For the record

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Center for the Humanities Call for Proposals
The Center for the Humanities of the College of Letters and Science announces a new program to support undergraduate and graduate student interdisciplinary initiatives and collaboration in the humanities. While the aim is to stimulate interdisciplinary student activity in the humanities, faculty and staff may want to help initiate a proposal by organizing an undergraduate or graduate student group.

The Undergraduate Symposium Award will be given to a group of at least four undergraduates, the Graduate Symposium Award to a group of at least four graduate students.

Each group will organize a symposium that, while related to the particular interests of the members of the group and their disciplinary majors or research interests, should demonstrate broad humanistic appeal and interdisciplinary scope. The undergraduate group must include at least four undergraduates, no more than two of whom can be majors in the same department, as well as at least one faculty or academic staff adviser. For example, a history major, an art history major and two classics majors would be supported to organize a symposium on representations of women in antiquity. The graduate group cannot have more than two members from the same department; a faculty adviser is recommended, but not required.

Each $3,000 award is to be used for bringing in outside speakers and other expenses related to producing a symposium or conference.

An application for an award should include a proposal of no more than five pages (and include the names of potential invitees and a tentative budget), plus information about the students (including undergraduate students’ transcripts and graduate students’ vitae) and faculty or staff involved. Five copies of the application are due at the Center for the Humanities, 218 Memorial Library, by Saturday, Nov. 2. Information: info@humanities.wisc.edu, 263-3409.

Jewish Studies Course Grant
Faculty are invited to submit proposals to develop a new course to be cross-listed between their home department and Jewish Studies. The course would contribute to the core curriculum of Jewish Studies and be offered for the first time in fall 2003 and thereafter on a regular basis. A one-page proposal should be submitted that discusses the course’s theme, its intended student audience, the disciplinary needs of Jewish Studies it will serve and its appropriateness to the new Jewish studies major. A draft syllabus would be helpful. Proposals should be submitted to: Course Incentive Grant, Center for Jewish Studies, 308 Ingraham Hall.

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Announces Innovation Awards
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation invites graduate departments and graduate career centers to apply for its Innovation Awards, which support faculty and department outreach in humanities doctoral work. The Woodrow Wilson Innovation Awards recognize and celebrate nontraditional collaborations among university departments in the humanities, graduate career centers and community partners. Projects selected for Innovation Awards assist Ph.D. students in gaining valuable experience outside the academy. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation will select up to seven projects for Innovation Awards of $5,000 to $10,000.

Request for proposals: http://www.woodrow.org/phd/Innovation/rfp.html. The deadline for applications is Friday, May 31. Information: (609) 452-7007 ext. 159, sheffer@woodrow.org.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Asthma Subjects Needed for Summer Studies
UW–Madison has a longstanding and experienced research group in the study of asthma, allergies and emphysema. People who will be in the Madison area this summer are invited to participate in a clinical research study. Asthma study participants receive financial compensation, valuable insight about their asthma, breathing tests, allergy skin testing and free study-related medication. We are studying some of the latest medications being developed to treat asthma and allergies. More than 20 studies are ongoing or due to start for people with asthma. If you have questions or would like more information, e-mail pulm-research@medicine.wisc.edu, or call 263-0524.

2002-2003 Mellon Workshops in the Humanities Announced
The Center for the Humanities announces that the following Mellon Workshops in the Humanities have been awarded funding for 2002-03:

The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination (contact Doreen Holmgren, dholmgren@education.wisc.edu)
Imagining the Afterlife (Quitman Phillips, qephilli@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Language and the Mind (Anja Wanner, awanner@facstaff.wisc.edu)
The Byzantine Commonwealth: East Roman Culture and Its Legacy in the Modern World (Paul Stephenson, paulstephenson@mac.com)
Metaphor Language, Thought, Art (Sabine Gross, sgross@facstaff.wisc.edu)

The workshops are provided with $5,000 to support their activities and are open to everyone in the university community, including faculty, staff and students. This program is made possible with a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. Information: info@humanities.wisc.edu, 263-3409.

Call for Programs
Orientation Programs invites program announcements for the fall 2002 Wisconsin Welcome brochure and Web site. Any student organization or campus unit may submit information about a meeting, program or event related to orientation to be printed in the Wisconsin Welcome brochure and posted on the Web site. Fall Wisconsin Welcome activities are scheduled and coordinated through the Orientation Programs office. Wisconsin Welcome orients new students to the UW–Madison community from Friday, Aug. 30, through Saturday, Oct. 12. Information: http://www.wisc.edu/sop.

Dean Howard Martin Review
To maintain excellence in administrative practices, the university has implemented a standard five-year review procedure for deans and senior-level campus administrators. In compliance with this policy, Chancellor John Wiley and Provost Peter Spear convened a review committee for Dean Howard Martin, Division of Continuing Studies, to assess Martin’s performance in external relations, resource management, and academic and administrative leadership.

