoned numerous times for non
violently protesting U.S. military policy in Central America, in
particularly, the training carried out at the U.S. Army School of the
Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia. The SOA has been long associated
with tyranny; some of Latin America's most notorious human rights
violators and corrupt military officers are among its alumni.
The Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead exhibition will be on display
from October 27 - November 12 in the Tweed Museum of Art. The Day of the
Dead is a tradition,which dates back to the Aztec civilization. The Aztecs
believe that the soul of the dead returns home to the world of the living.
An opening celebration with music by Son de Sur will be held from 6 - 8
p.m. on Tuesday, October 31.
A reading by Dr. Eden Torres and UMD students will be held at 7 p.m.
on Thursday, November 9 in the Griggs Center (2nd Floor Kirby). Torres is
a professor of Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Campus.
DIVERSITY WEEK
Join the UMD campus at the following Diversity Week Events:.
The speaker, Father Roy Bourgeois will talk on "Close the School of
the Americas" at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11 in 323 Kirby.
The workshop: "Strategies for Combatting Racism for Student Leaders,"
conducted by Tim Wise, will be held from 2 - 5 p.m. on Thursday, October
12 in the Kirby Garden Room. Register by calling 726-8444.
A hate crimes vigil called "Remembrance, Reflection and Action,"
sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Services will be held
at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 12 on the Kirby Terrace.
The lecture, "Strategies for Combatting Racism in the 21st Century,"
at 7 p.m. will be presented by Tim Wise on Thursday, October 12 in the
Kirby Ballroom.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE NEWS
University for Seniors lectures are held on Wednesday afternoons; each
45-minute lecture is followed by questions. Guests are welcome. Grace
Swenson, published author, retired librarian and teacher, will talk about
the Hinckley Fire of 1894 at 1:15 p.m. on October 11 in 191 SpHC. Keith
Yetter, retired professional engineer, will talk about Marine Construction
and Dredging in Lake Superior at 1:15 p.m. on October 25 in Kirby Ballroom
C.
BARBARA SMITH AT UMD
Barbara Smith, feminist critic, teacher, activist, lecturer, and
publisher, will be giving a lecture on "The Truth that Never Hurts: Thirty
Years of Writing and Activism for Justice and Social Change," at 7 p.m. on
Wednesday, October 11 in Kirby Ballroom. A reception will follow.
ALWORTH LECTURE SERIES
"The Promises and Pitfalls of Globalization: Making the World
Economy Work for Ordinary People," will be given by Sherle
Schwenninger
and Walter Russell Mead at 7:30 p.m. on October 11 in the Lecture Room
in
the Tweed Museum of Art.
Schwenninger is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute of New
School University, New York City, and is on the editorial board of the
World Policy Journal. He was director of the World Policy Institute from
1992-1996. His expertise is on American foreign policy, global economic
policy and NATO. Walter Russell Mead, the Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy
at the Council on Foreign Relations, is a political economist engaged in
the study of the evolving global economic system and its implications for
American policy and
society. Mead is co-director of the Council's Task Force on U.S. -
Cuba
Relations where liberals and conservatives worked together to create a
consensus approach to U.S. policy towards Cuba. He currently leads a
research group looking at reform proposals for the international
financial
architecture and at ways to make international financial interventions
more effective. He is a senior contributing editor at Worth magazine and
the Los Angeles Times. A reception will follow the event.
PANEL DISCUSSION
"Your Rights & What's Right: Authorship, Artistry, and Scholarship," a
panel discussion, will be held from 7:30 - 10 a.m. on Thursday, October
12, in the Kirby Garden Room. For scientists and scholars, no
responsibility is greater than the honesty of words and expressions. Join
with faculty and student colleagues to reflect on the varied situations in
which ethical principles need to guide important judgments. Register with
Sheri Pihlaja to ensure a place and a placemat. E-mail spihlaja@ d.umn.edu
or call 726
6975.
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
FALL SCHEDULE
The Geological sciences seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursdays in
175 LSci at UMD.
On October 12, Gerald Webers, Macalester College, will present
"Antarctica: Geology and Global Warming."
