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).
Senior Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr. will speak in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. on January 23rd. This is the 22nd annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Event on the UWW campus, and you’re all invited!
The Honorable Sterling Johnson, Jr., has been United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York since 1991, where he presides over a heavy workload of cases on criminal and civil matters. His previous experiences include a stint as a marine and service as a police officer, Judge Advocate General (United States Naval Reserve), and Special Narcotics Prosecutor for New York City. More of his background is available online at the web site of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Perhaps his most widely publicized case is his 1993 finding that the detention of Haitian asylum seekers due to their HIV status at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, without access to legal counsel, visitors, telephones, etc. was unconstitutional. To learn more about this case and the issues involved, you could use some of the Library’s databases:
An additional brief summary, with a note about the subsequent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Federal government’s actions and links to related resources is provided online by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Also in honor of MLK, you may want to check out the tall display case in the Library’s lobby.
Terri Jentz will speak about “Strange Piece of Paradise: Violence Hiding in Plain Sight” on Monday, December 3rd, at 7 p.m. in the Young Auditorium as part of the Letters and Sciences Community Reading Initiative.
Jentz has written Strange Piece of Paradise to recount her investigation into the mystery of an attack by an axe-wielding stranger upon her and a friend in 1977 while they were camping in Cline Falls State Park in central Oregon. In May 2006 USA Today described it: “Part true crime, part memoir, part a profile of a stone-cold psychopath and part an exploration of violence and its effect on people and communities, Jentz’s book is tough to read — and even tougher to put down.” In a review for The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Mary Roach says that “Like many such journeys, “Strange Piece of Paradise” is not likely to be an undertaking you regret. The author’s experience as a screenwriter has given her an unerring feel for visual detail…” Excerpts from a number of reviews are available from Barnes and Noble’s web site or Amazon’s web site. The New York Times named it one of the fifty nonfiction “Notable Books of the Year” for 2006.
The University Library has a copy of the book in its 3rd-floor Main Collection (call no. HV6793.O7 J46 2007), but if it is checked out on campus then UW-W faculty, staff, and students may request a copy free from other UW campus libraries using the Universal Borrowing service. Requested items should arrive in 2-4 weekdays. The Irvin L. Young Memorial (public) Library in Whitewater also has this book in its collection.
UW-Whitewater faculty and staff scholarship and creative achievements during the period July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007 will be celebrated on November 20-21 in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center for the Arts). The display of books, artwork, articles, and more will be available on both days (gallery hours on Tuesday: 10am-5pm). A reception will take place on Wednesday, November 21, from 10:30 a.m. - noon. Light refreshments will be served.
This will be the 20th annual recognition of achievements from across the university. The display and accompanying bibliography include submissions from 22 academic departments (from all 4 colleges), four administrative offices, and the University Library.
The event is co-sponsored by the University Library, Crossman Gallery, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, and Photo/Graphics.
More information, and previous years’ bibliographies, are online at http://library.uww.edu/scholarship.html
Anything you read about careers, interviewing and landing that first job (or any job for that matter) says that you need to prepare, prepare, prepare. Well, what do you have to do to prepare?
If you answered ‘I don’t know’ to that question, then you might consider coming to the Career Services presentation entitled Researching Employers this evening at 5 PM in L2002 (Career Services). Laura Morrow, Internship Coordinator, and Kyle Naff, Business Librarian (hey, that’s me!), will be talking about the reasons why you should research employers, not only to find the job, but to land the job, as well as how to go about doing the research yourself.
What’s going on in Whitewater? How do you find out?
One place to look is the official municipal web site (includes links to Whitewater videos, minutes of the Common Council and citizen committees, public service announcements, and more), or the Chamber of Commerce’s web site.
Another option is The Whitewater Banner: News, Photos, Comments, Events, and Calendar site, maintained by City Common Council at-large member Jim Stewart.
