RON JEPPSON NAMED DEAN OF MSU’S
SOCIAL, NATURAL SCIENCES COLLEGE
Ronald Jeppson has been named dean of the College of Social and Natural Sciences.
The 48-year-old mathematics professor has been serving as acting dean for the past two years pending a national search.
Jeppson, who chaired MSU’s mathematics department for four years, came to MSU in 1981 after earning his doctorate from Montana State University. He’s a specialist in differential equations, approximation theory and numerical analysis.
As dean, he’ll oversee 10 academic departments and 90 faculty in the College of Social and Natural Sciences.
Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Jeppson is also an ordained minister and Bishop of the Fargo First Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and his wife Joyce have four children.

ANTHROPOLOGY, EARTH
SCIENCES BECOME NEW
DEPARTMENT HERE
Mike Michlovic will chair the new Anthropology and Earth Sciences Department that will be established on campus this summer.
The new department will include two archeologists, two cultural anthropologists, a geographer and a geologist.
The move is an attempt to integrate academic fields that are increasingly overlapping each other in science and scholarship, Michlovic said.
Anthropology has been under the academic umbrella of MSU’s sociology department since it became an academic major in the Sixties. The new configuration will create a multidisciplinary department that reflects contemporary practices in scientific fields growing closer together.
Two new faculty, an archeologist and a cultural anthropologist, will be added to the department this summer to complete the transition. Besides Michlovic, who’ll continue to teach archeology, Donna Rosh will move from MSU’s Multicultural Studies department to teach cultural anthropology in the new Anthropology and Earth Sciences department. Geology professor Russ Colson and geography professor Roger Richman will be folded into the new department to round out the faculty.

VP BUTLER RESIGNS
Steven Butler, vice president for student affairs at MSU for the past four years, will resign in August to take a similar position at his alma mater, Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.
Pending a national search, MSU Pres. Roland Barden has named Warren Wiese, executive director of the student union, interim vice president for student affairs.
Butler, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, holds a doctorate in counseling from the University of Southern California along with a master’s degree, teaching certificate and undergraduate degree from Humboldt State.

GOV. VENTURA PUTS HAMMER LOCK
ON MSU’S $3.7 MILLION BONDING REQUEST
Gov. Jesse Ventura body slammed MSU’s hopes of getting  $3.7 million in state funds to clean up the five-block expansion project west of campus when he vetoed $54 million from the Legislature’s $150 million bonding bill this spring.
It’s been 10 years now that MSU has been requesting bonding money to complete the project.
"This property around the campus is owned by the state and it’s the state’s responsibility to keep the property from becoming a blight on the surrounding community," said Sen. Keith Langseth, who along with Rep. Kevin Goodno has been trying to resolve the long-delayed project. "The governor’s veto ambushed the Legislature, city and Moorhead State community."
The City of Moorhead had promised more than $300,000 worth of in-kind services as an incentive for the state to remove homes in the expansion area.
Goodno said he intends to move forward with the MSU funding proposal again when the Legislature convenes in February but first he wants to find out what objections the governor may have.
Goodno said even if the Legislature overrides Ventura’s veto, the governor can still pile-drive the funding by not issuing the bonds.
"Ventura calls this stuff pork," Langseth said. "If you look at what he vetoed and what he didn’t veto, pork is outside the metropolitan area and good stuff is inside the metropolitan area."
He was referring, of course, to Ventura’s preservation of $60 million in bonding for light-rail transit in the Twin Cities area.
Said an editorial in The Forum: "Ventura, whose attitude about higher education seems to mirror his unfamiliarity with it, didn’t do even elementary school-level homework on this matter. The MSU work will be delayed until the 2000 Legislature can override Ventura’s veto, which surely will happen. Legislators know the MSU project is fiscally responsible and needed now. And the state has the money to do the job. Meanwhile, MSU and city officials will continue the effort to keep the deteriorating houses from becoming magnets for vandals and rats."
Of the original 87 houses in the five-block area, about 30 are still standing. Six will be kept for university offices.
The $3.7 million is needed to tear down and dispose of the houses and pave parts of the area for parking.

