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Day: March 4, 2021

  • Melt This Frozen Heart: Whiteout and Written in the Stars

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    Editorial Student

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    Melt This Frozen Heart: Whiteout and Written in the Stars is Associate Professor Jessica Lyn Van Slooten’s latest installment in her monthly ‘Happy Hearts’ column on Cahsseffect.org. Van Slooten is a professor of English, Writing Foundations, Humanities, and Women’s & Gender Studies at UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus.

  • (Virtual) Great Decisions: Struggles Over the Melting Arctic with Elizabeth Wheat, March 8

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    Editorial Student

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    Manitowoc Public Library is proud to present Great Decisions 2021, their 14th year of hosting this preeminent eight-week grassroots lecture series. On Monday, March 8, 2021 at 6 p.m., Associate Professor Elizabeth Wheat will be discussing “Struggles Over the Melting Arctic.” In 2021, in response to the uncertainty surrounding large public gatherings, MPL has decided…

  • SAFE Ally Level 1 and 2 Training on Teams March 12

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    Editorial Student

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    SAFE Ally Level 1 and 2 training provides participants with updated information about LGBTQ+ topics including vocabulary, an understanding of pronouns which are inclusive for individuals who are transgender and non-binary, and discussion of current social and legal issues that affect LGBTQ+ and their families. SAFE Ally level 1 is from 8 to 10 a.m.,…

  • Psychology and Stuff Episode 101: When We Return to Travel (with Jemma Lund)

    Psychology and Stuff Episode 101: When We Return to Travel (with Jemma Lund)

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    Editorial Student

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    In this episode, Jemma Lund, Study Abroad program manager for UW-Green Bay, speaks about what it will be like for people to return to travel following the COVID-19 pandemic. Lund discusses how study abroad, in particular, can be a transformative experience and some of the ways that students can benefit. Listen to the episode!

  • Psychology graduate Adam Ahrens and Prof. Chu published article to address African American athletes’ psychological needs

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    Editorial Student

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    Adam Ahrens, a recent Psychology graduate, and Assistant Professor. Alan Chu, Chair of the M.S. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Program, published an article titled “Motivation Is Not Always Black and White: Attending to African American Athletes’ Psychological Needs for Sport Involvement” in Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators. In this article, they…

  • Weidner Center March digital programs

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    Editorial Student

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    The Weidner Center for the Performing Arts presents digital events for March 2021. Upcoming events include a mix of livestream and pre-recorded concerts and speaking engagements presented by the Weidner Center with UW-Green Bay, and STEAM Engine partners. Out of concern for public health, all programs will be presented virtually with no in-person attendance. List…

  • UW-Parkside hosting celebration of Leopold Legacy

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Join Kenosha Public Library and the UW-Parkside in a celebration of Aldo Leopold’s legacy: forester, philosopher, educator, writer, and father of wildlife ecology and the United States’ wilderness system. Each year, the Aldo Leopold Foundation remembers this influential environmental leader’s life and legacy with Leopold Week; join us for these free events in honor of the Wisconsin…

  • Welcome Quarantina, UW-Green Bay’s new testing and vaccine mascot

    Welcome Quarantina, UW-Green Bay’s new testing and vaccine mascot

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    Editorial Student

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    A local nurse at the Rapid Testing Site on the Green Bay Campus decided the site needed a little more verve. Welcome its new mascot: Quarantina, who delivered masks to all testers Wednesday, March 3.

  • All Rise: A UWGB Civil Liberties Lecture Series

    All Rise: A UWGB Civil Liberties Lecture Series

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    Editorial Student

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    Join Jessica Karbowski Weare on Tuesday, March 9 from 6 to 7 p.m., for a Civil Liberties Lecture series via Zoom. Weare serves as Deputy Legal Counsel to Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. Previously she worked as Associate General Counsel for Global Trade Compliance-Sanctions at Facebook, spent almost a decade practicing international law as an…

  • Video: COVID-19 Why it Matters: Part 19, Spring Break, protect yourself against variants

    Video: COVID-19 Why it Matters: Part 19, Spring Break, protect yourself against variants

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    pischkes

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    This video series features UW-Green Bay’s Immunologist Brian Merkel discussing 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…