Laurels and Accolades Undergraduate student Jay Stahl (Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies) was named a junior board member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) in the organization’s ChicagoMidwest chapter. The board, made up of students and young professionals, is the first of its kind for NATAS, which oversees the Emmy Awards and promotes excellence in the television broadcast industry. The junior board members are explicitly tasked with engaging younger members of the broadcast industry. (https://bit. ly/3bnUin7) He also accepted a position as an intern for the Wausau Daily Herald. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (English and Film Studies) and Richard Grusin’s (English and Center for 21st Century Studies) co-edited book, “Ends of Cinema,” was longlisted for the 2021 Kraszna-Krauz Moving Image Book Award. Mark Schwartz’s (Geography) “Spring Indices” models, which predict the start of spring across the United States, are being used as one of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Indicators in a newlyrelaunched website detailing climate change and its effects on the population. Min Gyu Kim (Physics) was selected to receive one of two 2021 Outstanding Young Research Awards
(the AKPA OYRA) from the Association of Korean Physicists in America. The award presentation will be held during the Association of Korean Physicists in America/Korean Physical Society joint symposium in May.
Kimberly Blaeser’s (English and American Indian Studies) poem, “About Standing (In Kinship),” was published in Poetry Magazine. “Tonsorium” was published in “Sheltering with Poems: Community and Connection during COVID,” and the lyric essay, “Body Language,” was published in Notre Dame Magazine. She also presented a feature reading as a part of Kimberly Blaeser Denison University’s Beck Series and presented “Native Arts & Indigenous Flourishing” as part of an NEA Big Read event at Eastern Illinois. Finally, her poetry collection, “Copper Yearning,” was selected as Book of the Month by the nationally syndicated radio program Native American Calling. She was the featured guest on the live broadcast April 28. Students in the Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies program raked in handfuls of Milwaukee Press Club Awards this season, earning both more Gold awards and more awards total than any other Milwaukee university. Scroll to Page 20 in the program to see a list of collegiate award winners. Jennifer Deroche (Advising) received the 2021 ACN Advisor of the Year award from the UWM Advisors and Counselors Network. The award recognizes the hard work of those whose primary job responsibility is advising/ counseling students.
Min Guy Kim
Spotlight on Italian On April 29, 2021, via Zoom, the Neapolitan painter Francesco Fiscardi gave a talk about his painting “Milwaukee as Seen from Space,” to UWM students of Ojibwe and Italian, with a discussion afterward. The encounter was organized by Dr. Margaret Noodin, Department of English, and Dr. Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature. An article about the event was published in The Voice of New York. 16 • IN FOCUS • June, 2021
Francesco Fiscardi
