Category: News

  • SBDC Success Story: Union Asian Market

    SBDC Success Story: Union Asian Market

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    Written by Kathleen B. Ginder-Vogel. July 2025. In 2022, Vanna Lor purchased the Union Asian Market located at 2022 S 17th St. in Sheboygan, with support from the Small Business Development Center at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (SBDC) and the Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation (SCEDC). SBDC and SCEDC business counselor Ray York also…

  • The SBDC at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay Celebrates 45 Successful Years

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    Written by Kathleen B. Ginder-Vogel. July 2025. Now in its 45th year of providing free support to small businesses throughout the Green Bay area, the Small Business Development Center at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (SBDC) has met federal metrics for the past decade. The Small Business Administration provides federal grant funds to SBDCs around…

  • It’s Time to Make Sparks Fly! Applications open today at UW-Green Bay

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 1, 2025 Green Bay, WI — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will open undergraduate applications for the fall of 2026, inviting all students to “Be the Spark”. Students can join the family of more than 50,000 forward-thinking dreamers and resilient problem-solvers blazing their own path in the Northeast Wisconsin region and…

  • Weidner Philharmonic Announces Free Concert to Kick Off the 2025/2026 Season on September 5 at The Weidner

    Weidner Philharmonic Announces Free Concert to Kick Off the 2025/2026 Season on September 5 at The Weidner

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    Concert Series Includes Five Titles Including: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, The Nutcracker, Harry Potter™ In Concert and more FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 29, 2025                  Green Bay, Wis. – The Weidner is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 Weidner Philharmonic Concert Series. The five concert titles and performance dates were introduced this morning (July 29) at a media event at…

  • Beyond the Numbers: Caitlyn’s Story

    Beyond the Numbers: Caitlyn’s Story

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    For Caitlyn, math is her ‘thing’ – from working on homework with her dad at the kitchen table, to high school calculus, to the UW-Green Bay Mathematics and Statistics Major. But Caitlyn isn’t just solving equations in her notebooks or conquering challenging courses. She’s calculating the thrust-to-weight ratio for NASA-sponsored program rockets, designing and executing…

  • Chloe is Ahead of the Electrical Engineering Competition

    Chloe is Ahead of the Electrical Engineering Competition

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    Chloe chose UW-Green Bay’s Electrical Engineering program because she had a feeling the newer program, and newer equipment, would give her an edge over her other options. And she was right – her internship blossomed into a full-time job offer before graduation. She’s looking forward to a bright future with her “first real job in…

  • New FORWARD Program Creates Affordable Pathway to a Career in Education | Lakeshore College

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    Start Building a Better Tomorrow—Right Here, Right Now New FORWARD Program Creates Affordable Pathway to a Career in Education There’s a demand for teachers and paraprofessionals in our community—and future students can be part of the solution. Lakeshore College and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay have teamed up to offer the FORWARD program, a new…

  • Game Developers to ‘GATHR’ Again for Unconference in Green Bay

    Game Developers to ‘GATHR’ Again for Unconference in Green Bay

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    UW-Green Bay’s Center for Games and Interactive Media and local gaming leaders behind the annual Green Bay site of the Global Game Jam are excited to announce the second annual Green Bay GATHR, an “unconference” for the local game development community. This free event will take place on Saturday, July 12, 2025, from 9 a.m.…

  • Rising Above the Expected

    Rising Above the Expected

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    “That drive inside of me, whatever you want to call it, pushed me to what I am doing today. And it’s that drive that represents the Phoenix in my mind,” Eric reflected. It’s true – working full-time, and married with two children, Eric embodies exactly what it means to be a Phoenix. Graduating from UW-Green…

  • Update on resident peregrine falcons

    Update on resident peregrine falcons

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    The most recent Peregrine Falcon eggs laid in the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay nest box—located in an air shaft of the Cofrin Library—hatched on May 18, 2025. The chicks were banded on June 6, 2025 by raptor expert Greg Septon and UW-Green Bay graduate student Edwin Wilde (Master of Environmental Science & Policy). Septon, a…