On October 19, James Stark, United States Geological Survey,
Minnesota District, will deliver a presentation entitled "Water Quality in
The Upper Mississippi River Basin."
Doug Ricketts, Large Lakes Observatory, will speak on October 26
regarding "Paleoclimate Research on Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan."
On November 2, Jane Reed, Natural Resources Research Institute, will
deliver "A Comparison of Bed Material Transport Through Forested And
Grassed Reaches of a Small Gravel Bedded Stream of the Pennsylvania
Piedmont."
Steve Hovis, Department of Geological Sciences, will present, on
November 9, "Physical Volcanology and Hydrothermal Alteration of Archean
Volcanic Rocks at the Eagle's Nest Massive Sulphide Prospect, Northern
Minnesota."
Jeffrey Mauk, University of Auckland, New Zealand, will speak on
"Geology of the White Pine Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposit,
Michigan," on November 30.
John Swenson, Department of Geological Sciences, will speak on
December 7 regarding "Sedimentary Basins and Dynamical Systems:
Implications for Interpreting the Stratigraphic Record."
INT'L BROWN BAG SERIES
The Alworth Institute for International Studies International Brown Bag
Lunch series are held Thursdays at noon in the Tweed Museum Lecture Room.
They are free and open to the public.
"Sea Kayaking the Brooks Peninsula on Vancouver Island, British
Columbia" will be presented on October 12. Greg Eliason and Randy Carlson,
Outdoor Program Kayak and Canoe Institute Sea Kayak instructor trainers
and trip leaders, went to Vancouver, B.C., to scout out the area. They
will show slides and tell about kayaking in the Pacific Northwest.
"Nation-State Cultures in the Making of Central Europe" will be
presented on October 26, in Kirby Ballroom A, (note room change). Lszl
Borsnyi, visiting professor from the University of Miskolc in Budapest,
Hungary, will tell about this area of Europe whose ethnic diversity and
its manipulation by nation-states has created unique cultural
characteristics. Professor Borsnyi is a guest lecturer in UMD's Department
of Sociology/ Anthropology fall semester 2000 and will teach a
semester-long course on the above topic. He is head of the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Miskolc and was brought to UMD by Tim
Roufs in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology.
FROM COSTA RICA
Three Costa Rican women are visiting the Twin Ports to share their
expertise on herbal medicines, basket weaving, and medical social work in
rural areas. Rosario Hernandez Mena, her daughter, Julieta Mena Hernandez,
and Laura Nogueras will present a lecture at 1 p.m. on Friday, October 13
in the Tweed Museum, as part of the Spectrum Lecture Series. This will be
followed by a reception. There will also be a demonstration from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 14, also at the Tweed. They will sell their
baskets and demonstrate their art of basket weaving from grasses dyed with
natural dyes.
The women are from the central district of Costa Rica near the
capital city of San Jose. Two are members of the Quitirrisí, a
small tribe of about 900 people that is trying to maintain its traditional
culture in the middle of a modernizing Costa Rica. The third is a medical
social worker in Ciudad Colón and a specialist in the use of local
medicinal plants for healing. The visit comes as a follow-up to a trip to
Costa Rica in the summer of 1999 by nine Twin Ports area women, seven of
whom were affiliated with UMD.
OUTDOOR PROGRAM EVENTS
A north shore photo hike is planned from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Saturday,
October 14. A day of photography on Lake Superiors beautiful North
Shore awaits you. Explore new techniques and styles to help you get
more
out of each picture. No experience is needed. Meet in the Sports and
Health Center Lobby.
Bearing In: Map and Compass Skills is scheduled from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
on
Tuesday, October 17. Learn how to use maps and compasses, then use this
knowledge for a basic orienteering course in Bagley Nature Area. No
experience is necessary. Meet at the Bagley Nature Area Kiosk (next to
Rock Pond)
There will be a Halloween Paddle from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Saturday,
October 28. This annual outing explores the lower reaches of the St. Louis
River which is rich in history as well as being quiet and remote. Explore
places with names like Pokegema Bay and Spirit Lake. Discover deep bays,
majestic pines, wildlife, and interesting wetlands
with new found friends. Meet in SpHC Lobby.
