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Martin refectson Asia tripChancellor Biddy Martin recently returned
from a 12-day trip to Beijing, Hong Kong
and Taipei and reports that the universitys
presence and visibility in East Asia is con-
tinuing to grow stronger.
The UW-Madison delegation met with
Chinese education ofcials, numerous
universities, UW-Madison alumni and
ofcials of the Taiwanese government,
among other stops. As she returned to
Madison, Martin provided thoughts aboutthe trip. A full transcript follows.
Q: What were the best parts of the
November trip?
A: It is very difcult to choose. The
trip was an extraordinary learning experi-
ence and full of wonderful interactions.
Ultimately, the person-to-person inter-
actions and the relationships they help
build are most memorable and important.
The interest in UW-Madison and, in
particular, in the Wisconsin Idea opened
up unique opportunities for us the
opportunities, for example, to spend time
in Beijing with Chinas Vice Minister for
Higher Education Hao Ping, with Deputy
Secretary General of State Wang with
the governors of Hielongjiang and InnerMongolia, and with representatives of
Wisconsin-based companies doing busi-
ness in China.
In Taiwan, our alumni welcomed us
with incredible warmth and generosity,
introducing us to Taiwans Vice President
Hsaio and to Premier Wu, with whom I
conversed for more than an hour. In Hong
Kong, key alumni took two evenings out
of their busy schedules to host dinners
for us and celebrate their ties to the uni-
versity as well as ours with them. And the
visit to Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology was spectacular. I loved
talking with alumni and academic coun-
terparts in each location about politics,
economics and culture.In Beijing, we met the next generation
of world-class athletes interested in study-
ing at UW-Madison. Some of them joined
us at Cisco headquarters in Beijing for the
meeting, by TelePresence, with students,
faculty, and staff back in Madison. I will
always remember sitting across from
Steven Olikara and Jon Alfurth, looking
them in the eye as if we were in the same
room and not halfway across the world
from one another.
The sheer number of mopeds in Taipei
and the skill of the drivers weaving in and
out of vehicular trafc will remain with
me for a long time.
Q: What kind of relationships are we
building in Asia?A: We are building a range of different
kinds of relationships. Obviously, we are
developing closer institution-to-institution
ties with major universities as a way of
supporting existing collaborations and
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Local products
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Polish Film Festival
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China, continues on page 8
By Jill Sakai
Though enticing, the food spread across the
tables is only part of the point of this meal.
The two dozen students at this Global Food
for Thought dinner are here to feed their
minds as well as their stomachs.
Organized by GreenHouse, a new
sustainability-themed residential learning
community (RLC), the dinner aims to give
students an international perspective in
this case, using food as a medium, says
community and environmental sociology
professor Jack Kloppenburg.
The chef and a guest speaker are onhand to talk about the social and cultural
context of the food and issues relevant to a
particular part o f the world. Tonights menu
includes spinach pie, Marrakech chicken
and couscous, followed by a discussion
of environmental politics and water in the
Middle East.
Its up to us to help students engage and
understand the challenges facing them,
and prepare them to be citizens in a world
that is going to require that they help
things move toward sustainability, says
Kloppenburg, who is faculty director of the
new community.
And that means a lot more than just recy-
cling and turning out the lights.
GreenHouse aims to advance sustain-ability in a broadly encompass ing way, says
Cal Bergman, who oversees the residential
learning communities and other academic
programs through University Housing. For
some students it might be about living sus-
tainably with regard to energy conservation,
while other students may be thinking more
about food and food systems, engineer-
ing and building design, or social justice
issues, he says.
GreenHouse opened this fall in Cole Hall,
becoming the seventh residential learning
community on campus. All seven got a
boost this year from the Madison Initiative
for Undergraduates (MIU), which now pro-
vides funds for a dedicated faculty director
and part-time academic program coordina-tor for each community.
The MIU support is enabling University
Housing to solicit proposals for two addi-
tional RLCs on campus to open in 2012 and
2013. Bergman encourages any faculty or
staff on campus to submit a proposal to him
by Dec. 15, hoping to expand and diversify
the offerings available to students. We put
something in motion with our Learning
Communities, and every year something
really unexpected and transformative hap-
pens because of it, he says.
At GreenHouse, MIU funds are also being
to support three upperclassman interns. For
environmental justice intern Ashley Lee,
a senior community and environmental
sociology major, GreenHouses 46 residents mostly freshmen are the payoff for
two years of planning with Kloppenburg,
Bergman and others.
Were not only educating our students
but educating those people they come in
contact with throughout their four years,
she says. Theyll create networks of sustain-
ability across areas of campus where they
didnt already exist.
In addition to living together, the stu-
dents have access to a variety of academic
and nonacademic programming, from
one-credit topical seminars on specic envi-
ronmental issues to cooking meals together
in the newly renovated kitchen in their
dorm.
GreenHouse is about breaking studentsfree from a lecture hall where they sit and
listen to someone, Kloppenburg says.
We value experiential education: see it,
be it, do it. Thats worth more than all the
[PowerPoint] slides I could show.
And what is more fundamentally experi-
ential than eating?
As the students dig into the meal, Chef
Sabi Atteyth describes his Midwestern
take on several traditional dishes, includ-
ing some he created to mimic dishes
from his childhood around the Eastern
Mediterranean using local kale instead
of grape leaves, for example. He notes
that food is a good representation o f the
sharing and spread of ideas between cul-
tures, with similar dishes distinguished byunique regional ingredients and avors.
The more I learned, the more I found
that people all over have the same foods,
he says, they just call it something
different.
Now theres some food for thought.
New GreenHouse or sustainability nurtures community
Undergraduates and staff members from the GreenHouse Residential Learning Community make fresh apple cider in front of Cole Hall.
GreenHouse is the newest residential learning community on campus and is focused on advancing sustainability in a broadly encompassing way.
Photo:
Bryce
Richter
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City proclamation recognizes
Year of the Arts
With activities well under way during
the Year of the Arts, three U W-Madison
administrators stepped off campus for a
special recognition.
At the Nov. 9 meeting of the Madison
Common Council, Celia Klehr, chair of
the Madison Arts Commission, and Karin
Wolf, arts program administrator for the
Arts Commission, presented the university
with a proclamation endorsing September
2010 through August 2011 as the Year of
the Arts and encouraging all city residents
to participate.
Provost Paul M. DeLuca Jr. accepted
the proclamation plaque on behalf of
Chancellor Biddy Martin. Year of the Arts
co-chairs Norma Saldivar, professor of
theatre and executive director of the Arts
Institute, and Andrew Taylor, director of
the Bolz Center for Arts Administration,
joined DeLuca at the ceremony.
Programming through the Year of the
Arts is not simply intended to emphasize
on-campus activities. The proclama-
tion recognized that a primary goal for
the Year of the Arts is to celebrate the
many connections between the arts at
UW-Madison and the artistic life of the
greater Madison community. During one
major visit earlier this fall, alumnus Rocco
Landesman, now chair of the National
Endowment for the Arts, met with Mayor
David Cieslewicz and other city staff to
discuss enhancements for the citys pro-
posed Central Park and other ways in
which the arts promote city building.
The proclamation also recognized how
the Arts Institute is working to nd
unique ways to partner with the city to
maximize resources that enhance our cre-
ative culture, such as providing additional
funding for the Blink temporary public artprogram.
The Year of the Arts celebrates the
breadth, depth, power and purpose of
artistic exploration and expression at
UW-Madison with more than 300 events,
including special performances, exhibits,
symposia, public programs, distinguished
visiting speakers and visits by prominent
alumni in the arts.
UW-Extensions new website improves
access to programs, news and staff
UW-Extension has launched a website
with easy-to-use navigation and reworked
site content at http://www.uwex.edu.
The site tells the far-reaching story of
UW-Extension.
Each page offers links to the four
divisions Continuing and Online
Education, Cooperative Extension,
Entrepreneurship and Economic
Development, and Public Broadcasting
and to the conference centers (Lowell and
Pyle).
New features on the home page include:
n A revolving slideshow for an overview of
the four UW-Extension divisions.
n Dynamic content such as PopularLinks
to the search for a new U W Colleges and
UW-Extension chancellor.n A map highlighting UW-Extensions
reach by serv ices including Continuing
Education programs, Cooperative
Extension county ofces, Small Business
Development Centers and Public
Broadcasting coverage.
