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

● Laurie Petri, academic librarian, received the Arthur M. Kaplan Faculty and Staff Performance Award for 2005-06.  She was nominated for the award by Dean Andrew Keogh for “significant and innovative improvement of instruction.”  Petri started at the campus in October 2002 as an associate academic librarian.  She was promoted to academic librarian in fall and was instrumental in working on the recent renovation of the Hamilton Roddis Memorial Library.

● Dawn Messerschmidt, program associate in Student Services, was named Classified Employee of the Year for 2005-06, based upon her commitment to students and the campus community. She has been with the campus since 2003.

● Dr. John Pruitt, English professor, defended his dissertation in October. In November, he chaired “The Politics of British Literary Collections” Panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association Convention.  He also has been asked to serve on the National Council of Teachers of English Advisory Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Academic Studies.

● Dr. Paige Muellerleile, psychology professor, has authored an article “Sufficiency and Stability of Evidence for Public Health Interventions using Cumulative Meta-Analysis,” which will be published in the American Journal of Public Health in March.

● Dr. Jeff Kleiman, history professor, is taking four UW-Marshfield/Wood County students and one student from Marshfield Senior High to Poland and Germany on a study abroad program associated with his history class, “The Holocaust: Politics of Peace, Nationalism and War.”  The group leaves Jan. 5 and returns Jan. 20. Thematically, the first week’s travel deals with the origins of the ideals and bureaucratic machinery of the genocide.  The second week provides students a chance to visit places notable for the implementation of those ideas.  This is the first time a study abroad opportunity has been offered on the Marshfield campus.

● Ruth Elderbrook, director of the Hamilton Roddis Memorial Library, was elected to the University Foundation at the UW-Marshfield/Wood County Board of Directors.  She will be chairing the foundation’s major fundraiser, Food For Thought, on April 8.

● Leann Pabich-Schiller has been named coordinator for the University Foundation. She will be responsible for the foundation’s fund drives, activities, volunteers, record keeping and materials. Pabich-Schiller is also a board member and human resources specialist for Pabich’s Residential Facility Inc. in Greenwood, and is owner of Paws-A-Moment LLC dog bakery.