Tag: Natural and Applied Sciences
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‘Eco U’ makes Green Colleges Guide for fourth straight year
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UW-Green Bay is one of the 353 most environmentally responsible colleges in the U.S. and Canada as recognized by Princeton Review. The education services company profiles UW-Green Bay in the 2015 edition of its free downloadable book, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 353 Green Colleges.” The Princeton Review chose the schools for this guide based…
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‘UW-Green Bay staff consider separation offers’
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The Green Bay Press-Gazette, in a thoroughly reported story by Patti Zarling, made the Voluntary Separation Incentive Program at UW-Green Bay its lead news item over the weekend, both online and in the Sunday, April 12, print edition. Included are quotes from Prof. Steve Meyer, interim director of computing services David Kieper, and Chancellor Gary…
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Next NAS seminar highlights ‘Ecological Knowledge in India”
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Dr. Baisakhi Bandyopadhyay, a researcher and senior fellow of the government of India, is the next speaker in the UW-Green Bay Natural and Applied Sciences Seminar series at 3 p.m. this Friday (April 17) in Room 301 of the Environmental Sciences Building. Her topic is “The Evolution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in India: An Overview.”…
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Students to share research April 14 at annual Fox River Watershed symposium
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Nearly one hundred students and teachers from participating Northeastern Wisconsin high schools will spend the day on the UW-Green Bay campus Tuesday, April 14, for the 12th annual Student Watershed Symposium. The symposium brings together the high schoolers and UW-Green Bay faculty researchers who partner on monitoring the health of the Fox River basin through…
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Video: Northern pike spawning, and a grad student’s project
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Fox 11 News and reporter Eric Peterson ran a nice feature story last week about local research on spawning activity and habitat for northern pike, a popular game fish. Featured in the piece was UW-Green Bay graduate student Rachel Van Dam, who works with Associate Prof. Patrick Forsythe and is pursing her master’s in Environmental…
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Visiting scholar from India will be in town through April 27
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Dr. Baisakhi Bandyopadhyay, a senior fellow in the Ministry of Culture of the government of India, is visiting the UW-Green Bay campus during the three-week period from April 6 to April 27. Hosted by the International Visiting Scholars Program, she is scheduled to visit a number of classes here and at St. Norbert College and…
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UWGB’s Intemann leads Friday NAS seminar
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UW-Green Bay’s Natural and Applied Sciences (NAS) Assistant Prof. Jeremy Intemann, presents “Structural Evolution of a Semi-conducting Polymer for Organic LEDs and Solar Cells,” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 3 in ES 301. A social follows in ES 317. Seminars are free and open to the public.
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Fermanich a featured presenter at Great Lakes water conference
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Water quality and runoff expert Kevin Fermanich, professor of Natural and Applied Sciences, will co-present with Prof. Val Klump of UW-Milwaukee later this week at a major regional conference on the Great Lakes. Their topic is “Lake Michigan’s Green Bay: Why the Dead Zone? What is Needed to Prevent it?” Fermanich has been a key…
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Faculty note: Spider expert Draney talks birds
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Prof. Michael Draney of Natural and Applied Sciences gave a talk titled “Bird-Arachnid Connections: Why birders should appreciate spiders and their kin” to about 75 members of the Stevens Point Audubon Society last Wednesday (Feb. 18). Closer to home, the talk will be given at the Algoma Bird City Celebration on April 11, and at…
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Double the love: Fondness for UWGB brings alumni back for more
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UW-Green Bay has seen an increasing number of alums who loved their time on campus so much, they returned to get a second degree. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, now is the perfect time to share their tales of love, devotion and hard work in pursuit of their happily ever after.