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

 ● Dan McCollum, assistant campus dean for administrative services, served as a scorer for the Advanced Placement Psychology Exam in Daytona Beach under the auspices of Educational Testing Services.

● Andrea De Palma, computer science professor; Dr. Julie Tharp, English professor and assistant dean; Dr. Kavita Bhatia and Dr. Jinbo Lu, both math professors, received a National Science Foundation grant to attend a Science Education for a New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities meeting at Santa Clara University.  The four professors plan to create a course involving social science on family matter, computer science and statistics, with focus on domestic violence.

● De Palma and Mech Johnson received an UW Colleges grant to chair the Computer Science Core Programming Courses Redesign Workshop. The two-day workshop facilitated the sharing of curriculum and instruction models, particularly in computer science. Faculty from high schools, two-year and four-year campuses participated. 

● De Palma received an Office of Professional & Instructional Development to organize and attend a workshop on the development of scholarly inquiry into teaching, learning and assessment. 

● Steve Decker, professor of theatre and communication, attended the national conference for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, in San Francisco.  He participated in and attended workshops, seminars and peer panels on current issues in theatre education. 

● Dr. Jeff Kleiman, history professor, while in Europe completing his second Fulbright Scholarship Program, conducted research in Germany with visits to Pforzheim, Berlin and Nuremberg. He attended an international conference on the Holocaust in Krakow, Poland, and delivered a paper.  He is planning a January 2006 study abroad, the first one at UW-Marshfield/Wood County, in Poland and Germany. 

● Julie Dierauer, manager of Gallery 450, spent a week in Seattle researching the Asian, Pacific Northwest Indian, Oceanic and Contemporary art exhibits at the Seattle Art Museum. While there, she viewed an exhibit on Sculptural Design by Isamu Noguchi.  Dierauer also completed 30 abstract expressionist drawings within Central Wisconsin landscape and farm implement equipment theme, and worked on four new carvings in brick, based on the ideas of the Inuit of Northern Canada.

● Laurie Petri was promoted to Academic Librarian from Associate Academic Librarian in June. 

● Petri and Library Director Ruth Elderbrook attended the American Library Association Annual Convention in Chicago in June and WilsWorld, a library technology conference, in Madison in July. Areas of study included how librarianship is evolving, the consumer-driven library, standards for Web design and the ethics of technology.

● John Pruitt, professor of English, is chairing the panel “Literary Collections and England’s National Landscape” in November at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in Milwaukee.