Geology In Leif Erickson Park will be held from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. on
Monday, October 30. Rocks shape our lives,
especially here in Duluth. Discover the stories the rocks can tell and
learn a bit about the history of this part of Duluth ‹ the extended
version that is over a billion years old. Meet in SpHC Lobby.
Hiking The Grand Portage Trail will depart at 9 a.m. on Saturday,
November 4 and return at 6 p.m. on Sunday, November 5. Retrace the steps
of the voyageurs and journey north to the historic Grand Portage Trail.
Spend the weekend backcountry camping under November skies. Learn about
the area's rich history and how this ancient trail became the gateway to
the northern lake country called the Boundary Waters. Meet in SpHC
Lobby.
For more information and registration call Beth at 726-6533.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS
The Music Department's second annual Scandinavian Song Festival will
begin at 7:30 p.m on Tuesday, October 24, with a recital by Anders
Andersson, tenor, in 90 Bohannon Hall and will continue at 7:30 p.m on
Thursday, October 26, in 90 Bohannon Hall with "Songs for Sweden"
featuring UMD faculty, students, and community members. Event tickets will
be available at the door one hour before the concert.
The Music Department will present Jazz Combo Night at 7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, October 25 in the UMD Bull Pub. Tickets will be available
at
the door.
Enjoy the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday,
November 10, in the Marshall Performing Arts Center. The orchestra has
been described as "arguably the best" chamber orchestra in the world.
PROFESSIONAL STAFF
COUNCIL FALL FORUM
The Professional Staff Council announces their Fall Forum presentation and
update for current and pending construction projects around the campus.
The forum will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 26 in the Griggs
Center (Second floor Kirby Student Center). John Rashid, manager design
and construction for UMD will be the presenter.
DIVERSITY TRAINING
Jessica Hughes, associate director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and
Affirmative Action on the Twin Cities campus, will conduct a workshop on
recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty on October 27.
Contact the Office of Equal Opportunity at 726-6827 or e-mail
dpeters1@d.umn. edu if you are interested in attending.
SPECTRUM SERIES EVENT
There will be a Spectrum Series event featuring storyteller Lise Lunge
Larson from 4 - 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 26 in the Library Rotunda.
Lunge-Larson, a native of Norway and long-time resident of Duluth,
recently won the Minnesota Book Award for her children's book The Troll
with No Heart in His Body and Other Tales of Trolls From Norway. She will
tell some stories and discuss her next book, The Birkebeiner Story.
Refreshments will be served and a book signing will follow the
presentation. All ages are welcome.
POETRY READING
New York poet Nick Flynn will read from his new collection of poems, Some
Ether, published by Minnesota's Graywolf Press at noon on Monday, October
16 in the Library's fourth floor rotunda. Flynn is a member of Columbia
University's Writing Project and has won the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil
Award for Poetry as well as the 1999 Discover The Nation Award. He is
currently the Writer in Residence at St. Benedict College. A reception
will follow the reading.
MARKETING EXPO
The UMD Center for Economic Development will co-sponsor a Marketing Expo
on November 2 at the Holiday Inn with the Lake Superior Ad Club. Enjoy
speakers, seminars and a media auction. For more info or to register call
726-7298 or 726-6338, or see
www.lakesuperioradclub.com or www.umdced.com.
Campus News
PICASSO ETCHINGS
Chancellor Kathryn A. Martin announced the acquisition of 13 Pablo Picasso
etchings by the Tweed Museum of Art. The etchings, numbered and signed by
the artist, were purchased for the Tweed through a gift given by Alice B.
O'Connor and John T. Brickson. The 13 signed and numbered etchings by
Pablo Picasso are set # 83 of 99 sets done in 1927. The subject of the
etchings is a 1837 short story by Honoré de Balzac titled "The
Unknown Masterpiece."
