Tag: Social Change and Development
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Wenger speaks on ‘China: Two Decades of Change’
“China: Two Decades of Change” has been rescheduled: The new time, date and place are 3:30 p.m. Thursday (Dec. 10) in MAC Hall Room 105. “China: Two Decades of Change” is the title of a presentation by Prof. Emeritus Robert Wenger at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday (Dec. 8) in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall, Room 105. He’ll…
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A changing of the SC&D guard
While we’re on the subject of retirements, we also note that Social Change and Development will be marking the retirements of professors Larry Smith (39 years), Craig Lockard (34 years), and Lynn Walter (33 years) with a gathering from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 16. Beverages, cakes and hors d’oeuvres will be served in…
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Sheepshead celebrates with Thursday panel discussion on arts ‘Money-Makers’
To celebrate its upcoming Fall 2009 issue, Sheepshead Review, UW-Green Bay’s journal of the arts, will host a panel devoted to professional opportunities in the arts. The program has the engaging title “Professional Opportunities in the Arts: A Panel of Writers, Editors, and Money-Makers.” Free and open to the public, it will run from 5:15…
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Giving back: Student travel fund is memorial to Prof. Galt
For UW-Green Bay students, backpacking through Europe, signing on as a foreign-exchange student in Japan, or pursuing research in the rain forests of Brazil might not be as out-of-reach as they may have thought.
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Palin’s no Paine: Kaye
In Sarah Palin’s just released memoir Going Rogue she makes a point to give an Alaskan bear hug to the radical firebrand Thomas Paine. No so fast, says UW-Green Bay Social Change and Development Professor Harvey Kaye in an article on Wednesday’s Daily Beast. While conservatives like Palin and Glenn Beck and Newt Gingrich like…
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Dale’s papers look at clickers in the classroom
UW-Green Bay Assistant Professor Timothy Dale (Social Change and Development) has co-authored two recently published papers that examine the use of interactive technology — specifically ‘clickers’ — in the classroom. “Clicking from College to K-12 Schools: Engaging preservice teachers with technology” appears in the 2009 edition of Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina. You can…
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Faculty panelists to explore agriculture, health issues Thursday
UW-Green Bay’s Center for Food in Community and Culture will host a panel discussion from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, on the topic “Are We Restoring or Destroying Health? Exploring Agriculture from the Ground Up,” in MAC Hall 208. Prof. Lynn Walter of Social Change and Development, co-director of the interdisciplinary center, says…
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Reminder: Lockard giving his ‘Last Lecture’
History Prof. Craig Lockard will be giving his “final” lecture this Thursday (Nov. 19) at 3:30 p.m. in the Christie Theatre of the University Union. The lecture is open to the public. Lockard, a Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor (1996-2001) in the Social Change and Development academic unit, will retire at the end of this…
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Faculty panelists to explore agriculture, health issues
UW-Green Bay’s Center for Food in Community and Culture will host a panel discussion from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, on the topic “Are We Restoring or Destroying Health? Exploring Agriculture from the Ground Up.” The program takes place in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Room 208. Prof. Lynn Walter of Social Change and…
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Reception will honor ‘Food Issues’ authors
Following UW-Green Bay’s Center for Food in Community and Culture panel discussion on Nov. 19, all are welcome to a reception with (presumably healthy) refreshments, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the MAC Hall Wintergarden. The event recognizes faculty members who contributed to an interdisciplinary publication by the Center for Food in Community and Culture.…