Tagged: Environmental Sciences

Another environmental award for alumna Vicky Harris

Another environmental award for alumna Vicky Harris


Vicky Harris, recent recipient of the Earth Caretaker Award at this year’s EMBI conference at UW-Green Bay, has just won another award: the 2012 Jack R. Vallentyne Award for “important and sustained efforts to...

Alumni rising: Katers named ‘most distinguished’

Alumni rising: Katers named ‘most distinguished’

At the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Associate Professor John Katers is recognized as an authority on recycling, waste management, renewable energy and more. He’s also known as a personable and engaging teacher, challenging students...

Mansky ’77 an elections expert

Mansky ’77 an elections expert

Joe Mansky never expected he’d become an elections expert. After graduating from UW-Green Bay with an Environmental Science degree in 1977, Mansky worked as a hydrologist in Omaha, Neb. When his employer later went...

Alumni Rising: EMBI Symposium honors Harris

Alumni Rising: EMBI Symposium honors Harris

If you love to fish local rivers and streams, view wildlife in a nearby wetland or just sit on the bank of a waterway and enjoy the view, your gratitude should be extended, in part, to Victoria Harris. The longtime water quality and habitat restoration specialist with the UW Sea Grant Institute on the UW-Green Bay campus has dedicated her life to clean water.

Golfer has interest in environmental science

Golfer has interest in environmental science

Golf and environmentalism are not often thought of as going hand in hand. But for UW-Green Bay senior Austin Ehlenfeldt, these two passions intersect in shaping his future. Ehlenfeldt is both a UW-Green Bay...

Eco U? It’s one of our trademarks, officially

Eco U? It’s one of our trademarks, officially

UW-Green Bay now holds legal rights to the words “Eco U.” The move both honors the University’s ecological roots and protects the institution’s right to the nickname first bestowed upon it four decades ago...