Category: News
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Founders Award nominations due Friday, March 22
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The UW-Green Bay Awards & Recognition Committee is encouraging the campus community to nominate faculty members and staff for the 2013 Founders Association Awards. This prestigious honor annually recognizes members of the University community who demonstrate excellence in seven categories — academic support, classified staff, scholarship, teaching, community outreach, institutional development and collaborative achievement. All…
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Faculty note: Goff’s work included in forthcoming publication
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Associate Prof. Victoria Goff (Communication and History) is one of several nationally recognized journalism professors whose work is included in Editing Across Media: Content and Process for Print and Online Publication, which will be released this month. Goff, who has been the editor of the award-winning history magazine Voyageur for 19 years and the adviser…
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Call for Proposals: Cofrin Student Research and Land Trust grants
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Now through April 15, the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity is accepting applications for Cofrin Student Research and Land Trust grants. Successful applicants will carry out a field project in collaboration with a UW-Green Bay faculty member and must submit a final report, copies of all data and any specimen vouchers. Grantees will present their results…
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Next ‘Teen Connection’ to focus on Hmong teenagers in Wisconsin
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Public Television’s Teen Connection program — broadcast from right here on campus — will present an episode focusing on Hmong teenagers at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 19. The show will explore the cultural identity of Wisconsin’s Hmong teens, and examine how they find balance between their ancestral culture and American cultural norms. The live, call-in program…
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Full house for interdisciplinary ‘These Shining Lives’ panel
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Organizers reported a full house for last week’s interdisciplinary panel on “These Shining Lives,” an event that preceded the Wednesday (March 6) evening performance of UW-Green Bay Theatre’s latest play. The event featured a cross-section of UW-Green Bay and community experts speaking on a variety of issues and angles pertaining to the play, which tells…
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Eat Well at Mauthe events continue, each Tuesday during the semester
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Hungry? Got some spare change? If you answered ‘yes’ to one of these questions, then do our friends at the Mauthe Center have a treat for you! Each Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. during the school year, the center offers a free meal. All donations collected will go toward building a well in Africa. You can…
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Press-Gazette column introduces CFPA school voucher report
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A column by UW-Green Bay Associate Prof. Lora Warner and research scholar Ashley Skalecki received some nice play on the opinion page of Thursday’s (March 7) Green Bay Press-Gazette. As we told you yesterday, the column introduces the Center for Public Affairs’ first Policy Snapshot Report, an analysis on the contentious issue of school vouchers…
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Next 360° Thursdays concert to feature saxophone, flute, brass ensembles
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UW-Green Bay Music ensembles will take center stage during the next 360° Thursdays concert and lecture, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday (March 14) in Fort Howard Hall at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts. In keeping with the format of the 360° Thursdays events, the directors of the University’s saxophone, flute and brass ensembles…
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Think summer! Outreach announces Offerings for Educators
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In a sure sign of spring, Education Outreach is thinking summer — and preparing for a great lineup of Summer 2013 Offerings for Educators. These research-based courses provide teachers, administrators and other professionals the practical education they need to apply theory and best practice to the classroom and school environment. The courses run throughout the…
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Lorenz shares addiction expertise for Thursday segment on WPR program
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Associate Psychology Prof. Dennis Lorenz was the featured guest during the 6 a.m. hour of Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Joy Cardin Show” Thursday (March 7), sharing his expertise for a segment on the topic of addiction. Lorenz teaches a course on drugs and behavior, and also is a board member of the Wisconsin Council on…