Inside UW-Green Bay News

  • Social Work’s Schanen earns Campus Compact ‘innovation grant’

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Jennifer Schanen, lecturer and BSW field coordinator in Social Work, was awarded a Wisconsin Campus Compact Program Innovation Grant. The award will help fund a program evaluation project being conducted by senior-level Social Work students in her Program Evaluation course sequence. Students are partnering with Wise Women Gathering Place to assess the effectiveness of its…

  • Passing of Marlys Brunsting

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    Marlys Brunsting passed away Sept. 22 after a long and valiant battle with cancer. She worked 17 years for UW-Green Bay’s Cofrin Library — first as an interim circulation supervisor, a part-time reference librarian and then as the full-time coordinator of library automation — before accepting the position of library director at UW-Stout. She was…

  • Guest lecturer’s book: for sale on campus, to be read at Readers’ Loft

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    In connection with the Latino American History program, copies of visiting speaker Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez’s latest collection of short stories, One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve Seen, are available at the Phoenix Bookstore. Additionally, Vaquera-Vásquez will read and discuss themes from the book between 5:30 and 7 p.m. Friday (Sept. 25) at The Reader’s…

  • Friday’s NAS Seminar features Visiting Scholar Olabe

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The Natural and Applied Sciences Seminar Series is hosting Antxon Olabe Egana from the International Visiting Scholars Program this Friday (Sept. 25). A reception will be held at 3 p.m. in Environmental Sciences Room 317, followed by the seminar “Homo Sapiens and Biosphere: Building Up Hope, Redressing the Climate-Environment Crisis” in ES 301 at 3:30…

  • LGBTQA+ advocates plan Coming Out Day statement

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Assistant Prof. Joel A. Muraco shares word of plans to raise awareness and visibility of UW-Green Bay’s diverse LGBTQA+ community in anticipation of National Coming Out Day in mid-October. Muraco says he’s working with the Pride Center on an initiative celebrating how diverse and inclusive the campus is with regard to the lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

  • Phoenix golfer continues hot streak

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    Green Bay men’s golfer Joe Du Chateau drained a 20-foot birdie putt to force a playoff in the final round at the Coyote Classic Tuesday in South Dakota, and then drilled another birdie putt to claim his second consecutive tournament title. You’ll recall that Du Chateau carded a program-record 65 in winning the UNO Invitational…

  • Free QPR gatekeeper training for suicide prevention

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Interested faculty, staff and students are invited to take part in QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 1) in Alumni A/B of the University Union. Organizers say one hour of your time might help you save a life. “QPR” stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer,” and draws a…

  • Media coverage: UWGB and local efforts to rehabilitate the bay

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    Despite headlines about a dead zone, phragmites, PCBs and other ailments in the lower bay, local environmentalists found plenty of positives as part of the second annual “Bringing Back the Bay” tour, in which about 80 people got to tour habitat restoration areas along the western shore. Among the sites visited were wetland preservation, northern…

  • Open to all: Sept. 29 webinar on ‘Autism Disorders and Student Success’

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    Open to campus is a live webinar titled “Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Preparing Students to Transition to College and Succeed.” Those interested may participate at UW-Green Bay on Tuesday (Sept. 29), from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the IS 1034 Distance Learning Room. This webinar will identify the range of individual characteristics displayed by…

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    Every Friday is Phoenix Friday

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    Friday is always a reason to celebrate at UW-Green Bay. This Friday (Sept. 25), among other surprises throughout the day, check out the Phoenix Bookstore’s JanSport collection of items and save 20 percent on apparel, backpacks, and other items sporting the Appleton-based company’s mark. (Including the hot new “Digital Burrito Pouch.”) Meanwhile, Aviand’s, as always,…