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  • Lauren Mauel appointed as First Year Seminar Faculty Coordinator

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    Editorial Student

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    The UW-Green Bay Division of Student Access and Success is pleased to share that Lauren Mauel will serve as the Faculty Coordinator for the First Year Seminar (FYS). In her role, Lauren will work collaboratively with FYS instructors across UW-Green Bay to evaluate and develop FYS common components, provide timely communication to FYS instructors, coordinate…

  • Sheboygan Campus holds hot dog sales and bake sale, Feb. 24

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    Editorial Student

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    The First Year Seminar Tree Hugger’s Environmental Service Project will be hosting a bake sale on the UW-Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus in the Commons from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. All proceeds will go to fund the creation and placement of bird feeders and bird houses around campus. Food to…

  • Walk the labyrinth and reflect on its goodwill message

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Weather permitting, the campus community is invited to walk what has become the annual fall labyrinth in the outdoor green space (campus quad) between the University Union and the Cofrin Library. Each year the project is a capstone activity for Prof. Regan Gurung’s freshman seminar: “Gods, Ghosts and Goblins.” Feel free to walk at your…

  • Slideshow: Baird Creek lessons include ecology, involvement

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    Christopher Sampson

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    First-year students are being given the opportunity to “get their hands dirty and learn about ecology and conservation at the same time,” thanks to a $5,990 grant from the Baird Creek Preservation Foundation. The grant, issued to Associate Prof. Mathew Dornbush of the Natural and Applied Sciences academic unit at UW-Green Bay, will support Dornbush’s…

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    Grant will support freshman seminar on Baird Creek restoration

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    Christopher Sampson

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    A new freshman seminar will study the grassroots, citizen-driven restoration of the nearby Baird Creek Parkway thanks to a $5,990 grant to Associate Prof. Mathew Dornbush, principal investigator, and the UW-Green Bay Natural and Applied Sciences academic unit. The award is part of a larger grant made to the private Baird Creek Preservation Foundation by…

  • Res hall haunting? Investigator, class take on search for dorm room spirits

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    Kelly Moore

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    Students in Prof. Regan A. R. Gurung’s freshman seminar class had a different kind of Halloween experience this Oct. 31, stepping into the world of a paranormal investigator as he checked out a reputedly haunted campus dorm room. Investigator Steven De Spain, who heads Great Lakes Association Spirit Searching, used a variety of sensors and…

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    UW-Green Bay wins $161k grant for new approaches to first-year achievement

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    Christopher Sampson

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    With a grant award of $161,504 for the “Phoenix GPS Program,” UW-Green Bay is one of more than two dozen institutions across Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa receiving support for new initiatives meant to keep students in college and on track academically, socially and financially. Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation is distributing a total of…

  • Photo: Campus art inspires Animals and Society students to make statement

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    Christopher Sampson

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    It’s an interesting little item that describes how a group of students from Karen Dalke’s freshman seminar class, Animals and Society, took their lead from another seminar course, Ellen Rosewall’s Arts Management seminar, and recently created their own art with a message. Click here.

  • Freshman seminar students make statement with fish art

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    Christopher Sampson

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    A group of students from Karen Dalke’s freshman seminar class, Animals and Society, took their lead from another seminar course and recently created art with a message. The students including Keirsten Neihous and Jenessa Denfeld (above) displayed their work, “The Fish’s Perspective,” near the Garden Cafe in the Cofrin Library last week. Dalke says the…

  • Labyrinth activity caps freshman seminar on the power of belief

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    Kelly Moore

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    As an award-winning professor at a university that embraces interdisciplinarity, Regan A.R. Gurung is accustomed to finding inspiration in unexpected places. So perhaps it’s not a surprise that an album from the musician Sting — of whom Gurung is a big fan — led to what’s becoming a signature exercise in one of Gurung’s signature…