Day: November 8, 2018

  • The Phoenix Bookstore has offers to jumpstart your holiday list

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    Check out the gift ideas for under $25 at The Phoenix Bookstore.

  • Award-winning documentary about Syrian refugees, ‘This is Home,’ shown Monday, Nov. 12

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    Only twenty-one thousand Syrian refugees out of five million have been accepted into the United States since 2011. The documentary “This Is Home” follows four families sent to resettle in Baltimore in 2016. The film will be shown Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 in the Christie Theatre, UW-Green Bay at 6 p.m. It is free and…

  • Retirees enjoying ‘Nunsense’ together

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    The UW-Green Bay Retiree Association is organizing a group outing at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, to support the Music, Theatre and Dance programs and enjoy the University’s production of “Nunsense: The Mega-Musical,” in the University Theatre. A small reception will follow. The musical comedy tells the story of the Little Sisters of Hoboken, who discover that their cook,…

  • Alumnus Chris Rand named new company president

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    UW-Green Bay alumnus Chris Rand ’10 (Art) has been named president of Sunset Hill Stoneware. Rand is a Marine Corps veteran with more than 10 years of business management experience, having owned his own business. Rand came to Sunset Hill Stoneware after working in marketing for Virginia’s state science museum. Read more.

  • New spooky podcast

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    October was extra spooky for Bird in the Wings podcasts! Sit down with Weidner Executive Director Kelli Strickland for back-to-back interviews with Nic Wessely and Liz Barlament from Terror on the Fox (live), then with UW-Green Bay Prof. Jeff Entwistle (Theatre).

  • Program ‘What Would You Do?’ featured on Nov. 28

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    What would you do in situations that may involve assumptions, stereotypes, microaggressions, racism and or a cultural situation? Participants should come prepared to discuss what they would do in those situations.Wednesday, Nov. 28 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Alumni Room (former Room 103) University Union. Participants will have an opportunity to share a situation/experience…

  • Faculty note: Prof. Pearson published research

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    “Since vitamin K is so integral to good bone health, it is natural to assume that it may be used to treat certain bone problems. Research by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay found that vitamin K has a positive effect on bone mineral density and decreases fracture risk. The research was recently published in The Science of…

  • WFRV covers wild rice seeding on the bay of Green Bay

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    Good for the water and its inhabitants, UW-Green Bay is in partnership with another organizations to restore wild rice to the bay of Green Bay. WFRV has the story.

  • Wild rice seeding good for the bay and habitat

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    Wild rice seeding is underway by UW-Green Bay and its partners. Fox 11 has the story.

  • UW-Green Bay students stepped up to vote

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    “Wisconsinites didn’t sit this one out,” reports the Appleton Post Crescent. ” We had a record turnout for a midterm. Unofficial returns from the Associated Press place statewide turnout at 2.7 million voters. Based on state population estimates from earlier this year, that computes to almost 60 percent of the voting-age population. That’s up from 55 percent in…