Inside UW-Green Bay News
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Chancellor shares plan for administrative reorganization
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In an email communication Monday to UW-Green Bay faculty and staff, Chancellor Gary L. Miller shared an overview of a plan to reorganize the University’s operational and organizational structure. The new model, with four academic deans reporting to the provost and vice chancellor, will replace a two-dean structure largely unchanged since 1996. (Current titles are…
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‘6:30 Thursdays’ begins this week with jazz musician
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UW-Green Bay Music opens its fall schedule this Thursday (Oct. 1) with “Melodic Mastery,” a concert featuring the San Francisco-based jazz flugelhornist, composer and recording artist Dimitri Matheny. His performance at 6:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center’s Fort Howard Hall is part of the “6:30 Thursdays” series in which composers, performers and arrangers perform their…
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Fall lineup includes pianist Rector, composer McQuade Dewhirst, others
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Following Matheny’s performance, remaining 2015 “6:30 Thursdays” concerts are: • Oct. 15 — “The Music Trance” Pianists Sylvia Hong and Michael Rector • Nov. 5 — “Travelogue” Marimba/clarinet duo Transient Canvas • Nov. 12 — “Piano Per Diem: 30 Piano Pieces in 30 Days” Pianists Holly Roadfeldt and Michael Rector perform compositions by Michelle McQuade…
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Latino American series resumes with Thursday visit by Ohio State prof
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The series “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” continues this week with the screening of another film segment and a talk by Ohio State University history professor Lilia Fernández, who will facilitate discussion during a program beginning at 6 p.m. this Thursday (Oct. 1) in Theatre Hall 210. Fernández’s research interests include history, immigration, race…
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Tickets on sale for Whose Live, Home Free, Celtic Woman
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We’re only 10 days out from the start of a grand opening week for the Weidner Center’s 2015-16 Performing Arts Series. Up first, on Friday night, Oct. 9, is a brand-new improv show, “Whose Live Anyway?” from the comedic minds behind the Emmy-nominated TV hit, “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?” The next night, it’s the…
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Rector plays Gershwin this Saturday with Civic Symphony
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Assistant Professor Michael Rector will perform Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with the Green Bay Civic Symphony as part of their season-opening concert at the Meyer Theater on Saturday (Oct. 3) at 7:30 pm. The program also includes Brahms’s Symphony No. 3. For ticket information and more.
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Senzaki gets boost in advertising parent/baby research
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NBC 26 News picked up on last week’s Log note about the Culture and Development Lab directed by Assistant Prof. Sawa Senzaki and the search for local parents interested in helping their babies (5-18 months) participate in a major international study of baby’s social understanding.
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Weinschenk quoted on Walker
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Political scientist Aaron Weinschenk, UW-Green Bay assistant professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, was quoted recently by NBC 26 News as part of a story on Gov. Scott Walker’s first formal appearance in Wisconsin after suspending his presidential campaign, what the governor says he will do next, and what analysts think he needs to do…
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Final bow for WC Gallery
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A friend tipped us off to a Facebook post advertising the final exhibit at the Midwest’s smallest art gallery, the WC Gallery at the De Pere home of former UW-Green Bay Curator of Art Stephen Perkins. After 13 years of curating sometimes whimsical, sometimes provocative, always engaging shows in his rather small downstairs bathroom (the…
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Next UWGB clothing and household swap is Oct. 8
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The next UWGB clothing and household swap is set for next Thursday, Oct. 8, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the University Union’s Phoenix Room. Organizer Stacie Christian says several hundred students and employees have participated in the previous two swaps. The collection of donations has already started, but if possible, please bring your…