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Currents
THIS ISSUE POSTED APRIL 10,
2001
CURRENTS VOLUME 18, ISSUE 15
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RAMSEYER BIBLE
COLLECTION
The Ramseyer-Northern Bible Society Museum Collection is displayed
on the second floor of the UMD Library. For further information on
this collection, please call 726-8102 or visit
www.d.umn.edu/lib/bible.
TWEED MUSEUM EVENTS
"Sterling Waters," a sculptural installation by Truman Lowe, will be
on view through June 3. Lowe is known for his wood sculptures
referencing natural and abstract forms, and his American Indian
heritage.
The annual "UMD Art Student
Exhibition" begins Thursday, April 12. The opening reception and
award
ceremony will take place from 6 - 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 21. The
exhibit will remain on view through May 6.
Another annual event, "Art for Earth Day - The Duluth Gallery
Hop," will
be taking place from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 21. The
Tweed will feature hands-on art related activities, performances of
Dr. Suess' The Lorax and works from the permanent collection related
to environmental themes.
The exhibition opening reception for "Dandelion Gardens: New
Works" by Alison Aune will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April
14.
For more information any of these events, call Mary at
726-7823.
ARTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dan Senn, sound artist, will speak at 2 p.m. on April 11.
James Lavadour, a painter and printmaker who
lives and works on the Umatilla Reservation in eastern Oregon, will
speak at 2 p.m. on April 18.
Alison Aune, assistant professor, Art Department, will speak at
10 a.m. on May 1.
GLENSHEEN NEWS
Glensheen is offering tours daily from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The
exhibit, "The Congdon Family Carpets" will be on display through May
15. For more information, call Glensheen at 726-8910 or e-mail
glen@d.umn.edu.
OUTDOOR PROGRAM EVENTS
Morning Birding Tours will be held from 6 - 8 a.m. on Wednesday,
April 11, April 17, and 24. Explore the beauty of the sunrise over
Lake Superior while identifying and discussing birds and other
wildlife.
There will be an Outside Toprope Seminar from 2 - 6 p.m. on
Thursday, April 19 to review the basics and go over problems and
scenarios designed to improve toprope set-ups.
The program "Baking on the Trail" will be held from 3 - 7 p.m.
on Thursday, May 3. This hands on clinic, which will be held at Rock
Pond in Bagley Nature Area, will show you the techniques for baking
breads, desserts, and even a main course meal on the trail.
For more information on any of these events, call Beth at
726-6533.
BIOLOGY SEMINARS
Biology seminars begin at 3:30 p.m. in 175 Life Science, unless
otherwise noted.
John Magnuson, director of the Center for Limnology and
professor, Zoology Department, UW Madison, will speak on April
20.
Toni Lampkin, Biology Graduate Student, will speak on April
27.
William G. Iacono, Distinguished McKnight Professor and
Director
of the Clinical Science and Psycho-pathology Research Training
Program, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, will
speak on May 4.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION SEMINARS
The UMD Center for Environmental Education is holding weekly
seminars about current issues in Environmental Education from 4 - 5
p.m. every Monday in 208 Sports Health Center. Everyone is welcome .
If you have questions contact 726-8677, or e-mail
ceed@d.umn.edu.
Betsy Larson, graduate student, will present "Creating an
Effective Forest
Management Interpretive Trail" on
April 16.
Amy Workman, graduate student, will speak on "Environmental
Education's Effects on Standardized Test Scores" on April 23.
Kristin Stuchis, graduate student, will present "Service
Learning and
Environmental Education" on April 30.
GEOLOGY SEMINARS
Geology seminars are held at 4 p.m. (refreshments are served at 3:45
p.m.) on Thursdays (unless otherwise noted) in 185 Life Science.
Tony Dincau, Ocean Energy, Inc., Lafayette, LA, will present
"Petroleum Exploration and Development, Offshore Gulf of Mexico" on
April 12.
Charles Matsch, Department of Geological Sciences, UMD, will
present "Travels with Charlie: Tracking Glaciers Past and Present"
on April 19.
F. Jerry Lucia, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas
at Austin
and an American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished
Lecturer, will present "Dolomitization: A Porosity
Destructive Process" on Tuesday, April 24.
PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM
The Philosophy Colloquium Series is sponsored by the Philosophy
Department. The lectures will be held at 3 p.m., unless otherwise
noted, in 235 ABAH.
Eve Browning Cole, professor, Department of Philosophy, will
present "Neo-Aristotelian Liberalism" on April 11.
Krista Twu, professor, Department of English, will present "The
Boethian Consolation of Chaucer's Parson's Tale" on April 18.
GERMAN MOVIES
Mark your calendars for 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. German movies will be
shown in 464 Humanities. Everyone is invited.
Der Papagei (1992) will be shown on April 17.
Man spricht Deutsch (1987) will be shown on April 24.
Otto - Der neue Film (1987) will be shown on May 1.
The movie schedule at
http://www.d.umn.edu/~hfriedr1/MoviesS2001.html
LATIN AMERICAN AWARENESS CELEBRATION
Cecilia Zarate-Laun will present "Guns, Drugs, and Butterflies: An
Inside View of the War in Colombia" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 12
in the Kirby Ballroom. Zarate-Laun is co-founder and director of
Colombia Support Network and is also a former professor at the
National University of Colombia, Bogota.
Marjorie Agosin will present "Gender, Memory, and Human Rights
in the Americas" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 19 in the Kirby
Ballroom. Agosin has authored over 20 books of fiction, non-fiction,
poetry, and essays. She has also received the 1999 United Nations
Leadership Award for Human Rights.
The 12th Annual Fiesta will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday,
April 21 in the Kirby Ballroom. The Fiesta will consist of a buffet
dinner of authentic Latin American and Caribbean food and will
feature live entertainment.
Tickets are available across from the Bookstore. The cost is
between $5 - $16.
Julie Grossman will present "Coffee in Context: Sustainable
Agriculture, Fair Trade, and Social Change in Chiapas, Mexico"
at noon on Monday, April 23 in Kirby 355-357. Grossman will discuss
how choosing to purchase organic coffee marketed under Fair Trade
regulations can help bring a profit increase to indigenous Mayan
growers in Chiapas, Mexico.
The documentary "Saving Elian" will be shown at noon on
Tuesday, April 24 in Kirby 355.
For additional information on any of these events, contact
Susana Pelayo-Woodward at 726-8444 or at swoodward@d.umn.edu.
ALWORTH INSTITUTE EVENTS
The following events and lectures are sponsored by the Alworth
Institute:
The Alworth Institute Occasional Lecture will feature Mike
Winnerstig, senior researcher, Swedish Defense Research Agency in
Stockholm. His presentation, entitled "Transatlantic Rifts?
Geopolitics vs. Value Communities in the Evolving US-EU Security
Relationship," will discuss the U.S.-EU security relationship.
Winnerstig's presentation will be at noon on Thursday, April 12 in
the Tweed Museum.
The Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Lecture entitled
"The Unbroken Chain: One Man's Survival" will be presented by Henry
Oertelt, a Holocaust Survivor, at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17 in
the Marshall Performing Arts Center. Oertelt's book, The Unbroken
Chain, recounts how life changed for the German Jews under Hitler's
rule.
In addition, The White Rose, a film about the anti-Nazi German
student resistance movement based in Munich, will be shown at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday, April 17 in the Marshall Performing Arts Center. A panel
discussion and reception will follow the film.
A presentation in the International Brown Bag Series entitled
"Afghanistan 1975," will be presented by Robert Flagler, associate
professor, Student Support Services. The presentation will be held
at noon on Thursday, April 19 in the Tweed Museum Lecture Hall.
Flagler will show slides and tell about his time as a Peace Corp
volunteer in Afghanistan from 1973-1975.
The Royal D. Alworth Jr. Memorial Lecture, entitled "Peace
Studies and the Blakans," will be presented by Jan Oberg and Biljana
Vankovska at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25 in the Kirby Ballroom.
Oberg is a peace researcher and the co-founder and director of the
Transnational Foundation for Peace and
Future Research in Lund, Sweden. And Vankovska is head of the
Institute of Defence and an Associate Professor of
Political Systems and Military Law and teaches for the Peace Study
Program at the Faculty of Philosophy at Skopje University in
Macedonia. Oberg and Vankovsk will address the role of conflict
mitigation and resolution in the Balkans.
Another presentation in the International Brown Bag Series,
entitled "Tightening the Noose, the Middle East Today," will be
presented by John H. Kemp at noon on Thursday, May 3 in Campus
Center. Kemp, a retired senior minister of the Pilgrim United Church
of Christ (UCC) in Duluth, has led several groups to the Middle
East in the last ten years. He will discuss his recent trip to
Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza.
For more information on any of these events, please contact
Cindy Christian at 726-8616 or alworth@d.umn.edu.
MARSHALL W. ALWORTH PLANETARIUM SHOWS
There will be free planetarium shows at 7 p.m. on Wednesday nights.
On April 11 there will be an Arrowhead Astronomical Show. A
meeting will follow at 8 p.m.
On April 18 there will be a General Sky Show.
And on April 25 there will be a show on Meteors, Comets and
Asteroids.
All shows include a tour of our current nighttime sky.
The Planetarium also offers free private shows which can be set
up with one of the staff members.
Please call 726-7129 for any other information or to set up a
private
show.
ACADEMIC ADVISING PRESENTATION
Nancy Heller Olsen will give a presentation and discussion on
Academic Advising at noon on Thursday, April 12 in Kirby 355. This
presentation is part of the Commission on Women Mentoring Program.
They are open to all individuals (men and women) who are currently
in the Regent Scholarship Program or perhaps are thinking about
applying for this
program.
Please email Linda Larson, chair, UMD Commission on Women, at
726-7230 or at lmlarson@d.umn.edu if you plan to attend.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE 21st CENTURY
Lake Superior Writers and the UMD Composition and Communication
Departments will present a panel discussion on author's rights at 7
p.m. on Monday, April 16 in the Library Rotunda.
Electronic publication, from postings on the web to
e-publishing, is turning the world of copyright protections for
writers upside down. Panelists will discuss how such work can be
protected and what the implications of a case currently being heard
by the Supreme Court, which involves unlicensed use of writers' work
in electronic media, may be.
Panelists include National Writers Union members Jacqueline
Bell Mosio,
teacher of professional editing in the Creative Writing Program at
the
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Rob Ramer, an information
technology consultant, writer, and chairperson of
the Twin Cities chapter of the National Writers Union; and Martha
Roth, editor of several anthologies, and winner of a Minnesota Book
Award, Loft-McKnight Fellowship in Creative Prose, Minnesota State
Arts Board Fellowship, and The Loft Creative Nonfiction Award.
Barton Sutter, Duluth writer and writing teacher at University of
Wisconsin-Superior, will chair the panel.
For more information, contact J. Z. Grover, Lake Superior
Writers, at 728-9723 or at jzgrover@cpinternet.com.
EDWIN H. EDDY LECTURE
There will be a presentation on "Treating Early Stuttering: Beyond
Easy Speech" from 5 - 7:45 p.m. on Friday, April 20 and from 8:30
a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 21 in Kirby Bullpub. The
lecture will feature Mary Wallace and will focus on the treatment of
young stuttering children, including direct treatment approaches and
effective counseling.
The cost for attendance at this series is $25. For more
information, contact Michelle Tessier at 726-7974 or email mtessier@d.umn.edu or contact
Laura Binkley at bink0008@d.umn.edu
31st ANNUAL POWWOW
The Anishinaabe Student Organization (ASO) has held a powwow every
year
since 1970 and is making plans for their upcoming 31st Annual UMD
Powwow.
It will be held on April 21 in the UMD ice hockey arena. The first Grand
Entry will be at 1 p.m., with a feast scheduled for 5 p.m. and a second
Grand Entry will follow at 7 p.m. This event unites students, faculty,
staff and the residents of the area and is free and open to the public.
DA VINCI'S LOST ROBOTS
Mark Rosheim, the founder and president of Ross-Hime Designs, Inc., a
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based mechanical design company, will give a
presentation on Leonardo Da Vinci's Lost Robots and his work in
rediscovering and recreating computer simulations of Da Vinci's lost
designs for a robotic knight and a robotic lion at 3 p.m. on Monday, April
23 in Life Sciences 185.
This presentation is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the
History Department, and the James Maclear Fund and is free and open to the
public.
For more information, contact Anna Marie Roos at 726-7544or by e
mail at aroos@d.umn.edu.