Also new, the Academic Affairs sec-
tion showcases UW-Extension programs,
governance, scholars, award opportunities
available and awards received at http://
www.uwex.edu/academic-aairs/.
Courses and workshops are detailed
at http://www.uwex.edu/courses/, and
publications by and about U W-Extension
are available through the Resource Center,
http://www.uwex.edu/resource-center/.
UW-Extension news releases, mentions
in the news, programs with social media,
media contacts and resources are available
at http://www.uwex.edu/news/.
Visitors can nd staff through three
Contact Us options at http://www.uwex.
edu/contact/:
n Frequently requested information such
as UW HELP and Central IT.
n Requests for help by topic and county.
n Staff directory searchable by last name.
The For Employees tab at the top right
of each page directs staff to information
including the payroll schedule, furloughdays and paid holidays, forms such as
for expenses and IT, professional devel-
opment, logos and templates for photo
releases and PowerPoint at http://www.
uwex.edu/employees/. Jobs are posted at
http://www.uwex.edu/jobs/.
UW-Madison scholar tapped to lead
American Historical Association
Historian William Cronon has been elected
president of the American Historical
Association, a position considered one of
the highest honors in the profession.
NewsinBrief
Recent Sighting: Having a ball
Brian Hershberger (left) pushes fellow student Tom Black (right) along in a game of human
bowling during an event at the Memorial Union Tripp Commons designed to celebrate the
upcoming grand opening of the new Union South, which is currently under construction.
The event highlighted some of the recreational activities that will be available at the new facility,
such as bowling lanes and a climbing wall.
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wisconsin week
Vol. XXV, No. 7, November 17, 2010
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selected winner who submits a correct answer by Friday, Dec. 3, will receive a mug with the
universitys logo.
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photo quiz, and ve were correct. Pictured was
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Cronon, the Frederick Jackson Turner
and Vilas Resea rch Professor of History,
Geography and Environmental Studies, is
a national leader in studying past human
interaction with the natural world and
is the rst environmental historian ever
elected to lead the assoc iation.
His election raises the v isibility of
UW-Madisons long tradition of scholar-
ship on the environment. Cronon wasamong the group of scholars who helped
found environmental history, which has
established itself as an innovative eld that
studies the human past in relation to the
plants, animals, diseases and biophysical
environments with which people interact.
Cronons work explores how people
depend on the ecosystems around them
to sustain their material lives, how they
modify the landscapes in which they live
and how ideas of nature shape the world
around us.
Were at a moment in the history of the
world when were ever more conscious of
the scale of human impacts on the planet,
Cronon says. This leads us to worry about
what the future might be and to askquestions about what happened in the past
to bring us to this present moment.
The debate about climate change, for
instance, necessarily requires a study of
past trends.
History is far more relevant to the
environmental future than most people
recognize, Cronon says.
UW-Madisons leadership in the study
of the environment dates back more than a
century. In addition to well-known gures
such as Aldo Leopold and John Muir, UW
President Charles Van Hise authored the
rst textbook on natural resource conser-
vation in the U.S., and noted Wisconsin
historian Frederick Jackson Turner, for
whom Cronons chair is named, offereda land-oriented interpretation of the
American frontier that shaped Cronons
work.
Cronon heads U W-Madisons Center for
Culture, History and Environment, which
brings together scholars from disciplines
as diverse a s anthropology, history and for-
estry to study environmental and cultural
change throughout human h istory.
Cronon came to UW-Madison in
1992 after a decade as a professor at Yale
University. He has a bachelors degree
from UW-Madison, masters and doctoral
degrees from Yale, and a doctorate from
Oxford University.
The American Historical Association,
a Washington, D.C., nonprot member-ship organization founded in 1884, works
to promote historical studies and the
collection and preservation of historical
documents, as well as to set standards for
the profession. The association now serves
more than 14,000 historians of every his-
torical era and geographical area.
Cronon will become president-elect
starting in January, then serve h is one-year
term as president in 2012.
UW-Madison begins
collaborative ADHD research program
UW-Madison researchers will soon
begin testing and developing a mind-
training program that provides a dr ug-free
alternative for treating attention decithyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and high-
functioning autism in children.
The program is a collaboration between
the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
at the Waisman Center and the Mind
Matter Research Foundation in conjunction
with the HESA Institute. The effort is sup-
ported by a three-year, $550,000 research
and development grant from the Mind
Matter Research Foundation and the HESA
Institute to the Center for Investigating
Healthy Minds.
Last year, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention estimated that 11.2
percent of all boys and 4.9 percent of all
girls age 3-17 have been diagnosed with
ADHD. It is considered the biggest health-
related learning problem faced by s chools,
teachers and families today.
The attention-training program to be
developed by UW-Madison researchers is
focused on children with ADHD between
the ages of 10 and 12.
For more information on the Center for
Investigating Healthy Minds, visit http://
www.investigatinghealthyminds.org .
Hoofers present Ski, Snowboard Resale
The 47th annual Hoofer Ski and
Snowboard Resale, the largest of its kind
in the Midwest, will be held from 9 a.m.-
5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, and from
9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5, at the
Memorial Union.
Vendors bring in skis, snowboards,
boots, apparel and related items, coupled
with all the items the public brings, to pro-
duce the sale. Prices are signicantly lower
than retail.
Proceeds from the sale help fund the
Hoofer Alpine and Nordic competitive ski
teams, as well as the Ski and Snowboard
Club. It also pay for annual ski tripsfor local nonprot groups such as Big
Brothers/Big Sisters and Girls Inc. Cash,
checks, Mastercard and Visa are accepted.
Equipment to be sold can be dropped off
at the Memorial Union from 3-9 p.m. on
Thursday, Dec. 2, and from 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
on Friday, Dec. 3. Look for signs indicat-
ing the room location. Helmets or recalled
bindings will not be accepted. All apparel
must be cleaned.
For more information, contact John
Cook at 920-889-1053 or cook4@wisc.
edu, or visit http://www.hooersns.org/
resale.
English professor wins System award
David Zimmerman, a U W-Madison
English professor, is among four recipi-
ents of UW Systems 2010 Alliant Energy
Underkoer Awards for Excellence in
Teaching. Having taught more than 35
introductory literature lecture courses,
advanced American literature classes, and
honors and graduate seminars since arriv-
ing in Madison in 2000, Zimmerman has
been known for his classroom skills.
In nominating him for the award, the
English department praised him as a
model teacher, citing his innovative
methods and dedication to his students,
his recognition as a gifted discussion
leader, his leadership as a writing instruc-
tor and his excitement in the classroom.
The Underkoer awards are given by the
Alliant Energy Foundation as a tribute to
the companys long-term senior executive,
James R. Underkoer, a staunch proponent
of excellence in undergraduate teaching.
State commission allows unit
clarication petitions to proceed
Academic staff at some UW System cam-
puses could be assigned to state employeeunions without voting on whether to be
included, the Wisconsin Employment
Relations Commission ruled last week
(Nov. 11).
After a provision was inserted into the
2009-11 state budget giving academic
staff the right to unionize, some state
employee unions led unit clarication
petitions with the commission. They
argued that hundreds of academic staff
positions at six UW campuses, not includ-
ing UW-Madison, dont meet the statutory
denition of academic staff and should be
converted to classied staff positions.
Such conversions would mean employ-
ees would be assigned to unions w ithout
a vote.Although UW-Madison is not among
the campuses affected by the unit clarica-
tion petitions, the unions have announced
plans to le similar claims regarding
UW-Madison academic staff.
UW-Madisons Academic Staff Executive
Committee and Academic Staff Ass embly
have both passed motions opposing the
process because it takes away the right of
academic staff to decide whether or not to
be part of unions.
Academic staff who could be affected
are those considered Category A, meaning
they are working largely in noninstruc-
tional jobs.
The commissions ruling denied motions
from UW System and the Ofce of StateEmployment Relations to dismis s the
unit clarication petitions. The matter is
expected to reach the courts.
For more information, visit http://
acsta.wisc.edu.
AlmanacAsk Bucky
AskBuckyisane-mail
andlivechatservice
providedbyVisitor&
InformationPrograms.
