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  • UW-Green Bay Early College Program receives UW System Board of Regents Academic Staff Excellence Award

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    Regents announce Academic Staff Excellence Awards for 2023 Educators at UW-River Falls, UW-Madison, and UW-Green Bay recognized for work to support student success MADISON, Wis.—The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will honor this year’s recipients of the Academic Staff Excellence Awards at its next meeting in Milwaukee on June 9. These awards recognize…

  • Retiree Association July 2022 Picnic

    Retiree Association July 2022 Picnic

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    After a two-year absence of the annual September retiree dinner due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UW-Green Bay Retiree Association held a cookout/picnic on July 21, 2022. More than 50 retirees and their spouses gathered at the Weidner Center for Performing Arts for a social hour followed by a picnic buffet. President Dan Spielmann’s remarks…

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    Effective communication, influence without authority featured in December SBDC workshops

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    The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is offering workshops in December for small business owners, executive team members, and supervisors in any organization. “Effective Communication” on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 1 and 2, is instructed by entrepreneur, speaker, and communication expert Terra Fletcher. In this two-day workshop participants…

  • Joyous reunion: BlueWhale Coffeehouse returning to UWGB

    Joyous reunion: BlueWhale Coffeehouse returning to UWGB

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    On Friday, October 16, 2015, friends of the former BlueWhale Coffeehouse gather at the Shorewood Golf Course Clubhouse for the return of Claudia Schmidt, Mark Dvorak, Skip Jones and Randal Harris.

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    Emotional intelligence, financials featured in October SBDC workshops

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    The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is offering one-day workshops in late October for small business owners as well as executives team members and their direct reports with hiring and P&L responsibility. “Leading with Emotional Intelligence” is Wednesday, October 14 workshop featuring instructor Susan Dutton. Emotional Intelligence (“EQ”)…

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    Choose your own instructor in SBDC’s Certificate in Project Management Program

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    The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is reintroducing their Project Management certificate program using “extra blended” learning. The program is available now and allows students to choose their instructor. According to Director of the Certificate in Project Management Program Kay Wais, PMP, MPM, “This program is ‘extra blended’…

  • In literary fashion, Sheepshead students dress up to address the competition

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    Above: Poetry staffers dressed up as literary journals: (from l-r) Verse Wisconsin, Poetry Magazine, Atticus Review, and The Paris Review. “Excuse me, are you The Paris Review?” asks a poet hoping to publish her work. “Yes, but you’ll have to work harder to get to know me. I’m historic and impressive,” replies The Paris Review,…

  • Students get a taste and feel of everyday life in the pre-modern world

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    UW-Green Bay students in Associate Professor Heidi Sherman’s (Humanistic Studies-Medieval History) History Capstone Course had a chance to relive the past with a visit to a longhouse recreated to replicate those of tenth-century Scandinavian farms in Norway. Owen and Elspeth Christianson, who have studied Viking-age Norway for nearly 40 years, built the longhouse in 2011-2012…

  • UWGB education brings Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary employees full circle

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    Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary employees Ben Nelson and Matt Rupnik have something in common beside their current place of employment. Both are also University of Wisconsin-Green Bay alumni. No surprise. The neighboring entities — the Sanctuary is just minutes from campus — have a long and continuing partnership that includes numerous UW-Green Bay Biology and…