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Month: January 2022

  • Research Council: Winter Grants in Aid of Research call now open

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    Sue Bodilly

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    The UW-Green Bay Research Council is currently accepting proposals for the Winter 2022 Grants in Aid of Research Call. The Research Council invites members of the UW-Green Bay faculty to submit proposals for Grants in Aid of Research. The funds must be used in support of faculty research. All GIAR proposals are due by 11:59…

  • New events announced at the Weidner Center

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Check out the new events added to the Weidner Center line-up… comedy, dance and film. See the events page.

  • UW-Green Bay exhibit wants people to rethink implicit biases

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    Sue Bodilly

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    GREEN BAY – Stairs built without a plan for wheelchair accessibility. Soap dispenser sensors unable to recognize dark skin. Spiral notebooks that are harder for a left-handed writer to use. Those are some of the implicit biases that a new exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is intended to show. The exhibition had its grand opening Friday. “The Bias Inside…

  • ‘The Bias Inside Us’ – UW-Green Bay hosts Smithsonian exhibit

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    Sue Bodilly

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    GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is hosting its first Smithsonian traveling exhibit. The community engagement project, titled “The Bias Inside Us,” opens to the public Saturday, Jan. 15, at the Weidner Center.The exhibit developed by the Smithsonian Institution aims to spark conversations.“The Smithsonian is such a national treasure, and to…

  • Northeast Wisconsin continues to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy

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    Sue Bodilly

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    GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Ahead of Martin Luther King JR. Day on Monday, community leaders from across Brown County came together at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) to remember the prominent civil rights leader. Source: Northeast Wisconsin continues to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy

  • Traveling exhibit on bias comes to UW-Green Bay | WLUK

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    Sue Bodilly

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    GREEN BAY (WLUK) — A new exhibit is on display at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. “The Bias Inside Us,” a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian, comes to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus in Green Bay. It focuses on the science of bias, bias in real life, serious consequences of bias and how to…

  • A hometown artistic touch

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    Sue Bodilly

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    MANITOWOC, Wis. (WBAY) – If you drive around Manitowoc, it’s hard not to notice John Peroutka’s artwork, whether it’s the newly dedicated American flag sculpture at Red Arrow Park, or a storefront he designed off Calumet Avenue.“I think the hard part is always coming up with the design and getting that all approved and then…

  • How Chicago schools became an outlier in the latest COVID disruption – Chalkbeat Chicago

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    Sue Bodilly

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    In the span of a few days, Chicago canceled classes just before midnight on a Tuesday evening, the teachers union chief called the mayor “relentlessly stupid,” and the mayor on national television bashed the union for “abandoning” students. Working parents scrambled for babysitters and dropped off children at “safe haven” sites for emergency child care.The…

  • Nominations open for 41st Annual University Awards; deadline Feb. 6

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    Sue Bodilly

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    The online nomination process for the 41st Annual University Awards program (Chancellor’s Medallion and University Leadership Award) is now open! The process is secure and will have the most current information available. The University Awards honor graduating students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership on campus and in the community, in addition to academic excellence. NOTE:…

  • Celebration for the life of Prof. Michael Morgan

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay announced previously the passing of Emeritus Faculty Michael Morgan, who taught in UW-Green Bay’s Natural and Applied Sciences unit for decades before his retirement. He specialized in plant ecology and bioclimatology. Morgan helped create the biology major when the University was new (1968), and taught thousands of students in his 37 years with…