Tag: UWGB history

  • Faculty/Staff Notes: Goff, et al

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    Victoria Goff, associate professor of Communication and history, was the first speaker in the Brown County Library’s Local History Series on Oct. 1. Her topic, “Voyageur Magazine: 25 Years of History,” highlighted the history of the award-winning Voyageur magazine, which is celebrating its silver anniversary this year. Voyageur is published by UW-Green Bay in conjunction…

  • UW-Green Bay, then and now

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    See what the UW-Green Bay campus is like and was like in this Now-and-Then photo gallery.

  • Correction: Men’s basketball has had other 'home' sites

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    In last week’s item about the Phoenix basketball exhibition game at the Kress Events Center, we noted correctly that it will be only the second men’s game played on campus. We were incorrect, however, in describing those as the only two times the men played a home game away from the Brown County Arena or…

  • Men’s basketball will play first exhibition ever at the Kress

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    The Phoenix men’s basketball exhibition game against St. Norbert on Saturday, Nov. 7 will be played at the Kress Center on campus due to scheduling conflicts at the Resch Center. The preseason contest will be part of an athletics triple-header at the Kress. The women’s team will play an exhibition against UW-Parkside at noon followed…

  • All about the Carillon

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    Wondering what the new bell tower is outside the University Union? Well, it’s the new Ed Weidner Memorial Carillon, constructed in the early summer of 2009 in honor of UW-Green Bay’s founding chancellor. (For more on Chancellor Weidner, click here). Watch the informational video to learn more.

  • Actually, it’s a tie atop the leader board: Kersten, Abbott

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    To clarify our articles earlier this week regarding Prof. Andy Kersten’s notable achievement in receiving his third Founders Association Award for Excellence in three years… He has actually had a hand in four awards in four years! It escaped our attention that Kersten had been part of the large group that earned Voyageur history magazine…

  • Kersten’s hand in ’06 Founders Award makes four

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    Photographic evidence has been discovered that establishes Prof. Andrew Kersten, a historian with the Humanistic Studies academic unit, has actually been associated with four consecutive Founders Association Awards for Excellence. That’s Kersten, back row in white shirt and tie, posing with the Voyageur magazine group that took the 2006 award for excellence in collaborative achievement.…