Month: April 2009
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Faculty/staff notes: Goff
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Prof. Victoria Goff, Communication, presented two workshops at the 20th annual Writers’ Institute at UW-Madison March 27-29. The workshops addressed the business side of writing and promoting and marketing novels and non-fiction books.
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Alumna chimes in with composition for campus carillon
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Ed Weidner’s signature was on the diploma when Cheryl Grosso received her UW-Green Bay bachelor’s degree in 1978. Today, she returns the favor by contributing her musical signature to the chimes that will sound across campus from the new Weidner Memorial Carillon.
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Shorewood Golf Course open for business
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Occasional snow showers be danged, the Shorewood Golf Course on the UW-Green Bay campus is letting golfers swing into spring. The course, voted the top nine-hole course in the state by Golf Course Owners of Wisconsin, is officially open for business for the 2009 season. Rick Warpinski says the grounds are in terrific shape thanks…
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Registration now open for May 6 symposium on ‘Changing Economy’
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The breakfast symposium “Our Changing Economy: Strategies for Moving Forward in an Uncertain Economic Environment” is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 6, at the KI Convention Center downtown. Keynote speakers are Interim Chancellor David Ward, president of NorthStar Economics, Inc.; Wade Rousse of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago; and John Koskinen, the chief…
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Video coverage: Evans fifth in national dunk competition
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UW-Green Bay senior Terry Evans was among a select group of eight players invited to participate in the national Slam Dunk Championship. The event aired nationally on ESPN on April 2. Evans had two dunks in the preliminary round. His first, a catch-and-stuff off a nifty over-the-backboard feed, placed him among the top three. His…
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Clarification on Gaines recital
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Apparently, an out-of-date or incorrect calendar circulating somewhere on campus shows an early-April time and day for the trumpet recital by Prof. Adam Gaines. Not true. The correct date is April 26. We’ll have details when the time is right, closer to the event.
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Shorewood Golf Course open for business
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GREEN BAY — Shorewood Golf Course on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus is letting golfers swing into spring. The course, voted the top nine-hole course in the state by Golf Course Owners of Wisconsin, is officially open for business for the 2009 season.
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Earth Day Memories
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A photo gallery of 1970s activism at Eco U With universities near and far jumping on the Sustainability bandwagon, UW-Green Bay rates special mention as one of the places the movement first rolled more than 40 years ago. Described as America’s first environmental university, where every day was Earth Day, UW-Green Bay claimed national attention…
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UW-Green Bay loses community friend, alumna in Doris M. Madigan
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Doris M. Madigan, 83, died peacefully Tuesday morning, March 31. She, her husband, James, and the entire family have been longtime supporters of UW-Green Bay. The Madigans founded Feeco International Inc., in the early 1950s and with their support the company became a strong partner of the new university. Doris Madigan would earn both bachelor’s…
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Ward invites community to see our students’ best work
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Interim Chancellor David Ward is positively excited about April being the month in which — between the annual Academic Excellence Symposium and the statewide Posters in the Rotunda — UW-Green Bay puts its best foot forward by showing off the sophisticated research and impressive talent of our top students. Here’s the online version of his…