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  • Schewe to become Quality Assurance Director | News | ehextra.com

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    Sue Bodilly

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    MARINETTE—UW-Green Bay Alumna Beverly Schewe, the principal of Park Elementary School, will become the district’s new quality assurance director for teaching, learning and technology at the end of this school year. She will replace Wendy Dzurick, who is retiring.“During my teaching years I learned everything I could about mathematics education and how to transfer that…

  • Current names Future 15 Award honorees (UW-Green Bay connections)

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Current Young Professionals, a program of the Greater Green Bay Chamber, has announced its 2021 Future 15 Award recipients. Young professionals being honored include: Ashley Bethke, community engagement program officer, Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Billy Korinko, director of the Cassandra Voss Center, St. Norbert College Brad LaPierre, production manager, Infinity Machine and Engineering Corp.…

  • UW-Green Bay alumni rallying around Jason Blohm

    UW-Green Bay alumni rallying around Jason Blohm

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Many on the Green Bay campus and in the community will remember Jason Blohm ’01 who served as the tallest Phoenix Mascot in Phoenix history. Blohm worked as a career counselor in UW-Green Bay’s Career Services office as well, from 2002-2003. Blohm has had to undergo critical emergency medical care recently. Friends and alumni are…

  • First-ever Phoenix Forum Virtual Speaker Event begins this week, featuring Eco U

    First-ever Phoenix Forum Virtual Speaker Event begins this week, featuring Eco U

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Join UW-Green Bay experts for the first Phoenix Forum Virtual Speaker Event Eco U: The Next 50 Years, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 from 3 to 4 p.m. After its founding in 1965, UW-Green Bay rapidly gained a national reputation as a leader in the emerging environmental movement, even being dubbed Eco-U in the 1970s. More than 50…

  • Sheboygan County COVID-19: Public health workers say pandemic takes toll

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    Sue Bodilly

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    SHEBOYGAN – On a particularly bad day this summer, (UW-Green Bay alumna) Starrlene Grossman and Libby Jacobs commiserated before heading home from working at the Health and Human Services building, the heaviness of the day weighing on them.Help support quality local journalism like this.Click to subscribeIt was the day after the state’s safer-at-home order was repealed.…

  • Announcing: Phoenix Forum Virtual Speaker Series

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Learning never stops—even when it’s not in person. One silver lining of the pandemic is our ability to stay connected through technology to continually support alumni success. The Alumni Office is announcing the Phoenix Forum Virtual Speaker Series. Learn from UW-Green Bay’s expert faculty and staff. Each speaker event will be from 3 p.m. to…

  • Cordero Barkley and Corey King named Black Power 2020: Wisconsin’s 51 Most Influential Black Leaders

    Cordero Barkley and Corey King named Black Power 2020: Wisconsin’s 51 Most Influential Black Leaders

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Cordero Barkley and Corey King were named “Black Power 2020: Wisconsin’s 51 Most Influential Black Leaders” by madison365.com, recently. Barkley is the director of finance and investments at Titletown Tech, an investment firm based in Green Bay. Formerly, he was an assistant vice president – fiduciary officer with Associated Bank Wealth Management, working with high…

  • UW-Green Bay education alumna was named Beloit Rotary Teacher of the Month

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Carolyn Lynch ’12 (Education) has been named the Beloit Rotary Teacher of the Month. She is a fourth grade teacher at Aldrich Intermediate School in Beloit. She has been with the School District of Beloit for seven years and she is about to complete her eighth year with the district. She is a School Leadership member, a…

  • Letters that lay out the story of Paul Hornung’s career up for auction

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    Editorial Student

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    “This grouping of letters really lays out the story of the late part of his career at Notre Dame to his early days in Green Bay under Lombardi and kind of the process he went through to become a Packer,” Heritage consignment director and UWGB alumnus Chris Nerat said. Source: Letters that ‘lay out the story’…

  • Business Administration Alum Kurt Kober featured in Profile article

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    UW-Green Bay alumnus Kurt Kober (Business Administration) was recently featured in Profile article. “Going from politics to vice president of e-commerce and retail for a wellness brand might seem like an unlikely career move, but as you get to know Kurt Kober and the vision and mission of The Honest Company, the switch begins to make…