WAUKESHA –Three faculty member and one academic staff have been named Arthur M. Kaplan Fellows for 2005-06. The faculty and staff enhancement program recognizes outstanding contributions to education made by UW Colleges faculty and academic staff.
The award is given to individuals who make “significant and innovative improvement of instruction or of service to students.” The four nominees selected by the campus Steering Committee to be honored this year are: Craig Hurst, associate professor of music, Waukesha; Kevin Lee, assistant professor of biological sciences, Madison; Margaret Malay, lecturer in physics and astronomy, Hartland; and Barbara Reinhart, assistant professor of art, Dousman.
Director of bands, Hurst has led the instrumental music program at UW-Waukesha since January 1993. Based on his great interest in jazz and rock ‘n roll, he has given a number of presentations on their history and genesis and developed popular courses in the History of Rock and Roll and Jazz in Literature, the latter with Phil Zweifel, campus associate dean and an associate professor of English, Waukesha. For several years, he recruited students to present seasonal daytime concerts in the campus hallways. He also has tooted his own horn, playing trumpet with a UW Colleges band and several other state and local groups. In addition, he’s brought musicians of renown to campus. Hurst is a founding member of the Campus Read committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Boise State (Idaho) University, a master’s from North Texas State University, Denton, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas.
Lee came to UW-Waukesha from UW-Whitewater in 2001 and since then has developed a new interdisciplinary course with Jack Hervert, assistant professor of physical education, Milwaukee, in Physiology of Exercise. He has participated in a learning community with faculty in political science and English. He incorporates new teaching strategies, borrowing the concept of “just-in-time” from the business world in his teaching, and continues to seek and hone new ways to engage students. He also has shouldered the considerable responsibility of chair for the Northview Renovation Committee. He earned his Ph.D. in physiology from Albany Medical College, NY, and has worked extensively in research in addition to teaching.
Nominated both for her teaching skills and her work in advising students, Malay has served students on campus since spring 2000. Physics and astronomy come alive with hands-on experiments she sets up and eclipse-watching/marshmallow-roasting parties she has organized. She guided her student research partner in producing the project judged the best in last year’s faculty-student research effort. She worked with members of the math and philosophy departments in creating an interdisciplinary course, Pi in the Sky:
Perspectives from Astronomy and Philosophy, and co-teaches it with Bill Schneider, lecturer in philosophy, Waukesha, and Paul Sundheim, associate professor of mathematics, Mukwonago. Malay holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW-Milwaukee, where she helped install a high-resolution transmission electron microscopy laboratory. She also has completed coursework there toward a Ph.D.
Reinhart started teaching here in 1996 but gave up her other positions at Carroll College and Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design when she became a member of the faculty in 1998, sharing a position with husband Jeff Noska. She maintains an upbeat classroom tenor while imposing high academic standards. Along with Margaret Rozga, professor of English, Waukesha, she has team-taught Drawing and Writing Poetry in Response to Nature and currently is working with faculty from several campuses in developing another interdisciplinary course, Women in Art. In addition, she organizes all the campus art gallery exhibits, including some gallery talks and opening receptions. All this she does while continuing to work as an artist and to plait bonds with the community by, among other things, serving on the Waukesha Public Library’s public art committee and enlisting and working with students in creating public art. Reinhart graduated from Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, with majors in art and French, studied at the University of Toulouse, France, through an international training program, did graduate work at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and earned her MFA from UW-Milwaukee.
With each Kaplan fellowship comes a $250 purse, matched by the Friends & Alumni Foundation of UW-Waukesha. The recipients can use the money to further enhance their creative approaches to education.
Former UW Centers (now Colleges) Chancellor Lee Grugel established the award in 1993 on the retirement of Kaplan, who had served the UW Colleges for eight years in the capacities of vice chancellor, provost, and acting chancellor. Kaplan was committed to improving the quality of instruction and service to students at UW Colleges campuses.
The awards can be presented at each of the thirteen UW Colleges, which are the freshman-sophomore campuses of the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Waukesha has the largest enrollment among the 13 freshman-sophomore University of Wisconsin Colleges campuses. For information about programs, admissions, or financial aid, contact the Student Services office at (262) 521-5200 or visit the Web at waukesha.uwc.edu. |
