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Awards and Accomplishments
Jon Mark Bolthouse (Automation Librarian-UW Colleges) was a featured presenter at the 2008 ILLiad Users conference and the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians conference.
Eric Boos (Philosophy Professor) contributed to the article “Losing Ground: How the Lack of Opportunity for Women to Own Land Impales the Tanzanian Economy,” to the book Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma and Empowerment in Post-Authoritarian States.
Thomas Clausen (Information Technology-Distance Education) is the president of the Wisconsin Lions Foundation. He is the webmaster for the state Lions and several other Lions’ websites in the district along with his church’s web site.
Leanne Doyle (Continuing Education Director) was awarded a $23,000 UW-Extension Program Innovation Fund grant to support the Eastern Wisconsin GEMS (Girls Engineering Math Science) initiative. She also moderated a preconference seminar on successful youth programming in higher education at the LERN (Learning Resources Network) national conference.
Patricia Eby (Associate Dean, Music Professor) was a vocal jazz clinician for the WSMA/WMEC conference and also served as state representative for the Repertoire and Standards Committee for WCDA (Wisconsin Choral Directors Association) for two-year colleges.
Richard Gustin (Communication and Theatre Arts Professor) was an Equity Guest Artist taking the role of Mr. Bennet in Milwaukee’s Acacia Theatre’s summer 2008 production of Jon Jory’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
Paisley Harris (History Professor) was awarded a grant from the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity on behalf of the UW-Fond du Lac Multicultural Club to bring the salsa band Nabouri to Fond du Lac. She co-coordinated a community symposium on Global Warming, working with other faculty to secure grants from Alliant Energy and the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
Michael Jurmu (Geography and Geology Professor) was a guest panelist at Marian University’s annual Academic Symposium - “Global Warming; The Facts and the Future.”
Maggie May (Mathematics Lecturer) presented "Z-Boundary Improvement for Locally Finite Polyhedra" at the Topology and Dynamics Conference in March 2008.
Frances Perkins (Communications and Theatre Arts Professor) produced the short film “Brothers” and produced an educational video “Encouraging a Bright Future for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math” for the UW Women & Science program. She received a UW Colleges Summer Research Grant to write/direct the short film “Test Day.”
Alayne Peterson (English Professor) published an essay “Riders of the New Wave: The Feminist Science Fiction of Le Guin, Russ, and Tiptree” in the anthology Womanhood and Anglophone Literary Culture: 19th and 20th Century.
Sayeed Payesteh (Economics Professor) published his paper “Do the Federal Deficits Matter?" in the International Business & Economics Research Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1, January 2008.
Mary Rieder (Director of Library Support Services-UW Colleges) is serving as president of the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society.
Lisa Schreibersdorf (English Professor) participated in the Diaspora and Cosmopolitan conference sponsored by the WUN Colonial and Postcolonial studies network.
Ronald Theys (Chemistry Professor) coauthored a review entitled “Recent Chemistry of the η5-Cyclopentadienyl Dicarbonyl Iron Anion” in Coordination Chemistry Reviews. He also presented at the Chemical Education Conference.
John Scotello (Art Professor) was the curator of a unique historical exhibit featuring the art and artifacts of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes. The exhibit entitled “Celebration of Service: 150 years of CSA” honored the women who helped shape our community. He also has paintings and digital art touring the country in galleries and museums in Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Fond du Lac and Milwaukee.
Christa Williams (UW-FDL Foundation Executive Director) attended the Servant Leadership Conference - Indianapolis in July 2008 and co-presented "How to create a servant leadership learning community.” She also serves as vice-president of Service League of Fond du Lac
Carey Woodward (Computer Science, Engineering, Physics & Astronomy Professor) presented the workshop “Three Really Cheap Take-Home Lab Projects” and gave a talk entitled “The Analemma: A Collaborative Class Project for Introductory Astronomy.” He also gave a talk “A Video Analysis of Projectile Motion...Without Fancy Equipment” at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers; and coauthored a paper entitled “Geocoronal Hydrogen Observations Spanning Three Solar Minima,” which was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
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