To promote regional economic literacy…
MSU LAUNCHES NEW ECONOMIC
EDUCATION CENTER
MSU will launch a new Economic Education Center this summer aimed at improving the region’s economic literacy.
The center, affiliated with the Minnesota Council on Economic Education, will offer teacher and community education programs on topics ranging from personal finance to investing. It will also promote an annual economic challenge competition for area high school students, and maintain a resource library of articles, books and other materials dealing with practical economics.
Vernon Dobis, an MSU economics professor, will direct the center, located in the third floor economics department of MacLean Hall.
"The reality is that Americans know precious little about how their economic system works," Dobis said. "Yet understanding these basic money matters is essential to personal survival and success."
In 1998, he said, the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank commissioned a national survey on economic literacy. "The results showed that 35 percent of high school students, 39 percent of the general public, and 51 percent of college seniors gave incorrect answers to basic economic questions."
Worse yet, according to the National Council on Economic Education, most K-12 schools in Minnesota and North Dakota don’t require and don’t offer economics courses.
One goal of the MSU center will be to help teachers make economics come alive in the classroom--at every grade level--by developing materials that can capture the attention of students.
MSU will be added to a list of six other university-affiliated Minnesota Council on Economic Education Centers located at the University of St. Thomas,
St. Cloud State, the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Southwest State and the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities.
"My first goal will be to develop a variety of teacher contacts in regional schools to let them know about our economic center and encourage them to use it," Dobis said. "This fall we hope to have a Web page developed and this winter we should host our first economic challenge event for regional high schools."
Next year he intends to offer some refresher workshops on economics for teachers, with tuition partly underwritten by the Minnesota Economic Education Council. And that will be followed by evening workshops on personal finance and money matters that will be open to the public.
Teachers who want to participate in the center’s activities are encouraged to contact Dobis at
236-4029.

MSU SPEECH/LANGUAGE CLINIC
GETS $222,098 DAKOTA MEDICAL
FOUNDATION GRANT TO EXPAND
The university’s speech, language and hearing sciences department has received a $222,098 grant from the Dakota Medical Foundation to expand its clinical services.
The MSU Speech/Language/Hearing Clinic, an adjunct of the university’s academic program, provides therapy to the public using a combination of student clinicians and faculty supervisors. The services range from treating common articulation and hearing impairments to other dysfunctions ranging from stuttering to aphasia.
The largest chunk of the grant, $133,881, will staff and equip a specialty clinic to evaluate and treat clients with central auditory processing disorders (CAPD). About 3 percent of children and more than 10 percent of older adults are affected by CAPD, which distorts auditory signals to the brain.
"As sound moves from the ear to the brain, somehow that  auditory signal gets scrambled," says Arne Teigland, an MSU speech/language/hearing sciences professor who co-wrote the grant proposal with colleague LaRae McGillivray. "As a result, people with this disorder have difficulty interpreting what they hear. The message gets distorted during processing."
The MSU clinic will also work with teachers and schools who have CAPD students.
"Older people have auditory processing disorders partly because of degeneration of the nervous system," Teigland said. "Unfortunately, we can’t detect CAPD with a standard hearing test. It’s a processing problem. But in the elderly, the disorder is often dismissed as a product of hearing loss."
Another $79,463 from the grant will help expand MSU’s Regional Assistive Technology Center, which provides technical help and consulting services to people with speaking disabilities. The center also purchases augmentative communications equipment for short-term loans and offers demonstrations and technical assistance on the equipment. The grant will provide equipment and some staffing to help RATC director Marie Swanson.
Most insurance companies will not reimburse the cost of augmentative devices unless the individual has tried the technology for a reasonable period of time. The more expensive computer devices cost over $6,000 each. MSU’s loan program is available to regional schools, agencies and individuals.
The final $8,754 portion of the grant will fund a new Parent-Child Communications Program for parents of children who have language disorders. It will be coordinated by Louis DeMaio, also an MSU speech/language/hearing sciences professor. The program will teach parents how to communicate with their children in the most effective way that will stimulate language development.

