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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chorale and Concert Choir present George Friederic Handel’s Messiah on Sunday, Dec. 7, in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts.

Prof. Randall Meder conducts the UW-Green Bay Chorale, Concert Choir and the Green Bay Symphony Choir with Chamber Orchestra starting at 7:30 p.m. in a joint production inside one of the Midwest’s best performance halls. View the rest of this entry »

During her time as Wisconsin’s Poet Laureate, UW-Green Bay Prof. Denise Sweet has crisscrossed the state, bringing the joys of poetry, reading and literacy to young and old, alike.

“Being poet laureate has put many miles on my car,” says Sweet, who is approaching the end of her four-year appointment by the governor.  “But it’s been a journey that has been circular.” View the rest of this entry »

GREEN BAY — A cult classic movie has found its way from the list of 1960s “B” movies, to a 1986 re-make—starring Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, John Candy and Bill Murray—to playhouses across the world and lately, to the University Theatre stage at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. View the rest of this entry »

We fear them, squash them, smush them, and love them on Halloween.
Humans have always had a fascination and a phobia of spiders, says UW-Green Bay Prof. Mike Draney, Natural and Applied Sciences and studier of creepy stuff.

“I think spiders are sort of interestingly creepy, especially up close, seeing them under the microscope,” says Draney, who went to Panama recently on a mission to discover new spider species. View the rest of this entry »

When the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last year the discovery of a new breeding population of Kirtland’s Warblers in the state, it was nothing short of exciting for bird-lovers and nature enthusiasts everywhere.

UW-Green Bay graduate assistant Jennifer Goyette was a part of the team that helped make the discovery within the last year. View the rest of this entry »

Campus just “lights up” when the Phuture Phoenix Days roll around each fall.

More than 1,300 fifth graders from area elementary schools visit the UW-Green Bay campus over two days, getting a taste of college life and learning that no educational goal is beyond their grasp if they try hard. View the rest of this entry »

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is on the cutting edge of research when it comes to studying forest dynamics.

UW-Green Bay faculty and staff members Prof. Bob Howe, Prof. Amy Wolf and Herbarium Curator Gary Fewless have partnered with the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Earth Observatory Program to assist in studying how forests in a temperate zone evolve and change around the biological and physical forces they face. View the rest of this entry »

Sometimes seen as castoffs from Slovakian society, the Roma people often struggle with getting the basics necessities of life—medical care, hygienic care, education, culure.

A UW-Green Bay study abroad course called “Social Justice Issues in Slovakia” looks to curb the inequities bestowed upon the Roma living in the eastern European country. View the rest of this entry »

GREEN BAY — As part of its campus-wide 2008-09 Common Theme, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will produce Jules Tasca’s play “The Balkan Women.”

Guest director Carmen Roman—who has a recurring role in TV’s “Law & Order” and has performed for nine seasons at Peninsula Players in Door County—will lead a cast of UW-Green Bay student actors in this contemporary tragedy.

The play runs Thursday, Oct. 16, through Saturday, Oct. 18, and Tuesday, Oct. 21, through Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Jean Weidner Theatre of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, 2420 Nicolet Drive. Admission is $15 in advance or $18 at the door. All performances start at 7:30 p.m.

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GREEN BAY — Eric Ewazen’s “A Hymn for the Lost and the Living,” is featured in an upcoming performance by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Wind Symphony on Saturday, Oct. 11

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, 2420 Nicolet Drive.

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