UW-Green Bay

April 14, 2022

The student-led research is model for other colleges and universities It’s unusual for a professional, peer-reviewed journal to feature the work of undergraduate students, so the fact that 14 students in Aaron Weinschenk’s young political science research lab were prominently featured as co-authors gives you a clue about the quality and ambition of the work being done […]

March 21, 2022

World, meet Riley Autore, a sophomore at UW-Green Bay, Marinette Campus. Challenges and obstacles are no match for this adventurer who is working to become a nurse. She’s had to work harder than many, just to get through high school. A resident of Drummond Island, Michigan, ferry rides to Detour High School, and later Sault […]

March 2, 2022

Brent DuBois ’01 (Business Administration), president and owner of Logistics Recycling, Inc., is a man on a mission, with a philosophical twist on a venerable sustainability mantra: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Rethink. Rethink? Yes, rethink. Think differently about how and why we produce what we produce, package what we package, and buy what we buy. But we’re […]

January 28, 2022

A team of former UW-Green Bay students can now officially add inventor to their resumes. In December, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recognized the work of Adam Jensen, Rosalyn Stoa and Katherine Mikhail for inventing a cup to aid sufferers of hand tremors. The invention was developed as part of a WiSys innovation event […]

January 20, 2022

UW-Green Bay’s Office of Grants and Research, in partnership with the Advancement Office, featured the many ways research is on the rise at UW-Green Bay and the positive affect it has on the region. In this feature, Reynolds Packaging CEO Lisa Reynolds, discusses the support from the Small Business Development Center at UW-Green Bay. See the […]

December 22, 2021

Program addresses the computer science workforce shortage in Northeast Wisconsin The Rising Phoenix Early College High School Program is expanding through a new collaboration between UW-Green Bay and the Computer Science Talent Ecosystem Youth (CSTEY). The Rising Phoenix Computer Science Pathway program is modeled after the inaugural Rising Phoenix cohort with the Manitowoc Public School […]

November 23, 2021

UW-Green Bay alumnus Cristian Ambrosio’s definition of healing and love took a whole new meaning the day his family made a decision to care for his newborn cousin. Calling it his most life-changing experience, Ambrosio came to the realization of how precious life is, and the power of love. This light-bulb moment led the UW-Green […]

November 11, 2021

Staff from the Cofrin Center of Biodiversity, community volunteers, and UW-Green Bay students from Professor Amy Wolf’s Conservation Biology plant seeds at the Wequiock Creek Natural Area. The restoration being conducted here will provide crucial habitat for pollinators, birds, bats and other wildlife. The work will improve the Wequiock Creek watershed by reducing nutrient and […]

November 3, 2021

In the average lawn, moss is rarely a welcomed sight. (Usually indicating poor soil nutrient levels and drainage issues.) But in Keir Wefferling’s world, as curator of the Fewless Herbarium within UW-Green Bay’s Cofrin Center of Biodiversity, encountering moss is not only welcomed but occasionally transformational. That was the case one morning this fall when […]

September 23, 2021

Kunze’s path exemplifies how undergraduate research opportunities and mentoring can lead to more water scientists Tyler Kunze never anticipated a career as a water scientist. Yet in May, he became the first student to earn a bachelor’s degree in water science from UW-Green Bay. He’s now a graduate student in UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences […]