Posted 8:17 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, 2011
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Disability Resource Services
Student’s research explores navigating campus with a physical disability.Clock tower repairs ready campus icon for its second decade
Hoeschler Tower’s clock dials, hands, movement hardware and dial illumination were upgraded this summer. The master clock controller was replaced, readying the 11-year-old tower for its second decade.L.A. comedian coming to UW-La Crosse
An actor who played a part in the 1993 Disney comedy “Cool Runnings” will perform at UW-La Crosse.
Oct. 6 is National Student Day. Get involved. Get discounts at the University Bookstore. Get a chance to win a $3,000 scholarship.
In recognition of National Student Day, the University Bookstore is offering a 20 percent discount on a single apparel or gift item per student on Oct. 6 to encourage students to get involved. Pay it forward and support your campus community. It’s one day to give back and be recognized for these good deeds. The Bookstore, in partnership with the National Association of College Stores (NACS), is involved with the first annual National Student Day aimed at promoting social responsibility. How can students help their community to make a difference? Some ideas: donate time at a homeless shelter, help clean up the campus or get involved with a university group that focuses on community service. Volunteer and share your story at www.nationalstudentday.com. The top 10 ideas will win one of 10 prizes from NACS including a $3,000 scholarship.Album Encounters multimedia light and laser show set for Oct. 7, program on the telescope runs through Oct. 29
Visit the University Planetarium in 18 Cowley Hall for UW-L’s Album Encounters at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. The multimedia light and laser show features MGMT's "Oracular Spectacular.” Admission is $3. To find out more, contact Bob Allen at allen.robe@uwlax.edu or 785.8669. The University Planetarium will also present “Galileo – The Power Of The Telescope” at 1 p.m. Saturdays Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29. Admission is $2 for students and $3 for others. Find out more about the planetarium.Recycle used electronic equipment at e-waste recycling drive Oct. 10
Recycle used electronic equipment at a campus-wide e-waste recycling drive from 2-6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, at Hoeschler Tower. Dynamic Recycling will collect and recycle old or unusable electronic equipment for UW-L and the greater La Crosse Community. Items that can be dropped off for recycling are TVs, monitors, desktop computer towers and laptops, keyboards, mice, PDAs, external drives and modems, digital and video cameras, movie projectors, MP3 players, hard drives, CDs, memory cards, flash drives, electronic notepads, printers, fax machines, photocopiers, scanners, VCRs and DVD players. Only items owned by individuals can be recycled. Absolutely no university-owned equipment or that owned by area businesses may be dropped off at this e-waste drive. The event is sponsored by the Joint Committee on Environmental Sustainability and is one of the scheduled events for No Impact Week, Sunday, Oct. 9-Sunday, Oct. 16. For additional information about this drive, contact Andrea Wagner at wagner.and2@uwlax.edu. For information on disposing university-owned e-waste, contact Kim Tiber at ktiber@uwlax.edu.
UW-L student's original Chinese paintings now on display in Murphy's Mug
UW-L senior Shayue (Sophia) Wang wants to expose others to the rich tradition of freehand Chinese painting, which uses natural symbolism to represent characteristics of Chinese culture.
The student from China is exhibiting her original watercolor paintings in Murphy's Mug, Murphy Library, during regular business hours through October.
Wang has been in America for three years and has spent the last year preparing for the painting exhibit and a Chinese music concert she is planning for 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Rivers Harvest Church, 1001 Quincy St., Onalaska. Along with being an artist, Wang plays seven kinds of Chinese traditional music instruments. "I use all of my free time to practice my instruments and painting," Wang notes. "Although my parents want me to learn business, I am very lucky because they support me to improve my hobbies too."
Wang uses a freestyle technique of watercolor, or brush painting, known as the Xieyi style, which dates back to the ancient Han Dynasty. Practitioners of Xieyi attempt a scholarly expression that exposes the Qi, or essence, of natural scenes including animals, plants and people.
"I believe that people are never too old to learn art; the most import thing is that you love it and have enthusiasm for it," says Wang. "It is less important to paint well or be very good at it; more important is the process of learning and painting." Wang comes from the Jiangsu Province in China and pursues art as a hobby, not as a career.
The paintings are mounted on scrolls, in traditional Chinese style. They reproduce many of the most famous Xieyi style paintings, including "The Four Gentlemen," which are four plants whose characteristics represent human virtues. Each painting has a brief description of its symbolic representation.
She chose to attend UW-L because she likes winter and finds the scenery beautiful here.
Carl Foster and John Porcari, both Exercise and Sport Science; and John Greany, Physical Therapy, had the paper "The Physiologic and Electromyographic Responses to Walking in Regular Athletic Shoes Versus 'Toning Shoes'" published in the August issue of the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Journal.
Stacey Meardon, Health Professions, published "Running Injury and Stride Time Variability Over a Prolonged Run" in the journal Gait and Posture, 2011, Vol. 33, pages 36-40. Co-authors include Tim Derrick from Iowa State University and Joe Hamill from the University of Massachusetts.
Robert Wilkie, English. His book "The Digital Condition: Class and Culture in the Information Network" has been published by Fordham Univerity Press. Find out more.
New employees
Enrika Hlavacek, Research Intern, River Studies Center, Sept. 19 Beth Naas, Accountant Project Position, Budget and Finance, Sept. 26 David Gardner, Student Services Coordinator, Office of International Education, Oct. 1 Robin Tuxen, Academic Planner, Budget and Finance, Oct. 10 Promotion Debra Holtschlag to Academic Department Associate, Sociology/Archaeology, Sept. 25