Mrs. O'Connor and Mr. Brickson are the grandchildren of the late
Alice
Tweed Tuohy, who, along with her late husband, George P. Tweed, were avid
collectors of American and European art. The Tweeds donated their family
home to UMD in 1950, and it became the first home of the Tweed Art
Gallery. Subsequently, Alice Tweed Tuohy donated a collection of over 500
art works to UMD. In addition, she and her daughter, Bernice T. Brickson,
provided substantial funding to help build the new Tweed Museum of Art on
the UMD campus in 1958.
Chancellor Martin further announced the gift of $250,000 to the Tweed
by
the Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation, located in Santa Barbara, California.
School of Fine Arts Dean Wm. Robert Bucker unveiled the new Tweed
Donor
Recognition Wall which recognizes 30 individuals and foundations which
have contributed $10,000 or more.
NEWS FROM UMD STORES
Bring your favorite photo into Campus Books and have it made into a photo
button from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11. Get 20% off tapes
and CDs and register to win a backpack with school supplies from October
16 - 21. There will be a color film reprint special from October 16 -
21.
There will be a 20% off general book sale on Wednesday, October 18
and
you can also register for the FREE Book of the Month, The Bear and the
Dragon by Tom Clancy.
Marketplace Event: Get a free pack of stickers when you buy a Carlton
Card at the regular price from October 9 - 21. Register to win a 28" Plush
Scarecrow.
There is no purchase necessary. Drawing will be held on Tuesday, October
31.
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. 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.
USING UMD'S LOGO
Check the Visual Identity Guide before preparing UMD publications!
Remember, individual department logos are not acceptable and that the name
for UMD should always be written as University of Minnesota Duluth with no
commas or hyphens. UMD is working to present a unified "look" to our
outside audiences. See the UMD Visual Identity Guide on the web at
http://ww.d.umn. edu/currents/logo/vis-id.html or ask for a paper copy of
the guidelines. For information, contact Cheryl Reitan at 726-8996, or e
mail creitan@d.umn.edu.
CURRENTS SCHEDULE
Currents is printed regularly throughout the school year. The remaining
Fall Semester 2000 schedule is as follows:
Deadline: Wednesday, October 18;
Print date: Tuesday, October 24.
Deadline: Wednesday, November 1;
Print date: Tuesday, November 7.
Deadline: Wednesday, November 15;
Print date: Tuesday, November 21.
Deadline: Wednesday, November 29;
Print date: Tuesday, December 5.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 13;
Print date: Tuesday, December 19.
Submit items to Currents via e-mail at currents@d.umn.edu. Communication
student Shelly Eckstrom helped edit this issue of currents. Questions?
Contact Cheryl Reitan at 726-8996. Currents can be viewed at
www.d.umn.edu/currents.
Faculty and Staff News
Linda Belote and Jim Belote, members of the department of Sociology
Anthropology, are authors of "Fuga desde abajo: Cambios individuales
de
identidad etnica en el sur del Ecuador." This article is a chapter in a
book, Etnicidades, edited by Andres Guerrero and published by la
Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and el Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales (ILDIS) in Quito Ecuador, pp. 81-118.
Martin DeWitt, director and chief curator of the Tweed Museum of
Art, has been selected as Chair of the
Minnesota Association of Museums (MAM) at the organization's annual
meeting. MAM is a state-wide association of Minnesota museum professionals
with organizational goals that focus on professional development, and
promotion and advocacy for Minnesota's museums. MAM serves as a network
agent for cultural institutions as public resources for education and
life-long learning. The museum association serves in partnership with
public and private business in Minnesota's growing cultural tourism
industry.
Nancy Diener, UMD Access Center counselor, sign language interpreter
and instructor for American Sign Language classes participated in the
Julliard School "Interpreting for the Theatre" summer institute June
5-10, 2000. Nancy was one of 18 participants selected from an
international pool of professional sign language interpreters. The course
involved daily classes in Performance, Translation, Alexander Technique,
and forums with deaf theatre patrons. Nancy was also one of 7 students who
were selected from the class to make their Broadway
debut when they translated, rehearsed, and participated in an interpreted
performance of Jekyll & Hyde on June 9th as their final project.
