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Show 2 Tfee Daily Tuesday, March 1,1994 Utah Chronicle h 1-- 1 i Center looking for two students to participate in Japanese internship BY BRANDON BURT Chronicle News Writer Center to host open panel on many voices of women In celebration of Women's History Month, the Women's Resource Center along with the Women's Studies Program are sponsoring a panel presentation entitled "The Gathering of Voices." This panel presentation will provide an open forum for the many voices of women, who represent a wide variety of perspectives and backgrounds. The participants will provide personal narratives pertaining to issues such as academic opportunities, professional pursuits and general campus experiences. Panelists will also explore other issues such as the utilization of feminist scholarship, the classroom climate for women and the personal impact of feminist activism. Immediately following the panel presentation, time will be allowed for audience participation. The panel discussion will begin at noon in the Union Theatre. This program is free and open to the public. For more information on this Or stop by the Women's Resource Center, event, please call located in 293 Union. 581-803- 0. Math professors awarded $30,000 Sloan Fellowship University of Utah mathematics professors Mark Lewis and Aaron Bertram were awarded $30,000 fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In letters to the two Utah winners, foundation president Ralph Gomory said, "The award is extraordinarily competitive and involves nominations for most of the very best scientists of your generation from around the country." He said the award "conveys a clear indication of the high esteem in which your past work and future potential are held by your fellow scientists." The fellowships carry the name of the late Alfred Sloan, a prominent American industrialist and former and board chair of General Motors Corp. Award winners are allowed to use the grant money to pursue their research in a flexible and largely unrestricted manner. Bertram joined the department of mathematics faculty in June 1993 after teaching at Harvard University for nearly four years as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. He earned a doctorate at UCLA. A native of Honolulu, he is an authority in algebraic geometry. He works with scientists at the U. Institute for the Theory and Application of Geometry. He was previously awarded a Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to complete work on his doctorate. Lewis joined the U. faculty in July 1992 after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington. His research is mathematical biology, a subject in which he received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1990. He has developed a mathematical model of the territorial habits of wolves and their interactions with whitetail deer. He reported on his findings in a letter published in the Dec. 23 issue of the journal. Nature. Field work takes him to the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn, near the Canadian border. A native of Victoria, B.C., Lewis helped the Canadian government and of seal a consulting company conduct census studies in the and whale populations in the Arctic. two-ye- The Center for International Business Education and Research, in conjunction with the David Eccles School of Business, is seeking applications from students to participate in an internship exchange program with Kito Corporation in Japan. The two successful candidates for the internship will have strong skills in speaking Japanese and be enrolled in a business or "Undergraduates program, engineering research associate Ruth Kurzbauer said. Russell Ruben, a senior in electrical engineering, interned at Kito Corp. last year. "It was a very valuable experience," he said. In addition to learning about many levels of Japanese companies, he said the internship also helped him dispel some expansion of Kito's largest customer, a book publisher. When Graff presented some of his improvements to the vice president of the publishing house, "the vice president disliked most of my ideas, but he liked some of them." However, the experience was most valuable, Graff said, in providing him with hands-o- n experience in the real world of engineering. "College is good to fill your head with stuff, but I don't know if a lot of it is stuff you need," Graff have no concept " of what goes on in the real world, engineering department senior Ken Graff said. "I think faculty and staff should do whatever they can to get students in real positions as undergraduates... by the time they're graduate students, it's too late. " added. College often neglects providing students with tHe skills necessary to work in their field in the private sector, while the Japanese provide the specialized training its workers will need. American college students often learn too much about abstract concepts and not enough of practical knowledge, he said. "Undergraduates have no concept of what goes on in the real world," Graff myths about the Japanese, such as the myth that all workers in Japanese companies are "workaholics." Ken Graff, a senior in the engineering department, participated in the internship in 1992, the first year it was offered. He was trained in Kito's quality control, engineering and sales departments, where he translated manuals and analyzed a new system for an yxBSyM lite & said. "I think faculty and staff should do whatever they can to get students in real positions as undergraduates. ..by the time they're graduate students, it's too late," according to Graff. In addition to funding the internship program, Kito Corp. last year provided an endowment to the business college for a reading room, Kurzbaur said. w w mm' mm 0 WORK FULL TIME? The Bookstore is looking for student employees to fill the following positions: Crimson Corner Salesperson (7:45 am - 12:00 pm) Computer Sales Cashier (7:45 -- 1 1:15 am) Computer Salesperson (l2:00 4:00 pm) Sales Auditor (8:00 am - 12:00 pm) ar All positions must be filled by matriculated students of the University of Utah. If interested, please contact Leigh Ellen Johnsen at UNIVERSITY mid-198- UNIVERSITY OF 581-440-- 4. BOOKSTORE UTAH CAMPUS 11 8 Oh, NO") Q ill V Aaron Bertram and Mark Lewis Harvard historian to speak on conflicts in feminism An internationally respected expert on the history and theory of feminism will deliver the University of Utah department of history's 18th annual O. Meredith Wilson Lecture March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Joan Wallach Scott, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, is scheduled to address how the need to be both equal and different has been an unresolvable paradox for feminism. Wallach Scott, a faculty member of what is considered one of the finest history departments in the world, will examine the writings and careers of five French feminists who lived between 1 789 and 1945. Wallach Scott is the author of numerous research articles and three books, including, The Glassworkers of Carmaux and Gender and the Politics of History, both of which received national prizes for history writing. The lecture is free and open to the public. A-LI- FEl $ Learn how you can save a MARCH life! 3, 1994 HILTON HOTEL 7:00-10:OO- PM American Red Cross asuu |