Monthly Archive: January 2009
New UW-Green Bay Chancellor Thomas K. Harden told the Green Bay Press-Gazette he is “comfortable in addressing” the budget challenges gripping the state right now. He told the paper his priorities during the next...
“The Things They Carried” is the reading of choice for the Campus Common Theme: Waging War, Waging Peace, this semester. The novel (Bantam Books, December 1998) is “an arc of fictional episodes, taking place...
Matthew Mattila, the child welfare coordinator in the Social Work Professional Program at UW-Green Bay, went to the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama Tuesday with his son Mason and daughter Ellen. Mattila started...
Matthew Mattila and his children are also contributors to the Green Bay Press-Gazette’s “Inaug Blog.” They join a group of other local bloggers, which includes a retired school teacher from Green Bay, a sophomore...
Junior forward Pat Nelson, a top reserve for the Phoenix men’s basketball team, is motivated by the strength of his mother, Carol. Although she never smoked, Carol developed lung cancer, possibly as an after-effect...
The bitter cold couldn’t keep Phoenix basketball fans away from the Resch Center Thursday evening. A basketball doubleheader brought out plenty of fans, including a season-high 5,141 to see the men defeat preseason league...
Staff member Christopher Sampson and Prof. Emerita Ann McLean of Social Work assisted with planning for a public forum on “Faith and Immigration” at 7 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 22) in downtown Green Bay. Organized...
State faces more than $5B deficit if trends continue By Kelly McBride kmcbride@greenbaypressgazette.com The fifth chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will begin his tenure June 1 after the UW System approved his...
The UW System Board of Regents Friday (Jan. 16) formally approved Thomas K. Harden as the fifth chancellor to lead UW-Green Bay. “It will be an honor to join a great system of higher...
Four trips to the Great Lakes region’s college theatre festival this decade, four “Golden Handtruck” awards for the UW-Green Bay Theatre program. The latest came last weekend in Saginaw, Mich., for behind-the-scenes technical work...