Month: December 2015
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Prof. Weinschenk’s work cited at FiveThirtyEight
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Research by UW-Green Bay political scientist Aaron Weinschenk was cited this week at political guru Nate Silver’s popular statistics-and-political-analysis website FiveThirtyEight. The article assesses GOP challenger Marco Rubio’s tactics in not investing in a “ground game” in Iowa, and his campaign’s claim that it’s not worth the effort. Silver’s site takes issue with that strategy,…
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Weather rain or snow, ski team has to prepare
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Fox-11 reporter Gabrielle Mays did a fun story Thursday about how the Phoenix Nordic ski teams are coping with this year’s unseasonably warm winter as they prepare for their first meet in the U.P. in January. The answer? They train like they often do, using roller-skis. Mays talked to student athletes Katie Burger and Kyle…
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Phoenix Bookstore steers students to EZ Books
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The Phoenix Bookstore is open most days over winter break, and they’re still in the book-buyback mode, but staff members are now turning their attention to reminding students to pre-order spring textbooks right now. EZ Book forms are available at the store. Students can also log into their SIS accounts, click on “Order Books” and…
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‘Georgia Miller puts down roots at UW-Green Bay’
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The Green Bay Press-Gazette’s You Magazine has published a nicely reported get-to-know-you feature on Georgia Miller. Editor Amelia Compton Wolff interviewed Miller about her upbringing in the South, professional moves from California to Kansas to Wisconsin, and her pride in having founded and directed Family Crisis Services of Northwest Mississippi, a nonprofit that serves as…
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Passing of June Kellogg, early staff member
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Funeral services were held Thursday, Dec. 17, at Holy Cross Church for June Kellogg, who died Monday at the age of 90. Kellogg was one of the first staff members at the new UW-Green Bay. She had the title of “account examiner” with Academic Affairs for most of her first decade on campus, before moving…
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Passing of Len Seidl, UW-Green Bay’s real-estate champion
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On graduation day in May 2008, UW-Green Bay presented the Chancellor’s Award — for exemplary service to the University — to Len Seidl, the well-known local real estate executive who in the late 1960s was instrumental in securing the bayshore site that would become the University’s campus. Seidl, who always professed pride in helping broker…
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Droning message
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Already emailed campuswide but repeated here for the record: UW-Green Bay’s Office of Public Safety is advising students, staff and faculty to be aware of the general FAA regulations governing so-called “drones.” (The unmanned aircraft are expected to go mainstream this Christmas with thousands, millions or more of the remote-controlled devices sold to amateurs nationwide.)…
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Psychology students receive honors at semester-ending symposium
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More than 70 UW-Green Bay psychology students conducted original research and displayed their work at an end-of-the-semester poster session. Each of these studies represents original research that includes study design, data collection and analysis. Before the poster sessions, students participated in an oral defense of their work and individually, wrote a scientific paper on their…
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Therapy dogs help student de-stress
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The stress-busting therapy dogs were back at the Cofrin Library Wednesday (Dec. 17), continuing an enjoyable winter finals-week tradition that lets students take a fun and furry study break. About a dozen dogs from the Packerland Kennel Club lapped up the attention while defusing students’ stress from 3:30-5 p.m. on the library’s fourth floor. Click…