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Daily Archive: August 7, 2012

Slideshow: UW-Green Bay night at the Bullfrogs was a hit

News

7 Aug, 2012

Slideshow: UW-Green Bay night at the Bullfrogs was a hit

It was family fun when the UWGB Alumni Association and Division of Outreach and Adult Access hosted a summer reunion for alumni, faculty, staff, retirees and students last Wednesday (Aug. 1) at Joannes Stadium to cheer on the Green Bay Bullfrogs. The event has become a mid-summer tradition. This year, a promotional appearance by the Budweiser Clydesdales and the selection of people from the UW-Green Bay section to take part in the popular between-innings toilet paper toss added to the ambiance.

Monitoring Mars: With successful rover landing, Yingst’s work has just begun

News

7 Aug, 2012

Monitoring Mars: With successful rover landing, Yingst’s work has just begun

Due to the successful and historic landing of the Mars rover Curiosity Monday, UW-Green Bay’s Aileen Yingst will be away for a while.

About 90 Martian days, in fact.

Yingst, director of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, headquartered at UW-Green Bay, is the deputy principal investigator for the Curiosity mission’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera, an instrument so powerful it can return images of individual grains of sand on the planet’s surface. She watched the rover land from mission headquarters early Monday (Aug. 6), joining in a jubilant celebration with “about 400 of my best friends” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.

‘I’ve got a lot planned’: Scholar program helps students prep for future

News

7 Aug, 2012

‘I’ve got a lot planned’: Scholar program helps students prep for future

For a dozen middle schoolers who attended a first-time academic summer camp at UW-Green Bay, looking back was important.

Looking forward, even more so.

The weeklong residential experience, “The Phoenix Scholar Institute for African American Girls,” is a program designed to close the academic achievement gap, and to address educational imbalances.

A look through the lens of the young

Features

7 Aug, 2012

A look through the lens of the young

Award-winning digital photography instructor (and ’06 UW-Green Bay graduate) Tammy Resulta shared a gallery of her students work (and photos of students themselves) as part of the Introduction to Fine Art Digital Photography summer...

Artists’ ‘Exquisite Uterus Project’ draws notice

News

7 Aug, 2012

Artists’ ‘Exquisite Uterus Project’ draws notice

The New York-based blog cultureID has picked up on an ongoing project and upcoming exhibit involving UW-Green Bay Art Prof. Alison Gates and Helen Klebesadel, director of the UW System Women’s Studies Consortium. The...