Author: Kimberly Vlies

  • Next chancellor candidate open forum is tomorrow, Feb. 27

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    Mark L. Biermann, Valparaiso University provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, is the second chancellor candidate scheduled to be on campus. The open forum will be held tomorrow (Thursday, Feb. 27) in Fort Howard Hall, Weidner Center for the Performing Arts from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  View Biermann’s CV (pdf). Video Streaming is available…

  • Walking in the Shoes  of the Literary Greats

    Walking in the Shoes of the Literary Greats

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    Imagine walking in the shoes of such literary greats as T.S. Eliot, Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll; breathing in the urban and pastoral aura that inspired some of the greatest writing works of all time. For Emily Ransom’s students, there is no need for literary flights of fancy; they’ve lived the…

  • From GB to GP: UW-Green Bay Students Turn Internship into Gainful Employment

    From GB to GP: UW-Green Bay Students Turn Internship into Gainful Employment

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    Heading into her internship with Georgia-Pacific, Madelyn Skalecki hoped it wouldn’t be just a ‘go-fer’ coffee and bagels position. She, and intern Elizabeth Johnson got their wish. For 12 months Skalecki was credited with an internship, but worked as a full-time employee, getting to know the company, its supply chain practices, and what each step…

  • It’s Full STEAM Ahead with New STEM Innovation Center

    It’s Full STEAM Ahead with New STEM Innovation Center

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    There’s something truly special about this place. The brand-new 63,000-square-foot Brown County STEM Innovation Center on the UW-Green Bay campus faces south from the brow of a low hill just west of UW-Green Bay’s Laboratory Sciences building. Its horizontal stance is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style design and is surrounded by open spaces…

  • UW-Green Bay announces fall 2019 semester honors

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    Green Bay, Wis.—The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has made public the names of undergraduate students receiving semester honors for the fall 2019 semester. Students who earn a 4.0 grade point average, which represents all “A” grades, receive highest honors. High honors go to students earning 3.99 to 3.75 grade point averages. Honors are given to…

  • Community of Learners Developing leaders in First Nations Education

    Community of Learners Developing leaders in First Nations Education

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    Transformative. Intense. Rigorous. These are the words students use to describe UW-Green Bay’s first-ever doctoral program—the only one of its kind in the state of Wisconsin—the Doctorate Degree in Education (Ed.D.) in First Nations Education. The four-year program enrolled its first cohort of 12 students in the fall of 2018. This is exactly what UW-Green…