PLAYPEN MATHEMATICS
Sylvan Burgstahler, professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
will present a workshop on the discovery of theorems at 7 p.m. on Monday,
April 23 in the School of Medicine Room 14. Burgstahler has prepared a set
of wooden blocks that he will use to derive some theorems that children
could discover in their playpens, provided they know some high school
algebra that is. Since nothing other than high school algebra will be
used, this talk should be accessible to practically everyone. There will
be a reception following the presentation.
CAMPUS ASSEMBLY MEETING
The Spring Campus Assembly meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Tuesday,
April 24 in Kirby Ballroom B. Refreshments will be served at 1:30 p.m.
Agendas will be mailed to assembly members before the meeting and copies
will be on file in the library. Faculty, staff, and students are
encouraged to attend.
FIRST READING XXI
There will be a conference on research-in-progress, "First Reading XXI,"
beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday, April 27 at UMD and Glensheen. This is the
twenty-first annual conference at UMD on any aspects of social history,
current popular culture, culture of the Americas and relevant comparative
studies.
TWIN CITIES LECTURE
The University Forum will host "Crisis in Scholarly Publishing? Are You
Contributing?" from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, April 27 at CSOM 3M
Auditorium, Twin Cities Campus.
This presentation will be given by keynote speaker. David E.
Shulenburger, provost, University of Kansas, and advocate for reforming
scholarly communication. A panel discussion, luncheon speaker, and
workshop on copyright protection will be included in this presentation.
For further information, please call 612-626-7850.
AMATEUR DRAG SHOW
The Queer Students Union and GLBT Services is hosting an "Amateur Drag
Show" at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 28 in the Kirby Ballroom. This event is
free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Angie Nichols at 726-7300 or
email her at anichols@d.umn.edu
RECEPTION TO HONOR AWARD RECIPIENTS
Vice Chancellor Vince Magnuson is pleased to announce that Joan Karp,
CEHSP, has been awarded the Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Award for
Outstanding Undergraduate Education, and that Sharon Torrison, SBE,
has
been awarded the John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
Vice Chancellor Magnuson and Chancellor Kathryn Martin will host an
all-campus reception from 2 - 4 p.m. on Monday, April 30 in Griggs Center
to honor Sharon, Joan, and recipients of the UMD Outstanding Adviser
award, the Blehart award, the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished
Research, the Anderson Scholar/Teacher Award, and collegiate unit awards.
All students, faculty, and staff are welcome and encouraged to attend. A
short program will begin at 2:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
PROFESSIONAL STAFF
COUNCIL SPRING 2001 UMD's Professional Staff Council (PSC) holds open
meetings on a monthly basis. PSC facilitates productive discussions of
issues confronting UMD's professional staff. All professional staff are
welcome to attend PSC meetings, from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., on the following
dates: May 4, and June 1.
To submit an agenda item, reserve a chair at an upcoming meeting, or
to contact the PSC chair, e-mail Dale Race at drace@d.umn.edu. Or visit
the PSC web site at www/d.umn.edu/psc.
NEMBA DINNER
The 13th Annual Northeastern Minnesota Book Award Dinner is scheduled for
May 16 at the DECC. The event begins with a 5 p.m. social hour, followed
by dinner and the award program at 7 p.m..
NEMBA recognizes books which best represent northeastern
Minnesota's
history, culture, heritage or lifestyle. NEMBA is sponsored by the UMD
Library and Friends of the Duluth Public Library.
William Kent Krueger, author of the Cork O'Connor mystery series is
scheduled to present "For Love or Money: Six Reasons to Write." Krueger's
first two Cork O'Connor mysteries, Iron Lake and Boundary Waters, received
the NEMBA Honorable Mention in 1998 and 1999 respectively. The third book,
Purgatory Ridge, has recently been published.
Nominated authors will be honored at the dinner.
This event is open to the public. The
cost is $25 and reservations must be made by May 7.
For information, visit the NEMBA website at www.d.umn.edu/lib/nemba,
or contact Jane Bottoms at 726-6560 or jbottom2@d.umn.edu.
COMMUNICATION SURVEY RESULTS
In February, UMD Faculty and Staff were sent a paper and a web
communication survey. 218 responses were collected, a return of 15
percent.
In general, the paper version of Currents received a favorable
response, while the web version was seldom used. Some of the survey
answers may indicate desire for change. For instance: 55 percent of
the respondents would like event information consolidated into one
e-mail; and 74 percent would like a weekly e-mail about campus events
for the week.
In the comment section there were many comments about web versus
paper version of Currents with people on both sides.
Many people said that the Web Calendar of Events could be
more
useful to UMD and the off-campus community if a more complete list
of
open-to-the-public events were posted.
Several people brought up the idea of creating a second
comprehensive
calendar for on-campus schedulers with every event at UMD in every
scheduled space on a central calendar.
To view the survey results, see
http://www.d.umn.edu/currents/survey.html.
For more information, contact Cheryl Reitan at 218-726-8996 or
creitan@d.umn.edu.
FINAL NOTICE FOR FACULTY IN COMMENCEMENT
There will be two commencement ceremonies; the undergraduate
spring
commencement ceremony at noon on Saturday, May 12 at the DECC and
the
graduate student ceremony at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 10 in the
Romano
Gymnasium. Faculty who wish to march in Commencement should sign up
using the form available at http://www.d.umn.edu/commencement/.
For a cap and gown, contact Campus Books at 726-7286.
STUDENT ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS
SA elections will be held April 11 and 12. Tables for voting will be
open from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in Kirby (across from the bookstore), LSH,
and BohH 90.
VIRTUAL JOB FAIR
UMD Career Services is pleased to announce that UMD is sponsoring
Minnesota's only four-year college consortium Virtual Job Fair, which
runs through April 20. With 32 college career centers participating,
this is the largest college consortium job fair ever held in
Minnesota.
As a virtual fair, this event is totally internet based. People
may access the site 24 hours a day for twelve days (April 9 - 20)
from any computer, anywhere in the world.
To participate, go to http://www.collegecentral.com/justintime.
Click on "For Candidates." Follow the on-line instructions to
complete your registration.
If you have questions, contact Career Services at
<carserv@d.umn.edu>
CSE NEWS
CSE students Ryan Q. Hankins and Shawn M. Lavelle, have been selected
to present a scientific poster at the Council on Undergraduate
Research's Fifth Annual Undergraduate Research Posters on Capital
Hill. Only sixty students from across the country were selected to
participate in the event. The poster session will be attended by
members of Congress and administrators of the National Science
Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, NASA and other federal
agencies as well as members of the scientific press.
The poster presentation by Hankins and Lavelle is entitled
"Computer-assisted histomorphometric analysis of the influence of
aluminum toxicity on embryonic bone calcification." The research was
done under the direction of Conrad Firling, professor, Department of
Biology.
Ryan Hankins is from Birchwood, Minnesota and a junior majoring
in computational mathematics. Shawn Lavelle is from Rochester,
Minnesota and a senior with majors in electrical and computer
engineering, computer science, and mathematics.
SSF COMMITTEE
There is now a 2-year position open for faculty or staff interested
in serving on the 2001-2 and 2003-3 Students Services Fees (SSF)
Committee. The SSF Committee is an active committee that meets
regularly from late September through March.
The committee consists of students and faculty/staff and who
are in charge of reviewing budgets for approximately 21 organizations
that provide services and programs to students.
If you are interested in serving on this committee, call Kathy
Skelton at 726-8501.
FINNFEST USA SCHOLARSHIP
Applications are now being accepted for the annual FinnFest USA
Scholarship, which is open to full-time junior, senior, or graduate
level students at UMD or students planning to study abroad who are in
good academic standing. Preference is given to students of Finnish
heritage and to those from northeast Minnesota and northwest
Wisconsin. Students must self-identify for eligibility.
Contact Maryann Soleim at 726-8998 for additional
information.
AUXILIARY SERVICES ANNOUNCEMENT
Auxiliary Services requests that all departments please return any
new
or old style food trays that they may have which belong to the
Dining
Center or Kirby Cafe. They are still missing a substantial number
and
any that are returned will be greatly appreciated.
NEWS FROM THE UMD STORES
Spring Semester Hours for Campus Books will be from 7:45 a.m. to 6
p.m. Monday through Thursday
and 7:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on Friday.
The Bulldog Shop will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on
Saturday.
The Computer Corner will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday
through
Friday. And the Marketplace will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday
through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday.
