Inside UW-Green Bay News
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Here’s how Indigenous wild rice is helping restore wetlands in the Green Bay area
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SUAMICO – As Cindy Reffke looks out across the Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve, she imagines the wild rice plants that have disappeared, but are now desperately needed to restore the environment and sustain the waterfowl she loves. “I’ve always believed that if we would’ve listened to the Native Americans we wouldn’t have the problems we have…
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New moss to Wisconsin — and what you can find at UW-Green Bay’s Fewless Herbarium | Wisconsin Public Radio
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A UW-Green Bay professional moss enthusiast happened upon a variety that’s never been documented before — at least by non-native academic standards. We learn about what this discovery means, and a bit about the massive plant sample museum our guest curates. Featured is UW-Green Bay’s Assistant Prof. and Curator of the Herbarium, Keir Wefferling. Source:…
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Give the Gift of Lifelong Learning
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UW-Green Bay’s Lifelong Learning Institute launches 60th semester Green Bay, WI – On Nov. 22, 2021, UW-Green Bay’s Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) officially launches its 60th semester with the release of an online catalog of courses on their website. The Spring 2022 catalog features 198 courses on wide-ranging topics taught by retired faculty and other…
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UW-Green Bay Theatre & Music programs perform Tony Winner & Broadway Hit Fun Home, Nov. 18-20
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GREEN BAY– University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Theatre & Music programs have come together to produce the Broadway hit musical Fun Home. Running for one weekend only, Fun Home will open Nov. 18, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. with additional performances on November 19 & 20 at 7:30 p.m. Performed by UW-Green Bay students, Fun Home is…
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A look at the publication ‘Research on the Rise’
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If you haven’t read it, you should. “Research on the Rise” is a collaborative effort by UW-Green Bay Advancement and UW-Green Bay Office of Grants and Research. The publication is filled with interesting stories and complimentary photos about how UW-Green Bay research is having an increasingly positive economic, social and environmental impact on the region and…
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Photos: Planting Wequiock Creek Natural Area
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Staff from the Cofrin Center of Biodiversity, community volunteers, and UW-Green Bay students from Professor Amy Wolf’s Conservation Biology plant seeds at the Wequiock Creek Natural Area. The restoration being conducted here will provide crucial habitat for pollinators, birds, bats and other wildlife. The work will improve the Wequiock Creek watershed by reducing nutrient and…
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UW-Green Bay sustainability intern managing pine chips and dining food scraps used for compost
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Bryce Oysti, the University Union’s Sustainability Intern, is turning food scraps from Campus Dining into nutrient-rich compost. An Instagram post tells us how it works: Chartwells staff bring food scraps (from food prep & food scraped off people’s plates) to the loading dock in five-gallon buckets. Bryce weighs them & dumps them into the composter…
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Reminder: It’s Veteran’s Week
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A full week of events for UW-Green Bay Veterans and dependents, and active military, will be held in November, including a Vietnam Veteran Display. The display is available for walk thru in the Phoenix Rooms during the day, Nov. 10, 2021 between Noon and 4 p.m. followed by the Chancellor’s Veteran Reception. This year, members of…
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UW-Green Bay mourns the loss of Phoenix women’s basketball hall-of-famer Candy Kaye
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UW-Green Bay learned of the passing of Candy Kaye, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 following a lengthy illness. A Phoenix Hall of Fame athlete, Kaye played from 1978-1982 and majored in Business Administration at UW-Green Bay. She was a lifelong resident of Green Bay and graduate of Green Bay Preble High School. Her former Head…