MSU SCIENCE CENTER TO
UNVEIL "CLUSTER OF PRAIRIE
GRASSES" ART SCULPTURE
The MSU Regional Science Center will unveil its new art sculpture, "Cluster of Prairie Grasses," on Sunday, June 13 at 2 p.m. at the Buffalo River Site. A reception will follow at 2:30 p.m.
P. Richard Szeitz, an MSU professor emeritus of art, created the sculpture, which is located to the north of the interpretive center at the Buffalo River Site.
The sculpture represents 11 native prairie grasses fabricated in steel and mounted on top of a five-foot high, reddish-brown concrete pedestal. The pedestal is decorated with low relief grass roots seen as though lifted from the ground. The pedestal’s four inside corners provide small gathering spaces with seating.
Szeitz writes about the sculpture: "The 46 iron grass stalks constructed from telescoping pipes range from 17 to 35 feet in height and 1_ inches at the base, to be reduced to 1/4 inch wide on the top, where the heads of 11 grass varieties are represented from the surrounding prairie." They are painted reddish brown, orange and deep yellow. The sculpture celebrates the majesty of the prairie and the ecological importance of its vegetation for this region.
Szeitz began preliminary drawings of the sculpture about four years ago. After researching the region’s grass structures, he began adapting specific characteristics of native prairie grasses into his design. He received approval to begin the sculpture a year-and-a-half ago, and constructed the sculpture last May through November.
"This sculpture is for the University and it represents this region, so for that reason it’s an important project to me," said Szeitz, who taught art at MSU for 30 years, serving 25 years as department chair.
Weather conditions prevented the sculpture from being installed until this spring. Ten Science Center volunteers—ranging from MSU and NDSU students to retirees—donated nearly 80 hours helping Szeitz paint the sculpture.
"It really gave a touch of ownership to the project and to the sculpture," said Jan Sedivec, coordinator of volunteer services at the Science Center.
Other dedication activities that day…
* An art exhibit by Karen and Richard Szeitz, titled "Landscapes and Prairie Grass Studies of the Buffalo River Region," will be on display. This exhibit is a collection of works resulting from the Szeitz’s long-lasting interest in the richness of landscape and plant life of this region. Pencil, watercolor, charcoal and pastel were used to analyze and record some essential aspects of a particular view of the landscape. From some of his studies, Richard developed the designs of various sculptural projects, including "Cluster of Prairie Grasses." The developmental stages of design and construction of the sculpture are documented in the exhibit. In addition to her color drawings and paintings, Karen also photographed some of the same views that she had previously drawn or painted on location. Some of these were also reinterpreted with a computer to reflect her understanding of certain plants and other aspects of a selected scene.
* The Science Center will introduce its new logo, designed by MSU graphic arts specialist Jody Bendel. Inspired by Szeitz’s sculpture, the logo’s grass cluster includes the long root system characteristic of prairie grass. The grasses represent the northern tallgrass prairie, the ecological community of the Buffalo River Site, and the educational programs and field research done at the site. The stars above the grasses represent the astronomy programs offered at the planetarium and the Paul P. Feder Observatory. And the constellation Draco, found in the northern sky, represents MSU’s mascot, the dragon.
* Trail walks, refreshments, and tours of the interpretive center, observatory and the Site, will also be offered from 3 to 5 p.m.
The dedication is free and open to the public.
The Buffalo River Site is located 15 miles east of Moorhead, off Highway 10, adjacent to Buffalo River State Park. For more information, call
218-236-2904 or the In-Touch message system at 701-280-1800, #6051.
"Cluster of Prairie Grasses" was made possible through the Minnesota Percent for Art in Public Places, which is sponsored by the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Department of Administration, with support for this project from the Moorhead State University Regional Science Center.

"NIGHT SKIES FOR CHILDREN"
SHOWING THURSDAYS AT MSU PLANETARIUM
MSU’s Planetarium will be showing "Night Skies for Children" Thursdays at 7 p.m. from June 3 through Aug. 26.
The program features a different attraction each month, along with instructions on how to use a star map and how to identify the stars and constellations that are visible in the summer sky.
The Planetarium is located at 8th Avenue and 11th Street South, in Bridges Hall room 167, on the MSU campus. General admission is $3; children 12 years and younger, senior citizens and Tri-College students are admitted for $1.50.
For information or to schedule a group show, call 218-236-3982.

"OUR MOON" EXPLORED DURING
MSU PLANETARIUM SHOW
MSU’s Regional Science Center will explore "Our Moon" Thursday, June 17 at 7 p.m. at the Planetarium, which is located at 8th Avenue and 11th Street South, Moorhead.
This Planetarium feature offers a special viewing of the summer moon after the regularly scheduled "Night Skies for Children" show.   Guests will join Science Center volunteers and staff on the campus mall where telescopes will be set up to view the moon.
General admission is $3; children 12 years and younger, senior citizens and Tri-College students are admitted for $1.50. The telescope viewing on the mall is free.
If it’s too cloudy to view the sky, the outdoor interpretation program will be cancelled.
For information or to schedule a group show, call 218-236-3982.

