Nov. 2, 2009
The following UW-Stout activities are photo and video opportunities for the media.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, Chandra N. Sekharan, an American Council on Education Fellow being mentored by UW-Stout, will present “Programming models for many-core computers” at 12:20 p.m., in room 409 of Harvey Hall. Sekharan is chair in the department of computer science at Loyola University of Chicago. He currently is the ACE Fellow at UW-Stout for the fall and spring semesters. For more information, contact Sekharan at sekharanc@uwstout.edu or visit http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/FellowsProgram/ for information on the ACE Fellow program.
Tuesday, Nov. 3 and Thursday, Nov. 5, University of Wisconsin-Stout student Lauren Johnson, of Eden Prairie, Minn., has started a fundraiser to help rebuild war-torn schools in northern Uganda. Johnson will set up a table Tuesdays and Thursdays for the next two weeks in the Memorial Student Center to accept $10 donations in exchange for free T-shirts. Johnson also will clean homes for $15 per hour on Sundays in November, with proceeds benefiting the Uganda project. For more information, contact Johnson at johnsonlau@my.stout.edu.
Thursday, Nov. 5, Visiting artist Kate Basham will read original work at 4:30 p.m., in the Furlong Gallery of Micheels Hall. Basham has been on the faculty in English at the University of Minnesota-Duluth since 1970. She is published in Minnesota magazines and anthologies, and also has self-published two books. The reading is sponsored by the English and philosophy department through a grant from the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at UW-Stout. For more information, contact Brian Fitch at fitchb@uwstout.edu or 715-232-1485.