Jeanne Doty, assistant professor of music at UMD, recently was the
featured guest artist in San Pedro, California, at a concert presented
by
the Finlandia Foundation and the Norwegian Seamen's Church. Her program
combined readings from Jean Sibelius' diary supplemented by color slides
of characteristic Finnish scenes with performance of some of Sibelius'
best-loved piano music. Doty has been active in the Finnish-American
musical community for over 30 years and has appeared several times on
Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion."
Dennis Falk and Melanie Shepard from the Department of Social Work
recently made the following presentations at the 5th International
Conference on Family Violence held in San Diego: "Risk Factors, Levels of
Intervention and Recidivism in Domestic Violence" and "An Evaluation of a
Screening and Assessment Protocol for Domestic Violence Used by Employee
Assistance Counselors."
Ehsan H. Feroz, professor, Department of Accounting, has been informed
that
his biographical profiles are being published in the Who's Who in America,
55th Edition and Who's Who in the World, 18th Edition. He has
also been profiled in the Who's Who in America, (Millennium edition).
Feroz has recently published coauthored papers in The International
Journal of Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, (July 2000);
Managerial Finance, (Volume 26, Number 11, 2000); and The IABD
International Yearbook (2000).
James H. Fetzer, McKnight University professor of philosophy, has
edited
The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies In Science, Explanation, and
Rationality (2000), for Oxford University Press. This collection
brings
together some of Hempel's most important papers. Hempel was one of the
most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, especially
among professional philosophers of science.
Scott Freundschuh, Department of Geography, co-edited a book with Rob
Kitchin, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland,
Manooth,
titled Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future. It is part of the
Routledge's Frontiers of Cognitive Science Series. This book is a
comprehensive account of all facets of cognitive mapping research. It
provides the historical genesis of the subject area, a description of the
current states-of-play, and a "map" of what future research should
investigate. Topics that are covered include links between spatial
behavior and spatial decision making; learning environments; spatial
learning from maps, narrative, sound and virtual environments; spatial
cognition at different scales; spatial learning across the life-span;
gender/sex and spatial abilities; and disabilities and spatial
cognition.
Mark Gonzalez, American Indian Studies Department, has recently had three
articles accepted for publication:
"Minnesota v. Mille Lacs: Gateway to Tribal/State Resource
Management,"
The Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison;
"The Constitutionalization of Racism: The Hirabayashi and Korematsu
Decisions" in the journal, Race & Class, published by The Institute of
Race
Relations, London, England; and
"Minnesota v. Mille Lacs: Expanded Exercises of Sovereignty Based on
the
High Court's Decision," Toledo Journal of Great Lakes' Law, Science &
Policy at the University of Toledo College of Law. He also was a member of
the panel, "The Meaning of Citizenship in Indian Country: To Collaborate
or to Resist, Is There Another Option for Indigenous Leaders?," at the
conference, American Indian Leaders: Red Power & Tribal Politics.
Tom Isbell, associate professor of theatre, has been named to a three-year appointment as the National Playwriting Program Regional Vice-Chair for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (Region 5).
Ron Marchese in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology recently returned from excavations at the ancient town of Plataiai, Greece. Excavations provided a wealth of data on the community and established a chronological definition for the site which dates from the last phase of the fourth millennium B.C. to the modern era. The site, although mentioned in the Homeric "Catalogue of Ships," had not produced evidence of Bronze Age occupation until Marchese's work this fall. A full sequence of ceramic evidence from the Early to Late Bronze Age was recovered including a substantial section of Late Bronze Age fortifications. Pottery included "Palace Style" ceramics from the Argolid (Mycenaean) and a substantial body of data from an occupational level of the Late Archaic period prior to the destruction of the town by the Persians in 4801/80 B.C. Marchese also had an article appear this past spring - "Social Commentary and Political Action: The Headscarf as Popular Culture and Symbol of Political Confrontation in Modern Turkey," in The Journal of Popular Culture and recently had an article accepted for publication "Camels and Weaving: Inter-Connective Impact on Nomadic Material Culture" in Anatolica. Both research efforts were supported by the Graduate School and the Chancellor's Research Program. Marchese also provided commentary on an exhibit of Anatolian textiles "Tribal Traditions: Village and Nomadic Weaving of Anatolia" for The Textile Museum, recently reviewed by The New York Times. He will participate in the forthcoming conference associated with the exhibit in October.
