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  • UW-Green Bay Public Safety Identifies Suspects, Arrests Made in Book Theft Ring

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Investigation Reveals Several Wisconsin, Midwest College Campuses Also Targeted GREEN BAY – The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay announced today that two individuals have been taken into custody in Texas on burglary charges related to the theft of more than 60 textbooks valued at more than $12,000 from offices at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in June.…

  • UW-Green Bay recognizes excellence in the awarding of Founders Awards

    UW-Green Bay recognizes excellence in the awarding of Founders Awards

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Green Bay, WI — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has recognized some of its top faculty and staff members August 23, 2017, with 2017 Founders Awards for Excellence. The awards were presented before an audience of more than 450 in the Phoenix Room of the University Union, UW-Green Bay. Made possible by private philanthropic support,…

  • 80 percent coverage will still produce some ‘phenomenal phenomena’ UW-Green Bay’s Welsch says

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Local residents may not get to see the sun’s corona, “Baily’s beads” or the “diamond ring” effect that occurs just before the moon completely blocks the sun, but UW-Green Bay Assistant Professor of Physics Brian Welsch said the 80 percent coverage will still produce some phenomenal phenomena. The Green Bay Press-Gazette spoke with Welsch last…

  • Welsch, Moore receive local coverage on the solar eclipse

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay Assistant Prof. Brian Welsch led “Oh, the Things You’ll See! A 30-minute Discussion of the Upcoming Eclipse,” Friday, Aug. 11 in the Christie Theatre. A total solar eclipse will be observable around midday Monday, August 21 along a path spanning the United States. While the path of totality will miss Wisconsin, the sun…

  • Prof. Draney identifies spiders for Fox 11

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Following a story about large fishing spiders, Fox 11 invited photographs from viewers and asked UW-Green Bay Prof. Mike Draney for help with confirmation and identification.

  • Faculty note: Amiri publications

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Assistant Prof. Saeid Amiri (Statistics, Natural and Applied Sciences) announced two recent publications: -Amiri, S., Clarke, B, & Clarke, J. (2017). Clustering categorical data via ensembling dissimilarity matrices, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Doi: 10.1080/10618600.2017.1305278. -Amiri, S., & Dinov, I. D. (2017). msktuple: An Integrated R Library for Alignment-Free Multiple Sequence k-Tuple Analysis, Chemometrics and…

  • CATL Names 2017-2018 UWGB Teaching Scholars

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Congratulations to Heather Clarke (Business Administration/Human Resources), Ryan Holzem (Natural and Applied Sciences), Kevin Kain (Humanities), Kim Reilly (Democracy and Justice Studies), and Jennifer Ronsman (English Composition) — named the 2017-18 UW-Green Bay Teaching Scholars. They were selected through a competitive process based on their strong record of teaching accomplishments and high quality applications outlining…

  • Faculty note: Prof. Draney on Wisconsin Public Radio

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    Sue Bodilly

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    It’s high-spider season in Wisconsin. Two venomous Northern Black Widow spiders have been found for the first time in Brown County. WPR Central Time talks with spider expert UW-Green Bay Prof. Professor Mike Draney about how prevalent these dangerous types of spiders are in Wisconsin (spoiler alert: they aren’t very likely to be found here).…

  • Prof. Draney talks Black Widows, this time with WBAY

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    Sue Bodilly

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    It’s been a busy summer for UW-Green Bay Prof. Mike Draney, who once again was called on by media to discuss the Black Widow spiders found recently in the area. This time WBAY had the story.

  • Faculty note: Mahfuz co-authors a book

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay Assistant Prof. Mohammad Upal Mahfuz (Electrical Engineering Technology, Natural and Applied Sciences) has recently co-authored a book chapter entitled “Integration of Renewable Energy Resources in the Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges” in the book entitled “Transportation and Power Grid in Smart Cities: Communication Networks and Services,” to be published by John Wiley, UK.…