Digging Kayla
Kayla Lass is the featured student speaker at the 2 p.m. commencement ceremony on May 13, 2023. Kayla Lass has always been a ‘libero’ at UW-Green Bay and proud of it. For those not...
Author: Michael Shaw
Discovering Hannah
Hannah Beauchamp-Pope is the featured student speaker at the 9:30 a.m. commencement ceremony on May 13, 2023. It’s a Sunday night, and while many of us are escaping into our favorite TV shows, Hannah...
Tina Sauerhammer, M.D., found world-wide acclaim in the operating room, then happiness in Green Bay
A phoenix, by definition, rises. Reaching among the highest heights of UW-Green Bay achievers is Tina Sauerhammer, M.D. Today, 20 years after a meteoric rise as a student, physician, celebrity and surgeon, Dr. Sauerhammer...
Rising Phoenix Empowered Nadia Neziri to Test-Drive College
There’s fast-tracking your college experience, and then there’s Nadia Neziri’s academic life in the fast lane. “I have a summer internship and I’m taking two summer classes.” While that’s not so unusual, consider for...
Upgrading a nonprofit with knowledge
No money, no mission. It may surprise you to learn that the goal of most not-for-profits is to be profitable. The biggest difference between a for-profit and not-for-profit enterprise? Just follow the money. For-profit...
Marketing and University Communication enjoys recognition last fiscal year
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: Do work worthy of recognition, but don’t worry about being recognized. Of course, there’s also nothing wrong with enjoying the spotlight now and then, especially when someone else shines it...
Seeing things clearly: Emily Reis learned from an early age to look on the bright side
Emily Reis, a senior at UW-Green Bay does not lack confidence or personality. In fact, you may come away with the first impression there may be too much of both qualities in her for...
Engineering His Options; Ben Propson finds Sheboygan Campus and a bachelor’s degree as keys to advancement
Even before Ben Propson became a mechanical engineering major (and a Phoenix) he was a problem-solver at heart. And to extend that Phoenix metaphor just a bit further, while he didn’t personally rise from...
Student Commencement Speaker Kelsi Engelhardt finds ‘Safe Harbor’
There still may be those “old-school” types out there. Preferring that higher education stick to the “three r’s” of reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmatic. Kelsi Engelhardt blazed her own path embracing the “three c’s”—community, connection...
UW-Green Bay graduate student works at sustaining the ‘family trees’
Patrick Brodhagen admits to being a hard worker. In fact, his to-do list would make young Abe Lincoln appear to be something of a slacker—attending graduate school, keeping up the family farm and launching...
