Each semester UWW faculty/staff provide a lecture series at the Fairhaven Retirement Community’s Fellowship Hall, easily walkable from campus (435 W. Starin Road). Lectures are on Mondays at 3pm, and they are open to the public. The spring series is called “Our Natural World:”
- Jan. 28 Impacts of White-tailed Deer in Wisconsin Forests (Stephen Solheim, Biological Sciences)
- Feb. 4 The Wolves of Yellowstone National Park (George Clokey, Biological Sciences)
- Feb. 11 History of the Wisconsin River (Dale Splinter, Geography/Geology)
- Feb. 18 A Radical View of Wisconsin Native American Effigy Mounds (Rex Hanger, Geography/Geology)
- Feb. 25 “Nature in the City”: Chicago’s Green City Movement (Jeffrey Zimmerman, Geography/Geology)
- Mar. 3 The Glacial History of Whitewater (Peter Jacobs, Geography/Geology)
- Mar. 10 Less Waste & More Efficiency: Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry (Paul House, Chemistry)
- Mar. 17 Real World Cases in Green Chemistry (Hassimi Traore, Chemistry)
- Mar. 31 Contaminants and the Fate of Wisconsin Waters (Elisabeth Harrahy, Biological Sciences)
- Apr. 7 Pollination Biologic Sciences in Two Wisconsin Plant Species (Neil Sawyer, Biological Sciences)
- Apr. 14 Earth and Fire: Volcanism Around the World (Juk Bhattacharyya, Geography/Geology)
- Apr. 21 Carnivorous Plants: Wonders of the Natural World (Terre Golembiewski, Biological Sciences)
More information on these and related topics could be found using Library resources–books, journal articles, government publications, and more. Here are a couple of examples, relevant to the first two lectures in the series:
- Article title: Direct and indirect effects of white-tailed deer in forest ecosystems
Journal: Forest Ecology and Management. (2003) vol.181(1-2): pp.165-176
Available online through the Library’s subscription to ScienceDirect. - Book title: Yellowstone wolves in the wild
Publication info: Helena, MT : Riverbend Publishing, 2003.
Available in the Library’s 3rd-floor Main Collection QL737.C22 H343 2003
For assistance in researching these topics, please contact a Reference librarian (come into the Library, phone 262-472-1032, or email/chat).
