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50 student-faculty research projects highlight scholarship day

OSHKOSH—Nearly 50 student-faculty research projects will be presented at the 10th annual University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Celebration of Scholarship Day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 1.

Oshkosh Truck President John Stoddart will present an Outstanding Research Award sponsored by the company to an undergraduate and a graduate student in a special ceremony beginning at 4 p.m. Each award will be $750.

In addition to the two Oshkosh Truck awards, another eight awards totaling $1,000 will be presented at the ceremony that will also include a celebration of 40 years of graduate education at UW Oshkosh. Oshkosh Foundation President Eileen Connelly-Keesler, who holds a graduate degree from UW Oshkosh, will speak on the value of graduate education.

The UW Oshkosh Graduate School is the largest at a four-year state university campus in Wisconsin. It has awarded 10,000 graduate degrees over the past 40 years.

The research projects featured in oral and poster presentations at the daylong event cover topics such as the impact of ownership change on the news in a local daily newspaper and the experiences of women with obesity. Several involve the quality of area waterways.

The event at Reeve Memorial Union, 748 Algoma Blvd., will also include symposiums where faculty members will discuss their research on health and wellness and teaching and learning.

Allied Health Dean Michael Nelson of UW-La Crosse, an expert on undergraduate student research, will present Paradise Found: The Life and Times of an Itinerant Proselyte at a special luncheon at 11:30 a.m. in the ballroom of the union. Lunch is available for $8, or you can simply attend the talk. Please call Donna Stoddard, 424-2289, to register.

The faculty research symposium Informing Practice in Health and Wellness will be 9:10 to 10:10 a.m. It will include Carl Ameringer, on federal antitrust policy and physician discontent; social work professor Thomas Ebert, on assessing Hmong mental health; and artist and human services professor Karen Muench, on “regaining a voice, rebuilding a life.”

The symposium on Informing Practice in Teaching and Learning will be 3 to 4 p.m. It will include economics professor Nancy Burnett, on gender economics; business professor J. Ben Arbaugh, on the applicability of learning theories to Web courses; and nursing professor Mary Ellen Wurzbach, on end-of-life care courses.