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By Jill Sakai

[email protected]

In a season traditionally devoted to

refection and new beginnings, a cam-

pus program is celebrating its successes

and looking ahead to new goals.

We Conserve (http://conserve.wisc.edu),

an environmental stewardship program at

UW-Madison, pledged in 2006 to reduce

campus energy use and environmental

ootprint by 20 percent by 2010. Program

director Faramarz Vakili announced this

week that the program exceeded this goal,achieving a 25 percent annual energy reduc-

tion relative to 2006 levels.

When the program launched in April

2006, the resolution was met with skepti-

cism, Vakili says. Ater all, the university

had just completed a ve-year, $29 million

investment to install numerous energy-

saving measures to improve the eciency

o lights, motors and other low-hanging

ruit.

We Conserve tackled larger projects,

including updates in heating and cool-

ing systems by ar the single largest

energy consumer on campus and light-

ing upgrades in buildings and parking

ramps. Many o the gains were achieved

through major retro-commissioning oolder buildings including Engineering

Hall, Chamberlin Hall and the Chemistry

Building.

The reductions and savings achieved by

We Conserve include:

n energy use: 1.2 trillion BTUs annually;

n carbon dioxide emissions: 125,000 metric

tons annually;

n water use: 178,000,000 gallons annually;

n diesel uel: 10,000 gallons annually;

n utility costs: $13 million annually.

The upgrades cost approximately $40

million, an investment with an expected

payback o less than ve years, Vakili

says. Sta rom Facilities, Planning and

Management noted the achievements this

week by posting celebratory blue ribbons on

the large red We Conserve signs ound on

more than a dozen campus buildings.

As campus director o sustainability

operations, Vakili emphasizes that the

accomplishments to date are just the begin-

ning. The programs second main goal was

to increase awareness and instill a spirit o

environmental stewardship in the campus

community an area Vakili admits is more

challenging to gauge.

We really have to think about what were

trying to accomplish, he says. Its one thing tostrive or energy eciency, and I believe we are

doing that successully. But to go beyond that,

we need to truly engage people.

Toward that end, We Conserve will con-

tinue as part o the Campus Sustainability

Initiative (http://sustainability.wisc.edu).

However, the program emphasis is shiting

toward community engagement with Be the

We, a campaign that aims to unite new and

existing programs and celebrate conserva-

tion and waste prevention successes rom

across campus.

With Be the We, our goal is to go

beyond ecient buildings and systems, and

help people understand that conservation

and sustainability is a state o mind, Vakili

says. Its possible to live a lie in the uturethat is smart, ecient, sustainable and

comortable.

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By Chris Barncard

[email protected]

Global health problems extend beyond clin-

ics, vaccine laboratories and hospitals. Some

o the most pressing problems stem rom

societal, economic and environmental

actors as well.

UW-Madisons growing Global Health

Initiative is taking on this multisectorchallenge by ostering research collabora-

tions that advance sustainable health in

Wisconsin and the world.

The tendency in our research programs

is to get hooked on that one problem and

dig deeper and deeper and deeper, says

Jeremi Suri, E. Gordon Fox Proessor o

History and co-chair o the initiative. That

separates you rom the questions that move

people to innovation and really remarkable

solutions.

To pry likely contributors away rom that

singular ocus, the Global Health Initiative

is organizing an incubator or ideas in the

orm o a series o evocative orums cen-

tered on the United Nations Millennium

Development Goals and running throughthe spring semester.

The rst Incubator set or 4:30 p.m.

on Monday, Jan. 31, in The Forum at the

Wisconsin Institutes or Discovery ea-

tures infuenza expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka

and Caitilyn Allen, who studies wilt in

tropical plants. Kawaoka and Allen will set

the tone or the series by combining diverse

perspectives on battling inectious diseases.

Youll see an overview o the challenges

rom one o the researchers and then a verylocal view o the problem rom the other,

says Jeanette Roberts, dean o the School o

Pharmacy and co-chair o the initiative. For

every Incubator every development goal

well have two directions o approach to

a problem to get people thinking about it in

a new way.

With a pair o researchers driving discus-

sion roughly every other Monday through

the spring semester, the Incubator is a vehi-

cle or jump-starting novel partnerships and

approaches to daunting global problems.

We might come out o the Incubator ses-

sions with new ideas and, hopeully, new

teams o researchers, Suri says. There are

so many extraordinary people on this cam-

pus, but they dont know each other ... yet.The spring Incubator series will prime the

university talent pool or a summer und-

ing competition or teams o UW-Madison

aculty, students and sta with research

proposals that show resh promise or global

health application and an eye toward the

initiatives collaborative goals.

Attendance at the Incubator will

strengthen participants proposals by

inspiring and preparing them to take this

approach towards their research.A good proposal will be transdisci-

plinary, especially involving people who

dont typically work together, Roberts said.

It will address problems in new ways

not just running in and vaccinating people,

but guring out why theyre getting sick in

the rst place.

But by no means is the initiatives ocus

exclusively on health sciences.

Refexively limiting the idea o global

health to medicine is a major barrier to

reaching members o the campus com-

munity who are doing pertinent work, but

are not thinking about its health implica-

tions, according to John Ferrick, director

o international programs or the College o

Agricultural and Lie Sciences.One o the most important goals o the

Global Health Initiative is to acilitate col-

laboration to maximize the impact that

work can have on solving global health

problems.

There are tons o people in Madison who

are thinking, Im a ood person, or Im

engineering, or they look at their work as

a narrow-but-necessary sort o contribu-

tion to the scholarship in their corner o

the academic world, Ferrick says. Theyre

not making the connection even when their

research and their insight could play a piv-

otal role in the health problems o people all

over the world.That was the gap and the critical

opportunity identied in the universitys

reaccreditation and strategic planning pro-

cess which led to the creation o the Global

Health Initiative. A research engine with

UW-Madisons horsepower is uniquely able

to address the UNs wide set o ambitions

rom establishing universal education to

ending hunger to protecting maternal health

and promoting sustainable development.

Because we have such strength in a wide

range o applicable disciplines, we can make

stronger internal connections than other

campuses, says Provost Paul M. DeLuca

Jr. Because UW-Madison is a recognized

leader in so many o these elds, we can

help organize other universities or organiza-tions behind solutions that are necessarily

collaborative.

Jake Moskol, the Global Health Initiatives

coordinator, is turning the initiative into a

clearinghouse or campus programs, events

Global Health Initiative seeks campuswide involvement in incubator series

Brian Klock, a carpenter in Facilities, Planning and Management, installs a blue ribbon with the

words We Win on a We Conserve sign located on Engineering Hall. The blue ribbons, which

Klock placed on all We Conserve signs across campus, mark the success o the environmental

stewardship program, which exceeded a 2006 goal o reducing campus energy use by

20 percent by 2010.

Photo:BryceRichter

Health, continues on page 4

We Conserve environmental goals heeded and exceeded


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University launches new brand,

visual identity system

A new brand and visual identity system or

UW-Madison is now being rolled out on

campus, Vince Sweeney, vice chancellor or

university relations, has announced.

Created to help present a unied mes-

sage and look or the vast array o campus

units, the new system includes an updated,

multi-tiered institutional logo or use onmaterials ranging rom printed publications

to stationery items, guidelines or appropri-

ate use o the brand and website templates.

The system is endorsed by Chancellor Biddy

Martin.

Taking steps to ensure that the universitys

brand and visual identity is used consistently

is essential as we compete in the higher-

education marketplace and communicate

with our key audiences within Wisconsin

and beyond, says Sweeney. The rst critical

connection any campus unit rom a school

or college to a research center to a student-

services program can make to establish

credibility is a connection to the university.

Working as a team to leverage the universitys

brand benets the entire campus.A newly created brand and visual identity

website includes guidelines or implement-

ing the new system.

In keeping with the universitys com-

mitment to sustainability, Sweeney says,

campus units are asked to use current

supplies o materials such as letterhead or

business cards beore ordering materials that

refect the new visual identity.

Pedestrians asked to consider saety

Since the construction encing went up

around the site o the School o Human

Ecologys addition last spring, many pedes-

trians at UW-Madison have paid little or no

attention to the signs telling them that the

sidewalk on the north side o Linden Driveis closed and urging that they use the side-

walk on the south side o the roadway.

Instead, students and others have contin-

ued to walk in the street, creating a saety

problem, particularly westbound.

Facilities, Planning and Management is

embarking on a saety campaign that asks

pedestrians to do the right thing.

We want students and other pedestrians

to use the temporary crosswalk by the bus

stop at Van Hise Hall and go over to the

south side o Linden Drive, says

Rob Kennedy o Transportation Services.

There, they can be sae.

Larger and easier-to-read signs have been

posted at both ends o the long construction

ence, warning people that pedestrians areprohibited in the roadway.

UW Police will be conducting periodic

checks in that area to ensure pedestrian

and vehicular trac saety, says Sgt. Aaron

Chapin, noting that department personnel

have the discretion to issue citations, but

would preer to ocus on education.

Metro bus drivers have been araid that

they are going to hit somebody and have

expressed their concerns. The buses are 10

eet wide and really dont have any room to

spare, according to Kennedy. There are a lot

o big construction vehicles moving through

the area, too.

UW-Madison at or near top in rankings

In a national survey, business magazineKiplingers Personal Finance has ranked

UW-Madison the ninth best value among

public universities, jumping ve spots rom

last years ranking o No. 14.

As in last years rankings, UW-Madison

leads all public Big Ten universities. The

University o Michigan is closest in the

survey, at No. 22.

The ull list o rankings may be ound in

the magazines February edition, as well as

online at http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/

colleges.

Reviewing data rom more than 500

public our-year colleges and universities,

Kiplingers bases its rankings on both aca-

demic measures and costs. It uses ACT or

SAT test scores, admission and retentionrates, student-aculty ratios, and our- and

six-year graduation rates. The magazine also

ranks schools on aordability, looking at

total expenses and nancial aid.

Despite rising tuition costs, there are still

many rst-rate institutions providing out-

standing academics at an aordable price,

says Janet Bodnar, editor o Kiplingers.

Schools like these on the Kiplinger 100 list

prove graduates can enter the workorce

with a great education and without a

huge cloud o debt.

The University o North Carolina at

Chapel Hill was deemed the nations top

value among publics. The top 100 also

includes two other UW System campuses:

UW-La Crosse at No. 43 and UW-Eau Claireat No. 68.

n UW-Madison is among the leaders in

producing chie executive ocers o major

corporations, according to a new study rom

U.S. News & World Report.

The study o the educational backgrounds

o 2010s Fortune 500 chie executive

ocers showed that UW-Madison ranked

ourth behind three Ivy League schools.

According to the study, Harvard, Columbia

and the University o Pennsylvania together

awarded 99 degrees to the chie executives.

The magazine said UW-Madison stood

out among its state school peers, award-

ing 17 degrees to the CEOs and ranking

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wisconsin week

Vol. XXV, No. 9, January 19, 2011

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Januar y 19 , 2 0 1 1 3

ahead o Dartmouth College, Stanord

University and the University o Michigan-

Ann Arbor. The University o Notre Dame,

the University o Texas-Austin and Cornell

University rounded out the top 10.

Eleven o the 17 UW-Madison chie

executive ocers had earned undergradu-

ate degrees, while three earned master o

business administration degrees and another

three received other graduate degrees.Among the CEOs rom UW-Madison

are David Anderson o American Family

Insurance Group; Carol Bartz o Yahoo! Inc.;

Keith D. Nosbusch o Rockwell Automation

Inc.; Rob Pollock o Assurant Inc.; Thomas

Falk o Kimberly-Clark Corp.; and David J.

Lesar o Halliburton Co.

Past studies o companies in the Standard

& Poors 500 index showed the UW

System tied with Harvard in producing the

most CEOs. Each school claimed 15 chie

executive ocers as having received under-

graduate degrees rom their institutions.

Read the U.S. News & World Report story

here: http://www.usnews.com/education/

best-colleges/articles/2011/01/03/where-

the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-college.html.

n UW-Madison ranked rst among U.S.

colleges and universities in a new study

examining higher education brand equity

on the Internet.

The TrendTopper MediaBuzz Internet

analysis was conducted by Austin, Texas-

based Global Language Monitor and

studied 300 institutions. The rankings were

compiled using a mathematical model to

measure how oten colleges and universities

appear in the global electronic media, on

the Internet, in the blogosphere and across

social networking sites.

UW-Madison ranked rs t, with the

University o Chicago, Harvard University,

MIT and Columbia University rounding outthe top ve.

The ranking refects broad success in aca-

demic reputation, research, alumni aairs,

global infuence, electronic media relations

and social media, says Paul J.J. Payack, pres-

ident and chie word analyst at GLM.

The measurement was conducted in the

nal week o December 2010, with the

same period in 2009 used as a benchmark.

Although it would seem logical that the

excitement around the recent Rose Bowl

run would have tipped the rankings, Payack

says he corrected or ootball and it was not

a actor.

We look at colleges as parents or employ-

ers might view them: as brands, he says.

Why would you buy a new Lexus insteado a old Ford? What has more value to you?

The fight to quality continues

unabated, he adds. The savvy consumer

o the education marketplace appears cen-

tered on the price-sensitive public ivies and

technology-centered schools.

For more details on the study, visit http://

www.languagemonitor.com/.

For more about the Oce o University

Relations at UW-Madison, visit http://

universityrelations.wisc.edu/.

Nominations accepted or Classifed

Employee Recognition Awards

Nominations are now being accepted or

2011 Classied Employee Recognition

Awards (CERA).CERA is an opportunity to recognize a

classied employee who has done an out-

standing job or the university community.

Nominated candidates are evaluated based

on a variety o key actors, including their

success at promoting excellence within the

work unit, perorming well under pressure,

developing innovative solutions to every-

day problems and participating in public

service activities outside normal work

responsibilities.

A committee will review the nomina-

tions and make the nal decision about

who should receive the awards. The CERA

recipients will receive a commemorative

plaque, paid registration to an employee

development program o their choice and a

cash award. These individuals will also be

highlighted in Wisconsin Week, and will be

honored or their achievements at a specialspring ceremony.

Further inormation on CERA is available

at http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/cera/.

The deadline or submitting nominations

is Monday, Feb. 21.

Careers Conerence marks 25 years

with event on Jan. 24-26

Next week, the Careers Conerence, hosted

by the Center on Education and Work,

will mark 25 years o career education

and development with its annual event in

Madison.

What started as a local event has grown

progressively to a national aair that also

reaches audiences rom other countries. The

conerence will be held Monday-Wednesday,

Jan. 24-26, at Madisons Concourse Hotel, 1W. Dayton St.

Running themes will honor the past yet

look toward the uture in career development

and career education. As the economy slowly

recovers, the need or well-trained career

specialists and career educators grows.

The Careers Conerence oers career

specialists and career educators the oppor-

tunity to connect with other experts and

practitioners in their elds as well as learn

about practices, strategies and programs that

will help them develop into well-inormed

proessional individuals. The conerence will

eature overall sessions, workshops, on-site

work tours and more. Stressing the impor-

tance o lielong career development needs,

the conerences topics target a wide range oparticipants.

Among the conerence highlights are

workshops lead by nationally known

experts. This year, the conerence will

be Exploring Green Careers with Katia

Albright on worksite visits; SolRayo and

Operation Fresh Start in eorts to ocus on

a green economy, and the green economys

impact on uture jobs and skill demands.

Opening this years conerence on Jan.

25 will be keynote speaker Jim Brazell. As a

technology orecaster and strategist ocusing

on innovation and transormative systems,

Brazell explores the essential knowledge

innovation skills that have become increas-

ingly required o todays students and

workers. With a background in consulting

on international technology innovation

strategies, discover with him how to createa uture in a world today that works with

creativity and innovation as well as theory

and action.

Richard Nelson Bolles will be the coner-

ence keynote speaker on Jan. 26. Bolles, an

author, consultant, speaker, master teacher

and workshop leader, will be reinorcing his

long-held career development core belies,

while expanding on the new issues and

trends he sees aecting us all in this tumul-

tuous job market.

The conerence is designed or anyone

involved in career development, career edu-

cation and other related elds.

For details on conerence sessions, speak-

ers and registration, visit http://www.cew.

wisc.edu/careersConf/Default.aspx, or

contact Carol Edds at 263-4779 or cedds@

education.wisc.edu.

Retirement Association seeks

volunteer opportunities

The UW Retirement Association supports

and encourages volunteerism on campus

and in the community, and has re-started its

volunteering committee.

The group asks that deans, department

chairs and administrators keep retirees in

mind as potential volunteers within their

departments and units. Anyone interested

in more inormation on volunteerism possi-

bilities with the Retirement Association can

visit http://www.uwra.wisc.edu .

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AldosCaf,locatedinthenortheast

corneroftheTownCenter,servescoffee,

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Program seeks applications or

Collaborative Health Sciences

TheMedicalEducationandResearch

Committee(MERC)oftheWisconsin

PartnershipProgramreleasedits2010-11

CollaborativeHealthSciencesProgram

(CHSP)requestforproposalsonDec.17.

Preliminaryapplicationsfortheprogramare

dueFriday,Feb.4.

CollaborativeHealthSciences Program

grantssupportnovelideasandnew

approachestoresearchandeducation,with

anemphasisoninterdisciplinarycollabora-

tionthatwillbenetthepeopleofWisconsin.

Successfulproposalswillcrossboundariesof

basicscience,clinicalscience,socialscience,

andpopulationhealthscience.

GrantteamsmustbeledbyaSchoolof

MedicineandPublicHealth(SMPH)associate

professor,professororseniorordistinguished

scientist.Aco-principalinvestigatorisrequired

andmaycomefromanyUW-Madisonschool

orcollege,UWSystemcampuses,theMedical

CollegeofWisconsinorstateagency.

CHSPawardsare$300,000overthree

years.TheMedicalEducationandResearch

Committeeexpectstomaketwoawardsdur-

ingthisgrantcycle.

DescriptionsofpastCollaborative

HealthSciencesProgramawardsareavail-

ableathttp://www.med.wisc.edu/

wisconsin-partnership-program/collabora-

tive-health-sciences-program/637.

NewsinBrief

Tuesday, Jan. 25

nNoon:BeijingBadgers:Alookattherst

ChineseChampionsprogramoncampus.UW-MadisonhostseliteathletesfromChina

inaneweducationalandculturalexchange.

TheathletesandUWpersonneltalkaboutthe

experience.

n12:30p.m.:OfceHours:KenGoldstein

interviewscommunicationartsprofessor

emeritaJoanneCantoraboutourabilityto

multi-task.Herndingscollegestudentsability

toperformmultipletaskssimultaneouslypro-

videinterestingresults.

Wednesday, Jan. 26

n3a.m.:WisconsinReections:Aninterview

showfeaturingprominentUW-Madisonalumni

andfriends.Specialguest:ESPNbasketball

analystAndyKatz.

Tuesday, Feb. 1

nNoon:WisconsinReections:Aninter-

viewshowfeaturingprominentUW-Madisonalumniandfriends.Specialguest:RetiredU.S.

CongressmanDavidObey.

Wednesday, Feb. 2

n3a.m.: OfceHours:KenGoldsteininter-

viewscommunicationartsprofessoremerita

JoanneCantoraboutourabilitytomulti-task.

Herndingscollegestudentsabilitytoperform

multipletaskssimultaneouslyprovideinterest-

ingresults.

n3:30a.m.:TheWisconsinIdea:Alook

atfourresearchprojectsthatembodythe

WisconsinIdea,asUW-Madisoncontinuesto

makeadifferenceinthelivesofpeoplefrom

Wisconsinandaroundtheworld.

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facultyand staff

By Sandra Knisely

[email protected]

W

hen an exam comes back with an A grade,

most students are thrilled, and rightully so. Yet

all too oten, it doesnt take long or the inorma-

tion students diligently crammed to ade as they prepare

or another exam, creating a cycle, or some, o studying or

tests rather than actually learning.

Its a cycle Ryan Kershner ound rustrating as a mechani-

cal engineering assistant proessor, but his time and

resources were too limited to address the need or more

active, student-centered learning in his classes.

There were so many innovative things I wanted to try in

the classroom, but I couldnt justiy making those things my

absolute ocus while balancing research responsibilities, he

says.

However, Kershner couldnt ignore his growing passion

to make a dierence in the classroom, and he has ound

a unique opportunity to do just that. Kershner has joined

Wendt Commons as an instructional designer, which will

allow him to ocus on developing teaching and learning

innovations through collaborations with other aculty mem-

bers and Wendt sta.

Wendt Commons is the new consolidation o the

Engineering Learning Center, Engineering Media Services

and Wendt Library. The initiative aims to expand the impact

o these services on teaching, learning and research through-

out the College o Engineering.

Wendt Commons is a central location where aculty can

come or support i they want to try something new or need

ideas to get started, Kershner says. A lot o innovative tools

and approaches have been developed, and we need to capi-

talize on those successes and scale them up in a coordinated

way. Thats a big challenge that Wendt Commons can he lp

address.

Instructional design is the art and practice o apply-

ing research about how people learn to improve learning

outcomes or students. It doesnt necessarily have to be

technology-ocused, but technology can play a big role in

nding ways to engage students and develop instructional

materials, Kershner says. It is really about nding ways to

improve retention actual learning.

A large part o Kershners role will be assessing engineer-

ing aculty needs and opportunities, making his three years

o experience as a UW-Madison aculty member invaluable.

I know the demands placed on aculty and what its like to

be on the ront lines in the classroom, he says. They may

have ideas and want to explore, but they just dont have the

time. There are a lot o technologies were not taking advan-

tage o that speak to the way students today operate.

The key element o his position will be partnerships with

aculty to develop solutions that meet their needs. Kershner

anticipates helping aculty explore blended learning

approaches that combine traditional lecture ormats with, or

example, more opportunities or students to receive immedi-

ate eedback, a eature todays students are accustomed to in

online environments. Additional approaches could include

more in-class case studies or design projects, as well as mul-

timedia tools, such as lecture visualizations.

A lot o research has ound that students rom dierent

backgrounds and learning styles dont always t a traditional

model, Kershner says. The idea is to provide more diver-

sity in teaching to capture more diverse students.

Wendt Commons is close ly integrated with the

Engineering Beyond Boundaries initiative, a long-term

transormational initiative in the College o Engineering that

encourages aculty and sta to rethink engineering academic

culture and traditional engineering education techniques.

Ryan brings a terric combination o experience with and

enthusiasm or both educating engineers and exploring how

technology can improve learning, says Wendt Commons

director Deborah Helman. With his addition to the Wendt

team, we are poised to expand our services and partner

with college aculty and instructors to urther develop their

courses. This is a very exciting time or Wendt Commons

and teaching and learning in the College o Engineering.

Kershner also plans to cross campus boundaries and

explore what aculty members outside engineering are

doing. Ill be nding those other ideas and bringing best

practices back to the college, he says. Its exciting to be in

education right now and to be part o a renewed commit-

ment to teaching and learning across campus.

Engineering aculty and instructors are invited to contact

Wendt Commons or teaching and technology-enhanced

learning support. Visit http://wendt.engr.wisc.edu/or

more inormation.

Designer aims to improve student-centered learning in engineering

Ryan Kershner has joined Wendt Commons as an instructional designer, which will allow him to ocus on developing teaching

and learning innovations through collaborations with other aculty members and Wendt sta.

Editors note: This is part of an ongoing series

about the people behind HRS.

I nothing else, the new Human Resource

System, known as HRS, should make or

some cleaner desks around campus.

With the arrival o the new state-o-the-

art system or all UW campuses, expected to

launch between April and June, the absence

o paper records or human resources

inormation, payroll, benets and leave or

thousands o UW-Madison employees will

be signicant, says Julie Karpelenia, assis-

tant dean and director o human resources

or the Graduate School.

HRS provides us with the opportunity

to reduce the need or so much paper or

processing human resources, benets and

payroll transactions, she says.

Karpelenia is one o about 50 divisionalliaisons who are putting together plans or

how their units will implement and work

with HRS when it launches.

In the coming weeks, employees across

the UW System will receive training on how

to use the new system.

Once its in place, HRS will handle a

more than $2 billion annual payroll or UWSystem employees and improve how data

about employees are entered, as well as how

employees sign up or benets, account or

their time and leave, and view work records.

In Karpelenias case, prepping or HRS

means making sure that the Graduate

School sta, including those who work at

centers within the school, have the neces-

sary training and resources to successully

administer human resources, payroll

and benets. Centers that are part o the

Graduate School include the Waisman

Center, the Wisconsin National Primate

Research Center and the Arboretum.

I want to ensure that processes and pro-

cedures are in place or a smooth transition

to HRS, Karpelenia says. This also meansthat all administrators and employees eel

comortable using the new system.

Karpelenia has a long history o working

within human resources in the Graduate

School and, in her words, grew up with

the existing system. Karpelenia started in

the Graduate School as a human resources

manager in 1990 and has been director ohuman resources since 2007.

Now is the time to integrate human

resources, benets and payroll into one

system using current state-o-the-art tech-

nology, she adds.

The existing system or human resources,

payroll and benets management dates to

the 1970s and uses a computer language

thats all but obsolete.

Karpelenia says those who have used

the existing system will enjoy many other

benets rom HRS, such as using consistent

business standards across schools and col-

leges, streamlining the hiring processes,

improving data collection and reducing

duplication o eort.

The eciencies that will be gained romHRS will allow both administrators and

employees to ocus their eorts in other

areas, she says.

New Human Resource System will mean less paper, but more dataand groups with ties to global health.

His list o departments, units, centers

and people with applicable missionsor work has climbed into the dozens,

and he urges others to make themselves

known as the initiative gets set to launch

the Incubator.

Were nding programs and groups

we didnt know about who are already

doing important work on global health,

and some o them are already looking

or ways to create and participate in the

kind o partnerships the Global Health

Initiative should be ostering, Moskol

says.

The Global Health Initiative is encour-

aging aculty, students and sta rom a ll

disciplines to attend the rst Incubator

Jan. 31 and learn more about how their

research contributes to solving globalhealth problems.

For more inormation on the

Incubator series and its schedule, the

RFP process and the Global Health

Initiative, visit http://ghi.wisc.edu.

Health Continued from page 1

Courtesy:WendtCommons


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Januar y 19 , 2 0 1 1 5

research

By Eric Verbeten

[email protected]

Although prostate cancer is

the No. 1 cancer ound in

men, it remains dicult

to detect. The problem is that

despite the act that researchers

know what to look or, they lack

the capability o seeing the micro-

scopic elements inside human

tissue that serve as red fags or

the disease.

Were trying to nd these

very small cells called bro-

blasts which we cant nd at

home because theyre so small,

says Paul Bassan, a Ph.D.

student at the University o

Manchester in England.

It was this elusiveness that

brought Bassan and his col-

leagues rom England to

southern Wisconsin this past

all as par t o a workshop to learn about a

major development in the world o micros-

copy at the Synchrotron Radiation Center

(SRC). They were at UW-Madison to

learn about a new world-class microscope

called IRENI, or Inrared Environmental

Imaging, a microscope that uses syn-

chrotron-based inrared light to produce

previously unobtainable images.

IRENI, unded with a $1 million award

rom the National Science Foundation,

produces inrared images with previously

impossible to see detail and whose reach

will be ar ranging. When it comes to see-

ing things that were previously unseen

or rather blurry, IRENIs director, Carol

Hirschmugl, sees an untapped world o

biological research and beyond.

Its like going rom X-rays to MRIs,

says Hirschmugl, proessor o physics

at UW-Milwaukee who partnered with

UW-Madison on the project. With MRI

theres so much more and so much di-

erent inormation than you just get rom

X-rays.