Formoreinformation,call263-2400,
stopbytheCampusInformationCenter
intheRedGymortheWelcomeCenter
at21N.ParkSt.,orvisitusonlineanytime
athttp://www.vip.wisc.edu.Beloware
tworecentquestionsAskBuckyreceived.
Q: MyfamilyandIarelookingforanoppor-
tunitytogivebacktoourcommunitythis
holidayseason.Doyouknowofanyevents
goingonintheMadisonarea?
A:UW-Madisonwillonceagainbepartici-
patinginNBC15sShareyourHolidaysto
EliminateHungerfooddrivewhichcontrib-
utestotheSecondHarvestFoodbankof
SouthernWisconsin.Donationswilldirectly
affectfamiliesandindividualsfacinghunger
in16southwesternWisconsincounties.
Therearevesitesoncampusatwhichyou
candropoffnonperishablefooditemsofany
type:
nRedGym,716LangdonSt.
nWelcomeCenter,21N.ParkSt.
nWisconsinAlumniAssociationOfce,
650N.LakeSt.
nDoitTechStore,1210W.DaytonSt.
nWeeksHall,1215W.DaytonSt.
Additionally,moneydonationswillbe
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Madisonwebsitelistedbelow:
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Events/NBC15ShareYourHolidays.aspx.
Tomakeadonation,pleasefollowthelink
underthetitleDonateNow.
Q:IheardthereisanAndyWarholexhibit
oncampussomewhere.Doyouhavethe
details?
A:TheAndyWarholPhotographicStudies
exhibitiscurrentlybeingheldattheChazen
MuseumofArtthroughSunday,Dec.5.
DuringWarholscareer,heproducedthou-
sandsofphotographswhichwerenever
viewedbythepubliceye.Fortunately,the
Chazenwaschosenasoneof183college
anduniversityartmuseumstoreceivemore
than150ofthesepiecesfromTheAndy
WarholFoundation.Formoreinformation,
visithttp://www.chazen.wisc.edu/.
Early Music Ensemble entertains at
Tudor Tuesday Roundtable lecture
TheDecemberUniversityRoundtablelecture
willwelcometheEarlyMusicEnsembleon
Tuesday,Dec.7.Pleasenotethedateasa
TuesdayRoundtable.
TheDecemberprogram,featuringabuffet
lunchthatbeginsservingat11:30a.m.,will
beheldinGreatHalloftheMemorialUnion
onDec.7.Theafter-lunchperformancewill
includestudentperformersandtheseselec-
tions:nPyrmonterKurwoche(Sabato)byGeorg
PhilippTelemann.Thissetoftrioswascom-
posedbyTelemannin1734toentertainhis
fellowpatientswhiletakingthecureatBad
Pyrmont.
nTheHuntsman,byEnglishcomposer
JohnCarr.Alivelycantataaboutthehunt
featuringsoprano,baroqueute,natural
horn,harpsichordandbassoon.
nBegliocchi(beautifuleyes)acantataby
the17th-centurycomposerBarbaraStrozzi.
Asensuousworkfortwosopranosandcon-
tinuobyoneofthenestItaliancomposers
ofthe17thcentury.
Theprogramisopentomembersofthe
universitycommunityandtheirguests,and
eachluncheoncosts$10.Thereservation
deadlineisNov.30,andreservationscanbe
madeonlineathttp://www.ohrd.wisc.edu.
Reservationscanalsobemadethrough
MarcTurnesat263-2985orturnes@wisc.
edu.ChecksmadeouttoUWRoundtable
canbesenttotheOfceoftheSecretary
oftheAcademicStaffat270BascomHall,
500LincolnDrive,Madison53706.
NewsinBrief
Tuesday, Nov. 23
nNoon:OfceHours:KenGoldstein
interviewsUWPoliceChiefSueRiseling
andSarahVanOrman,directorofUniversity
HealthServices,aboutsafetyandpersonal
healthissuesforstudents.
n12:30p.m.,Five-MinuteLectures:
FeaturessomeofWisconsinstopprofessors
talkingabouttheirareasofstudyina
no-nonsense,down-to-Earthfashion.
Wednesday, Nov. 24
n3a.m., WisconsinReections:
Aninterviewshowfeaturingprominent
UW-Madisonalumniandfriends.Special
guest:LawyerandpoliticalactivistEdGarvey.
Tuesday, Nov. 30
nNoon,OfceHours:KenGoldstein
interviewsSethPollak,professorofpsychol-
ogy,anthropology,pediatrics,psychiatryand
publicaffairs,abouttheworldofchildrens
emotions.
n12:30p.m.,Five-MinuteLectures:
FeaturessomeofWisconsinstopprofessors
talkingabouttheirareasofstudyina
no-nonsense,down-to-Earthfashion.
Wednesday, Dec. 1
n3a.m.WisconsinReections:
Aninterviewshowfeaturingprominent
UW-Madisonalumniandfriends.Special
guest:ESPNanalystAndyKatz.
Coming up on the Big Ten Network
UW-MadisonhasregularlyscheduledprogramtimeslotsontheBigTenNetwork.
LookforouracademicprogrammingatnoononTuesdaysandat3a.m.Wednesdaymornings.
Hereisourprogramlineupforthenexttwoweeks:
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facultyand staff
By Susannah Brooks
H
igh above the din of traf-
c, a Lathrop Hall dance
studio looks more like
open gym at the Y. In sock-cladfeet, 14 students slide across the
wood oor. Some launch them-
selves at the wall, trying to pop
balloons; others draw chalk out-
lines around each other, lling in
the heads with a tight conuence
of asterisks.
Yet within these seemingly
random movements, stories begin
to emerge. One student bops
around the classroom to a blunt
yet playful hip-hop tune, telling
his audience how the music lets
him speak. Many hands pinch the
air around another students head
to illustrate alcoholism and mental
illness.The organized chaos they have
created, a spontaneous yet planned
performance, did not exist an hour
ago. With laughter and a stray
yoga pose here and there the group
comes back together in the center of the
room.
This is Autobiology: a workshop created
by the duo of performance artists and lm-
makers Helen Paris and Leslie Hill (together
known as Curious) that explores the con-
nections between the bodies we inhabit and
the stories we tell about ourselves.
The transformative aspects of their work,
and the connections they make with their
audience, permeate their semester-long
residency. From working with studentsto strengthening bridges between art and
science, Paris and Hill hope that their art,
in the most temporary of forms, will leave
lasting traces once they have gone.
The 14 students selected for this studio
class come primarily from artistic disci-
plines such as theater and studio art. Still,
Paris and Hill chose their students deliber-
ately, with an eye toward interdisciplinarity.
Katie Schaag, a graduate student in com-
parative literature, joined the class to add
a more physical aspect to her spoken-word
performances. Elizabeth Wautlet, studying
in the professional French masters pro-
gram, wanted to explore body memory and
risk in language learning. Other students
come from biology and the First Waveprogram.
Paris and Hill have used many tech-
niques to encourage their students to take
risks and avoid self-censorship. From auto-
matic writing jotting down anything
in their heads to explorations of family
portraits and inherited mannerisms, the
group has forged a unique community in
which to explore their impulses.
Curious current project echoes these
impulses, exploring the mysteries of gut
feelings literally and guratively.
Working with neurogastroenterologists,
they studied the physiological responses of
pain, ght-or-ight impulses and more.
The enteric nervous system, in your
gut, is sometimes called the little brain,says Hill. Its a rudimentary brain system
in itself. So when people talk about having
a gut feeling, the enteric nervous s ystem
is doing tons of rapid processing. It recog-
nizes how truly intelligent our bodies are;
theyre picking up on so much information
that were not aware of. We became fasci-
nated by that.
Just as Paris and Hill encouraged their
students to engage in automatic writing,
their scientist colleagues used the same
technique to map out triggers for chronic
pain. By measuring indicators of the auto-
nomic nervous system while a patient
listens to an autobiographical story that he
or she had previously written, research-
ers could elicit some of the physiological
responses that trigger some of the painful
conditions.The Autobiology workshops, both
short- and long-form, t within this proj-
ect. Though Paris and Hill have taught
weeklong performance-making workshops
around this theme, this is the rst time that
they have expanded it to t a semesters
worth of classes.