FAMILY TRAIL ADVENTURE
EXPLORES STONES AT THE
REGIONAL SCIENCE CENTER
"Stones, stones, stones" is the topic of a family trail adventure Sunday, June 13 from 3 to 4 p.m. at the MSU Regional Science Center Buffalo River Site.
The adventure walk, offered by Regional Science Center volunteers, is the first in a series of Second Sunday Trail Adventures at the Buffalo River Site. It will feature a trail walk and a story about stones, rocks and pebbles. It will end with the opportunity to experience nature through art with the help of a wildlife artist who will talk more about our natural environment.
The program is free and open to the public. All necessary supplies will be furnished, but visitors are encouraged to wear comfortable walking shoes.
The Buffalo River Site is located 15 miles east of Moorhead, off Highway 10, adjacent to Buffalo River State Park.
Other trail adventures this summer:
* "Exploring Pond Critters" on Sunday, July 11 from 3 to 4 p.m. Discover what earthly creatures live in ponds!
* "Magic Prairie" on Sunday, Aug. 8 from 3 to 4 p.m. Enjoy the magic of the prairie right under your feet!

 MSU STUDENT SENATE
RAISES $375 FOR
KOSOVO REFUGEES
MSU’s Student Senate raised $375 for Kosovo refugees through coin-drop jars it placed throughout campus and in local businesses. The money was given to the local Red Cross and earmarked for the refugees.

POWER BOWL REPLACES
CRYSTAL BOWL
The 79-year-old football rivalry between the Dragons and the Cobbers has taken on a new sponsor and a new moniker. Two area energy companies, Moorhead Public Service and Missouri River Energy Services, signed a three-year agreement with the two Moorhead campuses to sponsor what will now become The Power Bowl. This year’s game will start at 1:35 p.m. Sept. 4 at Concordia. American Crystal Sugar dropped its
15-year sponsorship of The Crystal Bowl this year as a cost-cutting move based on low harvest projections. Also, this year the Dragons will play the powerful NDSU Bison at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 in the FargoDome.

VACANCY NOTICE
Position: Nursing Faculty
Qualifications: Master’s degree in nursing. Completed doctorate or agreement to complete coursework for degree before application for tenure. Minimum of two years experience in clinical nursing practice.  Active RN license in MN and ND.
Preferred: Teaching experience in baccalaureate nursing program. Doctoral degree.
Responsibilities: Teach selected courses in the undergraduate nursing program in Community Health nursing and Transcultural nursing plus clinical supervision of students. Advise students. Provide service to the University and community. Pursue appropriate scholarly and clinical activities and research.
Apply to: Barbara Matthees, MPH, RN; Nursing Search committee, PO Box 312, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN., 56563. Phone: (218)236-2695; Fax: (218)299-5990.
Position: Nursing Faculty
Qualifications:
Required: Master’s degree in nursing, family or adult nurse practitioner certification; completed doctorate or agreement to complete coursework for degree before application for tenure. Minimum of two years experience in clinical nursing practice. Active RN license in MN and ND.
Preferred: Teaching experience in baccalaureate nursing program. Doctoral degree.
Responsibilities: Teach selected courses in the undergraduate nursing program in psychosocial nursing, physical assessment and adult health nursing plus clinical supervision of students. Advise students. Provide service to the University and community. Pursue appropriate scholarly and clinical activities and research.
Apply to: Barbara Matthees, MPH, RN; Nursing search committee, PO Box 312, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN. 56563. Phone: (218) 236-2695; Fax: (218) 299-5990.
Position: Intramural Coordinator/Head Women’s Swim Coach
Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree is required. A master’s degree is desired. Three to five years experience in recreation/fitness programming required. Collegiate intramural programming experience is highly desired. Three to five years of head coaching experience in swimming required. Collegiate coaching and experience working with women athletes is highly desirable. Good administrative and organizational skills will be necessary. Prior teaching experience in aquatic courses desirable with collegiate instruction preferred. Current certifications in Red Cross Swimming and Lifeguard Training, CPR, and First Aid required.
Responsibilities: Management of campus intramural program with duties that include but are not limited to: scheduling; recruitment, training and supervision of student staff; student payroll; preparing and monitoring budget; ordering, maintaining and recording inventory of supplies and equipment; development and distribution of promotional materials.
Operation and management of the women’s swimming program in accordance with University, Conference and NCAA rules, regulations and policies. Duties include but are not limited to: scheduling, recruiting, planning, organizing, budgeting, supervising assistants, and public relations. Helping with departmental fundraising activities which benefits the swimming program will also be an expectation.
Four credits of instruction in aquatic (or other activity courses) activities will be assigned by the Chair of Health and Physical Education.
Apply to: Dan LaRock, chair of Intramural Coordinator/Head Women’s Swim Coach Committee Nemzek Hall; Moorhead State University; Moorhead, MN. 56563. For information call: (218) 287-5052; Fax: (218) 299-5825.
Strategic Budget Committee
April 8, 1999 2:00 p.m.
Present: Bryan Kotta, Les Bakke Ex-Officio, Nancy Kruse, David Crockett, Carol K Kilsdonk Ex-Officio, Mark Rice Ex-Officio, Rose Bakke, David Wheeler, Judy Strong Ex-Officio, Layne Anderson, Abbas Pezeshk, Ron Jeppson, Dorothy Suomala, Cliff Schuette, Molly Moore
Absent : Alexander Safo, Nathan Anderson, Mark Wallert.
Presentations of their Current Operations budgets and requests for the next fiscal year.
Dean of Arts & Humanities Virginia Klenk
Executive Director of Alumni Foundation & University Advancement Doug Hamilton
Next meeting will be in MA 268 at 2:00 on April 15, 1999
Agenda:
Dean Steve Grineski
Dean Carol Dobitz
Rose Bakke, Secretary

