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In the the next issue of Inside UW-Green Bay, your alumni magazine, check out who played a role (many of you) in UW-Green Bay’s largest capital campaign. Also, keep up on your classmates, check out what’s happening with your favorite faculty member and check out the latest University news. Don’t receive the magazine? That means we don’t have your correct mailing address.
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For the first time in history, both the men’s and women’s Phoenix basketball teams defeated in-state rivals, the UW-Madison Badgers. Both Phoenix teams appear to be headed for a super season. As of this printing the women are undefeated and rank 23rd in the nation. Oh, and don’t forget about swimming! The women are 10-1 with only five meets left before the Horizon championships in February. For everything Green Bay athletics, click on www.greenbayphoenix.com/.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Professor Regan A. R. Gurung, (Human Development and Psychology) was formally recognized in November as the Wisconsin Professor of the Year. To read more on the recognition, click here; watch video below.
On Dec. 1, Chancellor Thomas K. Harden announced that the University’s Campaign for UW-Green Bay raised more than $30 million, surpassing the original goal of $25 million, and adding 50 new scholarships and other academic enhancements. Click here to read more.
Could Green Bay’s version of the “Nutcracker Ballet” go on without the help of faculty member Jeff Entwistle and students and alumni from UW-Green Bay? Well, probably, but certainly not as smoothly.
Check out this mutually beneficial partnership between Your U and local the performing arts scene.
Graduate students from the UW-Green Bay Capstone Seminar in Environmental Science and Policy presented their work to a campus and community audience Dec. 1.
The packed lecture hall heard that within the next century the weather for Wisconsin could be more like Arkansas or Missouri. And that would have dramatic effects upon Wisconsin’s economy and culture.
To read the full story, click here.
On Dec. 5, the annual Kwanzaa ceremony was held at UW-Green Bay for two hours of fellowship and celebration. The event was sponsored by the Office of Student Life and the American Intercultural Center. It featured entertainment from the Green Bay-based Nia African Dancers and song from the Youth Gospel Choir of the Divine Temple of God in Christ along with a message from the keynote speaker, Assistant Professor Tohoro Francis Akakpo.
To read more about the event and see pictures, click here.