It didnt really feel like stretching, says
Paris. It felt the other way round, as we
had so much information. Theres a differ-
ent energy. Doing Autobiology for a week is
intense, because of the terrain that youre
dealing with. At the same time, teaching a
ve-hour class every week also has its own
intensity. With some of the places were
asking them to go because theyre using
personal material a lot of the time itbecomes quite an intense space. Its been
very fruitful.
Indeed, the intensely personal aspect
of the class has been both an asset and
a challenge. As a playwright and scholar,
Jeff Casey, a doctoral student in theatre and
drama, was used to g iving his work a life of
its own on the page. Performing about the
death of his father and his own mortality
gave him a newfound sense of realism. At
the same time, the ephemeral nature of his
work has shown him new ways of creating
and expressing art.
Im not writing this down, so I try to
make it about interacting with the audi-
ence. Thats whats so enchanting, says
Casey. Im not an actor; I cant project; Imnot good at memorizing lines or maintain-
ing a character. Here, I get to be myself
and speak to people as myself. When
you connect with people I had a fac-
ulty member come up to me and her eyes
welled up with tears. You give someone a
piece of yourself, a gift. Thats amazing.
Paris and Hill know that live perfor-
mance isnt always easy to sell. Still, their
curiosity about the world drives them to
make connections between people and
ideas.
Im doing a piece about smell for four
people at a time, eight times a day, and
its really hard work for really small audi-
ences, says Paris. But theres something
about what effects that can engender and
what you can have with audience members
in China, or Brazil, or a council estate inBirmingham, that is so moving. You see
them transported, and you see the connec-
tion youve made.
Thats why Im interested in being an art-
ist: to have that moment of communication
with another person.
Paris and Hills residency, sponsored by
the Arts Institute as part of the Year of the
Arts, culminates from Dec. 4-12 with The
Inside Story, a festival and symposium
uniting performance, biography and biol-
ogy.
Betting the interdisciplinary link
between science and art, the festival takes
place during the grand opening celebration
for the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery
(WID), UW-Madisons new center for inter-disciplinary research and collaboration.
On Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11,
Curious themselves present the moment
I saw you I knew I could love you in Vilas
Halls Hemsley Theatre at 6, 7:15 and 8:30
p.m. Admission is free; tickets are required.
Dec. 11 brings the Autobiology show-
case of student work from 2-5 p.m. in the
Mitchell Theatre. At 6 and 8:30 p.m., the
Mitchell Theatre also hosts the U.S. pre-
miere of Sea Swallowd, a 20-minute lm
by Curious and Andrew Ktting.
For free tickets to performances of the
moment I saw you I new I could love you
visit campus box ofces in the Memorial
Union or Vilas Hall. For a $3.50 fee, reserve
them online at http://www.arts.wisc.eduor by phone at 265-ARTS.
A full schedule of events is available at
http://www.arts.wisc.edu/artsinstitute/
IAR/parishill/. For more information,
contact the Arts Institute at 263-9290.
Artists break down barriers between biology, biographyNew HR system willmeet user needsThis is the rst story in an ongoing series
about the people behind HRS.
For anyone concerned about the transi-
tion to a new state-of-the-art human
resources system, Cheryl Sullivan is hereto say that everything will be all right.
It may take those using the system a
bit of time to massage the kinks, but in
the end, people will be happy with the
system and how it works, says Sullivan,
who is leading the work process analy-
sis team for the new Human Resources
System, known as HRS.
With HRS expected to launch between
April and June 2011, Sullivan and oth-
ers working on the project will travel to
campuses across the state in the coming
months to train people on how to pro-
cess payroll and benets using the new
system.
Once its in place, HRS will handle a
more than $2 billion annual payroll forUW System employees and improve how
data about employees are entered, as
well as how employees sign up for ben-
ets, account for their time and leave,
and view work records.
Its a tall order. For example, the vari-
ous campuses use about 2,700 different
types of forms for collecting data to pro-
cess payroll and benets, Sullivan says.
She and others from the HRS team have
narrowed the number of key forms down
to about 120.
Sullivans 24-year career at
UW-Madison, which started with her
working in food service at UW Hospital
and scooping Babcock Hall ice cream,
puts her in a good position to under-stand all sides of the existing payroll
and benets processes and how the new
system will change how human resource
services are provided at UW-Madison
and other campuses.
Before joining the HRS team, Sullivan
spent nearly 20 years at UW-Madisons
School of Medicine and Public Health as
human resources manager and payroll
and benets supervisor and specialist.
Before that, she was a payroll and ben-
ets specialist for UW-Madisons College
of Letters & Science and a payroll and
benets assistant in the UW-Madison
processing center.
But the opportunity to be part of the
HRS team, and ultimately help shape afundamental change in how the univer-
sity operates, is thrilling, Sullivan says.
She has spent the last two years develop-
ing the human resources module, or the
part of the HRS system that will be used
for setting up people, positions and hir-
ing employees.
When you talk about doing payroll
or benets, all the people on the HRS
team are doing something really cool, big
and exciting, she says. It will replace
the legacy system which we denitely
need to do and it will give us some
new tools to do the required business.
Leslie Hill (center left) and Helen Paris (center right), artists in residence at the Arts Institute this semes-
ter, lead a class session in their Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts course in Lathrop Hall on Nov. 12.
The course is designed to explore the connections between biology and biography through creative artistic
performances. Paris and Hill are co-directors of their performance group, which has produced more than
40 works investigating topics such as place and placelessness, family and questions of cloning.
Photo:
Bryce
Richterr
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on campus
By Sandra Knisely
Theres only one place in Wisconsin where
a driver can send text messages, speed
or engage in other risky behaviors with
no risk of an accident: the new DrivingSimulation Laboratory.
Drivers not only are certain to survive
the experience, but the consequences of
their actions could be safer vehicles and
road around the country and even around
the world.
The driving simulator, located in
the Mechanical Engineering Building,
addresses a substantial need to test new
vehicle technologies and road infra-
structure quickly, say its founders, John
Lee, the Emerson Electric Quality and
Productivity Professor of Industrial
and Systems Engineering, and civil and
environmental engineering associate pro-
fessor David Noyce, who also directs the
Wisconsin Trafc Operations and SafetyLaboratory.
In 1970, no software code was u sed
in vehicles. Now, a vehicle can have
millions of lines of code in just its
navigation system.
Vehicles are getting smarter, and we
need to get ahead of that rapid change to
understand how drivers respond to the
technology, says Lee, an expert in driver
distraction. The fundamental reason
for the simulator is to understand how
people respond to technology so we can
design it better and save lives. The car is
designed from the ground up to be the car
of the future and something we can use to
develop and test next-generation vehicle
technology and road infrastructure.
Funded by UW-Madison and the
Wisconsin Department of Transportation,
the simulator includes a Ford Fusion
with a 24-foot screen wrapped around in
front and an additional screen behind the
car. Six projectors cast a virtual drivingenvironment on the screens, immersing a
driver in as much a s 270 degrees of simu-
lation.
The projectors are unique because they
render images at the same resolution the
human eye does. This allows researchers
to, for example, project signage exactly
as it would appear to a driver on a physi-
cal road. Additionally, the simulator is
motion-based and capable of one degree of
movement in any direction, which further
enhances the realistic experience of driv-
ing the simulator.
Flexible software from Realtime
Technologies Inc. combined with the
high-end hardware will allow researchers
to test a wide variety of driver behaviorsand responses, many of which arent eco-
nomically or ethically possible to test on
physical roads. For example, drivers could
be dosed with alcohol or learn to navigate
a new intersection design.
The simulator is likely to directly ben-
et Wisconsin drivers, as Noyce plans
to replicate segments of roads around
the state that are known to cause trafc
problems and test trafc control solu-
tions for those segments. Noyce also
has spearheaded the effort to introduce
a ashing yellow turn arrow, which has
been implemented at more than 1,000
intersections nationwide, including two
locations in Madison. The simulator will
help researchers continue to study that
and other new signals.
Additionally, national tran sportation
agencies and vehicle industries stand to
gain from research on the UW-Madison
simulator. Lee and Noyce have collabo-
rators in Detroit, Michigan and Swedenwho also may be i nvolved on simulator
projects.
Other advanced motion-based driv-
ing simulators around the country are
prohibitively expensive to operate.
