Fall 05 (pdf) - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

UW Oshkosh radio-
TV-film alumni are
shooting for the stars in
California.
At least 35 alumni in California
are bolstering the business of
major networks and companies,
such as ESPN, Sony Imageworks,
Dreamworks, Paramount
Pictures, Turner Network
Television and Universal Studios
on productions like Hollywood
Squares, Fear Factor, Extra! and
The Howie Mandel Show.
Married in spring 2005,
grads Brad Carr (’01) and
Deborah Nelson Carr (’00) are
freelancers in television and film
production.
Deborah, a native of Sand
Creek near Eau Claire, recently
hit it big as the coordinating
producer for the Peabody Award-winning film, Rwanda:
Do Scars Ever Fade?, which documents the 1994 genocide
in Rwanda and the challenge of reconciliation its
people face 10 years later.
“What is so bracing about Deb’s success and the
success of alumni like Bill Povletich, who pack a social
or political charge to their work, is that it proves you
can be rewarded for following your conscience instead
of ignoring it,” said radio-TV-film program coordinator
Doug Heil.
The Bill Brummel Productions crew produced
Rwanda for The History Channel and was honored
on May 16 at the 64th Annual Peabody Awards. Carr
and her husband attended the star-studded event with
the production company executives and other History
Channel executives.
The Peabody Award, considered the broadcast and
cable industry’s most prestigious prize, recognizes distinguished
achievement and meritorious public service
by stations, networks, producing organizations and
individuals.
Carr’s “happy mix” of responsibilities for the
documentary that received one of 32 Peabody awards included
lining up interviews, working with Kinyarwanda
translators, reviewing scripts and tracking down and
securing footage and photographs.
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Alumni at Work
Picture perfect success at Peabody Awards
At the 64th Annual Peabody Awards, Paul Freeman, left,
producer; Deb Nelson Carr (’00), coordinating producer;
and Bill Brummel, executive producer, were honored for
their work on Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade?
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William Povletich, a native
of Mequon, and a 1995 graduate,
served as the supervising
producer for the film. Povletich,
a 2003 recipient of the Outstanding
Young Alumni Award,
has been involved in several
award-winning productions.
Hired as an associate producer
for Fear Factor in 2001,
Brad Carr, a native of Oshkosh,
coordinates the more than
100-person crew on location.
“Today we’re in Los Angeles,
and tomorrow we’re in Long
Beach,” Brad said, “We’re constantly
moving.”
Fear Factor entered its sixth
season, with 125 episodes, and
has reached nationwide syndication.
Brad has tested some
famous Fear Factor stunts, even
riding a dirt bike on a highway between oncoming
semitrailers. He also
has worked on the
sets of Judging Amy,
Street Smarts and
Dismissed.
Brad and another
alum, Kevin
Wehrenberg (’93)
of Eau Claire, were
honorary marshals
for the Oct. 22 UW
Oshkosh Homecoming
Parade.
Wehrenberg, who
also bolsters Fear
Factor’s success, is
Fear Factor associate producer Brad
Carr (’01), left, and Kevin Wehrenberg
(’93) at Homecoming 2005.
a 2002 recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni
Award.
Deborah advises students pursuing a career in radio,
television or film, to be active. “Who you know will get
you in the door, but the work ethic keeps you there,”
she said, “Seize the resources and opportunities at UW
Oshkosh. Don’t wait until your senior year. Explore!”
—Marie Martin
Publications
Joyce Andrews, professor, music, wrote review-essays on the following books:
The Cambridge Companion to the Lied, James Parsons ed.; Shakespeare’s Songbook,
by Ross Duffin; C.P.E. Bach and the Rebirth of the Strophic Song, by
William H. Youngren; and The Dickinson Songs of Aaron Copland, by Larry
Starr in Symposium, College Music Society, Vol. 45, fall 2005.
Laurence Carlin, assistant professor, philosophy, published “Leibniz and
Berkeley on Teleological Intelligibility” in History of Philosophy Quarterly,
Newport, R.I., fall 2005.
Michael Ford, associate dean, Education and Human Services, wrote “Light on
the Think; Heavy on the Tank: Confronting Pseudoscience in Advocating for
Best” in The Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, spring 2005; also wrote
“Sinking Boats and Bad Haircuts: A Critical Look at the Relationship Between
(ADD) Pedagogy, Policy, Politics and Profits,” in The Wisconsin State Reading
Association Journal, winter 2005.
Michael Godfrey, assistant professor, operations management, coauthored
“Connect Time Limits and Customer Service Levels In A Dial-Up Modem
System” in the Journal of Network and Systems Management, summer 2005; also
coauthored with Brent Bandy, associate professor, operations management,
“Applying Little’s Law and the Theory of Constraints in Six Sigma and Lean
Projects To Improve Operations” in Six Sigma Forum Magazine, winter 2005.
Martin Gruberg, professor, political science, wrote chapters for The Encyclopedia
of the Supreme Court, David Schultz (ed.), Facts on File, Inc., 2005; “The
Politics of Disasters,” in Wisconsin Political Scientist, summer 2004, and chapters
for the Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties, eds. John Vile and David Schultz, Sage,
2005.
Margaret Hostetler, associate professor, English, wrote “The Characterized
Reader in Hali Meidhad and Resisting Reader of Feminist Discourse on
Medieval Devotional Texts” in The Journal of Historical Pragmatics, fall 2005;
and “‘Nimað eow bysne be þyssere Iudith’: Deictic Shifting and Didactic Christian
Discourse in Ælfric’s Judith” in Studia Neophilologica, 76, 1-13, 2005.
Jakob Iversen, assistant professor, information systems, coauthored “Problems
in Measuring Effectiveness in Software Process Improvement” in International
Journal of Information Management, winter 2005; also coauthored Measuring
Information Systems Delivery Quality, Evan W. Duggan (ed.), 2005.
