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Green Bay proud Students, faculty delight in displaying their work Whether at the annual research symposium on the UW-Green Bay campus, or at the statewide Posters in the Rotunda gathering in Madison (above), UW-Green Bay students were busy this spring displaying the results of their research. Sometimes, recognition for that research goes beyond even these high-profile events. UW-Green Bay faculty members have a history of presenting at major national conferences, and in some cases involving students as co-presenters. The most visible recent example is former UW-Green Bay student Scott Bartell, whose RESEARCH TO WATCH… 10 May 2011 collaboration as an undergrad with Prof. Greg Aldrete made history, literally. Bartell helped re-create ancient Greek armor called linothorax. Bartell and Aldrete developed swatches of the material for testing against weapons, including, arrows, swords and spears. In 2010 the faculty/student duo won the “Best Poster Award” at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. “It’s nice to be able to do real, original research with students, rather that just sort of always being off on your own,” Aldrete says. Their work elicited media coverage from the likes of The CANCER-FIGHTING PROPERTIES — STUDENTS WORK WITH NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES PROF. JULIE LUKESH TO REPLICATE COMPOUNDS OF A RELATIVELY RARE VARIETY OF VIETNAM’S CYPTOCARYA OBOVATA TREE, BELIEVED TO HAVE CANCER-INHIBITING POTENTIAL Discovery Channel, Archaeological Channel and MSNBC. Most recently, a special issue of U.S. News and World Report addressing “Mysteries of History” featured a two-page article on the Linothorax Project. Another measure of excellence for student researchers is publication of their work in major scholarly journals. The most recent example involves the spring 2011 edition of the international journal Restoration Ecology. A manuscript produced by Phil Hahn of the Environmental Science and Policy master’s degree program and faculty members Mathew Dornbush and Michael Draney documents a previously unrecognized threat to Midwestern woodlands. Their research suggests that a little-noticed exotic species, the grey garden slug, has facilitated the success of invasive garlic mustard. H H Top researchers shine at ‘State’ UW-Green Bay was represented by an impressive number of student presenters, with varied interests, at this spring’s “Posters in the Rotunda.” Aaron Groves Canopy Pollinators in Northern Hardwood Forests Prof. Amy Wolf, Natural and Applied Sciences Erin Ehlers, Jessica Hopp, Rebecca McCabe, Alyssa Zingler Do Relationships Matter in the Effects of a First-Year Seminar Class? Prof. Denise Bartell, Human Development Amy Weise and Stephanie Freis Dressed to Teach? Appearance, Clothing and Ratings of Instructors Prof. Regan Gurung, Human Development Stephanie Lynch, Kristin Nick, Kayla Worchel Effects of Childhood Stress on the Academic Performance of College Students Prof. Dean VonDras, Human Development David Lawrence Fish Assemblages of the Wequiock Creek Estuary Prof. Robert Howe, Natural and Applied Sciences Lijun Chen Trusting a Corporate Website Versus Corporate Facebook Brand Profile: The Role of Privacy Concern Factors Prof. Gaurav Bansal, Cofrin School of Business Crystal Malakar Political Participation of Registered Nurses and Factors Influencing Participation Prof. Chris Vandenhouten, Nursing
UW-GREEN BAY Made for me. I had a bachelor’s in history, a master’s in international relations, and a Ph.D. in sociology. When I talked to a history department, they said I was a sociologist. If I interviewed with sociologists, I was a historian. At UWGB, that wasn’t a problem. To this day I move between history and ideas, politics and ideas, and this University doesn’t tell me there’s a line that I can’t cross. So whenever I do that, I not only have the thrill of being a student all over again as I cross those lines, I get to take that into the classroom. INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION We cultivate in students the asking of questions that they would never get to ask if they were housed in a strictly disciplinary environment. And when they go out into the world, they see things in ways that most don’t. LECTURE SERIES The Historical Perspectives Lecture Series is a great story. For 25 years we have brought in famous names, tremendously influential scholars and authors… and done it basically for not much more than the cost of air fare. These are people who normally get big bucks, but they come here because of personal