Daily Archive: August 18, 2009
Making the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s daily digest of college news and notes was the fact that UW-Green Bay has been named one of the top “military friendly schools” by G.I. Jobs magazine. Right there with...
The 1,200-square-foot garden outside the University Union is both a new teaching tool and a tribute to UW-Green Bay’s eco roots, its creator told the Green Bay Press-Gazette. “I wanted to use it as...
Private funeral services were set in Mayville for Joshua Okon, 21, the UW-Green Bay student who died Aug. 12 as the result of a fall from the roof of the university library. Investigators described...
Funeral services are scheduled later this week for Frank “Bud” Furch, who died Aug. 13, at age 81. He was a Chicago-area environmentalist, musician, yachtsman and sculptor working in bronze, chrome, fiberglass and other...
Political Science Prof. Mike Kraft reflected on the likely legacy of two-term Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, who announced this week he would not seek re-election in 2010. Kraft told WFRV (CBS, Channel 5) that...
Christina Trombley, director of the Small Business Development Center, continues to be visible, media-wise, as an advocate for the Urban Food Project for Downtown Green Bay. She was interviewed Tuesday on the topic by...
Prof. Sarah Meredith-Livingston, of the music faculty and the Arts and Visual Design academic unit, attended the 2009 Wesley Balk Opera-Music Theater Institute held on the Augsburg College campus from June 20-July 12 in...
UW-Green Bay Associate Professor Derek Jeffreys, Humanistic Studies, is interviewed in the current edition of Harper’s Magazine. Reporter Scott Horton puts six questions to Jeffreys, a specialist in philosophy and religious studies, about his...
Both the Green Bay Press-Gazette and the Gainesville Sun newspapers devoted significant coverage late last week to the passing of Green Bay native, surgeon and philanthropist David A. Cofrin, who died Aug. 11 in...
The 1,200-square-foot garden outside the University Union is a new teaching tool added to campus, its creator told the Green Bay Press-Gazette. “I wanted to use it as kind of a focal point …...