Tag: Natural and Applied Sciences
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UW-Green Bay helps scouts with water badge
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UW-Green Bay, in collaboration with NEW Water, helped more than 75 girl scouts earn their water badges in highly-interactive activities on Saturday, Nov. 6. The event was called “Wonders of Water” Badge Day. Most activities took place between 12:15 p.m. and 3 p.m. in UWGB’s Laboratory Sciences building and the Mauthe Center. UW-Green Bay Profs.…
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Groundwater featured topic at next NAS seminar
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Mike Parsen from the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey and UW Extension, will will lead this week’s NAS Seminar, “Town of Lincoln Groundwater Study: A Selected Hydrogeologic Characterizaton in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.” The seminar is in the Environmental Sciences (ES) building, Room 301 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. and is preceded by a social…
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Faculty note: Prof. Olson Hunt publishes collaborative article on physical therapy
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Asst. Prof. Megan J. Olson Hunt (NAS, Statistics) recently had a paper, The effect of direction specific thoracic spine manipulation on the cervical spine, co-authored with national and international colleagues, accepted for publication in the Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy. Mixed models were used to analyze repeated measures data in order to compare two…
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Superfund presentation this week
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Please join in on the discussion, “Multi-Disciplinary Superfund Teams – Engineering Success Through Coordinated Team Work and Communication,” at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2, in MAC 225 led by Steve Laszewski, Ph.D. Laszewski is the senior vice president of Foth, a national engineering and science consulting firm, and has spent the past 15 years focused…
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In the news: Kaspar collection at the Richter
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The Richter Museum was recently featured in a story by WBAY. The Kaspar collection has made the Richter the home to the largest spider collection in Wisconsin. Watch “UW-Green Bay’s Richter Museum home to massive spider collection” here.
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UW-Green Bay receives international innovation grant to research water quality issues
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Grant supports faculty-led student travel/research both in the region and to Chile GREEN BAY – The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay was one of eight institutions of higher education (and their partners) to be recognized recently with a “100,000 Strong in the Americas” Innovation Fund Award and $25,000 in grant funding. The White House, U.S. Department…
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Congrats to Katers, Zorn on Study Abroad grant
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It will mean study abroad experiences for 12 UWGB students to study water issues in Chile. Co-proposers Michael Zorn and John Katers received word that they are one of only eight higher education institutions selected for an international innovation award that includes $25,000 in grant funding for study abroad. Watch this space for the press…
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NAS seminar features ‘reverse ecology’
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The next Natural and Applied Sciences Seminar will be presented by Anne Pringle (UW-Madison), from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28. Pringle’s talk will cover “Reverse ecology: Using genomes to understand the natural histories of cryptic organisms.” The seminar will be held in the Environmental Sciences (ES) building, room 301, and is preceded by…
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Kaspar (not Casper) is a ‘friendly’ addition to UW-Green Bay’s Richter Museum
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It’s that time of year, again… when the talk of ghosts, goblins, spiders and things, make a person go “Ew!” At the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, there’s a new “Casper” in town. Not the friendly-ghost-type. But to arachnophobes, it’s still scary. Very scary. UW-Green Bay’s Cofrin Center for Biodiversity recently announced the donation of the…