Finally, the University Library has a subscription to the local weekly newspaper, The Whitewater Register. A fresh issue is available every Thursday–come on down to the Library’s first floor newspapers area and peruse it!
Laurie Lawlor, author of This Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland Year, will read from her book on Tuesday, November 13th, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kachel Center. The book, set in southeastern Wisconsin and based on research conducted in the University Library’s archives, is “a story of refuge and renewal refracted through the lens of life within wetlands – among the most productive, yet most endangered, ecosystems in the world.” The book was honored with a 2006 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Book Award. More information about this award-winning book and Ms. Lawlor is available online from the publisher, the University of Wisconsin Press.
This Friends of the University Library program (open to all) will be preceded by a dinner and business meeting at 6 p.m. Dinner reservations may be made until Monday, November 5th, and cost $20. Call or email Anne Kimball (262.472.5518 or email kimballa@uww.edu) for details.
Please join us!
Author Laurie Garrett will speak at the Young Auditorium on Monday, November 5, at 7 p.m., on “Betrayal of Trust: Critical Issues in Global Health Care.” She is the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a past president of the National Association of Science Writers. She won a Pulitzer prize in 1996 for explanatory journalism for reporting from Zaire about an Ebola outbreak.
The University Library has a copy of her 1994 book The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance (Main Collection, 3rd floor, RA651 .G37 1994). Other books she has written, and a videorecording based on The coming plague, are available from other UW campus libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing service. Requested items arrive in 2-3 weekdays.
You can read several articles she has written for various periodicals by searching for her as an author in EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier database.
More information about her and her work is available from Ms. Garrett’s web site or her biography on the Council’s website.
Terry Gross, host of the Peabody Award-winning program Fresh Air on National Public Radio, will speak at the Young Auditorium on Tuesday, October 30th, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets must be purchased to attend this event.
Her 2004 book All I did was ask: Conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists contains transcripts from 39 interviews with individuals such as Gene Simmons, Chris Rock, Nicolas Cage, and Conan O’Brien. It’s available to UWW students and staff from other UW campus libraries through the Universal Borrowing service (free!).
Fresh Air provides interviews with a mix of interesting people, including authors (novelist Alice Sebold and Jeffrey Toobin who wrote The Nine: Inside the secret world of the Supreme Court are recent examples), musicians (British rocker Thom Yorke of the group Radiohead), actors and directors (Mark Ruffalo), journalists, political figures, and many others. You can read transcripts from Fresh Air installments using the LexisNexis Academic database. On the search page, select “TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts” and use this search: show(fresh air) and anchors(gross)
NPR provides her biography online, accompanied by links to audio samples of her work.
Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist, advocate for free speech and wilderness preservation, and author of several books, will speak on campus Tuesday, October 9th at 7pm in McGraw Auditorium.
Ms. Williams is a native of Utah with a lifelong passion for the American Southwestern deserts, which she passionately and eloquently expresses in her writing. Her books are available from other UW campuses by using the free Universal Borrowing service. Requested items should be available for pickup at the Circulation Desk in 2-3 weekdays. Her titles include Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place (2001), Red: passion and patience in the desert (2001), Desert quartet (1995), and An unspoken hunger: stories from the field (1994), among others. Descriptions of her books can easily be found using online sources such as Barnes and Noble or Amazon.com.
It is also possible to read the full text of several of Ms. Williams’ articles for newspapers and magazines online. Do a search for her as an author in EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier database. (One of my favorites is her article “Places of the Heart” for National Parks (May/Jun99 issue) that includes the quote
“If there is any place sacred in America, worshiped from all walks of life, it is our national parks. Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Great Smokies, Olympic, Zion, Bryce, Acadia, the Everglades, and Grand Canyon — all of them cathedrals of natural beauty and wonder. It is here in these shrines of majesty that we are brought to our senses in the post-modern world.”
Words worth reading! More info about her is available from her web site Terry Tempest Williams: Coyote Clan.
