Author: Christopher Sampson

  • Deadline for Cofrin and Land Trust grants, and they have suggestions

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    Folks in NAS and the Biodiversity Center are reminding students that April 15 is the deadline for proposals from those seeking Cofrin Research and Land Trust grants. Funding typically ranges from $500 to $1,000 and can be used for travel costs, field equipment, and research supplies. While they encourage projects from any area of research,…

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    Deadline for ‘Step Into  Spring’ fitness initiative

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    The UW-Green Bay Wellness Committee has been putting out one last call to those interested in submitting a team for the Step Into Spring Challenge. Sign up by Monday, April 1 to start logging your activities. There’s also the Bellin Run Corporate Challenge, which offers opportunities for UW-Green Bay walkers and runners. See more.  

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    Note: Time of Student Employee of the Year ceremony is changed

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    The Student Employee Appreciation Committee has made the decision to move the Student Employee of the Year ceremony due to a scheduling conflict with another major event taking place April 15. Below are the revised times for the April 15, 2013 Student Employee of the Year ceremony. To view the official, corrected invitation: click here.…

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    Clarification on Symposium: 12th annual, on April 10

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UW-Green Bay students will put their outstanding scholarly and creative work on display for the campus community and general public on Wednesday April 10, at the University’s annual Academic Excellence Symposium. Plan to attend. Sixty-four of our students will exhibit 48 projects including five vocal performances at the symposium, which runs from 11:30 a.m. to…

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    Hutchison in Italy

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    Prof. Ray Hutchison of Urban and Regional Studies recently returned from two weeks in Italy, first at the Department of Sociology at the Università degli Studi di Bologna where he gave a lecture on The Suburbanization of Poverty in the United States, United Kingdom and France, and then at the School of Architecture at the…

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    ‘Meet the author’ event brings Nielsen to Green Bay this week

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    Kim Nielsen, formerly an award-winning professor at UW-Green Bay now with the School of Disabilities at the University of Toledo, returns this week and will do a “meet the author” session at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday (April 4) at Readers Loft Bookstore in Bellevue. Her new book is A Disability History of the United States.


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    Friday’s NAS Seminar features SNC researcher on invasives, inland lakes

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    Prof. Carrie Kissman of the St. Norbert College biology and environmental science faculty is the featured speaker for the Natural and Applied Sciences Seminar scheduled for Friday (April 5) with a social at 3 p.m. in ES 317 and presentation at 3:30 p.m. in ES 328. Her topic is “How do species invasions, climate change…

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    Everybody Dance Now: ‘Danceworks’ takes the stage April 5-6

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    Some of the University’s top student dancers will take center stage this Friday (April 5, 6) during the UW-Green Bay Theatre and Dance production Danceworks at University Theatre in Theatre Hall. This showcase of faculty and student choreography will feature 22 dancers performing 13 pieces in a diverse medley of styles. Danceworks is making its…

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    Save the date: UW-Green Bay Pow Wow is April 13

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    UW-Green Bay’s recently revived community Pow Wow event is slated for Saturday, April 13 at the Kress Events Center. This daylong celebration features dancing, grand entries, crafts, vendors, food and more. The theme for this year’s Pow Wow, which is free and open to the public, is “honoring our children,” and kids will be featured…

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    Winona LaDuke to speak here April 15

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    Prominent author, orator and activist Winona LaDuke will make a free public presentation on “Food Sovereignty” at 7 p.m. Monday, April 15, in Rose Hall 250. Of Anishinaabe heritage, LaDuke is a graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic development. In 1997 she was named Ms. Magazine Woman of the…