Author: Joey Prestley
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The Community Impact Internship Program: Fund for Excellence Connects Students and Communities
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The Fund for Excellence Every year, new needs emerge on campus. Some projects like student-support initiatives or program innovations may not be budgeted, but are vital to UW-Green Bay’s mission. When donors give to the Fund for Excellence, they help meet those needs head-on. The Fund for Excellence is UW-Green Bay’s unrestricted giving fund. Donors…
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The Impact of a Scholarship: Caleigh Cleary ’26
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Caleigh Cleary started thinking about college in middle school. By high school, she had her whole college career planned out. She knew she wanted to attend UW-Green Bay and she knew what she wanted to study. Moreover, she knew she wanted to make the most of it. Now in her fourth year majoring in Environmental…
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Rennes Group Champions Lifelong Learning at UW-Green Bay
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The Rennes Group has partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to expand and enhance the Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI), a cornerstone of education and engagement for older individuals in Northeast Wisconsin. This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to enriching seniors’ lives through accessible educational programming. Founded in Peshtigo in 1973, the Rennes Group has…
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The Brian Charlier Scholarship Honors Alum’s Remarkable Career
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Climbing the corporate ladder offers a unique perspective when you start at the bottom rung. Brian Charlier ‘81, ‘97 retired last year as CEO of HSHS St. Vincent Hospital after a decades-long career in healthcare. His start? Washing pots and pans in Bellin Hospital’s kitchen. He had only two employers in his life, Bellin and…
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Meeting the Region’s Needs: Schneider and Supply Chain Management
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Schneider, a global leader in transportation and logistics, has established a pivotal partnership with UW-Green Bay to support the university’s new Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program. This collaboration includes scholarship funding, support in program design, classroom engagement, and a speaker series—a boon for both the university and the region. Schneider’s connection with…
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Building a Legacy: Lou LeCalsey and UW-Green Bay’s First Soccer Team
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For a man whose Marine Corps service includes deployment during the Cuban Missile Crisis, whose business life saw him travel the country and build a small company into a nationwide leader, and whose athletic career included coaching the first UW-Green Bay soccer team (at the behest of Vince Lombardi, no less), you might expect Lou…
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The Art of Resilience: Artistic Evolution at UW-Green Bay
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This summer, visitors to UW-Green Bay watched as huge iridescent bubbles, stacked to the size of a house, inflated outside the Weidner. The traveling installation, titled Evanescent, by Australian studio Atelier Sisu, found a home at Green Bay for just over two weeks. During this time, visitors day and night could experience the shimmer, the…
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Undergraduate Research on the RISE: Business Students Share their Research Nationwide
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Launched in the fall of 2023, The Cofrin School of Business Research Intensive Student Experiences program (RISE) is already opening doors to undergraduate research opportunities and empowering students with academic experience. Spearheaded by Kathryn Marten, the Student and Community Engagement Coordinator for the Cofrin School of Business, the program breaks down barriers that traditionally…
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Public Scholarship Shines: UW-Green Bay’s Prof. Jennie Young and the Burned Haystack Dating Method
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There is a stereotypical image of the college professor—stuffy, strict, dressed in tweed and cloistered in their office like a medieval monk engaged in solitary study. That image has slowly faded as professors bring their scholarship public and their presence online. UW-Green Bay professors have podcasts, TikToks, and public-facing roles where they lend their expertise…
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The Teaching Press: Empowering Students and Community Through Publishing
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The Teaching Press at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay merges education with hands-on experience. It offers students a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the entire publishing process. This press, which is significantly supported by donor contributions, has become an extraordinary tool for student professional development and community engagement. The primary goal of the Teaching…
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Transforming Electrical Engineering with Spaces That Excite
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On the lower floor of UW-Green Bay’s Instructional Services building, students engage with hands-on learning in the recently renovated Technology, Engineering, Arts and Media (TEAM) Laboratories. The space, with its floor-to-ceiling glass walls, brings to mind the clear technology craze of the early 2000s. Like the iMac G3 or the Gameboy Color, the point is…
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Being a Servant Leader: Q&A With Dr. Susan Gallagher-Lepak
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Dr. Susan Gallagher-Lepak, Dean of the College of Health, Education and Social Welfare (CHESW), is retiring after a 40-year career. She has spent 21 of those years at UW-Green Bay. Over her tenure, she has helped build CHESW into a college that prepares students to meet critical needs in Northeastern Wisconsin. Those include the need…
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First Nations Studies Outdoor Classroom Will Embrace Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning
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In an oral history teaching, a Menominee elder, Napos, explains the concept of the Medicine Wheel. The Wheel is a circle with four quadrants and four spokes. “Four is a sacred number to the Menominee people,” says Napos. The spokes represent key concepts such as the four directions; the four aspects of people—spiritual, emotional, physical…
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Shorewood Restoration: Wildflowers and Runners Find a Home on Former Golf Course
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If you walk through UW-Green Bay’s former golf course this summer, you might see runners on the fairway, wildflowers on the green or a cactus in a sand trap. With the golf course repurposed in 2021, the space is taking on a new life as an ecological restoration area, cross-country course and university recreation hub,…
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The Godfather of Green Bay Soccer: Aldo Santaga’s Life and Legacy
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In the early 1940s, a young Aldo Santaga lived as a refugee with his mother and brother in fascist Italy. He started playing soccer by kicking around a makeshift ball of scrunched-up rags. By the 60s, he was teaching his sons how to play and introducing the Green Bay community to the sport. By the…
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Performing Arts Rise with a Matching Gift Challenge
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If you mention The Weidner to someone who lived in Green Bay in the ‘90s, they will probably bring up “Phantom of The Opera.” That’s no surprise—the hit musical’s 4-week run in 1997 remains one of the biggest entertainment events in city history. Altogether, 76,054 theatre-goers visited UW-Green Bay’s campus for the show. Among them…