Marianne Johnson, associate professor, economics, coauthored “Gender,
Expectations and Grades in Microeconomics” in Feminist Economics, Vol. 11,
No. 1, 2005.
Thomas Lammers, associate professor, biology and microbiology, coauthored
“Distributional Notes for the Flora of Wisconsin” in the Michigan Botanist 44:
1-7, 2005; also wrote “Revision of Delissea (Campanulaceae-Lobelioideae)” in
Systematic Botany Monographs, Christiane Anderson (ed.), Ann Arbor, Mich.,
fall 2005.
Daniel Lehrmann, professor, geology, coauthored “Permian and Triassic
Depositional History of the Yangtze Platform and Great Bank of Guizhou in
the Nanpanjiang Basin of Guizhou and Guangxi” in the South China Albertiana,
Vol. 33, pp.147-166, spring 2005.
Craig Maher, assistant professor, public affairs, coauthored “Categorical Municipal
Expenditures with a Focus on the Flypaper Effect” in Public Budgeting
and Finance, fall 2005.
Marie Martin, office operations associate, University Relations, wrote poem,
“Wrapped,” in The Fence, No. 6, Toronto, Canada, October 2005.
Ava McCall, professor, curriculum and instruction, wrote “SSH! We Don’t
Want to Mention it: Resistance To Addressing Poverty in Teaching” in the
Finding Solutions Newsletter, fall 2005.
Susan McFadden, professor, psychology, wrote “Creating and Sustaining Selfhood:
Autobiographical Memories From Early Childhood Through Old Age”
in The Gerontologist, 2005.
Soo-Young Moon, associate professor, marketing, wrote “An Analysis of Global
Retail Strategies: A Case of U.S. Based Retailers” in the American Academy of
Business, Cambridge, winter 2005.
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Baron Perlman and Lee McCann, professors, psychology, coauthored “Undergraduate
Research Experiences in Psychology: A National Study of Courses and
Curricula” and “Voices of Experience: Memorable Talks From the National
Institute on the Teaching of Psychology” in Teaching of Psychology, Washington,
D.C., fall 2005.
Kenneth Price, associate professor, mathematics, wrote “Generic Lie Color
Algebras” in the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, fall 2005.
Kenneth Price and Romain Coulibaly, associate professor and undergraduate
student, respectively, mathematics, wrote “Factorization in Quantum Planes” in
the Missouri Journal of Mathematics, fall 2005.
Barbara Rau, associate professor, human resources and interim associate vice
chancellor for Academic Affairs, wrote “Organizational Attraction of Retirees”
in the Bridge Employment Journal of Organizational Behavior, spring 2005.
Kelli Saginak and Alan Saginak, assistant professors, counselor education,
wrote “Balancing Work and Family: Equity, Gender and Marital Satisfaction”
in The Family Journal, spring 2005.
Stanley Sibley, professor, marketing, wrote “Readership of Free Community
Papers as a Source of Advertising Information: A Uses and Gratification Perspective”
in the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, spring 2005.
Joan Lea Simmons, associate professor, reading education, and Joan Naomi
Steiner, assistant professor, reading education, with public school representatives
wrote “Reading Specialists as Change Agents: Practical Implications for PI
34 and Educator Standards,” Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, spring
2005.
Quintin Sullivan, chair, social work, coauthored “TV Characters at Work:
Television’s Role in the Occupational Aspirations of Economically Disadvantaged
Youth” in the Journal of Career Development, winter 2005.
James Tsao and Gary Coll, professors, journalism, wrote “To Give or Not
To Give: Factors Determining Alumni Intent To Make Donations as a PR
Outcome” in the Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2005.
Michael Umlor, assistant professor, physics and astronomy, wrote “Uniaxial
Magnetic Anisotropy in Cobalt Films Induced by Oblique Deposition of an
Ultrathin Cobalt Underlayer” in the Journal of Applied Physics Letters, fall 2005.
Dana Vaughan, associate professor, biology, coauthored “Light-Induced
Exacerbation of Retinal Degeneration in a Rat Model of Smith-Lemli-Opitz
Syndrome” in Experimental Eye Research; also coauthored “Neural Plasticity
Revealed by Light-Induced Photoreceptor lesions” in the Proceedings of the
Ninth International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration, fall 2005.
William Wacholtz and Matthew W. Dodge, professor and undergraduate
student, chemistry, coauthored “Structural Characterization and Excited State
Properties of Luminescent Tris (3-methyl-5-trifluoromethylpyrazolato) Trigold
(I)” in the Journal of Chemical Crystallography, winter 2005.
William Wacholtz, professor, chemistry, coauthored “Structural Characterization
and Photophysical Properties of a Luminescent Trinuclear Zinc (II) Complex
Exhibiting Multiple Coordination Geometries” in the Journal of Chemical
Crystallography, spring 2005.
Robert Weber, professor, kinesiology and health, wrote “Fishing: A Lifetime
of Leisure Activity That Has No Boundaries,” and three articles all in Palaestra,
fall 2005.
Kam Wong, associate professor, public affairs, “From White-Collar Crime
to Organizational Crime: An Intellectual History” in the Murdoch University
Electronic Journal of Law, Vol. 12, No.1 and 2, 2005; “Computer Crime and
Control in Hong Kong” in the 14 Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, 337-382,
2005; and “The Discovery of Computer Crime in Hong Kong: A Case Study of
the Crime Creation Process” in The Journal of Information, Law and Technology,
2005.
William Wresch, professor, management information systems, coauthored
“National Competitive Advantage in E-Commerce Efforts: A Report From Five
Caribbean Nations Perspectives on Global Development and Technology,” fall
2005.