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  • Coming up: Emeritus and Service Awards presentations

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    Sue Bodilly

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    The campus community is asked to help celebrate those receiving Emeritus and Service Awards from 4 to 4:45 Thursday, Feb. 11 in Phoenix A/B.  Secretary of the Faculty and Staff (corrected) Steve Meyer will emcee the event hosted by Chancellor Gary L. Miller. See the list of award recipients.

  • January Convocation? No, but in February…

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    Christopher Sampson

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    We’ve been getting inquires lately about whether or not the mid-year convocation — something of a custom on campus for the last half dozen years or so — will return for January 2016.  The answer is “no,” in a way. The event is being revamped and reorganized and rescheduled for mid-February. You can expect to…

  • Prof. Emeritus Kraft gets national readership on energy op-ed


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    Christopher Sampson

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    Political scientist Michael E. Kraft, UW-Green Bay professor emeritus of Public and Environmental Affairs, continues to contribute periodic essays distributed nationally by the McClatchy news services. His latest, on President Obama’s energy policies, has appeared over the past two weeks in more than 40 newspapers including such heavyweights as the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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    Faculty note: Lockard

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Prof. Emeritus Craig Lockard of History and Social Change and Development is the author of four entries in the newly published 30-Second Twentieth Century, edited by Jonathan Reynolds of Northern Kentucky University for Ivy Press in the United Kingdom.  

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    Faculty note: Goff book, presentations

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Victoria Goff, associate professor emerita (ICS), is writing a book on the impact of social media on authors and the U.S. book publishing industry. She recently shared some of her findings at Left Coast Crime, an annual conference of mystery writers that attracts best-selling authors and fans from all over the country. On March 12,…

  • Littig weighs in on ‘Wisconsin Idea’; language change later dropped


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    Christopher Sampson

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    (We’re not saying the two are related, but…) UW-Green Bay Prof. Emeritus David Littig deserves a shout-out for his well-chosen words to Fox 11 News regarding a proposed reworking of the UW System’s 111-year-old mission statement that found its way into Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal. The veteran political scientist warned Wednesday against tampering…

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    Employees honored for emeriti status, years of service to UW-Green Bay

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    Kelly Moore

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    UW-Green Bay faculty and staff members gathered together Jan. 22 to celebrate the annual Mid-Year Convocation, a ceremony that serves as the unofficial kickoff to the University’s spring semester. The formal program included granting of emeriti status to distinguished retirees, as well as years-of-service recognition for longtime UW-Green Bay employees. Emeritus Honorees Two academic staff…

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    Wenger earns international journal’s award as ‘Excellent Reviewer’

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Prof. Emeritus Robert Wenger of Natural and Applied Sciences has just been honored for his second-career work as a manuscript reviewer for a leading international journal. The editors of Waste Management and Research, meeting in September 2014 at their annual conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, identified Wenger as the journal’s 2013 Excellent Reviewer. Wenger says…

  • Arendt, Alesch co-author book on community recovery from disasters


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    Christopher Sampson

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    Lucy Arendt, associate professor and director of the Cofrin School of Business, is co-author of the newly released book Long-Term Community Recovery from Natural Disasters (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014). The book was researched and written with Daniel J. Alesch, professor emeritus of Public and Environmental Affairs. The authors present what they have…

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    Kraft talks Castle Doctrine for story on NBC 26

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Prof. Emeritus Michael Kraft discussed Wisconsin’s “Castle Doctrine” law in a Friday (Nov. 14) interview with NBC 26. Following an incident in Michigan last week in which a homeowner shot and killed an intruder, reporter Eric Crest took a look at Wisconsin’s law, in place since 2011. “It makes it more legitimate for a homeowner…