DEAN’S NOTE

Hope to see folks tomorrow (Friday, October 25) at 3pm for the COLS all-college social at Sturgeon Spirits (2663 Oregon Street, Oshkosh). If you are attending the Faculty Senate listening session that concludes at 3:00 please join us afterwards! Sturgeon Spirits allows people to bring in outside food, so please feel free to bring a snack to share.

IN THE NEWS

The Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) project, funded by the National Science Foundation, employed seventeen students last summer as it concluded its second year of data collection. Several members of that team presented on this project on September 19 at the Universities of Wisconsin Sustainability Summit at UW Stevens Point. This panel included four UWO faculty and one student, plus a representative from the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance.

FACULTY RESEARCH

• Stephanie Spehar (Anthropology, Global Religions and Cultures) is coauthor of “Doing social science with conservation: co-reflexivity on the project model in conservation” in Oryx.
• Ula Lukszo Klein (Women’s and Gender Studies/English) published a chapter titled “Transgender Citizenship and Settler Colonialism in Aphra Behn’s The Widow Ranter” in the collection Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Delaware Press). The entire collection is available right now as an open access ebook.
• Stephanie May de Montigny (Anthropology, Global Religions and Cultures) published an article, “Artifacts of Empathy: Cultivating and Assessing Student Empathy through Reflective Writing in a Community Engagement Course,” in Teaching and Learning Inquiry, the Journal of the International Society for Teaching and Learning.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• The first COLS Faculty Showcase presentation will be Tuesday, October 29, 11:30-12:30 in Swart 113 and online. John Beaver (Physics and Astronomy) will present on “The Art and Science of Lo-Fi Photography.”