The UW-Madison simulator is afford-
able enough that it will be access ible to
researchers of all levels, including under-
graduate students. Through class projects,
students will help design new vehicle
technologies using the simulators rapid
prototyping software.
Its possible for students to get involved
and do experiments that can really make
a difference and inuence the next line
of cars, Lee says. Its a really exciting
opportunity.Lee and Noyce plan to work closely
on simulator projects. Since I joined
UW-Madison in 2002, one of my goals
since has been to get this type of simula-
tor going, says Noyce. That goal moved
forward when Lee joined UW-Madison in
2009 and the two par tnered to develop
the simulator. This will let us expand on
our respective knowledge and capabilities
as a team, says Noyce. The simulator
really puts Wisconsin on the map in terms
of leadership and research on drivers
issues and behaviors. This continues
UW-Madisons top-ranked reputation in
transportation and opens up whole new
world of research for us.
Simulator puts UW on the map or driving research
By Sandra Knisely
During a long bike ride, its not unusual for
cyclists to experience hand or nger numb-
ness, a very common condition known as
cyclists palsy. The condition ranges from
mild tingling to, sometimes, long-term
nerve damage and hand muscle atrophy
over time.
A team of UW-Madison engineers has
scientically measured hand pressure dur-
ing cycling and studied potential solutions
to reduce that pressure, which can causeproblems like cyclists palsy, a condition
that Wisconsin-based Trek Cycling Corp.
estimates affects as much as 70 percent
of cyclists. Trek has incorporated the
UW-Madison ndings into the design of
a new Bontrager cycling glove that it will
release this winter.
Mechanical engineering associate profes-
sors Heidi-Lynn Ploeg and Darryl Thelen
led the UW-Madison team, which studied
the effects of seven glove (or no glove) types
and three hand positions on the hands of
36 experienced cyclists. Ploeg and Thelen
found that much of the pressure on cyclists
hands is concentrated over the ulnar nerve
and gloves with proper padding density,
thickness and placement are able to reducepressure over this region of the hand. Also,
the team found certain hand positions can
alleviate pressure, such as holding the part
of the brake attached to the handlebars, a
position known as hoods.
The glove project, which began in fall
2008, is the second time Ploeg and Trek
have partnered to understand how cyclists
bodies interact with bikes. Prior to the glove
study, Ploeg and Trek evaluated how bike
saddle design affects pressure. That project
determined saddle design should be based
on a riders size and sex, and Trek intro-
duced new ergonomic products based on
the research.
When Trek decided to update its glove
line, it quickly decided to again approach
UW-Madison. There are a lot of claims out
there about cycling g loves. We wanted to
see what was real, says Treks Bontragerproduct manager, Jennifer Retzlaff. Based
on the success Trek had with UW during
the saddle project, we decided to go ahead
with a similar process so we would have
hard scientic evidence that we were doing
the right thing for cyclists.
The UW-Madison team worked with a
German-based novel GmbH to nd a pres-
sure mat that was the right size and could
be worn under a glove while a subject rode
a bike. The team also performed laser scan-
ning to relate the measurements from the
mats more than 200 sensors to the subjects
hand anatomy. This determined that pres-
sure concentrations were located over the
three muscles below the pinky nger that
make up the hypothenar region of the hand,which is the source of cyc lists palsy.
Ploeg, a biomechanics expert and an
avid cyclist, says partnering with Trek was
a unique opportunity to look at the poten-
tial of cycling research. Cycling is a really
accessible activity for people. Its something
a lot of people can do and could use to
improve their health, she says.
Cycling also is a relatively simple model
for biomechanical analysis. Cycling is
repetitive and predictable, so there are some
basic questions you can ask about human
motion and neuromuscular control of
motion by using cycling as a model, Ploeg
says.
For Trek, the benets of gaining a sci-
entic understanding of hand pressure
outweighed the risk that the study could
have determined cycling gloves dont actu-
ally make a difference. We approached itfrom a point of truly trying to learn what
happens at the intersection of the hand
and the bike, says Trek designer Ryan
Gallagher.
Bontrager brand manager Tom Kueer
says the study evokes Treks Midwest roots.
Were a Wisconsin company, and one of
our core company values is to have unyield-
ing integrity and honesty in everything
we do. Having a scientic understanding
of how glove design affects pressure on a
cyclists hands allows us to create better
products, he says.
In addition to Ploeg and Thelen, the
UW-Madison team included School
of Medicine and Public Health clinical
assistant professor Mark Timmerman,mechanical engineering Ph.D. student
Josh Slane, undergraduate students
Caitlyn Collins and Yvonne Schumacher,
and Madison West High School student
Jane Lee.
UW-Madison engineers team up with Trek or cycling research
This column provides a glimpse into the
science behind everyday life. Submit questions
to [email protected]: Why is Pluto not
considered a planet?
A:Until2006,astrono-
mershadnotcarefullydenedplanet,says
JamesLattis,director
oftheUWSpacePlace.Asteroidswerenot
consideredplanetsbecausetheyaretoo
smallandnumerous.Likewise,cometswere
notconsideredplanetsbecausetheyaretoo
smallandhavenoncircularorbitsthatgofar
outsidetheplaneofthesolarsystem(loca-
tionofEarth,Jupiter,Saturn,andtheother
realplanets).
Althoughastronomersrecognizednine
planets,Plutohadalwaysbeensuspect
becauseweknewitwassmallandfolloweda
noncircularorbitthatdeviatesfaraboveand
belowtheplaneofthesolarsystem,says
Lattis.By2006,Plutowasdemotedbecause
itwasclearthatitisoneofthousandsof
objectsthatoccupythedistantKuiperBelt.
Plutoistoosmallanditsorbittooellipti-
caltotthatplanetcategory,Lattissays.
Tobeconsistent,wevedevelopedanew
categoryofdwarfplanetsthatincludesPluto
andtwosimilarobjects.
Eightplanetsstillsatisfythemorerigorous
denitionofplanetalargeobjectwithan
orbitthatisfairlycircularandwithintheplane
ofthesolarsystem.Astronomyisascience
ofdiscovery,anditsonlyfairtoexpectthat
wewillexpandourlistofobjectsandper-
hapsourcategoriesaswell,saysLattis.
Iwassurprisedatthehubbubraisedby
Plutosreclassication,saysLattis.Itmakes
sensetoclearlydeneascienticterm,but
inretrospectpeopleareunderstandably
attachedtotheirlanguage,andsuddenly
tellingnativespeakersthattheyvebeenmis-
usingacommonwordisaskingfortrouble.
Itwouldhavemademoresensetoabandon
(forscienticpurposes)commonwordsrather
thantoredenethemtocontradicttheircom-
monmeaning.Manyscienticeldshave
specialized,clearlydenedterminologies,
andastronomyshoulddothesame.Ifyou
toldpeopletheycannolongercallatomato
avegetable(becauseitstechnicallyafruit),
youwouldhaveasimilarproblem.
Q: Why do they call it a monkey wrench?
A:Goodquestion,saysJoanHouston
Hall,chiefeditoroftheDictionaryof
AmericanRegionalEnglishatUW-Madison.
Etymologistshavestruggledwiththeroots
ofthewordforthesmooth-jawed,adjustable
wrenchthatplumbersusetoturnttings
withoutthegougesleftbyatoothyjawed
pipewrench.
HallsentaclipfromWorldWideWords,an
etymologywebsite,whichsuggestedthatthe
wrenchgotitsanimalisticmonikerbecauseit
wassimilartoakeywrench,butwasdifferent
enoughtobecalledanon-keywrench.
Thatawkwardphrasingwasthencorrupted
tomonkeywrench.
Alternatively,thewrenchwasinvented
byapersonnamedMonckorMonkor
Monckey.
However,somesourcessaytheterm
monkeywrenchappeared,withoutexplana-
tion,inbookspublishedin1807and1840,
suggestingthatthemeaningwasalready
commonknowledge.Ifthesereferencesare
accurate,theaboveinventorswere,them-
selves,invented.
AccordingtoMichaelQuinionatWorld
WideWords(http://www.worldwidewords.org),Itseemsmostlikelythattheexpla-
nationisverysimple:thatthejawsofthe
wrenchremindedsomeearlyuseroftheface
ofamonkey.
Andsoitsaleadpipecinchthatwell
nevergettotherootofthemonkeywrench.