IRENI images reveal vivid detailed

inormation in comparison to conventional

methods (known as tabletop instru-

ments). This unmatched clar ity challenges

researchers imaginations in and outside o

the biological eld.

IRENI opens up the possibility o

applying this to things that people would

never have thought o applying it to beore,

because they can see visually what theyre

not used to seeing, says Hirschmugl.

Since its commissioning in late 2009,

research using IRENI includes alternative

energy and how algae might be put to use

to reduce pollution in dirty smokestacks.

Others areas include understanding orma-

tions o volcanic rock, analyzing ancient

art, and even understanding how teeth

orm. And in addition to Bassans prostate

cancer work, medical applications include

Alzheimers, other cancers, malaria and

stem cells.

IRENIs powers come rom an unusual

acility. SRC is a national research acility,home to a particle accelerator nicknamed

Aladdin, which produces a steady stream

o light ranging rom X-ray to inrared.

The use o light or research includes

disease research, environmental science,

astronomy, geology, uture energy sources,

nanotechnology, materials science and

more. Beginning in the 1970s, SRC pio-

neered this use o light or research and

remains a leader in light-source technology

today. UW-Madison is leading an eort to

build a next-generation light source, called

a ree electron laser. As part o the WiFEL

(Wisconsin Free Electron Laser) program,

UW-Madison last all received a $4.5 mil-

lion award rom the U.S. Department o

Energy to begin planning and construction

o an electron source or such a acility

a light source that will take science to

now-unattainable places in much the same

way IRENI has revolutionized research

using inrared.

For now, when it comes to IRENI,

the Aladdin accelerator acts as a bright

source o inrared light which is used to

unveil the inner workings ins ide o mat-

ter. The key eature is that this inrared

light illuminates a dierent sort o image

in comparison to regular white light. In

turn, IRENI is producing never beore

seen images or researchers, because even

though inrared microscopy exists, it pales

in comparison to synchrotron-based inra-

red imaging.

Images with other tools dont reveal

chemical inormation like inrar ed does,

says Kathy Gough, University o Manitoba

researcher. Gough, a longtime user o

inrared light at SRC, explains that there

are major dierences when it comes to

using light or biological research. X-rays

would burn [the samples], and visible light

will show you the shape but not the chem-

istry.

The chemistry Gough reers to is at

the heart o inrared research. Inrared

microscopes show the chemical makeup

o biological samples and can depict, or

example, the presence o key biological

substances such as proteins, ats, sugars

and other chemicals. In comparison,

a researcher examining a sample such

as a cell under a conventional v isible-

light microscope sees only a zoomed in

view o the cells color and shapes; not a

chemical makeup. The conventional use

o low-intensity inrared in ot her tabletop

instruments lends itsel to long-sessions o

light gathering and waiting on the scien-

tists part. The key milestone with IRENI

is the act that it produces images much

more rapidly and also with inim itable

detail.

You can get data in, say, a minute

or two depending on the sample with

unprecedented spatial resolution,

says SRC physicist Michael Nasse.

Spatial resolution is paramount to

biological research and ensures high

denition chemical inormation at the

microscale; the key variable with inra-

red microscopy is the intensity o the

light beam. A tabletop instrument is like

a fashlight shined rom aar whereas

IRENI is like a laser-pointer. This high-

intensity beam decreases the time it takes

to get images with tabletop instruments

rom several hours to just a ew minutes

with IRENI, which is precisely what has

attracted the attention o researchers rom

around the world hoping to nd answers

to the questions that have eluded them.

And so now Hirschmugls already-

packed job description includes marketing

IRENIs revealing capabilities. SRC wel-

comes researchers rom around the world

and locally to work at this acility and

learn rsthand what this new technol-

ogy can provide or their research topic o

interest. Those interested should contact

Hirschmugl directly.

Other people in biology and medicine

can make gre at use o this but they might

not ever hear about it, says Bassan. They

might not be aware that this sort o acility

exists.

Hirschmugl will present IRENI to the

campus community during two upcom-

ing talks. Synchrotron Based Inrared

Imaging Emerging Biospectroscopy

with Potential Applications in Stem Cell

Dierentiation will be presented rom

noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at the

Wisconsin Institute or Discovery (W ID).

High Spatial Resolution Chemical

Imaging: Biomedical Applications or

Pathology and In vivo Imaging will be

presented at noon on Monday, Feb. 7,

in the Tong Auditorium, Room 1003,

Engineering Centers Building. To learn

more about bioscience research at the SRC,

visit http://www.src.wisc.edu/users/

bioscientists/index.html.

Microscope allows research to go where it never has

Study: Supplement may reducecold duration by only hal a day

An over-the-counter herbal treatment

believed to have medicinal benets has

minimal impact in relieving the common

cold, according to research by the School

o Medicine and Public Health.

The study, published in Decembers

Annals o Internal Medicine, involvedechinacea, a wild fower (also known as

the purple conefower) ound in mead-

ows and prairies o the Midwestern

plains. The supplement is sold in capsule

orm in drug and retail stores. Dried

echinacea root has been used in home-

made remedies such as teas, dried herb

and liquid extracts.

The randomized trial involved more

than 700 people between 12 and 80

years old. The subjects, all o whom had

very early symptoms o a cold, were

divided into our groups.

One group received no pills, a sec-

ond group received what they knew

was echinacea, and a third group was

given either echinacea or a placebo, butthey did not know which. Participants

recorded their symptoms twice a day

or the duration o the cold, up to two

weeks.

According to Bruce Barrett, the lead

researcher and an associate proessor

o amily medicine, patients receiving

echinacea saw the duration o their cold

reduced by seven to 10 hours. But he

says this was not considered a signicant

decrease.

Barrett says a larger trial involving

people who have ound echinacea use-

ul may help provide more answers. He

adds that there were no side eects seen,

so there is no reason that cold suerers

should stop using echinacea i they thinkit helps them.

Adults who have ound echinacea to

be benecial should not discontinue use

based on the results o this trial, as there

are no proven eective treatments and

no side eects were seen, he says.

Those who choose to pray nd personal-

ized comort during hard times, according

to a UW-Madison sociologist.

The 75 percent o Americans who pray

on a weekly basis do so to manage a range

o negative situations and emotions ill-

ness, sadness, trauma and anger but

just how they nd relie has gone uncon-sidered by researchers.

Through in-depth interviews with doz-

ens o victims o violent relationships with

intimate partners, Shane Sharp, a gradu-

ate student studying sociology, gathered

an array o ways prayer helped them deal

with their situation and emotions through

coping mechanisms such as venting.

Sharps interviewees represented a wide

swath o the United States in geographic,

educational and racial terms, and came

largely rom Christian backgrounds.

Those who were boiling with anger said

they ound a readily available listening

ear, says Sharp, who explores how prayer

helps manage emotional pain in a recent

issue o the journal Social PsychologyQuarterly.

I they vented their anger to that

abusive partner, the result was likely to

be more violence, Sharp says. But they

could be angry at God while praying with-

out ear o reprisal.