Anna Marie Roos, department of history, published "Luminaries in Medicine:
Richard Mead, James Gibbs, and the Influence of the Sun and the Moon on
the Human Body in Early Modern England," in the Bulletin of the
History of Medicine volume 74, number 3, 433-457. (Fall 2000 issue). She
also was recently inducted into Who's Who in the World for her scholarly
and professional work.
Justin Rubin, associate professor of music at UMD, has been chosen as a Minnesota Orchestra Perfect Pitch Composer for the 2000-01 season. His orchestral work "Symphonietta I" will be read at an open session on November 28th as part of receiving this distinction. Rubin has previously won this competition for the 1999-2000 season and as such is the first composer ever to be awarded two years consecutively.
Judith Ann Trolander, professor of history, presented a paper at the Northern Great Plains History Conference in Mankato in September, "Gender Discrimination Litigation in Higher Education: The United States and England." Last August, she gave "Internationalizing U.S. History in the Classroom" at the Organization of American Historians' Midwest Regional Conference in Ames, Iowa. She'll be presenting revised versions of both papers at a Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, workshop in November. She also was a commentator last March for a panel, "North of Dixie: Race, Civil Rights and Politics in the Urban North, 1945 1970" at the Organization of American Historians' annual conference in St. Louis and participated in a Longman's focus group on the design of U.S. history survey textbooks while there. Finally, the Handbook of American Women's History, 2nd edition, has reprinted her entries, "College Settlement," "Henry Street Settlement," and "National Federation of Settlements."
NRRI NEWS
Subhash Basak visited Milan, Italy,
recently to discuss collaborative projects with colleagues at the Istituto
di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri" and Milan Chemometric Research
Group, Department of Environmental Sciences. He was also in Slovenia and
Croatia, to develop and discuss joint quantitative structure-activity/
toxicity/ property relationship (QSAR/ QSPR/ QSTR) research papers and
projects with colleagues at the National Institute of Chemistry,
Ljubljana, Slovenia and the Rugjer Boskovic Institute. Milan Randic, Drake
University and Ames Laboratory, Marjan Vracko, National Institute of
Chemistry, Ljubljana, Ashesh Nandy, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology,
Calcutta and Basak published the paper: "On 3-D Graphical Representation
of DNA Primary Sequences and Their Numerical
Characterization," in the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer
Sciences, Vol. 40, pp. 1235-1244, 2000.
Brian Brashaw presented at the 12th International Nondestructive Testing of Wood Symposium in Sopron, Hungary, "Inspection of Green Red Oak Lumber Using Ultrasound and Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Analysis." Coauthored by Roy Adams, Pennsylvania, Robert Ross, USDA Forest Products Laboratory and Mark Schafer, Perceptron Inc.
JoAnn Hanowski presented the following paper at the International
Conference on Riparian Ecology and Management in Multi-Land Use
Watersheds: "Effects of Riparian Buffers on Landscape Characteristics:
Implications for Breeding Birds," coauthored by Hanowski, Peter Wolter and
Gerald Niemi. The paper was published in Riparian ecology and management
in multi-land use watersheds, Proceedings of J. of American Water
Resources Association. p 523-528. JoAnn Hanowski was also voted an
elective member of the American Ornithologist's Union. Election to this
membership class is an honor bestowed in recognition of contributions to
ornithology.
