Tag: NAS
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Get ready gardeners! UW-Green Bay’s Heirloom Plant Sale celebrates 25th year; online and in-person shopping
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Dabble with Bull Nose Bell peppers, Tommy Toe tomatoes, or the Teddy Bear sunflower Green Bay, Wis.—The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Natural and Applied Sciences academic unit will be holding its 25thannual Heirloom Plant Sale again this year in support of student research. Given the record success of online ordering last year, the plant sale…
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25th Annual Natural and Applied Sciences Heirloom Plant Sale, May 13-14 (and pre-sale)
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Natural and Applied Sciences academic unit will be holding its 25th annual Heirloom Plant Sale again this year, May 13-14, 2022 in support of student research. Given the record success of online ordering last year, the plant sale website will again be used to pre-order plants that can be picked…
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Celebration for the life of Prof. Michael Morgan
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UW-Green Bay announced previously the passing of Emeritus Faculty Michael Morgan, who taught in UW-Green Bay’s Natural and Applied Sciences unit for decades before his retirement. He specialized in plant ecology and bioclimatology. Morgan helped create the biology major when the University was new (1968), and taught thousands of students in his 37 years with…
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Green Bay Campus mourns passing of retired Prof. Michael Morgan
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The Green Bay Campus mourns the loss of UW-Green Bay Emeritus faculty member Michael Morgan, who taught in the Natural and Applied Sciences unit for decades before his retirement. He specialized in plant ecology and bioclimatology. In 2014, Michael and his wife Gloria established a scholarship fund. The Morgan/Macaluso Family Endowed Scholarship in Natural Sciences…
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Faculty note: Vice Chancellor Pieter deHart has a new article
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UW-Green Bay Associate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research and Professor Pieter deHart (Biology, NAS) published the recent article “Ontogenetic change in the diet of Semaprochilodus insignis (Characiformes: Prochilodontidae) during migration between two limnologically distinct environments in the Amazon Basin” in the journal “Neotropical Ichthyology”. The work highlights the discovery that this commercially important…
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Faculty note: Prof. Bakshi has new article
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UW-Green Bay Associate Professor Mandeep Singh Bakshi (Chemistry, NAS) published recent article, “Extraction of Bionanomaterials from the Aqueous Bulk by Using Surface Active and Water-Soluble Magnetic Nanoparticles,” in the high impact journal of American Chemical Society “Langmuir.” The work describes the potential applications of magnetic nanomaterials for extracting bionanomaterials from biological systems.
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Small seeds, big future: UW-Green Bay and the Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust collaborate to restore 76 acres of oak savanna
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UW-Green Bay Biology Professor Karen Stahlheber hopes to see “good-sized, small oak trees” on the edge of the campus sometime in the next two decades. To make this happen, members of the public, UW-Green Bay students and professors sowed a mixture of prairie seeds at the Wequiock Creek Natural Area to restore an oak savanna. Source:…
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UW-Green Bay Works to Restore Oak Savanna » Urban Milwaukee (WPR)
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is leading a project to restore rare oak savanna in Northeast Wisconsin.In the past, the area near UW-Green Bay’s campus wasn’t continuous moist forest, like most of the region, said Dr. Robert Howe, a biology professor and founder of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity. The first federal surveyors found open space,…
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Researchers investigate impact of water birds on Green Bay
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GREEN BAY – When Amy Wolf and Bob Howe with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay bring new research partners or students out to the restored Cat Island chain in lower Green Bay, their reactions are memorable. “To see people’s expressions when they enter the midst of thousands of loud, often smelly and sometimes defecating birds is pretty…
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Studying with a spider, a gecko, and lots of other insects, arachnids and reptiles…
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UW-Green Bay graduate student Jillian Kurovski (Environmental Science and Policy) hosted “Study with a Spider,” in UW-Green Bay’s new Science Study Lounge, Oct. 28, 2021 on the second (plaza level) of the Environmental Sciences building. Students who stopped by to study with the insects, arachnids and reptiles from all over the world, learned why they’re…