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The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Hall of Fame welcomes five new members when they are inducted on May 1. The inductees include Dave Luedtke (’86), Pat McDonald (’90), Christina Southward (‘03), Holly Spoo (’99) and R. Toby Bares. These four former athletes and one coach will be honored at the school’s annual Hall of Fame and Senior Awards Banquet in Reeve Memorial Union.

UW Oshkosh Chancellor Richard H. Wells recognized three students who earned annual student employee honors during a ceremony on April 12. Kendra Roche was awarded student employee of the year, while Ryan Nettesheim and Lindsay Klug were awarded student employee of distinction.

Joe O’Hearn, a theatre major and non-traditional student in the theatre department, has won the 2011 Playwright’s Project Student Playwriting Contest. O’ Hearn’s one-act play, Boundary Crossing, was chosen by Professor Richard Kalinoski, coordinator of the Playwright’s Project, for its distinctive exploration of some of the psychological implications for a P.O.W of World War II.

UW Oshkosh has received $4,966 from Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium for Lift-Off For Teachers and Youths (LOFTY). The Lift-Off for Teachers and Youths program at UW Oshkosh will help elementary educators and students develop the knowledge and skills to construct a water bottle rocket while promoting STEM.  Reynee Kachur (science outreach) is the project director.

Callie Mills, radio-TV-film student, won first place in the air personality category for a sample from a jazz program she hosted at WRST-FM at the Broadcast Education Association’s annual Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas. Mills also was honored at the National Broadcasting Society’s 48th annual National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition in Universal City, Calif. She won the grand prize in the Spec Script category with a script for “That ‘70s Show,” called “8-Ball Tell-All.”

UW Oshkosh has received $25,010 from the UW System Applied Research-WiTAG Grant Program for Home-Based Virtual Reality System for manual rehabilitation after stroke. This is a joint project with UW-Madison. Leigh Ann Mrotek (kinesiology) is the project director.

The UWO chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha women’s fraternity collected over 10,000 Yoplait pink lids fall 2010. ZTA teamed up with the UW Oshkosh Women’s Center to place collection bins around campus and in department lounges. For every lid was collected, Yoplait donated $.10 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

The UW Oshkosh delegation representing Namibia won both an Outstanding Delegation and an Outstanding Position Paper Award, and the UW Oshkosh delegation representing Barbados received both an Outstanding Position Paper Award and a Distinguished Delegation Award at sessions held April 18-23 at U.N. headquarters in New York.

UW Oshkosh has received $3,250 from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium for Students Teaching Astronomy Related Sciences (STARS). The STARS program is designed to promote the knowledge of and interest in space-related science to Lighted School House K-5 grade and UW Oshkosh students. Reynee Kachur (biology/science outreach)
is the project director.

Beverly Flanigan, student records operations manager, has been named the recipient of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh STAR Award for May 2011.

The following UW Oshkosh academic staff members have received support through the Faculty Development Program:

  • Joseph Abhold, from the Counseling Center, will attend the Intercultural Development Inventory Qualifying Seminar in Minneapolis, Minn., June 13-15.
  • Angela Victor from Career Services will attend the CSO Researcher Users’ Conference in Austin, Texas, July 13-15, 2011.
  • Jenna Graff, director of the Office of International Education, will attend the NAFSA Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada, May 30 – June 4, 2011.