Music and Theatre Arts

Taylor

Dr. Dale B. Taylor (emeritus) presented "Boost Your Brain Health With Music" May 10 during the fourth annual Friday Facts ... Best Care Chats series covering topics designed to maximize brain health through lifelong learning. The series was sponsored by Dove Healthcare and held at Peace Lutheran Church in Eau Claire.

Foreign Languages

Dr. Kate Mastruserio Reynolds, Dr. Aram de Koven (education studies), UW-Eau Claire graduate student Kate Nolin-Smith and Madeline Biers presented "Are Cultural Immersion Experiences Effective in Bridging Cultural Gaps?" at the TESOL International Association Convention March 21 in Dallas, Texas. The presentation described findings on the effectiveness of the Domestic Intercultural Immersion Experience, which they organized and in which they participated.

Reynolds also led a team of 18 TESOL leaders in organizing and planning the TESOL convention noted above. More than 7,000 English language teachers, scholars, writers and exhibitors attended approximately 1,100 sessions at the convention, including plenary talks by John Hunter, Dr. Thomas Nayakama, Dr. Suzanne Panferov, Dr. Aram de Koven, Dr. Bonnie Norton, Dr. Zoltan Dornyei and Dr. Joy Kreeft Peyton. For more information, visit tesol.org.

Foreign Languages

Two students from Ami Christensen's "U.S. Culture and Institutions" class recently entered and placed in the 2013 WITESOL (Wisconsin Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Writing and Art Contest, which was open to students whose instructors are members of WITESOL. The theme for this year's contest was "Who is/are your hero(es) and what makes them a hero in your eyes?" Brice-Henri Tribollet, a UW-Eau Claire student from Switzerland, placed third in the adult writing category for his essay, "More Than a Mother." Hyeonseo Lim, a student from South Korea, placed first in the adult art category for her piece, "The Speakers." Both students received a copy of the winning pieces in each category, a certificate and a small cash prize.

English

Garland

Max Garland's poems "Sciurus Carolinesis" and "The Word We Used for It" appear in the current issue of the journal Subtropics. In addition, his essay "Sin" appears in the current issue of the journal Creative Nonfiction.

Counseling Services

Schneider

Dr. Katherine Schneider (emerita) recently received the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library's Distinguished Service Award from the Friends of the Library. Schneider was recognized for her help in heightening awareness of library services for patrons with disabilities. Schneider served for six years on the library's board of trustees, including two years as president. She also has been involved with the Friends of the Library, serving as president and then as the library board's liaison for several years. Schneider is the seventh recipient of the award, which is presented to honor generosity of time and spirit, inspiration to others and extraordinary contributions to a library-related issue.

Philosophy and Religious Studies

McAleer

Dr. Sean McAleer's essay "When a Lie Ain't Just a Lie" appeared in "The Wire and Philosophy," Open Court, 2013.

Music and Theatre Arts

Taylor

Dr. Dale B. Taylor (emeritus) presented a five-hour symposium on the topic of "Evidence Related to Music and the Brain: Implications for Music Therapy Practice" with co-presenter Dr. Elizabeth Stegemoller, a neuroscientist from Northwestern University and the University of Florida, at the Cleveland Music Settlement's Centennial Music Therapy Celebration April 20. Taylor's book "Biomedical Foundations of Music as Therapy" served as the primary reference for the course, which was attended by more than 100 participants from a variety of health professions and covered clinical applications of the most current research findings regarding brain responses to music.

Economics

Chaudhuri

Dr. Sanjukta Chaudhuri presented her paper titled "Excess Female Infant Mortality and Gender Gap in Childhood Investment in Bihar, India" as a poster at the Population Association of America Annual Meetings April 11 in New Orleans, La.

Faculty members receive grant funding

The following UW-Eau Claire faculty members recently received grant funding:

• Dr. Michael Carney, chemistry, received an award for $47,000 from Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP to conduct research. Undergraduates will be involved in the project.
• Dr. Doug Dunham, Materials Science Center, received an award for $24,785 from the Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation program. The project is titled “First Year to Second Year Summer + Research Experience" and will continue the 10-week summer program between students' freshman and sophomore years that includes student-faculty research collaboration in a STEM field.
• Deb Freund, biology, received an award for $26,000 from the AsiaNetwork Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Program for Collaborative Research in Asia program. The project is titled "The Monk's Community Forest: Biodiversity and Ethnobotany in a Cambodian REDD project." Freund will mentor four undergraduate students during summer 2013 as they perform basic biodiversity assessments and study the effects of deforestation on biodiversity and traditional ethnobotanical practices in Cambodia.
• Dr. Jason Halfen, chemistry, received an agreement for $10,000 from Rapala-Normark Corp. to conduct research.
• Dr. Harry Jol, geography and anthropology, received an award for $2,800 from the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation. The project is titled "Ground penetrating radar subsurface imaging and dating of coastal deposits: Better understanding the past to plan for the future." Undergraduates will participate in the research.
• Dr. Sherrie Serros and Claudia Giamati, mathematics, received a continuing award for $26,857 from the U.S. Department of Education/UW System WITQ program in collaboration with CESA 11. The project is titled "Coaching Mathematics Learning Community."

Foreign Languages

Thévenin

Dominique Thévenin's book review of Alain Monnier's "Place de la Trinite" was published in The French Review, Vol. 86, No. 5, April 2013.