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  • Green Bay’s Mauel earns Horizon academic/athletic honors

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    Christopher Sampson

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    The Horizon League announced its 2014 Fall Academic All-League Teams on Friday. A total of 52 student-athletes from five fall sports were honored in balloting by the League’s faculty athletics representatives and sports information directors. Representing Green Bay and being placed on the Academic All-League Team for cross country was junior Sarah Mauel of Green…

  • Scholarship for late Prof. Baer nears goal

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    Kelly Moore

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    The memorial scholarship for Social Work Prof. Betty Baer is just shy of its goal of $12,500 for endowed status. The scholarship was established prior to Baer’s passing with a matching gift from alumnus Doug Wirth ’89. Wirth’s goal is to ensure that Baer’s mantra of “think globally, act locally” reaches UW-Green Bay students for generations…

  • Alum Simons ’98 is new Brown County Library Director

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    Kelly Moore

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    A UW-Green Bay alumnus has been named the new director of the Brown County Library. Brian Simons ’98 is a Green Bay native who has served as Library Director of the Verona Public Library since 2008. Simons was featured in the fall 2013 issue of UW-Green Bay’s Inside magazine after the Verona library was named…

  • Alum, commencement speaker Carroll gets big grant to study vision loss

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    Kelly Moore

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    A UW-Green Bay alumnus who delivered the University’s May 2014 commencement address is a co-principal investigator of a four-year, $2 million grant from the National Eye Institute. Dr. Joseph J. Carroll ’97 is the Richard O. Schultz, MD/Ruth Works Professor in Ophthalmology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the director of MCW’s advanced ocular…

  • Big win for Phoenix women in Horizon opener

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    Christopher Sampson

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    A balanced attack that featured five players in double figures helped push the Green Bay women’s basketball team to a 68-59 victory over Wright State in its Horizon League opener on Wednesday night in Dayton, Ohio. The Phoenix (11-3, 1-0 HL) wanted nothing more to erase the memories of last year’s defeat on its home…

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    Riddle award to cap busy regional theatre festival for UW-Green Bay

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    Kelly Moore

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    University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Prof. Laura Riddle will be honored with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s most prestigious regional award Saturday, Jan. 10 during the KCACTF Region III Festival at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Riddle, professor of Theatre and Dance, will be one of three regional educators to receive the Kennedy Center Gold…

  • Holiday arrival: UW-Green Bay women return to AP Top 25

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    Christopher Sampson

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    The Phoenix women’s basketball team (9-2) entered familiar territory today, receiving its highest number of votes this season to be ranked No. 24 in this week’s edition of the Associated Press Top 25 poll. The Phoenix received 84 votes in the poll, just ahead of 25th-ranked Arizona State, whom the Phoenix defeated earlier this season…

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    Profs. Burns, Wheat selected for UW System teaching program

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Congratulations to Associate Prof. Kathleen Burns of Human Development and Assistant Prof. Elizabeth Wheat of Public and Environmental Affairs upon their selection as participants in the 2015-16 UW System Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars program. Burns and Wheat were chosen UW-Green Bay’s designees through a competitive selection process. Each will receive a stipend and S&E…

  • Snapshot: Friends, family congratulate Riopelle

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Friends and family along with officials of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay gathered for brunch Saturday morning, Dec. 13, to honor Virginia (Ginny) Riopelle on the day she was to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UW-Green Bay. The gathering in the atrium of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall preceded the University’s mid-year commencement…

  • Phoenix women inch closer to Top 25

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    Christopher Sampson

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    The Green Bay women’s basketball team, fresh off a nice 53-43 win over the Wisconsin Badgers in front of a large crowd Saturday night at the Kress, have gained a few more points in the weekly Associated Press Top 25 poll. The 8-2 Phoenix have 43 points, the top program in the “Others receiving votes”…