UW-M/WC faculty and staff make headlines

The following UW-Marshfield/Wood County faculty and staff have recently been awarded grants, presented papers, received awards and/or attended conferences.

● David De Lyser, assistant professor of music, received the Arthur M. Kaplan Faculty and Staff Performance Award for 2007-08.  He was nominated for the award by Dean Andrew Keogh for his outstanding contribution to the overall campus environment. De Lyser started teaching at the campus in 2005.  He conducts the symphonic band and the concert choir.

De Lyser also performed on trumpet with the Wisconsin College and University Faculty Brass Ensemble for the Wisconsin Music Educators Association State Music Conference in October in Madison.

● Marcie Manthe, program assistant advanced confidential, was named the 2007 recipient of the annual Classified Employee award, based on her outstanding contribution to the overall campus environment. Manthe has been with the campus since 1989.

● Dr. Kavita Bhatia, associate professor of mathematics, served as a reviewer for the Wisconsin Elementary and Secondary Education Act Improving Teacher Quality Program.

● Steven Decker, assistant professor of theatre and communication arts, attended the UW-Colleges First Year Engaged Readers Conference in September in Fond du Lac 

● Dr. Mathew J. Bartkowiak’s work on Arthur Lee, front-man for the band Love, was published in the “African American National Biography” through Oxford University Press.

Bartkowiak was also selected as a new reviewer for “Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.”  He was named the area chair of the “Music and Effects in Film” panels for the upcoming Film & History Conference in Chicago.

● Kathleen Farrell, assistant professor of sociology; Julie Horton, Americorps/VISTA representative; Jan Cain, math lecturer; Dr. Jinbo Lu, assistant professor of mathematics; Jeff Meece, assistant campus dean for Student Services; and Kami Weis, Student Services coordinator, attended the Great Northwoods Service-Learning Conference in October in Wausau.

Farrell also had a paper entitled “Social Change and Television: Education, Politics, and Gay TV” accepted at the Midwest Sociological Society’s 2008 Conference.  She will present the paper in St. Louis in March. 

Horton also attended the Wisconsin Campus Compact Conference: “Service and Engagement for Students, Campuses, and Communities” in November in Madison.

● Ann Applegate, music lecturer, will be performing on the Wisconsin Public Radio series Sunday Afternoon Live from the Chazen on 12:30 p.m. Jan. 20.

● Laurie Petri, academic librarian, attended the Multicultural Awareness Workshop in Madison.  She is currently enrolled in the online course “Working with Difficult Patrons Effectively” through the University of North Texas.