Tag: graduates
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Video: Grateful grads, beautiful images, pomp, circumstance and Class of 2014
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The 634 graduates who participated in Saturday’s commencement ceremony had plenty to reflect on from their time at UW-Green Bay. For Phoenix soccer’s Chanel Aries, it was applied learning and a one-of-a-kind education. For Heba Mohammad, a 2012 UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award recipient, it was involvement outside the classroom as…
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The day in photos, part I
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We call it “part one” because we’ll have more posts in the coming days, but this is a good first look at some of the best images from May Commencement 2014 at UW-Green Bay. (Our personal favorite is No. 55 of 56, as the aforementioned chancellor greets UW-Green Bay’s most altitudinally-blessed graduates ever, on stage.)
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Alec Brown puts human exclamation point on Chancellor’s last graduation
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There’s an interesting story regarding how Alec Brown of Winona, Minn., a Business Administration graduate and a 7-1 pro basketball prospect, happened to have the distinction of being last in line and on the receiving end of what Tom Harden says was the final diploma presentation and congratulatory handshake of his career as a university…
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OK, that was the tallest grad… How about the oldest member of the audience?
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If you guessed the age at under 100, guess again. Honoria Huila had a great seat for Saturday’s UW-Green Bay commencement as she watched great-grandson Youcef Boubenider receive his bachelor’s degree in economics. Actually, Mrs. Huila, a native of Colombia, is an old hand when it comes to UW-Green Bay graduation ceremonies. We have a…
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Longest commute to ceremony? Can you beat 2,000 miles?
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We think the graduate who traveled farthest to attend was Lehi Lazo, a pediatrics and neonatal intensive care unit nurse from Oxnard, Calif., who had never before set foot on campus. She took two to three online courses per semester to earn her bachelor’s through BSN-LINC, the national, online nursing program offered by UW-Green Bay.…
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Milestone: Ceremony includes first diplomas for former ‘Phuture Phoenix’
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Graduating seniors Jenny Mottl and Seenia Thao represented a UW-Green Bay milestone at Saturday’s commencement: They received the first diplomas awarded to alumni of the University’s heralded Phuture Phoenix Program. Back in April 2003, the two young women were fifth-grade participants in what was then a still-new program. Today… well, the “Phuture” arrived.
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Poignant moments: Posthumous degree for Flemming
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UW-Green Bay awarded a rare posthumous degree Saturday in recognition of a well-known and accomplished student who passed away after a short battle with leukemia, only months shy of receiving her degree. KaNisha Flemming of Chilton died Jan. 12 at age 22. She was on track to graduate with a double major in Psychology and…
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Press-Gazette photo gallery
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The hometown Green Bay Press-Gazette covered Saturday’s commencement ceremony at UW-Green Bay. They have some nice photographs online.
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Whaddya do when you’re playing an NCAA game on commencement day?
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If you’re a graduating senior who happens to be a member of the Phoenix women’s softball team, you get your diploma presented to you by Athletics Director Mary Ann Gillespie near home plate at the University of Minnesota’s diamond before your second-round NCAA game vs. Auburn.