Media Coverage

Chancellor Tom Harden was the keynote speaker Monday (May 13) at a reception for the Green Bay Press-Gazette’s 25th annual Academic Team. The yearly designation recognizes area high school seniors who excel in the classroom, extracurricular activities and community involvement. Harden, who’s spoken at the event before, told the assembled students to “do what you [...]

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We’re happy to bring you the terrific story of a soon-to-be UW-Green Bay grad whose diploma journey was 13 years in the making. WFRV, Channel 5’s Heather Sawaski on Monday (May 13) brought viewers the story of UW-Green Bay senior Bonnie Callow, who will graduate Saturday (May 18) with a degree in Communication. Callow, 58, [...]

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Fox 11’s “Good Day Wisconsin” went live from the Lab Sciences greenhouse this morning, bringing viewers four great segments pertaining to UW-Green Bay’s Heirloom Plant Sale Saturday (May 18). Vicki Medland, associate director of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, played hostess to “GDW”’s Emily Deem and crew, explaining what heirlooms are, what’s available for the [...]

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The regional business magazine published by the New North has an article on leadership education. “One such program just settling in to the starting blocks in the Green Bay area is the Leadership Excellence course through the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s Small Business Development Center,” the report says. Director Ryan Kauth describes the six-month-long program [...]

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Two UW-Green Bay students — one a soon-to-be grad — were featured in Sunday’s (May 12) Green Bay Press-Gazette, part of the newspaper’s Mother’s Day coverage. Adult Degree Program students Joan Jarvi, 61, and her daughter, 42-year-old Erika Koester, have helped each other through their respective returns to school and have even taken a few [...]

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The UW-Green Bay Heirloom Plant Sale, along with our own Vicki Medland, got some nice ink in Saturday’s (May 11) Press-Gazette, with a story and photo previewing Saturday’s (May 18) annual event. The feature talks about some of the 7,200 plants that will be available during this year’s NAS sale, including heirloom varieties featuring such [...]

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We’ve told you about the research by UW-Green Bay senior Psychology major Miranda DeMars on the age-old question: “Do these eyeglasses make me look smarter?” A student of Associate Prof. Jennifer Lanter of Human Development, DeMars presented her results at the recent Midwestern Psychological Association convention. The news feature, Facebook and Twittering that we did [...]

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Pretty much anywhere in America that they have television sets and people wearing eyeglasses, they now know about Psychology student Miranda DeMars and her research confirming the stereotype that people perceive glasses wearers as more intelligent. Credit the nice work by DeMars, and the nice TV work by Fox 11’s Kelly Schlicht for the fact [...]

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WFRV, Channel 5 on Wednesday (May 8) carried a cool story on our own Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program. Reporter Heather Sawaski tagged along with a group of West De Pere High School students as they conducted water testing on Ashwaubenon Creek. “Our overall goal here is to just watch and monitor and try [...]

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Prof. Emeritus Michael Kraft lent his expertise to one of the week’s biggest local news stories Tuesday (May 7), speaking with Wisconsin Public Radio’s “At Issue” about the decommissioning of the Kewaunee Power Station. Kraft joined “At Issue” host John Munson for a discussion on why the plant closed, how the clean-up process will begin [...]

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