Curiosities
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November17,2010
rts&vents
T
he Polish Student Association
presents three days of lms by
Polish lmmakers Friday-Sunday,
Nov. 19-21.The Polish Film Festival is one of the
oldest student-run annual lm events at
UW-Madison. The event is dedicated to
the promotion of the newest lms made
by Polish lmmakers, with a selection of
the ve best contemporary Polish lms
screened with English subtitles, providing
a representation of the current spectrum
of the Polish cinematographic scene.
This year, to commemorate the 20th
anniversary of the festival, the student
association is hosting the renowned
Polish director of War of Love (Sluby
Panienskie), Filip Bajon. War of Love is
the larges t Polish lm production of 2010,
and this lm is the opener. A half-hour
speech on the developments in Polishcinematography as well as the lm will
precede lm screening. The lm will be
followed by a question-and-answer ses-
sion with Bajon.
Other events include:
Friday, Nov. 19
n 6:30 p.m.
Opening night greetings by Jim Healy,
Cinematheque director of programming,
and Sebastian Jankowski, Polish Student
Association.
Special guest Filip Bajon, director of
War of Love (Sluby Panien skie), will
talk about his lm, the biggest Polish lm
production of the year 2010 and a box
ofce hit in Poland.
n 7 p.m.War of Love (Sluby Panienskie),
director Filip Bajon in person
Poland, 2010, 35mm, color, 100 min
Directed by Filip Bajon
With Anna Cielak (Aniela), Marta Zmuda-
Trzebiatowska (Klara), Edyta Olszwka
(Dobrjska), Borys Szyc (Albin), Maciej
Stuhr (Gustaw)
Radost and Mrs. Dobrojska are plan-
ning to arrange a marriage between
Gustav Radosts nephew and Mrs.
Ds daughter, Aniela. Their aim is clear ly
materialistic, but Radost also wishes for
the party boy Gustav to settle, while Mrs.
D. wants a good marrying material for her
daughter. The problem is that Gustav is
not very eager to get hitched, and Anielais heavily inuenced by her cousin, Klara,
a erce opponent of men, who constant ly
mocks infatuated in her Albin, Mrs. Ds
neighbor. Soon a revelation surfaces about
the promise the girls made to each other
that they will never get married. They
do not trust men; do not want to be their
marionettes, nor a subject of any trans-
action. Excited by the challenge Gustav
decides to prove that no girl can resist
him. He cunningly plots... and everything
ends happily. Simultaneously, the lm
intriguingly shows relations between the
actors portraying main char acters.
n 9 p.m.
Zero
Poland, 2009, 35mm, color, 110 min.Directed by Pawel Borowski
With Robert Wieckiewicz (Company
President), Bogdan Koca (Detective),
Zbigniew Konopka, Andrzej Masztalerz
Love and hate, cheaters and the
cheated, violence and sex, topped with
surprising secrets discovered during a
bizarre 24 hours. Nameless characters go
about their everyday routines in a stream
of seemingly detached events. But when
every decision has its observable conse-
quences, strangers become connected and
their lives changed irreversibly. And all of
this starts with a simple phone call.
Saturday, Nov. 20
n 7 p.m.
Lullaby (Kolysanka)
Poland, 2010, 35mm, color, 90 min.
Directed by Juliusz Machulski
With Robert Wieckiewicz (Michal),
Krzysztof Kiersznowski (Roman),
Malgorzata Buczkowska (Bozena)
Lullaby is a menacing story full of
humor and suspense from the master
of the genre, Juliusz Machulski. Two
policemen investigate mysterious disap-
pearances in a small scenic town. People
keep disappearing, but the investigation
brings no results. The tension grows and
step by step a dark mystery unravels.
n 8:45 p.m.
The Swing (Hustawka)
Poland, 2010, 35mm, color, 94 min.
Directed by Tomasz Lewkowicz
With Wojciech Zielinsk i (Michal), Joanna
Pierzak-Orleanska (Anna, Michals wife),
Karolina Gorczyca (Karolina, Michals
lover)
Thirty-ve-year-old Michal has a
beautiful wife, lovely daughter and a pas-
sionate lover. When one of the women
gives him an ultimatum, Michal must
choose between desire and loyalty. His
situation further complicates itself once
he nds out that his wife is pregnant.
Will Michal choose a lifetime with his
loving wife, or opt for a fairytale with a
mistress whos not really wife material?
The Swing addresses the issue of moral
integrity in light of our own desires and
the sacrices we are willing to make to
fulll them.
Sunday, Nov. 21
n 4 p.m.
Animated History of Poland
(Animowana Historia Polski)
Poland, 2010, DVD, color, 8 min.,
Directed by Tomasz Baginski
Little Rose (Rozyczka)
Poland, 2010, 35mm, color, 118 min.
Directed by Jan Kidawa-Blonski
With Andrzej Seweryn (Adam
Warczewski), Magdalena Boczarska
(Kamila Sakowicz Little Rose), Robert
Wieckiewicz (Roman Rozek), Jan Frycz
(Lieutenant Wasiak)Warsaw, 1967. Kamila is in love w ith
Roman, a Secret Service Agent for the
Ministry of Internal Affairs. Roman asks
her to get involved with a writer, Adam
Warczewski, and deliver reports about his
views and activities. SB suspects Adam
of an antisocialist agenda and is looking
for proof. Under the pseudonym Little
Rose, Kamila begins her cooperation
with the Secret Service. Soon her relation-
ship with Warczewski grows stronger, her
reports get more interesting, but also true
emotions start to develop. Trapped in a
love triangle, Kamila tries to escape the
binds of political interests and move on
with her life. But Roman wont let her go
so easily.For more information on the Polish
Film Festival, visit http://cinema.wisc.
edu/series/2010_all/pestival.htm.
Polish flms eatured at weekend estival
Cinematheque screens Lullaby (Kolysanka), directed by Juliusz Machulsk Lullaby, at 7 p.m. onSaturday, Nov. 20, as part of the 20th anniversary of the Polish Film Festival.
The Swing, a look at modern morals, screens
at 8:45 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 20.
Polands recent hit lm War of Love screens
at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 19.
Courtesy:
UW
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dison
Cinematheque
BooksmartLessonsamid
theRubble:
AnIntroduction
toPost-Disaster
EngineeringandEthics
(TheJohnsHopkins
UniversityPress,
2010)Sarah K. A.
Pfatteicher,senior
assistantdeaninCALS
andHonoraryFellowinHistoryofScience
Withatendencytowardabstract,bigpicture
thinking,manyengineersaredrivenbyaneed
totacklehuge,complexquestions:Howdo
yougettothemoonandbackinonepiece?
Howdoyouunderstandthewaythatthe
humanbodyworks,inallitsmystery?
Engineersaretrainedtoanswerthesebold
questionsbybreakingitdown,streamlining,
takingastep-by-step,logical,linearprocess,
saysSarahPfatteicher.Thechallengeisto
comeouttheotherendrememberingthat
big,messyplacewhereyoustarted,butrec-
ognizingthatthesimplicationsyoumadeto
makesenseofitarentthebe-allandend-all.
Forpeoplewhoplacetheirfaithinthe
solidityoffactsnumbers,gauges,constants
disasterresponseprovokesauniqueand
disconcertingchallenge.
Foralotofus,itmanifestsinresponding
toanemotionalsituationinalogical,intel-
lectualsortofway,saysPfatteicher.Any
humanbeing,facedwithacrisisortragedy,
ndswhatscomfortable,whatmakesusfeel
ateasewiththeworld.
Pfatteichersbook,theproductof10
yearsofworkoutsideherdayjob,aimsto
provokeadiscussionamongengineering
students,educatorsandanyoneelsewho
wantsabettersenseofwhatengineeringis
about.InanexplorationofsixeventsrelatedtothecollapseoftheWorldTradeCenter,
sheprobesmattersofethics,philosophyand
professionalismwithinengineeringandhow
engineeringiscurrentlytaught.
Partofthemessageofthebookisthat
youhavetobeabletositwiththediscomfort
ofambiguity,saysPfatteicher.Itsabout
showinghowharditistocomeupwitha
simpleanswer,orhowlimitedandunsatisfac-
toryaspecicansweris.