Research fnds prayer can helphandle harmul emotions

Identical images o a cancerous prostate tissue sample with a tabletop instrument (let) and IRENI image

(right), demonstrating the dierence in resolution oered by the new IRENI microscope. Developed at

UW-Madisons Synchrotron Radiation Center, the IRENI microscope uses synchrotron-based inrared light toproduce previously unobtainable images.

Seeing the unseen

ImageCourtesySynchrotronRadiationCenter



January19,2011

rts&vents

Book SmartSojournersina

StrangeLand:

JesuitsandTheir

ScienticMissionsin

LateImperialChina

(Chicago:Universityof

ChicagoPress,2009)

Florence Hsia,

associateprofessor

ofHistoryofScienceandIntegratedLiberal

Studies

Forherrstfull-lengthbook,FlorenceHsia

examinesthehistoryofagroupofexplorers

determinedtounitedifferentworlds:China

andEurope,scienceandreligion.

TheChristianmissionary-scientisthas

stoodonthefrontlinesofsomanycross-

culturalencounters,bothhistoricaland

ctional,saysHsia,citingguressuchas

DavidLivingstoneinAfricaandtheJesuit

explorersenttomakecontactwithother

worldsinMaryDoriaRussellsnovelsThe

SparrowandChildrenofGod.Clearlytheres

akindofmystiqueaboutthissynthesisof

scienceandreligioninthegureofthemis-

sionaryasamanofscience.

Byexaminingthehistoricalrootsofthis

iconography,Hsiafocusesonthewaysin

whichEuropeanJesuitmissionariesinlate

imperialChinatriedtoreconciletheirscien-

ticandreligiouscommitments.Trackingthe

routesofFrenchJesuitsinthe1680s,she

showshowtheEuropeanspresentedtheir

workandthemselves,ultimatelyservingas

morethanjustvehiclesforWesternthought.

Hsiasworkhaswonheraccoladesona

globalandlocalscale.Arecentfellowship

inBerlinattheMaxPlanckInstitutegave

heraccesstorarehistoricalarchivesandan

ever-changingarrayofscholarsfromaround

theworld.SheplanstoreturnintwoyearsaspartoftheInstitutesSciencesofthe

Archivesproject,ndingnewwaystoana-

lyzehercurrentwork.

Researchforthatbook,tentativelytitled

DarknessatNoon,continuestounite

ChristianthoughtwithChineserecordsof

science.ItexaminesChineseaccountsofa

solareclipsethatsomethoughtaccounted

forthedarknessoverGolgothaatthetimeof

Jesusdeathonthecross.

Studentreactionscontinuetodriveher

work,especiallywhensherecallsherown

studies.Asaseniorincollege,shetooka

courseonthehistoryofscienceinChinaand

Europe.

ThematerialtheyassignedontheJesuit

episodeinlateimperialChinaisthereinmy

booksbibliography,saysHsia,whichtells

yousomethingaboutthedifferenceasingle

classcanmake.

Shesharesastudentevaluationfrom

lastspring.NexttoacolumnofScantron

bubbles,thestudentdrewapersonalver-

sionofFrancisBacons1620workGreat

Instauration.Baconusesshipssailinginto

theopenAtlanticasavisualmetaphorfor

thedaringvoyageofintellectualdiscovery

inaskepticalsociety,withthePillarsof

Herculesmarkingthelimitsoftheclassical

world.Scribbledduringahastyevaluation

period,thestudentsvoyageofdiscovery

betweenpillarslabeledMadison

includedapoollabeledskepticalcrisis?

underneathaboatandasummerin

California.

Inbothformandcontent,thedrawing

remindsmethattobeastudentistobe

willingtojourneybeyondwhatisknownand

familiar,saysHsia.ItsawillingnessIhope

studentsinmyclassescanrecognizeinme

aswell.

Fillingtherestofthecommentspace

witheffusivescrawl,thestudentwrote

Thanksforeverything.Susannah Brooks

By Susannah Brooks

[email protected]

At 102, the legendary Manoel deOliveira isnt just cinemas oldest

working director. A prolic and

still-adventurous auteur, his career spans

acting, documentary work and narrative ea-

tures. Remarkably, he is currently at work on

another lm.

You cant point to Manoel de Oliveira

and say, Hes emblematic o Portuguese

cinema. Hes emblematic o himsel; hes

almost his own industry, says Jim Healy,

director o programming or UW-Madisons

Cinematheque.

Portugal has been home to some o the

most daring lmmakers o recent years.

Although the lms o young directors like

Pedro Costa, Joo Pedro Rodrigues, and

Miguel Gomes are altogether unique, they and Oliveira share a need to push the

boundaries o lmmaking past even the most

intrepid art-house themes.

This adventurous spirit will be on ull

display during this years Festival de Cine:

New Portuguese Cinema. From Friday

through Sunday, Jan. 28-30, Cinematheque

will present the work o Oliveira, Gomes and

Rodrigues. The estival is supported in part

by Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian

Studies Program (LACIS) and the Center or

European Studies (CES).

O the ew Portuguese lms that make it to

Madison, even ewer are new releases. With

that in mind, estival organizers created a

lineup that balances shorts and eatures by

young greats Rodrigues and Gomes with thelatest contribution rom Oliveira, Portugals

preeminent director behind the camera

since 1931.

His stu is really hard to get. That speaks

to the point o how important events like this

are, says Healy. Even major lmmakers in

Europe, who have been working since the

dawn o cinema, we dont know.

Nationality is only one o the major dier-

ences rom last years lineup, which eatured

Brazilian melodramas o the 1950s. Mike

King, chie projectionist or Cinematheque,

describes those lms as conventional,

popular cinema: the period equivalent o a

multiplex movie.

This years lms are not multiplex movies,

but theyre exciting in a dierent way, saysKing. They dont necessarily all t together,

but theyre all individual, pushing the enve-

lope, expanding the idea o what a movie can

be. I anything, these are very unpredictable

movies. Theyre on the vanguard o narra-

tive.

On Friday, Jan. 28, the Festival de Cine

kicks o at 7 p.m. with Oliveiras The

Strange Case o Angelica (O Estranho Caso

de Anglica). Completed ater his 101st

birthday, the most recent eature rom the

unstoppable master o Portuguese cinema

uses liberal doses o antasy to tell another o

his elegiac tales o thwarted romance. When

the young and beautiul Angelica (Pilar

Lpez de Ayala) dies, a young photographer

(Ricardo Trpa, Oliveiras grandson) is sum-

moned to take her nal picture. Angelica

magically comes to lie, but only when the

photographer looks at her through his view-

nder! (Portugal, 2010, 35mm, 97 min.; in

Portuguese with English subtitles)

Saturdays program eatures shorts and

a eature by Miguel Gomes, described by

Healy as the centerpiece o the estival. At

7 p.m., Miguel Gomes Shorts: Meanwhile,

Christmas Inventory and Canticle o All

Creatures evokes the musical comedy

qualities o his early work. These three

sketch-like shorts deliver in characteristically

elliptical and playul ways (Portugal, 1999-

2006, 35mm, 71min.; in Portuguese with

English subtitles).

King is particularly excited to bring

Gomes work back to Madison. Ater book-ing Gomes lm Our Beloved Month o

August or two sold-out showings at the

2009 Wisconsin Film Festival, King still calls

it his avorite lm o the past ew years.

At 8:15 p.m., view Gomes rst eature, the

audacious comedy The Face You Deserve

(A Cara Que Mereces). What begins as a

hilarious depiction o a mid- (or third-) lie

crisis turns into a ever dream o arcane rules

explicitly made to be broken. Jos Airosa,

Gracinda Nave and Sara Graa depict the

sentiment Until 30, you have the ace that

God has given you. Ater that, you get the

ace you deserve (Portugal, 2004, 35mm,

108 min.; in Portuguese with English

subtitles).

The estival wraps up at 7 p.m. onSunday with the third lm by Joo Pedro

Rodrigues. In To Die Like a Man (Morrer

Como Um Homem), an aging Lisbon drag

queen suers all manner o Almodovarian

indignities beore a transcendent retreat

to the natural world. Featured at the 2009

Cannes and New York lm estivals, this

bold, tricky opus both exploits and thwarts

the tropes that plague conventional gay

cinema. With Alexander David, Gonalo

Ferreira De Almeida and Fernando Gomes

(Portugal, 2009, 35mm, 133 min.; in

Portuguese with English subtitles).

With Rodrigues, we dont show a lot

o gay cinema at the Cinematheque, says

King. Hes another exciting, innovative lm-

maker that doesnt come to Sundance or the

Orpheum.This weekend also paves the way or a

major campus visit by lmmaker Pedro

Costa in April. Costas massive Colossal

Youth screened here at LACIS 2007, and he

will present his latest lm, Ne Change Rien,

on Saturday, April 16.

Costa is a world-class lmmaker, says

King. His stu was put out recently by the

Criterion Collection, so people can catch up

beore the event in April. To have him here is

incredible.

For Healy, the estival represents one o his

rst major programming blocks since com-

ing to campus in October. With one Costa

retrospective under his belt elsewhere, he

recognizes the signicance o spotlighting

Portuguese cinema at this point in time.I you wanted to see Portuguese-language

cinema over the last 40 years, chances

are you saw a Brazilian lm, says Healy.

Portuguese cinema really has enjoyed this

burst o creativity.

Festival offers new cinema from Portuguese masters

A flm by Joo Pedro Rodrigues, To Die Like a Man (Morrer Como Um Homem),

wraps up the estival at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30.

On Friday, Jan. 28, the Festival de Cine kicks o at 7 p.m. with Oliveiras The Strange Case o

Angelica (O Estranho Caso de Anglica).

Courtesy:Cinem

atheque


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Januar y 19 , 2 0 1 1 7

Lost Ladybug Project shows

impact o volunteer eorts

During the past 20 years, several once-

common ladybugs native to North America

have become extremely rare even as non-

native ladybugs have greatly increased in

numbers and in range. Since 2000, the Lost

Ladybug Project has worked with volunteers

o all ages to track the movement and dis-

appearance o ladybugs, hoping to preventmore native species rom becoming rare.

Master Gardeners, graduate students and

even 10-year-olds have contributed crucial

inormation to research. Their work may

help reveal how these phenomena relate to

ladybug diversity and the populations o

other plant-eeding insects.

Learn more about the Lost Ladybug

Project and how to get involved at the UW

Arboretum at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27.

Admission is $5.

Participants will hear about the back-

ground and basic goals o the project, then

have some hands-on experience with the

educational material. Finally, the group willdiscuss ways to adapt the program or any

audience. Leader Scott Perez is the tribal

liaison or the Lost Ladybug Project and

vice president o Ecological Dimensions

Consulting. He is currently nishing a Ph.D.

in Natural Resources at Cornell University.

To register online or learn more about

the Arboretums classes and programs, visit

http://www.uwarboretum.org . The Lost

Ladybug Projects page, including activities

or kids, is located at http://www.lostlady-

bug.org. Additional inormation is available

at 263-7888 or [email protected].

Autism workshop shares research, help

For the seventh year in a row, the Waisman

Center will devote a Saturday workshop to

people whose lives have been aected by

autism or autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Participants will have the chance to learn

about new advances in autism research

rom a variety o experts including

both researchers and people experiencing

autisms eects in their own lives.

Autism: A Day with the Experts takes

place rom 9 a.m.-1:45 p.m. on Saturday,

Jan. 29, in the Waisman Center Auditorium.

The event is hosted by the Autism Society

o Greater Madison and the Waisman

Center, with support rom the Friends o

the Waisman Center. Admission and park-

ing are both ree; however, pre-registration

is encouraged due to limited capacity.Complimentary coee and bagels will be

provided at 8:30 a.m.

Ater a welcome rom Waisman Center

director Marsha Mailick Seltzer at 9 a.m.,

the morning sessions begin at 9:30 a.m.

with Maureen Durkin, population health

sciences and pediatrics, presenting Update

on Trends in the Prevalence o Autism

Spectrum Disorders. At 10:15, Susan

Ellis-Weismer, proessor o communicative

disorders and associate dean or research in

the College o Letters and Science, presents

Early Language Development in Children

on the Autism Spectrum. At 11 a.m., Eric

Anderson, president o the Autism Society

o Greater Madison, presents an introduc-

tion to ASGM and its oerings.Lunch will be available rom 11:15-noon;

Cousins Subs will provide box lunches or

$5 (please indicate interest in purchasing a

box lunch during registration). Following

lunch, Seltzer returns at noon with The

Transition rom High School into Adult

Lie or Adolescents and Young Adults with

Autism Spectrum Disorders: Data rom a

Longitudinal Study. The days activities

conclude with a panel discussion rom

12:45-1:45 p.m., eaturing researchers, indi-

viduals with ASD and amily members.

To register, please provide the ollowing

inormation: name, organization (i appli-

cable), status (e.g., proessional, educator,student, parent, individual with ASD),

mailing address, e-mail address and phone

number. Also, please indicate i you plan to

purchase a boxed lunch ($5, provided by

Cousins Subs). For additional details, or to

register, call 263-5837 or e-mail palumbo@

waisman.wisc.edu.

One program, two halls

Marc Fink is primarily known as a proessor

o oboe. However, he is equally adept at the

English horn, the oboes larger, more mel-

low cousin. In demonstrating the versatility

o the English horn, Finks upcoming recital

will not only incorporate multiple collabo-

rators but multiple locations. Like Finks

instruments, these two halls oer pleasing

variations with similar amenities perect

or intimate yet exciting chamber works.

Marc Fink and Friends perorm at 8 p.m.

on Friday, Jan. 28. Beginning in Morphy

Hall, the program will shit across the lobby

to Eastman Hall ollowing intermission, to

use the School o Musics 3-manual Austin

pipe organ. As part o the School o Musics

Faculty Concert Series, the event is ree and

unticketed.

For more inormation, visit http://www.

music.wisc.edu, e-mail [email protected].

edu or call 263-9485.

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A win-win situation for Badger Volunteers, community groups

Eight faculty honored as AAAS fellowsBy Chris Barncard

[email protected]

Eight members o the aculty have been

elected ellows o the American Association

or the Advancement o Science (AAAS).

