Category: Donation Story
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Finance Students up to Challenge of Riding Market’s Waves
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UW-Green Bay’s high impact learning experiences will level up this fall when students studying finance in the Austin E. Cofrin School of Business use real money to manage an investment fund. The immersive experience, powered by charitable gifts to the Student Managed Investment Fund, is designed to replicate a professional firm and the variety of…
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Institute of Music Transcends Barriers, Deepens Commitment to Community
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Inspired musicians are not only invited to play and find their voice through UW-Green Bay’s music program, but will do it with help from a community philanthropist. “Life changing” is how Randy Meder, director of UW-Green Bay’s Sharon J. Resch Institute of Music, describes the 2022 gift creating the Institute. “The gift is really helpful…
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Changemaker Grant Fuels Wireless Tools for Students, Water Researchers
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That enterprising spirit that has made UW-Green Bay the fastest growing UW school in the state is also deepening learning experiences for students, researchers and the world in water science. UW-Green Bay will soon reap the advantages of new insights provided by a real-time look at water quality in the Bay of Green Bay. Multiple…
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Immersed in Sound, Sea Grant Project Listens to the Bay
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Curious about what the Bay of Green Bay sounds like? Research being done by Associate Professor Bill Sallak will help answer that question. Earlier this year, Sallak received a two-year grant from Wisconsin Sea Grant to study the bay’s bioacoustics. “It’s a field that’s growing in importance, and will help establish a baseline soundscape for…
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UW-Green Bay Campus Cupboard Receives its Largest Gift Ever
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Representatives from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and its Wisconsin chapter visited UW-Green Bay’s Campus Cupboard & Clothes Closet on its Green Bay campus on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, to present the largest gift ever to the food and basic needs pantry. Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.7-million member union representing teachers, educators, school…
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Dental City Fuels Experiences That Spark Creative Solutions To Real-World Challenges
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When students attend a University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Office of Career Services activity, there’s a good chance they will see a representative from Dental City. Founded by UW-Green Bay alumni, the distributor of quality dental supplies to 16,000 dentists is an active participant in a variety of Career Services activities from mock interviews and participating…
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Center for Biodiversity Part of Eco-U Tradition
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay — known as Eco-U since its founding in 1965 — sits in a unique location, overlooking the bay of Green Bay. It’s home to the 290-acre Cofrin Memorial Arboretum, which provides valuable habitat and ecosystem resources for students and faculty conducting research. The hub of that research activity is the…
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LaForce Family Foundation carries on legacy of Joe and Mac LaForce
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Fueled by a passion for helping others, Arionna Loughlin’s goal is to become a physical therapist. Majoring in Human Biology and Exercise, the UW-Green Bay junior is busy not only with her studies, but also working as a rehab aide at Bellin Titletown, where she schedules patients and helps the physical therapists and athletics trainers…
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Estate gift bolsters generosity of Betty Brown, UW-Green Bay retiree
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Both Betty and Donald Brown’s parents’ formal education ended with eighth-grade. College, they realized, was not a given. Still, their interest to pursue higher education was supported at home. Their college experiences helped develop their intellect and, even more importantly, it helped develop a curiosity and openness to the world. Fast forward from those college…
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Nursing program launches first cohort in response to shortage
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2020 was a memorable year. And it was significant to nursing: 2020 marked 200 years since the birth of Florence Nightingale, the caring nurse and leader credited with professionalizing nursing. 2020 was declared the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization, recognizing nurses’ courage and commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic.…