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Tag: Natural and Applied Sciences

  • Reminder: Falcon name suggestions due late Sunday

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay Marketing and University Communication has received more than 75 submissions for Peregrine falcon names. You can still get in on the action. Nominations have to include a set of four names. Read more and submit here. Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, June 18. A ballot and “reveal party” to follow. Stay tuned.

  • Photos: Retirees Arboretum Walk

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    Kimberly Vlies

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    In May, retirees enjoyed the seventh annual Arboretum Walk sponsored by the Board of Directors of the UW-Green Bay Retiree Association. Paul Sager (Ecology Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences) led the walk which began near Lambeau Cottage. There were 15 retirees with binoculars and bird books in hand, that took advantage of the day…

  • Faculty note: Prof. Bakshi publication

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Assistant Prof. Mandeep Singh Bakshi’s (Natural and Applied Sciences) perspective is published in “Chemical Research in Toxicology” (ACS journal). Nanotoxicity in Systemic Circulation and Wound Healing is related to the recent advances in nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology where functional nanomaterials are used as drug delivery vehicles in systemic circulation. A variety of nanomaterials are potentially cytotoxic in the…

  • Faculty note: Prof. Luczaj is coauthor

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay Prof. John Luczaj (Geology, Geoscience) is one of several coauthors of the invited review article “Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea,” which appears in the June 2017 issue of Earth-Science Reviews, published by Elsevier. The article describes how fold and fault structures in the middle of the continent were influenced…

  • Meet Peregrine falcon parents Rupert and Mimi

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    Kimberly Vlies

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    Resident bird expert and curator of UW-Green Bay’s Richter Museum of Natural History, Tom Erdman shared photos and details of the University’s newest parents. Rupert and Mimi are the Peregrine falcons currently nesting on the roof of the David A. Cofrin Library. Rupert Rupert, an adult male, replaced the unbanded male present at the start…

  • Reminder: UW-Green Bay Heirloom Veggie Pre-sale May 12

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    Editorial Student

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    UW-Green Bay’s annual Heirloom Vegetable Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 13, 2017 in the greenhouse of the Laboratory Sciences building. UW-Green Bay faculty and staff have an opportunity to shop at the pre-sale from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, May 12. If possible, bring containers to carry your…

  • Faculty note: Katia Levintova and Megan Olson Hunt win the 2017 Student Nominated Teaching Awards

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    Editorial Student

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    The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and the Instructional Development Council are pleased to announce the 2017 Student Nominated Teaching Award Winners. Associate Professor Katia Levintova (Democracy and Justice Studies, Global Studies and Political Science) is the winner of the Experienced Teacher Award. Students praise Professor Levintova’s dedication to students and her…

  • UW-Green Bay Heirloom Vegetable Plant Sale, May 13

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Eggplants, tomatillos, cucumbers, kohlrabi, basil and 35 varieties of flowers GREEN BAY – On your mark, get set, let’s garden! Organizers are busy growing thousands of plants in the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Lab Sciences Greenhouse to be ready in time for the annual Heirloom Vegetable Plant Sale. Proceeds benefit student research opportunities and activities…

  • Faculty note: Prof. Mahfuz has articles published

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Assistant Prof. M.U. Mahfuz (Engineering Technology) has collaborated on two recent articles: U. Mahfuz, D. Makrakis, and H. T. Mouftah, “Concentration-Encoded Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks. Part 1: Fundamentals, Issues, and Challenges,” in Modeling, Methodologies and Tools for Molecular and Nano-scale Communications, Eds. Junichi Suzuki, Tadashi Nakano, and Michael J. Moore, Volume 9 of the series…

  • Faculty notes: Welsch publications

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Three peer-reviewed papers authored or co-authored by UW-Green Bay Assistant Prof. Brian Welsch (Physics, Natural and Applied Sciences) have been published over the past 15 months: [1] “Active Region Emergence and Remote Flares,” Y. Fu & B. T. Welsch, Solar Physics, v. 291 p. 383 (02/2016); [2] “Deriving Potential Coronal Magnetic Fields from Vector Magnetograms,”…