contacts. Also, the word is out that you get treated well and it’s a lot of fun. Famous columnists like E.J. Dionne and David Brooks, people like E.P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Novak, Cass Sunstein, Natalie Zemon Davis, Frances Fox Piven, and Eric Foner, who just won the Pulitzer. It’s a tremendous Word Association with Prof. Harvey Kaye experience for our students, and also the community. POLITICAL LEFT The right asks the right questions and affords the wrong answers. But all too often the left fails to ask the right questions. In fact, ever since the late 1960s, it has gradually lost touch with uniquely American ideals about fairness and justice and our commitment to being a progressive society. My concern is when Democrats fail to stand up to defend those ideals. I think they lack the confidence in their fellow citizens that Thomas Paine and Franklin Roosevelt had. PAINE I’ve often said that Thomas Paine and the Promise of America is my “love letter” to America. This nation is a grand experiment in freedom, equality and democracy, unlike anything else in history, and of all the Revolutionary ‘DEMOCRACY’ IS NEXT GENERATION’S SOCIAL CHANGE One of UW-Green Bay’s cornerstone academic units is getting a new name. Faculty members in Social Change and Development have adopted the name Democracy and Justice Studies, effective July 2011. They say it better fits an evolving curriculum, builds on the unit’s strengths, and accurately reflects the nature of the program and its priorities. Nielsen The major, which originated as the Modernization Processes concentration and became Social Change and Development in 1977, currently enrolls about 100 majors and serves many hundred others who pursue minors or topics of interest Era figures Paine was the one who, at a fundamental level, understood and expressed that most effectively. I had read a biography of Paine as a young boy in my grandfather’s library. Years later, I came to the realization in my academic career that I could really make a difference as an “Americanist.” There was nobody who better grasped America’s purpose and promise than Thomas Paine. Very relevant today. PACKERS Midwest populist tradition. As a boy in New York I was a fanatic Dodgers fan — that is, until the owners ripped the team from Brooklyn and shipped it to Los Angeles — and I vowed never to root for a pro team again. That changed when I arrived in Green Bay. We own the team. The Super Bowl was a victory for the working people of Green Bay who hold onto their team dearly and democratically. May 2011 CAMPUS NEWS If you described historian and sociologist Harvey J. Kaye as this University’s most nationally prominent faculty member, its most passionate, its most outspoken… you likely wouldn’t get much argument… which Kaye himself would find disappointing. He loves a good debate. For 33 years, the New Jersey native has challenged and engaged not only Social Change and Development students in Green Bay, but readers and audiences worldwide. He has been a featured guest on Bill Moyers’ PBS show, C-SPAN, Al Franken’s Air America, Public Radio, and dozens of talk radio programs. His essays have appeared in the Times of London, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education and others. Both he and the historic figures he admires tend to favor citizen activism, organized labor, radical solutions to big problems, and the power of boldly progressive people and ideas. (Notably, his greatest admirers among former students include conservatives who say he understood and respected their positions and helped them sharpen their thinking.) The author of 15 books, Kaye earned national acclaim with the 2005 release of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. His next book, on FDR’s Four Freedoms, is due out in 2012. under the program’s umbrella. Alumni records show 727 graduates hold either a major or minor in SC&D. In a letter to current students, Prof. Kim Nielsen, the unit’s chairperson, called it “an exciting time of change and innovation.” Democracy and Justice Studies will stay true to its roots and examine how and why societies develop, and whether their political, economic, cultural and social relations and activities promote justice, freedom, equality, and democracy. The program is also known for professors who publish widely and have, in recent years, dominated the annual UW-Green Bay Founders Association Awards. Multiple honorees include historian Andrew Kersten (a three-time recipient) and two-time winners Nielsen and Harvey Kaye. 11
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