Selection as a AAAS ellow is a high

honor conerred by peers in recognition o

distinguished eorts to advance science and

its applications. AAAS is the worlds larg-est general scientic society. The tradition

o naming AAAS ellows in honor o their

achievements dates to 1874.

New ellows will be recognized at the

Fellows Forum, held during the AAAS

annual meeting in Washington, D.C.,

on Feb. 19.

Included in the 2011 class o AAAS

ellows are:

Nicholas L. Abbott, proessor o chemi-

cal and biological engineering, recognized

or the transormative engineering and

analysis o biotic-abiotic interaces, includ-

ing the imaginative use o liquid crystalline

materials to report on the interactions o

biomolecules.

Helen E. Blackwell, associate proessoro chemistry, or the development o a new

chemical language to elucidate the mecha-

nisms o bacterial communication, which

has had a major impact on the understand-

ing o bacterial growth and virulence.

Michael M. Cox, proessor o biochem-

istry, or distinguished contributions in

molecular biology and enzymology o

genetic recombination and DNA repair, and

in the improvement o science education.

Mark Ediger, proessor o chemistry, or

distinguished contributions in the elds

o physical and materials chemistry, par-

ticularly in understanding heterogeneous

dynamics and ultrastable packing o

amorphous materials.Jiming Jiang, proessor o horticulture,

or distinguished contributions to our

understanding o crop plant genomes,

especially centromeres, through the

development, application, and integration

o advanced cytogenetic and genomic

technologies.

Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena, proessor

o bacteriology, or distinguished contribu-

tions to the understanding o coenzyme

vitamin B12 biosynthesis, sirtuins, and

bacterial metabolism o propionate, tri-

carballylate and ethanolamine and graduate

training in microbiology.

Lloyd Smith, proessor o chemistry, or

seminal contributions to the sequencing,

analysis and use o DNA.Shannon Stahl, proessor o chemistry,

or the development and undamental char-

acterization o metal-catalyzed methods or

selective aerobic oxidation o organic mol-

ecules critical or environmentally benign

chemical synthesis.

By Liz Beyler

[email protected]

Talk about Badger spirit. A volunteer pro-

gram that started small now spreads theenthusiasm and generosity o more than

400 UW-Madison students each semester

to schools, community centers, ood banks

and more.

The Badger Volunteers program, coordi-

nated by the Morgridge Center or Public

Service, began in all 2008 and, during

its rst semester, involved 40 student

volunteers and partnerships with our com-

munity organizations. In 2010, the program

sent 70 teams more than 400 students

to 50 community-partner sites.

Students can register online to take part

in the program during spring semester.

Registration continues through Friday, Jan.

28, at http://www.morgridge.wisc.edu.

Badger Volunteers sends students to 12 oMadisons Schools o Hope, two Boys and

Girls clubs, community centers, programs

at the YWCA, the Second Harvest Food

Bank and many other sites.

Last all, Madison School and

Community Recreation honored the pro-

gram or its commitment to providing

ater-school volunteers at several o its 10

sites.

The students volunteer at the same time,

at the same place, and with the same group

o volunteers each week, says Megan Miller,

program director. Each team has a student

leader who coordinates transportation

and provides logistical support. Beyond

volunteering, students participate in one

refection session and one educationalworkshop each semester. The intent is to

get students thinking about the broader

impact o their service and what it means to

the community.

Kat Michalski became a Badger Volunteer

because she wanted to gain experience by

being more involved in the community

beyond the campus. Her top choice or

a volunteer assignment was Three Gaits

Therapeutic Horsemanship Center near

Stoughton, where volunteers work with

children and adults with disabilities, help-

ing out during horseback riding classes by

walking alongside the riders or leading the

horses.

Ive been a horse person since I was 6

years old, and Im also a nursing student, so

it was very educational or me to volunteer

in their therapeutic riding lessons. Every

week I got to see the riders progress, she

says.

Michalski has served as a student leader

and mentor, and has helped train the

volunteers who had no prior experience

about proper horse care. All the volunteers

learned and very quickly became more

comortable around the horses, so that de-

nitely doesnt limit them, she says.

This program is unlike any other that

Ive experienced, she adds. I loved being

able to work with both the animals and thepeople.

Three Gaits has par tnered with Badger

Volunteers rom the beginning, and the

center is looking orward to expanding its

participation this spring. The volunteers

have gained valuable rsthand experi-

ence in the benets that equine-assisted

activities and therapy oer to people with

disabilities, says Dena Duncan, program

director at Three Gaits.

They are able to see the gains that the

riders made throughout the semester and

share in the joy o those accomplishments,

she says.

Duncan adds that many o the r id-

ers have asked to be paired w ith Badger

Volunteers week ater week. [The volun-teers] have proven to be an asset to our

program, and we hope were able to share

with them as much as they are sharing with

us, she says.

Badger Volunteer Shane Zhou says his

experience helping the Benedictine Women

o Madison with a prairie-restoration

project at their Holy Wisdom Monastery

was a lot o un and well worth the eort.

He worked on ecological restoration, trail

maintenance, invasive-weed control, garden

care and harvesting.

Though I was reassigned to a dierent

location, he says, I had an excellent time,

and it just goes to show you that you can

have un and enjoy any site with Badger

Volunteers.

Jenna Gagner (let) and Stephanie Blackburn (right), undergraduates and members o Badger

Volunteers, lead a horse and rider Mariah Goehring at Three Gaits Therapeutic Horsemanship

Center, a nonproft organization in Stoughton, that provides an equine program or children,

youth and adults with disabilities and special needs. Badger Volunteers, initiated in all 2008

and coordinated by the UW-Madison Morgridge Center or Public Service, sends 70 student teams

to 50 community-partner sites. More than 400 students par ticipate each semester.

On Dec. 30, a mass o Badger ans celebrated during the Party at the Pier, a pep rally

event held at the Santa Monica Pier Caliornia in advance o the Rose Bowl. The Badgers

returned to the Rose Bowl Jan. 1, playing the TCU Horned Frogs. Although the Badgers

lost, 21-19, thousands o ans students, parents, alumni, employees and more sup-

ported the team throughout its successul season.

Ater an 11-1 regular season, its not easy to walk away rom the legendary stadium

bruised by a loss. Jon and Julie Grutzner, o Verona, said their experience in southern

Caliornia was terric.

This season has been magical, said Jon Grutzner. Its a great way to celebrate.

We had such a good time. Wed still come out and wouldnt regret a moment.

Following the Rose Bowl, junior deensive end J.J. Watt and tailback John Clayannounced their decision to orgo their nal season and enter the NFL drat.

Numerous photos rom the Rose Bowl and rom the university overall are available

or purchase at Replay Photos, http://www.replayphotos.com/wisconsinphotos/. The

universitys collection o Rose Bowl photos can be ound at http://www.replayphotos.

com/wisconsinphotos/2011-rose-bowl-pictures/_ROSE_0001048.cfm .

Photo:JeffMiller

Sharing the joy

Photo:BryceRichter

California memories

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