Calendar of Events
Tuesday, October 10
Artist Lecture Series: James Houff, design, 10 a.m., Tweed
Wednesday, October 11
Artist Lecture Series: Kirk Tingblad, animation, noon, Tweed
Hispanic/Latino/Chicana & Diversity Week speaker: Father Roy Bourgeois,
12:30 p.m., Kirby 323
University for Seniors: "Hinckley Fire of 1894," 1:15 p.m., 191 SpHC
"Thirty Years of Writing and Activism for Justice and Social Change," with
Barbara Smith, 7 p.m., Kirby Ballroom
Alworth Lecture: "The Promises and Pitfalls of Globalization," 7:30 p.m.,
Tweed
Thursday, October 12
"Your Rights & What's Right: Authorship, Artistry, and Scholarship," 7:30
- 10 a.m., Kirby Garden Room
Int'l Brown Bag Lunch: "Sea Kayaking, Vancouver Island, British Columbia,"
noon, Tweed
Diversity Week lecture: "Strategies for Combating Racism in the 21st
Century," 7 p.m., Kirby Garden Room
Diversity Week hate crimes vigil: "Remembrance, Reflection and Action," 6
p.m., Kirby Terrace
Geological Seminar: "Antarctica: Geology and Global Warming," 4 p.m., 175
LSci
Friday, October 13
Spectrum Lecture Series: Costa Rican herbal medicines, basket weaving, and
rural medical social work, 1 p.m., Tweed
Women's Hockey: St. Lawrence, 7:05 p.m., DECC
Saturday, October 14
Costa Rican basket weaving demonstration and reception, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
Tweed
Women's Hockey: St. Lawrence, 7:05 p.m., DECC
Outdoor Program: North Shore Photo Hike, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., SpHC Lobby
Sunday, October 15
Men's Hockey: University of Regina, 7:05 p.m., DECC
Tuesday, October 17
Volleyball: UM-Crookston, 7 p.m., RG
Outdoor Program: Bearing In: Map and Compass Skills, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m.,
Bagley Nature Area
Wednesday, October 18
Artist Lecture Series: William Capel Slack, African Akan painter, 2 p.m.,
Tweed
Thursday, October 19
UMD Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, 8 p.m., MPAC
Geological Seminar: "Water Quality In the Upper Mississippi River Basin,"
4 p.m., 175 LSci
Friday, October 20
Women's Hockey: Wisconsin, 7:05 p.m., DECC
UMD Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, 8 p.m., MPAC
Saturday, October 21
Football: Bemidji State, 1:30 p.m., Griggs Field
Soccer: Southwest State, 4:30 p.m., Griggs Field
Women's Hockey: Wisconsin, 7:05 p.m., DECC
UMD Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, 8 p.m., MPAC
Sunday, October 22
Soccer: Wayne State, 1 p.m., Griggs Field
Choral Concert: University Singers, Concert Chorale, Chamber Singers,
3 p.m., First Lutheran Church
UMD Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, 8 p.m., MPAC
Tuesday, October 24
Scandinavian Song Festival, 7:30 p.m, 90 Bohannon Hall
SBE Business Forum Luncheon Series: "Changing Face of Nonprofits," 11:30
a.m - 1 p.m., Center for Economic Development, Duluth Technology
Village
Wednesday, October 25
University for Seniors: "Marine Construction and Dredging in Lake
Superior," 1:15 p.m., Kirby Ballroom C
Jazz Combo Night, 7:30 p.m., Bull Pub
UMD Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, 8 p.m., MPAC
Thursday, October 26
Int'l Brown Bag Lunch: "Nation-State Cultures in the Making of Central
Europe" noon, Kirby Ballroom A
"Songs for Sweden," 7:30 p.m., 90 Bohannon Hall
Artist Lecture Series: Amy Sabrina, clay and quilting, noon, Tweed
Spectrum Lecture Series: "The Birkebeiner Story," Lise Lunge-Larsen, 4 - 6
p.m., Library Rotunda
UMD Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, 8 p.m., MPAC
Friday, October 27
Volleyball: UM-Morris, 7 p.m., RG
Men's Hockey: Northern Michigan, 7:05 p.m., DECC
UMD Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, 8 p.m., MPAC