Campus Books
There will be Color Film Enlargement Special through Friday, April
13. Some exclusions apply. Daily Buyback ends on Monday, April 16.
There will be a 20% off General Book Sale, some exclusions apply, and
registration for a free book of the month on Wednesday, April 18. The
drawing
will be held on Thursday, April 19.
Marketplace Events
Get 20% off all Easter cards and candy through Friday, April 13.
CURRENTS SCHEDULE
Currents is printed regularly throughout the school year. The Spring
2001 schedule is as follows:
Deadline: Wednesday, April 18;
Print date: Tuesday, April 24.
Deadline: Wednesday, May 2;
Print date: Tuesday, May 8.
Submit items to Currents via e-mail at currents@d.umn.edu.
Communication student Jennifer Kohler helped edit this issue of
currents. Questions? Contact Cheryl Reitan at 726-8996. Currents can
be viewed at www.d.umn.edu/currents.
Erik Brown, associate professor, Large Lakes Observatory and the Department of Geological Sciences, has been awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship for studies at the Centre Européan d'Enseignment et de Recherche en Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE) of the Université Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France. Brown will work at CEREGE during a sabbatical leave during the 2001-02 academic year.
Gloria DeFilipps Brush, professor and head, Art Department, will have digital photographs in the N-Space Gallery at the SIGGRAPH 2001 international digital arts conference in August at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Jeanne Doty, assistant professor, and Sheila K. Shusterich, instructor, Department of Music, presented a workshop for the Minnesota Music Educators Conference in February in St. Paul. The session, titled "Music and Movement: The Child's Way to Learn," was held in conjunction with the 11th annual Early Childhood Fair.
Three faculty members from the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation were selected to make presentations at the National Convention and Exposition of AAHPERD (American Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance) held in Cincinnati the last week of March. Dr. Duane (Spike) Millslagle, associate professor, Exercise Science/Physical Education, presented "Dynamic Visual Acuity and Coincidence-Anticipation Timing in Girls at the First and Fifth Grade." Results of research conducted by Millslagle and Ryan Swetkovich, UMD student, were presented in another session entitled "The Effects of Standard and Bipedal Foot Pedal Positions on the Efficiency of Cycling as Measure by Critical Power." Both of these presentations were made through the Research Consortium of AAHPERED. Ladona Tornabene, assistant professor, Health Education, presented "Professional Preparation: A Model for Competency Based Internship Program in Health Education." She joined Georgia Keeney, associate professor, Health Education, in presenting "Health Promotion Programs for the Millennium: Seniors Alive." Keeney, a member of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE) Awards Committee, also met with that group to select the award recipients for distinguished service and health education professionals of the year and to determine the next AAHE Scholar.
Susan Mulholland, associate director, Archaeometry Lab, and Walt Okstad, Forest Historian, Superior National Forest, co-hosted the annual Lake Superior Basin Workshop in March. The workshop was held jointly at the Superior National Forest Supervisors Office and UMD. Several dozen participants from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Canada provided displays of their recent work.
Theodore Schoen, assistant professor, Music Department, performed Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in February. He also performed with the orchestra on its new release of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 on the Telarc label.
NEWS FROM NRRI
Subhash Basak recently gave an invited
lecture entitled "Applications of Topological Indices in Predicting
Property/Activity/ Toxicity of Chemicals" at the Harry Wiener
International Memorial Conference on the role of Topology in Chemistry
at the University of Georgia.
The following presentations were also given: "Clustering of JP-8
Chemicals
Using Structure Spaces and Property Spaces," authored jointly by
Basak, Brian Gute, Gregory Grunwald and Denise Mills; "On
Characterization of Amino Acids by the Variable Connectivity Index,"
authored jointly by Milan Randic (Drake University), Basak, Mills and
Lionello Pogliani (Universita della of Calabria, Italy); "On
Characterization of DNA Sequences Based on the Occurrence of Triplets
of Nucleic Acid Bases," authored jointly by Randic, Xiaofeng Guo
(Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Xinjiang University, China) and
Basak; and "On Mathematical Characterization of Maps with Applications
to Proteomics," authored jointly by Randic, Marjan Vracko (National
Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Basak and Frank Witzmann
(Indiana University Purdue University of Columbus).
FOR CALENDER OF EVENTS, PLEASE VIEW WEB CALENDER AT
www.d.umn.edu/umdevents