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The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning is offering advanced training opportunities starting mid-July that will be co-facilitated with faculty partners. All eligible instructors will receive a $1,000 stipend for completing the training. Check out the cohort themes and two-week session dates to sign up or learn more.
Barbara Hauxhurst Cofrin Prof. of Natural Sciences Mike Draney participated in the America Arachnological Society’s virtual Forum on Effects of Racism on Arachnology at the (virtual) Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society, and was invited to moderate one of the breakout groups on “Addressing feelings of social isolation among POC in academia.” Ideas and suggestions resulting from these breakout sessions will be forwarded to the AAS Advisory Board for consideration and implementation.
Associate Prof. Mandeep Singh Bakshi (Chemistry, NAS) published a recent article along with his post-doc in ACS high impact journal “Langmuir.” The work proposed a new methodology based on magnetic nanomaterials for purification of contaminated industrial effluents.
Prof. Robert Howe (NAS) and Erin Giese ’12 from the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity have been participating in the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program for the past 10 years. A documentary recently made for this program, titled “Linking Land and Lakes: Protecting the Great Lakes’ Coastal Wetlands,” has just won an Emmy in the Photographer Non-News category. The documentary features how coastal wetlands help in keeping the Great Lakes healthy. You can watch the documentary online on PBS.
Prof. Howe is one of the principal investigators for the Great Lakes Coastal Monitoring Program, and Giese coordinates the field work for Prof. Howe’s crew. They have recently published an article in the Journal of Great Lakes Research on how Great Lakes coastal wetland bird and anuran communities vary across ever-changing water levels and geography in the bay of Green Bay using this project’s data set.
Researchers say two consecutive years of record rainfall in Northeast Wisconsin have shed light on the impact to both rural and urban landscapes.
Water monitoring stations on local creeks are playing an important role in gathering data.
Considering the Green Bay area receives, on average, around 30 inches of rain a year, the last two years have been eye-opening for researchers like University of Wisconsin-Green Bay environmental science professor Kevin Fermanich.
“From July 1st of 2018 to right now, June 29th of 2020, so basically two years, we’ve had 89 inches of rain, so typically that would be 60 inches of rain or 59 inches of rain, so we’ve basically received three years worth of rainfall in a two year period,” says Fermanich.
Source: Researchers studying nutrient, storm water runoff in Green Bay | WBAY
The College of Science, Engineering and Technology shared some virtual teaching moments on Facebook… and many of them included their new “officemates.” Enjoy.
Click to advance slideshow or view the album on Flickr.
– Photos provided by instructors
Congratulations to faculty receiving promotions. Approved at the UW System Board of Regents June 4, 2020 meeting, were the promotions of a number of faculty members. Listed below are the names, promotion and respective department of each of the 19 UW-Green Bay faculty members receiving promotion this year.
| Name | Promotion | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Mike Alexander | Professor | Music |
| Mandeep Bakshi | Associate Professor | Natural and Applied Sciences |
| Kate Burns | Professor | Psychology |
| Jason Cowell | Associate Professor | Psychology |
| Sarah Detweiler | Professor | Art and Design |
| William Dirienzo | Associate Professor | Natural and Applied Sciences |
| Mary Gichobi | Associate Professor | Education |
| Maruf Hossain | Associate Professor | Resch School of Engineering |
| Allen Huffcut | Professor | Marketing and Management |
| Jeremy Intemann | Associate Professor | Natural and Applied Sciences |
| Sampath Kumar | Professor | Marketing and Management |
| Breeyawn Lybbert | Associate Professor | Natural and Applied Sciences |
| Upal Mahfuz | Associate Professor | Resch School of Engineering |
| Tetyana Malysheva | Associate Professor | Resch School of Engineering |
| Bill Sallak | Associate Professor | Music |
| Jagadeep Thota | Associate Professor | Resch School of Engineering |
| Christine Vandenhouten | Professor | Nursing & Health Studies |
| Aaron Weinschenk | Professor | Public and Environmental Affairs |
| Brian Welsch | Associate Professor | Natural and Applied Sciences |
| Jennie Young | Associate Professor | Humanities |
The UW-Green Bay Council on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive Excellence and the Office of the Provost, wish to share an opportunity to attend SpeakOut’s Summer Institute, a virtual institute on building equity and social justice education to create inclusive learning environments on campus and online. As people nationwide demand systemic change, and as campuses adapt to the impact of the pandemic, UW-Green Bay asks how those of us working in the arena of higher education can transform our institutions and learning environments.
When:
Monday, July 13, 2020, Noon to 3 p.m.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Noon to 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020, Noon to 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 16, 2020, Noon to 2:30 p.m.
What you will learn:
Open to all faculty and staff
This opportunity is open to all UW-Green Bay faculty and staff in support a broad representation of all areas within the University. To learn more visit: SpeakOut Summer Institute.
UW-Green Bay Council on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive Excellence and the Office of the Provost wish to send a large, representative group of staff and faculty to the institute. We will follow up with all interested employees shortly after the survey closes. If you would like to be considered, please fill out the following Qualtrics survey.
Be sure to complete the sign-up form by 06-22-2020: Apply to attend SpeakOut’s Summer Institute
For additional questions, please contact the Provost Office at ProvostOff@uwgb.edu.
For two decades, UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus Prof. Richard Hein (Biology) has committed to finding a permanent home for every rat his students study—way ahead of 2019 federal regulations that allow for lab animal adoption. He’s even continued to carry on adoptions through the Covid-19 pandemic via socially-distanced hand-offs.
Source: One biologist became a quiet champion for a creature that’s the soul of science | Inverse
The Lisa Show is heard nationwide on Sirius XM channel 143. She invited UW-Green Bay Prof. Richard Hein (Biology) on her ROCKSTAR segment to talk about how he has been helping lab rats find homes after their tenure in anatomy classes. The two-hour talk show focuses on helping others find hope, optimism, and a healthy life perspective and covers a wide variety of topics such as breaking news, science, technology, business, family, relationships, self-help, art, and creativity. Listen to the segment.