Tag: Weidner Center
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‘The Bias Inside Us’ – UW-Green Bay hosts Smithsonian exhibit
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is hosting its first Smithsonian traveling exhibit. The community engagement project, titled “The Bias Inside Us,” opens to the public Saturday, Jan. 15, at the Weidner Center.The exhibit developed by the Smithsonian Institution aims to spark conversations.“The Smithsonian is such a national treasure, and to…
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Traveling exhibit on bias comes to UW-Green Bay | WLUK
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GREEN BAY (WLUK) — A new exhibit is on display at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. “The Bias Inside Us,” a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian, comes to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus in Green Bay. It focuses on the science of bias, bias in real life, serious consequences of bias and how to…
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Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: ‘The Bias Inside Us’ exhibition opens next week in Green Bay
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will host “The Bias Inside Us,” a traveling exhibition and community engagement project. Central will be the Grand Foyer of Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on campus. The exhibition will be available Jan. 15–Feb. 13. Admission is free. Due to COVID-19 concerns, visitors are…
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TechGYRLS program gives girls peek into technology fields – The Press
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GREEN BAY – Eleven-year-olds Brennan Hagedorn and Alex White click, drag and drop pink doohickeys across their screens onto green whatchamacallits.They’re in a classroom at the YWCA Greater Green Bay, where tiny lights on their round, palm-sized Adafruit circuit boards light up.The girls seem to know what they’re doing – unlike one-third of the adults…
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Reminder: How AI Algorithmic Bias Affects Society is Monday, Jan. 17
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UW-Green Bay’s Frederick E. Baer Prof. in Business Gaurav Bansal and Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of Inclusive Excellence Stacie Christian, are organizing a panel discussion, “How AI Algorithmic Bias Affects Society: How did I learn my implicit biases, what it means, and now what can I do about it?” on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, from…
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The Bias Inside Us exhibit is at the Weidner Center, Jan. 15-Feb. 13 (classes welcome with advanced registration)
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Attention all faculty! If you are interested in bringing your class to the traveling Smithsonian exhibit, “The Bias Inside Us,” which will be in the Grand Foyer of the Weidner Center between Jan. 15-Feb.13, 2022, you can sign up, here. The exhibit is free and will be open to the public Wednesday-Friday 3 p.m. to 7…
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Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: ‘Swing for the Holidays’ has its moments in Green Bay
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – In baseball, Tinker to Evers to Chance was a famous combination.Thursday night, Tchaikovsky to Ellington to Strayhorn worked wonders.That combination shone in the instrumental element of “Swing for the Holidays with the Green Bay Jazz Orchestra” in Cofrin Family Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the…
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Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: AVB Christmas concert A Veritable Beauty in Green Bay
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – The tap dancing was a bonus.AVB Community Band—78 players and two special guests strong for the evening—did up Christmas in a big way Monday in front of a large audience in Cofrin Family Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts. Among 14 selections, including the band’s theme music,…
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Faculty, register to bring your class to ‘The Bias Inside Us’ at the Weidner Center, Jan. 15-Feb. 13
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Attention all faculty! If you are interested in bringing your class to the traveling Smithsonian exhibit, “The Bias Inside Us,” which will be in the Grand Foyer of the Weidner Center between January 15th – February 13th, 2022, you can sign up, here. The exhibit is free and will be open to the public Wednesday-Friday 3…