Comments on Martin’s leadership and administration may be addressed to the staff of the committee, Policy and Planning Analyst Noel Radomski, 94 Bascom Hall, radomski@bascom.wisc.edu; or to members of the review committee: Associate Dean Michael Subkoviak (chair), and professors Harv Thompson and Chere Gibson. The review process will include interviews of Division of Continuing Studies constituencies.

The review committee welcomes student, staff and faculty requests for interviews. These may be addressed to the staff or members of the review committee. It is strongly recommended that requests for interviews and written comments should be submitted no later than Saturday, June 1. The committee will treat all communications as confidential, and the university will protect such confidentiality within the framework of Wisconsin law.

Dean Charles Read Review
To maintain excellence in administrative practices, the university has implemented a standard five-year review procedure for deans and senior-level campus administrators. In compliance with this policy, Chancellor John Wiley and Provost Peter Spear convened a review committee for Dean Charles Read, School of Education, to assess Read’s performance in external relations, resource management, and academic and administrative leadership.

Comments on Read’s leadership and administration may be addressed to committee staff, Policy and Planning Analyst Noel Radomski, 94 Bascom Hall, radomski@bascom.wisc.edu; or to members of the review committee: professors Andrew Policano (chair), Jim Escalante and John Witte. The review will include interviews of School of Education constituencies.

Dean Daryl Buss Review
To maintain excellence in administrative practices, the university has implemented a standard five-year review procedure for deans and senior-level campus administrators. In compliance with this policy, Chancellor John Wiley and Provost Peter Spear convened a review committee for Dean Daryl Buss, School of Veterinary Medicine, to assess Buss’ performance in external relations, resource management, and academic and administrative leadership.

Comments on Buss’ leadership and administration may be addressed to the staff of the review committee, Noel Radomski, policy and planning analyst, 94 Bascom Hall, radomski@bascom.wisc.edu, or to members of the review committee: Dean Emeritus B.C. Easterday (chair), Professor Mary Behan, Associate Professor Douglas DeBoer, Associate Professor Kris Kruse-Elliott and Professor Albee Messing. The review process will include interviews of School of Veterinary Medicine constituencies.

Recreational Sports Access Fee and Sports Center Membership
Recreational Sports announces that a first-semester access fee will be available for entry to the SouthEast Recreation Facility (SERF); Natatorium/Gym Unit 2; Camp Randall Sports Center (Shell) and Nielsen Tennis Stadium for 2002-03. The fee will be effective Aug. 26-Dec. 31. A companion membership fee for the Camp Randall Sports Center will be available. Annual, academic-year, second-semester and summer-access, and Camp Randall Sports Center membership fee options will continue to be offered. Sales begin Monday, July 22. For more information see: http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/recsports/.

The regents must approve the rates. Annual access fee: $90; sports center membership, add $126. Academic year, 2002-03, access fee: $70; sports center membership, add $100. First or second semester, $35; sports center membership, add $50. Summer session, 2003, $20; sports center membership, add $26.

Free Exercise Consultation
Lisa Sanborn, kinesiology, is seeking breast cancer survivors for a study looking at physical fitness and physical activity. The study involves three visits to the UW Sports Medicine Fitness Center for a free fitness evaluation that includes a diagnostic ECG exercise test. Participants should be 50-69 years of age, post-menopausal, diagnosed with stage I-III breast cancer, be at least three months post treatment but no more than two years post treatment, be free from heart disease and free from any orthopedic problems. Information, 263-0854.

Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention 10th Anniversary
On April 26, the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

The center hosted a reception that featured a proclamation by Mayor Sue Bauman and recognition by the Wisconsin Senate. Sue Ann Thompson, former first lady of Wisconsin and president of the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation spoke about the partnership between the center and her organization, including the distribution of free patches to women smokers in 1999. Former smokers Moshe Yuchtman and Bruce Roberts spoke about their struggles with tobacco dependence and their eventual ability to stop smoking.

Created by the UW Medical School, the center has brought $20 million into Wisconsin in research funding and has conducted research on various treatments for smoking. The center is conducting clinical trials on prevention of relapse, funded by the National Institutes of Health; a new medication for quitting smoking; and policy studies into smoking cessation as a covered benefit by state insurers.

Mentoring Program for Non-Represented Classified Staff
The UW–Madison Council for Nonrepresented Classified Staff will launch a mentoring program for its membership in the fall. The program will be unveiled at the CNCS annual meeting on June 13 at the Pyle Center. The council represents about 570 university employees, or about 10 percent of all classified staff. In keeping with the goals of the CNCS, the mentoring program will promote personal and professional development among staff by connecting them and allowing them to guide and coach each other. Mentoring will begin in September with a half-day orientation for mentors and mentees. Information: Nancy Bintz, 263-4463, nlbintz@facstaff.wisc.edu.