Owl research wins Sager award

UW-Green Bay student Kari Petrashek has been awarded this year’s Paul and Thea Sager Scholarship for her research paper “Northern Saw-whet Owl Fall Migration through Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve in Two Rivers, Wisconsin from 2000 – 2008.” The Sagers, faculty emeriti in Human Biology (Thea) and Natural and Applied Sciences (Paul), established the endowed scholarship in memory of former Chancellor Edward Weidner. Petrashek is from Two Rivers and recently graduated cum laude with a degree in Environmental Science and biology. The $500 scholarship will be available for the spring semester when she is enrolled as a graduate student.