Strategic Budget Committee
April 15, 1999  2:00
Present: David Wheeler, Judy Strong Ex-Officio, Ron Jeppson, Dorothy Suomala, Cliff Schuette, Phil Wenger Ex- Officio, Molly Moore.  Guests; Steve Grineski, Bette Midgarden and Carol Dobitz
Absent : Alexander Safo, Nathan Anderson, Bryan Kotta, Nancy Kruse, Mark Wallert David Crockett, Rose Bakke, Layne Anderson, Abbas Pezeshk,.
Presentations of their Current Operations budgets and requests for the next fiscal year.
Dean Steve Grineski from the College of Education and Human Services
Dean Carol Dobitz from the College of Business and Industry
There was considerable discussion about the financial situation of the University and the value of the presentations to the Strategic Budget Committee and University.
The meeting adjourned at 3:25 p.m.
Next meeting will be in MA 268 at 2:00 on April 22, 1999
Agenda:
Dean Larry Reed
Dean Ron Jeppson
VP Bette Midgarden
Molly Moore, Acting Secretary

Strategic Budget Committee
April 22, 1999 2:00
Present: David Wheeler, Judy Strong Ex-Officio, Ron Jeppson, Dorothy Suomala, Phil Wenger Ex- Officio, Molly Moore Bryan Kotta, Nancy Kruse, David Crockett, Rose Bakke, Abbas Pezeshk, Mark Rice Ex-Officio.  Guests; Bette Midgarden and Dean Larry Reed
Absent Alexander Safo, Nathan Anderson, Mark Wallert, Layne Anderson, and Cliff Schuette.
Presentations of their Current Operations budgets and requests for the next fiscal year.
Dean Larry Reed from Academic Services
Dean Ron Jeppson from the College of Social and Natural Sciences
VP Bette Midgarden from Academic Affairs gave an over view of the Academic Affairs area.
The meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.
Next meeting will be in MA 268 at 2:00 on April 29, 1999
Agenda:
VP Steve Butler
Summery of the information gathered, and where to go from here.
Rose Bakke Secretary

Strategic Budget Committee
April 29, 1999 2:00
Present: David Wheeler, Ron Jeppson, Molly Moore Bryan Kotta, Nancy Kruse, David Crockett, Rose Bakke, Cliff Schuette, Mark Wallert, Layne Anderson Todd Stugelmayer Ex Officio.
Absent Alexander Safo, Nathan Anderson, Abbas Pezeshk, and Dorothy Suomala.
Guests: VP Steve Butler, Katie Wilson, Karen Knighton, and Kim Gillette.
Presentations of their Current Operations budgets and requests for the next fiscal year.
Cliff Schuette from the Counseling Center and Career Services
Karen Knighton from Financial Aid
Kati Wilson from Intercollegiate Athletics
VP Steven Butler From Student Services
The meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.
Next meeting will be in MA 268 at 9:00 on May 6, 1999
Agenda:
Reviewing Summery Sheets
Rose Bakke Secretary