AregularRedCrossvolunteer,Pfatteicher
considersherworkwithstudentshermost
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Visit the Rocky Mountains
without leaving Wisconsin
The Rocky Mountains are the backbone ofNorth America, and they boast some of the
most beautiful scenery in the world. Take
the back roads and follow the Rockies from
New Mexico to Yellowstone, exploring the
familiar and not so familiar natural wonders
along the way.
Join guide John Holod at 7:30 p.m. on
Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 29 and 30,
at the Wisconsin Union Theater, for his
Great Rocky Mountain RV Adventure. New
Mexico to Yellowstone, part of the Union
Theaters Travel Adventure Film Series.
Tickets are $13 general admission, $11 in
groups and $6 for UW-Madison students.
A pre-show dinner, featuring a buffet of
dishes from the region presented in the lm,
is available at 5:30 p.m. for $15; please goonline to purchase tickets or view the menu.
Holod immerses himself in the culture
and surroundings he depicts in his lms,
using his RV as home, ofce and studio.
Internationally recognized as a cinematog-
rapher, he spends most of the year on the
road, lming and producing travelogues
and presenting them to audiences across the
country.
For more information, visit http://union
theater.wisc.edu or contact Esty Dinur at
262-3907 or [email protected].
Nutcracker Fantasy comes
to Waisman Center
Got visions of sugarplums but maybe not
long shows or huge crowds? The Waisman
Center Childrens Theatre offers a perfect
afternoon program to kick off the holidays.
Dance Wisconsin presents its Nutcracker
Fantasy, a preview of its longer December
show, at 1 and 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 28,
in the Waisman Center Auditorium. Tickets
are $1 for children and $2 for adults.
The Nutcracker Fantasy, a series favor-
ite, combines Tchaikovskys classic music
with an original score, contemporaryelements and tons of surprises. Full of
beautiful costumes and engaging choreog-
raphy, this seasonal ballet features some of
Madisons nest young dancers.
The Waisman Center is located at 1500
Highland Ave. For more information, visit
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/ or contact
Teresa Palumbo at 263-5837 or palumbo@
waisman.wisc.edu
Singers provide a feast for the ears
Two events in the week before Thanksgiving
showcase the talent of up-and-coming stu-
dents and established faculty members from
the School of Musics vocal department.
The 160-member Choral Union and
Chamber Orchestra perform Handels
oratorio Israel in Egypt in Mills Hall at
8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 20, and at
4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 21. Beverly Taylor
conducts; soloists include soprano Emily
Birsan, mezzo soprano Jennifer Sams, tenor
James Doing, baritone Paul Rowe and bass-
baritone Benjamin Schultz. Advance tickets
are $15 general admission and $8 students
and seniors.
Jeanne Swack, professor of musicology,
writes in her program notes that while the
work was not successful among Handels
original audiences, it has found special
favor with modern English-speaking audi-
ences. No small measure of this success
must be due to the colorful depiction of
the Ten Plagues that God visited upon the
Egyptians, with their evocations of blood,frogs, hail, ies, locusts and the brilliant
depiction of a thick darkness, which might
be felt by means of an eerie choral
recitative.
Mills Hall is located in the Mosse
Humanities Building. Tickets are available
through the Wisconsin
Union Theater box
ofce, via phone at262-2201 or fax at
265-5084, or online at
http://www.union
theater.wisc.edu .
At 7:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, Nov. 23, stu-
dents from the Opera
Workshop present their
fall program in Music
Hall. Mimmi Fulmer,
William Farlow and
Jamie Van Eyck direct
performances includ-
ing duets and trios
from Der Freischutz,
Die Frau ohne
Schatten, Billy Budd,Lincoronazione di
Poppea, Don Giovanni and Arabella.
Performers include Emily Worzalla, K. C.
Peck, Lindsay Sessing, Yohan Kim, Michael
Roehmer and Chelcie Probst, with accom-
paniment by Susan Goeres, Bill Lutes and
Mimmi Fulmer.
For more information on School of Music
programs, visit http://music.wisc.edu/
or contact 263-9485 or music@music.
wisc.edu.
Arboretum spotlights local products
for the holidays
Going online might be the easy way to avoid
the crazy days of holiday shopping, but its
not always more fun. What about the great
smells or the delight of discovering some-thing totally unique? This holiday season,
skip the malls and head straight for the
tranquil prairies of the Arboretum. Yes, the
Arboretum.
Featuring more than 40 vendors, the
Arboretums Local Products Expo takes
place from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov.
28, in the Visitor Center. Local art, edibles
and gifts take center stage, celebrating local
enterprise and creativity and giving shop-
pers an opportunity to support the local
economy. Admission is free.
While some products such as jewelry
from the Bohemian Bauble or TerraSource
chocolates are available year-round at
brick-and-mortar vendors, others are some-
times only available at craft fairs or online
at places like etsy.com. This show offers the
opportunity to meet producers close up,
learning more about how the artists create
and what kinds of custom work they may
offer. Low-cost but high-quality merchandise
provides a chance to support artisans and
keep dollars circulating in the Madison area.
The Arboretum Visitor Center is located
at 1207 Seminole Highway.
For more information on Arboretum
events and programs, visit http://www.
uwarboretum.org or contact staff members
at 263-7888 or [email protected].
To view event listings: http://www.today.wisc.edu/
CalendarHighlights
The Dance Department celebrates
its new autonomy as a UW
department during UW-Madisons
Year of the Arts with its two-night Fall
Faculty Concert Upswing at 8 p.m. onFriday and Saturday, Nov. 19 and 20, at
the Wisconsin Union Theater.
In addition to the concert, the Dance
Department is putting on a weekend
of dancing Nov. 19-21 as part of the
Year of the Arts at the Memorial Union.
DancingAll Weekend Long will
include a showcase from 16 student
dance organizations and several free
introductory dance classes of all dance
styles will be offered.
Upswing will premiere two nights of
inspiring and diverse dance works set to
riveting, live music moving the audience
through time and space, both guratively
and literally, exploring dreams, memo-
ries, universal human connections andthe physical space of the theater. New
pieces will examine the cultural issues
surrounding immigration, the historic
events of the Vietnam War and gender
concerns of the 21st century woman. .
The concert is set to show two nights
at the Wisconsin Union Theater. Jin-
Wen Yu, department chair, says, We all
agreed that reaching out into the com-munity to share the experience of our
faculty concert performances with stu-
dents and other local Madisonians would
be a terric way to celebrate.
Laurie Fellenz, Teacher Leader of
the Fine Arts Division of the Madison
Metropolitan School District worked
with Yu and other staff at the Dance
Department to distribute tickets to the
performances to local high school stu-
dents.
Upswing will feature a diverse set of
eight captivating dance works:
nHere/So (12 lines), a new work com-
prised of personal imagery, memories
and dreams, created by New York guest
artist Bill Young in collaboration withstudent dance artists.
nLi Chiao-Pings ETA Movements
No. 2 explores passages of time and
space and the eeting as well as lasting
images which occur in our dreams and
memories and will be accompanied by
composer/performers Patrick Reinholz
and Ben Willis of the Weather Duo.
nChris Walkers The people who came,episode 3 of the 7 part episodic work
E Pluribus Unum. It will showcase
immigration stories through poetry,
music and dance.
nPeggy Choys Boxher, a work explor-
ing the inner terrain of what it means to
be a 21st century woman, inspired by
champion boxer Muhammad Ali.
nAn edgy, contemporary ballet based
on Saint Saens classic The Dying Swan
choreographed by Marlene Skog to a
score recomposed by Carol Carlson.
nKate Corby will present a new site-
specic work for ve dancers, performed
both prior to the show and during
intermission in the lobby spaces of the
Wisconsin Union Theater. The chore-ography for this piece was developed
through research on the theaters unique
architectural and social history and will
be accompanied by an original score by
local composer Tim Russell.
nKaren McShane-Hellenbrands
Quintessence is a piece that reects the
choreographer and dancers expression
and embodiment of awe, wonder andspirit. Through written reections the
dancers explored universal connections
that humans share.
nYus Into Sunlight, a poetic modern
dance interpreting Pulitzer Prize-winning
author David Maraniss They Marched
Into Sunlight, a look at of the historic
events of the Vietnam war.
