Education briefs News-Chronicle GREEN BAY Web site features UWGB connections A new Web site showcases the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's strong connections to the community and region. The site, www.uwgb.edu/connect, links to a list of more than 100 ways UW-Green Bay is connecting. It also highlights recent news items focusing on campus-community connections. The many examples of connections found on the Web site provide the substance behind UW-Green Bay's "Connecting learning to life" campuswide theme. The new theme is part of a more coordinated approach to telling UWGB's story. It captures the University's connections to the community and the academic connections students find across various majors and minors. Campus-community connections ranges from Weidner Center performances, which play to audiences of more than 300,00 a year, to community lectures and faculty-student projects that benefit the community, region and state. Connections currently featured on the Web site include: - Prof. David Coury's work with the Green Bay Film Society. He is director of the film society, a nonprofit group that co-sponsors the Green Bay International Film Festival. Coury, associate professor of humanistic studies and German, received the 2003 UW-Green Bay Founders Association Award for community outreach. - The Historical Perspectives Lecture Series, organized by the UWGB Center for History and Social Change. The lecture series brings a wide variety of historians and social scientists to campus for lectures open to the campus and community. - The community service work of UWGB student-athletes, who performed 2,700 hours of community service during the 2002-03 academic year. - The University's partnerships with Wisconsin Public Service Corp., including energy conservation measures at Mary Ann Cofrin Hall and the annual Solar Olympics for area high school students. DE PERE St. Norbert awarded mathematics grant Rick Poss, a mathematics professor at St. Norbert College, has been awarded a $2,000 grant to enhance the college's regional undergraduate mathematics conference. The grant, which is being funded by the Mathematical Association of America and the National Science Foundation, will help support the travel of student speakers from other colleges and universities to come to the conference at St. Norbert. The conference will be held Nov. 7-8. This is the 18th consecutive year that St. Norbert will host the regional undergraduate mathematics conference. RIPON Huebner recognized for success Lawrence Huebner, an aerospace engineer with NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was recently awarded the Ripon College Distinguished Alumni Citation. Huebner graduated from Ripon College in 1983. A native of Green Bay, he is the supersonic combustion ramjet propulsion team leader for the X-43A flight demonstrator at Langley. The X-43A is an unpiloted, hydrogen-fueled research craft intended to achieve Mach 7, the second of which is being prepared for flight testing this year. He has received five superior accomplishment awards from NASA, as well as two group achievement awards, two performance awards, and a team excellence award. Hueber is considered an authority, and his research has been widely publicized and he has given many public and private presentations, including the Experimental Aviation Association AirVenture 2000 in Oshkosh. GREEN BAY UWGB professor awarded nursing fellowship Derryl Block, associate professor of nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, has been awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow. She is one of 20 nurses in executive leadership roles nationwide selected this year to participate in the three-year program. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's fellowship program is designed to strategically position the voice of nursing across many sectors of the economy in a health-care system undergoing unprecedented change and challenges. The fellowship is an intensive opportunity to develop critical leadership skills, work with a nationally recognized team ofcoaches and instructors from the health-care community and other sectors of the economy, undertake a leadership project, and benefit from collaboration with nursing and health-care leaders throughout the country. Block has been a public health nursing educator, researcher and practitioner in Israel, Minnesota and Wisconsin. She has been involved in education of public health nurses at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as continuing education of practicing public health nurses. She has been an innovator in workforce development issues including development of public health nursing competencies and Internet education of public health nurses in rural areas. She also has been involved in development of an innovative collaborative health-planning model in 16 counties of northwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota. She has numerous publications and has received many research grants. Block has been at UWGB since 2001. She is a 1975 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She received a master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins and an additional master's and doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. GREEN BAY Local teacher attended oceanography seminar Gary Baier, a teacher at East High School, attended the 10th annual session of the Maury Project Workshop offered by the United States Naval Academy in July. He was one of 24 teachers from the across the United States who participated in the seminar. The Maury Project highlights various oceanographic and meteorological subjects ranging from local to global systems. The educators developed training materials they could take back and use in their classrooms. The program consisted of lectures, hands-on material and field trips. The group utilized the Naval Academy's oceanographic vessel, YP-686, to practice oceanographic concepts. The project sought to develop the teachers' training skills in oceanography. The Maury Project Workshop is named in honor of Navy Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury, who lived from 1806-1873, and is considered to be the father of physical oceanography.