DEAN’S NOTE

The schedule for this semester’s series of Faculty Showcase talks has been set! Please mark your calendars accordingly! All talks are 11:30-12:30 in Swart 113 and on Teams. More details and descriptions will be sent separately.

• Wednesday, February 26: Bill Gillard (English), “The Strange Origins of Climate Change Fiction”
• Thursday, March 20: Jess Lucas (Biology), “Green Sperm through Space and Time”
• Wednesday, April 9: Susan Maxwell (Art), “Art in the Service of War and Peace during the Thirty Years War”

IN THE NEWS

Please consider nominating a graduating senior for the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence! The deadline is February 28, 2025, and criteria can be found by following the link. Students must be nominated by a faculty or staff member or a fellow student.

DEPARTMENT UPDATES

• Drew Whiting (Music) performed Ed Martin’s (Music) composition “Aria” for baritone saxophone and electronics at the Splice Festival on Thursday, January 23rd at Western Michigan University. “Aria” was also featured in a radio segment on WMKU in which the Splice Festival director played an excerpt and discussed aspects of the composition while promoting the festival. Listen here.
• Ziyuan Wang (Mathematics) presented the paper “Extending a priori procedure for simultaneously estimating location and scale parameters in the context of skew normal distributions,” at the Eighth International Econometric Conference of Vietnam.

FACULTY RESEARCH

• Kim Calvert (Kinesiology) was the lead author on a paper by the NATA Professional Education Committee titled “Immersive Clinical Education Experiences in Athletic Training: A Report From the NATA Professional Education Committee” in the Athletic Training Education Journal.
• Kyle Petit (Kinesiology) was awarded a $10,000 WiSys Spark Grant for his project “The Effects of Concentrated Oxygen on Oxygen Saturation Within the Brain.”

STUDENT NEWS

• Members of the Psychology department and the Psi Chi honor society participated in the Polar Plunge and raised over $1,100. Jumpers included Quin Chrobak, Wyllow Garton, AJ Moore, Megan Smith, and Emily Kliefoth
  
  

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Join the next virtual Whitburn Wednesday, All Hands on Deck: How Collective Impact Initiatives Can Address Wicked Problems on February 19 (12:00 – 1:00pm). Panelists will include Tracy Ogden, CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh, Josh Kilgas of Solutions for Changemakers and UW Oshkosh MPA candidate, and Dr. Mike Ford, Director of the Whitburn Center. Learn more and register here!