MISCELLEANEA
* Karen Knighton, financial aid, was recently recognized by the state financial aid association as the recipient of its Distinguished Service Award. The award was presented to her last month at the spring Minnesota Association of Financial Aid Administrators’ conference, recognizing dedicated service to the professional organization.
* Brian Hagelstrom, mathematics, attended the spring conference of the Minnesota Mathematical Association of two-year colleges, which was held in Brainerd on April 23 and 24.
* Donna Bruns Stockrahm, biology, received a $500 grant from the North Dakota Academy of Science Research Foundation to continue her research on bison behavior and ecology in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the North Dakota Badlands.
* Chris Chastain and Mark Wallert, biology and Joseph Provost, chemistry accompanied 16 students to the 67th annual meeting of the Minnesota Academy of Science April 23-24 at Macalester College. The students that attended the meeting were: Gary Bailey, Matt Baumgartner, Derin Birch, Monty Botschner, Christy Broadwell, Amy Grimes, Grant Harrington, Jesse Hodapp, Amy Krider, Jodi Lamoureux, Dan Loban, Isaac Manke, Craig Nerby, Laura Nustad, William Wegh, and Erin Watkin. The students presented 3 oral presentations and 7 posters at the meeting. The presentations presented were: Oral Presentations Enhancing the Efficiency of DNA Transfection Into Neonatal Cardiac Mycocytes in Culture. Amy Grimes and Laura Nustad. Development of an Invivo Fluorescent Phospholipase D Assay. Dan Loban and Amy Krider. Regulation of Cardiac Myocyte NHE-1 Activity by Potential Agonist Stimulation and Antisense Expression. Isaac Manke and Christy Broadwell. Poster Presentations Do Tall Grass Prairie Grasses Generate Gene Diversity through Polyploidy?  Cloning and Sequencing the Gene for PPDK from Big Bluestem. Gary Bailey. Genetic Engineering Photosynthetic Cold Tolerance in Maize by Site Directed Mutagenesis of the Gene Encoding Pyruvate-Orthophosphate Dikinase. II. Multiple Mutations and Their Effect on Cold Stability of Pyruvated-Pl-Dikinase. Derin Birch and Jeff Clauson. Exploring the Functional Properties of a Maize Regulatory Protein Kinase by Directed Mutagenesis of Its Target Protein, Pyruvate Orthophosphate Dikinase. Monty Botschner. Enhancing the Efficiency of DNA Transfection Into Neonatal Cardiac Mycocytes in Culture. Amy Grimes, Laura Nustad, Christina Broadwell, Sarah Olmschenk, Christine Eichelberger, and William Wegh. Development of an Invivo Fluorescent Phospholipase D Assay. Dan Loban and Amy Krider. Regulation of Cardiac Myocyte NHE-1 Activity by Potential Agonist Stimulation and Antisense Expression. Isaac Manke, Christy Broadwell, Laura Nustad, Amy Grimes, and Matt Baumgartner. Genetic Engineering Photosynthetic Cold Tolerance in Maize by Site Directed Mutagenesis of the Gene Encoding Pyruvate-Orthophosphate Dikinase. I. Single Mutations and their Effect on Cold Stability of Pyruvate Pl-Dikinase. Adam Vossen and Erin Watkin.
* Donna M. Bruns Stockrahm and Brian D. Wisenden, biology, attended the 91st meeting of the North Dakota Academy of Science, April 15-16 with six students, Kristen Radtke, Karla Scoville, Deanna Thompson, Heather Taylor, Adam Walz and Erin Watkin. Students made one oral presentation and presented one poster at this meeting. The presentations were: Oral Presentation with Abstract (* denotes presenter): Radtke, Kristen M.*, Heather R. Taylor, Donna M. Bruns Stockrahm, and Karla J. Scoville. Bison habitat use and herd composition in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the North Dakota Badlands. Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science 53:191. Poster Presentation: Watkin, EE & Wisenden BD. 1999. Avoidance of injury-released chemical cues by Gammarus lacustris  (Crustacea:Amphipoda) and corresponding attraction by their predators Dina parva (Annelida:Hirudinea).
* Kathryn M. Wise, biology, and three students, Paul Dambowy, Bryan Johnson and Nicole Wright, attended the 99th Annual General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, May 30-June 3, Chicago. She and these three students presented a poster entitled: Generating the "How To Files": A set of Student-Friendly Laboratory Instructions.

CLASSIFIEDS
New faculty member in the Physics/Astronomy Dept. is looking for a house to rent. Needs occupancy early July. Please email: mcraig@astro.berkeley.edu or phone:
510-528-3206.