Good Morning, Colleagues.
After a summer break, here is this week’s update from Academic Affairs:
Campus Budget Forum
– Please plan to attend the 10th in a series of Campus Budget Forums on Wednesday, August 19 from 2-3 p.m. in the Student Union Wisconsin Room. Click here for more information, including a link to the streamed meeting.
Kudos
– Diane Reddy (Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Psychology) was selected for a 2015 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)/Brightspace Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. This international award recognizes educators for their innovative and student-centered approaches to teaching and learning. Diane was honored at the STLHE Annual Conference and at Brightspace’s FUSION Conference in June and Amy Mangrich (also from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) received a grant from the UW System Learning Technology Development Council to develop and share a fully automated tool that will streamline captioning of online media, automate billing to departments, and facilitate student success. The grant product will utilize Automatic Sync Technologies’ human transcription services to create video and audio captions, which are integrated into the My Media/Kaltura tool in Brightspace/Desire2Learn.
– Gabriela Alejandra Nagy, PhD student in Psychology and an AOP Fellow, was selected to receive a $10,000 scholarship through the 2015 Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee (HPGM) Advanced Degree Program. Gaby will be honored at the 2015 Annual Meeting that will be held on August 21 at the Pfister Hotel. Congratulations, Gaby!
– Christine Larson, Psychology, received a 5-year R01 grant, “Acute neurocognitive-affective predictors of chronic post-trauma outcomes,” from the National Institute of Mental Health. In this project, she and her collaborators will collect neuroimaging and other assessments within two weeks of experiencing a traumatic event in order to identify predictors of long-term post-trauma distress, such as PTSD and depression.
– Timothy Patrick, Health Informatics and Administration, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine (IJFIPM) effective August 1 and Richard Grusin presented at the international symposium, The Secret Life of Objects: Media Ecologies, held in São Paulo on August 3 and in Rio de Janeiro.
– UWM took first place in the annual competition between the Midwest Schools of Architecture to recognize the strongest designs. UWM has been competing in the Chicago awards program for more than thirty years and has won over 70% of all the awards during the years we participated! Way to go, Architecture students!
The Week
Tuesday
I have a meeting on collaboration with Rockwell Automation, plus a meeting with Academic Opportunity Center staff. In the afternoon, The Budget Communication Task Force meet in the afternoon (V/C Luljak and I co-chair this meeting).
Wednesday
I have meetings with direct reports, plus the Budget Forum (see above) and a regular monthly meeting with University Committee Chair Mark Schwartz. I also meet with Zilber School of Public Health to discuss the interim dean appointment.
Thursday
The APBC meets in the morning (I will attend) and I’ll be attending part of the Department Chairs retreat, plus meeting with the Chancellor and the CEMAT Steering Committee.
Friday
School of Education Dean Alan Shoho and I are meeting with Hartford Avenue School leaders.
Announcements
Fall Start-of-Semester Memo
– The 2015 fall memo is now available.
Faculty Sabbatical Program Guidelines
– The 2016-17 faculty sabbatical guidelines are available. Note that the deadline for the Departments to forward proposals to the Deans’ offices is October 5. Please contact Bridgett Kemp (bkemp@uwm.edu or 229-4896) if you have any questions.
Fall Welcome Activities
– Fall Welcome is again set to welcome students to UWM as they arrive for the beginning of the fall semester. Fall Welcome activities start Tuesday, August 25 with UNITE, the annual outreach program to students who live in the east side neighborhoods surrounding the campus. Residence hall student move-in begins August 27 and other highlighted activities of Fall Welcome include Panther Academic Welcome Day, the University Welcome, outings to a Brewers game and the Milwaukee County Zoo, tours of the city and more. The always-popular Panther Street Festival and Panther Fest is scheduled for Friday, September 4. For more information about Fall Welcome activities, visit
http://uwm.edu/fallwelcome/pages/schedule.html.
UWM Night At Miller Park-Discounted tickets now on sale for Brewers-Reds game
– Join fellow UWM employees, alumni, students and families for UWM Night at Miller Park September 18. The game between Milwaukee Brewers and the Cincinnati Reds starts at 7:10 p.m. Discounted tickets are available in two locations, with Loge Outfield tickets only $20 and Bleacher tickets only $14. Both prices offer a substantial discount off the box office price and lets you avoid Ticketmaster fees. Plus, it’s a great chance to join fellow Panthers on a night UWM will be front and center. UWM student Katherine Henry will sing the national anthem and UWM will recognize its schools and colleges celebrating anniversaries during first pitch ceremonies on the field.
Visit http://uwm.edu/universityrelations/event/index.cfm to purchase tickets today!
Other
– Well done to England who won the Ashes series against Australia.
Take care,
Johannes
Johannes Britz
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs