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Month: December 2020

  • UW-Green Bay students helping in worldwide effort to develop new antibiotics

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    Sue Bodilly

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    GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) College students at UW-Green Bay are helping in a worldwide effort to develop new life-saving antibiotics. As Kris Schuller reports the Tiny Earth project is out to help solve a growing crisis. For the past 14 weeks college students at UWGB like Carolyn LaTour – have been looking through soil samples searching…

  • UW-Green Bay education alumna was named Beloit Rotary Teacher of the Month

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Carolyn Lynch ’12 (Education) has been named the Beloit Rotary Teacher of the Month. She is a fourth grade teacher at Aldrich Intermediate School in Beloit. She has been with the School District of Beloit for seven years and she is about to complete her eighth year with the district. She is a School Leadership member, a…

  • Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: ‘Faithfall’ a tight, complex play on a mission of insights

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    Sue Bodilly

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    GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – A nun commits suicide. The nun has a checkered past. The nun has an admired recent present. Her estranged biological sister and her colleague/priest try to sort out the nun and themselves as they bob roughly in her wake. That’s the gist of “Faithfall,” a tightly-wrapped play that is in its world-premiere…

  • Parting shot: Drone photo of Green Bay Campus is a beauty

    Parting shot: Drone photo of Green Bay Campus is a beauty

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Ben Young, NEW Water, captured this stunning photo from the bay with his drone. The setting sun magnifies the intensity of the golden tips of trees that surround the Green Bay Campus as part of the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum.    

  • CAHSS has a full line-up this week

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Check out programming this week from UW-Green Bay’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Faithfall, streaming through December 8. Watch Only for Now- A Musical Revue, 12/10, 7pm through 12/15. More Jazz Ensemble Concert, 12/14, 7:30pm. More Common CAHSS… ICYMI.Playlist Phoenix Studios Presents Indented: The History of Letters and Diaries—How Will the Pandemic Be…

  • COVID presentation by Prof. Merkel was ‘one of LLI’s best’

    COVID presentation by Prof. Merkel was ‘one of LLI’s best’

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Members of the Lifelong Learning Institute continue to rave about a “Virus Without Borders and COVID-19” presentation given by UW-Green Bay’s Prof. Brian Merkel a few weeks ago. “I was riveted,” said one participant. “We have received so many positive comments and many ‘best class I have taken’ comments, said LLI Associate Program Specialist Susan…

  • Video: COVID-19 Why it Matters: Part 15, What are COVID-19 Antibodies?

    Video: COVID-19 Why it Matters: Part 15, What are COVID-19 Antibodies?

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    pischkes

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    This video series features UW-Green Bay’s Immunologist Brian Merkel on COVID-19 and Why it Matters. This series empowers viewers with knowledge to help them navigate through the pandemic. Merkel has a Ph.D. in Microbiology & Immunology from the Medical College of Virginia. He is an associate professor in UW-Green Bay’s Human Biology & Biology programs…

  • New scholarship honors UW-Green Bay alumna and former State Representative Sharon Metz

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    Editorial Student

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    The Sharon and Thomas Metz Scholarship will benefit undergraduate students who are majoring in First Nations Studies and demonstrate financial need. It will be renewable for up to two years. Mitch Metz, son of Sharon and Tom, says this scholarship aims to carry on his parents’ fight for recognition and respect for indigenous people. Donations to…

  • Faculty Senate meeting is Dec. 9

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    Editorial Student

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    We’ve nearly made it through the fall semester!  Why not reward yourself by grabbing an egg nog and join in on the Faculty Senate meeting this Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020.  The agenda can be found at https://www.uwgb.edu/UWGBCMS/media/sofas/Faculty%20Senate/Agendas%20and%20Minutes/agenda-12-09-20.pdf

  • Reminder: Only For Now premiering Dec. 10

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    Editorial Student

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    Only For Now is a musical revue featuring an ensemble of theatre and dance students. The revue is loaded with Broadway hits such as Avenue Q, Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, Hairspray, Les Miserables and more. The selections were chosen to highlight what it means to be a performing artist and inspire hope for the…