Tickets are $18 general public and
$10 students and seniors. Tickets may be
purchased in advance through Campus
Arts Ticketing box ofce, http://www.
uniontheater.wisc.edu; by phone, at
265-ARTS (265-2787); or in person at
the Wisconsin Union Theater box ofce.
Remaining tickets will be sold at the
door. There is reserved seating.There will be a post-performance
reception Nov. 19 with the artists, stu-
dents and staff in the Main Lounge,
Memorial Union.
WritersChoice:Dance Department to take audience through time and space
Holiday cards, such as this one by Sue V. Medaris, are among many
local objects featured at the Arboretums Local Products Expo.
Courtesy:
S.V.
Me
daris
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on campus
Agronomy professor and department chair
William F. Tracy has been named interim
dean of the College of Agricultural and Life
Sciences.
Tracy will assume the post on Jan. 2,
when CALS Dean Molly Jahn steps down.The college is very well positioned for
the future. My primary goal will be to work
with our faculty, staff, students and external
partners to ensure that the position of CALS
dean is an attractive and exciting opportu-
nity that will attract the best possible leader
and scholar, Tracy says.
Tracy joined the Department of Agronomy
in 1984 and has served as chair since 2004.
He has a long record of service on campus
committees and initiatives. He recently
nished a term as chair of the University
Committee.
His research focuses on breeding and
genetics of sweet corn, one of Wisconsins
most important vegetable crops. Tracy has
developed many new hybrid and inbredvarieties with improved yield and resistance
to insects and disease. He has taught a
wide range of classes, from entry-level crop
production to graduate instruction in plant
breeding and plant genetics. He has also
been very active in efforts to get the uni-
versity involved in K-12 science education
and in outreach and continuing education
related to crop production, plant genetics,
and the interaction between agriculture
and society.
Several search-and-screen committees for
high-ranking university positions have been
established and are beginning their work.
One of the committees is charged with
nding the rst permanent director for the
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
Former chancellor John Wiley has servedas interim director of the Wisconsin Institute
for Discovery since November 2008.
Waisman Center director Marsha Mailick
Seltzer, chair of the search committee and
professor of social work, served as the insti-
tutes rst interim director from 2006-08.
The search committee also includes John
Denu, professor of biomolecular chemis-
try and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Epigenetics theme leader; Brian G. Fox,
professor of biochemistry; Sara Guyer, asso-
ciate professor of English and director of
the Center for the Humanities; Derek Hei,
senior scientist at the Waisman Clinical
BioManufacturing Facility; Sangtae Kim,
executive director of the Morgridge Institute
for Research; Miron Livny, professor ofcomputer sciences and director of core
computational technology at the Morgridge
Institute for Research; Petra Schroeder,
assistant dean for research services in the
UW-Madison Graduate School; and John
Yin, professor of chemical and biological
engineering and Wisconsin Institute for
Discovery Systems Biology theme leader.
Another committee is seeking a vice chan-
cellor of research and dean of the Graduate
School. The post was created as part of a
reorganization designed to retain a close
relationship between research and graduate
education.
The committee will include chair William
Tracy, the newly named interim dean of the
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Other members include Steve Ackerman,
professor of atmospheric and oceanic sci-ences; Janet Branchaw, faculty associate,
School of Education; Katharine Broton,
research assistant, School of Education;
Daryl Buss, dean of the School of Veterinary
Medicine; Aaron Crandall, university grants
and contracts specialist; Juan dePablo,
professor of chemical and biological engi-
neering; Norman Drinkwater, professor of
oncology; Wayne Feltz, assistant scientist,
Space Science and Engineering Center;
Janet Hyde, professor of psychology; Anne
Miner, professor of business; Richard
Moss, professor and associate dean of the
School of Medicine and Public Health;
Ann Palmenberg, professor of biochemis-
try; Norma Saldivar, professor of theater
and drama; Joseph Salmons, professor ofGerman; and Tobias Wolf, university busi-
ness specialist, School of Medicine and
Public Health.
Committees will also be appointed to nd
deans for the School of Business and Law
School.
Those who have agreed to serve on the
committee looking for the Business School
dean include Susan Babcock, professor of
materials science and engineering; Matthew
Beemsterboer, undergraduate student; Mark
Bugher, director of University Research Park;
Law School dean Ken Davis; Jon Hammes,
chair and chief executive ofcer of the
Hammes Co.; Jan Heide, professor of busi-
ness; Binnu Hill, business school director of
diversity and climate; Kemllen Lee, gradu-
ate student; Stephen Malpezzi, professor of
business; Mark Matosian; senior student ser-vices coordinator in the School of Business;
Elizabeth Odders-White, associate professor
of business; Jeffrey Russell, chair and profes-
sor of civil and environmental engineering;
John Karl Scholz, professor of economics;
Hollis Skaife, associate dean and professor of
business; and Ann Terlaak, assistant profes-
sor of business. Business professor Donald
Hausch is expected to chair the committee.
Those who have agreed to serve on the
committee looking for the Law School
dean include state Supreme Court Justice
Ann Walsh Bradley; Tonya Brito, profes-
sor of law; R. Alta Charo, professor of law;
Anuj Desai, associate professor of law; Meg
Gaines, clinical professor of law; Gail Geiger,
professor of art history; Robert Golden,dean of the School of Medicine and Public
Health; Linda Greene, professor of law; law
student Purnita Howlader; Jerlando Jackson,
associate professor in the Department of
Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis;
Heinz Klug, associate dean and professor
of law; Mary Ray, senior lecturer in the Law
School; attorney Daniel Rottier; Brad Snyder,
assistant professor of law; and law student
Michelle Yun. Law professor and associate
dean Kathryn Hendley is expected to chair
the committee.
Agronomy chair named
interim CALS deanSearch committees named or high-level positions
China Continued from page 1
creating new opportunities for our faculty
and students. We are also building re lation-ships with the Ministry of Education in
Beijing and closely following developments
in higher education overall. On this trip
we met with two provincial governors and
members of their staffs to discuss possible
state-to-state collaborations. We are meeting
with business leaders and potential inves-
tors to ensure they know about the research
strengths and creativity in Wisconsin, and
that we know about the opportunities and
challenges they face. And, very importantly,
we are strengthening our relationships with
alumni and prospective donors, building
institutional and social networks that will be
available to current and future students.
Q: How does a trip like this end up ben-
eting a UW-Madison student?A: We are establishing student exchange,
internship and study-abroad opportunities.
We are working to ensure that UW-Madison
attracts the most talented and diverse
possible student body from all over the
world, for the good of all our students.
We are enhancing the long-term value of
a UW-Madison degree by making the uni-
versity more visible in important parts of
the world. On this trip we met with six
Wisconsin-based companies in Beijing and
were assured that they were keen to have
our students as interns. We are strengthen-
ing alumni networks so our students can
make use of the connections and advice that
those networks will offer over time. We are
making UW-Madison part of the dynamicand more interconnected world in which
our graduates will live and work.
Q: What are your future plans for return-
ing to China?
A: Because of the importance of substan-
tive exchange and strong relationships,
I expect a delegation to travel to China
at least once a year. University and gov-ernment ofcials in mainland China are
overwhelmed by the number of visits they
get from all over the world and some are
understandably skeptical of the tendency
on the part of some university presidents
or chancellors to make only one, or only
very occasional visits with the expectation
that genuine collaboration can be estab-
lished without sustained interaction. I think
UW-Madison can and should try to develop
a presence in China that is unique, that
promotes academic exchange of faculty and
students, but also manifests the Wisconsin
Idea, drawing on the resources of the state
and university to spur collaboration that
will have a reciprocally positive impact.
Q: What is the most important goal foryou in China going forward?
A: To enhance the quality of our educa-
tion and research, to increase the long-term
value of a UW-Madison degree, to sup-
port faculty collaborations in research and
education, and to make a contribution by
nding a way to have a presence there that
is unique to UW-Madison and consistent
with the Wisconsin Idea. Too often, the
people we meet look at the U.S. and see
only its West and East coasts. With greater
visibility for UW-Madison, top government
ofcials, business, educational and opinion
leaders will realize that Wisconsin is one of
the nations best-kept secrets when it comes
to opportunities for collaboration, joint-
venture and investments. We want the restof the world to see UWs success at nding
solutions to major cultural, social, eco-
nomic, medical, environmental, energy and
manufacturing challenges.