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play instructors for a day
UW-Green Bay students Anne Schauer of Milwaukee and Joseph Raboin of Shawano
pose proudly with their tabletop display on an exceedingly complex environmental
engineering project: the conversion of dairy waste to renewable energy at the
recent Academic Excellence Symposium held on campus. The students are working
with Prof. John Katers and Wisconsin Electric at Tinedale Farms near Wrightstown
to monitor a high-profile pilot project. Schauer and Raboin were only two of
the dozens of UW-Green Bay students who set up shop in the University Union's
Phoenix Rooms last month for the first-ever symposium. Top students presented
details of their research and community outreach activities.
Cute one from the calendar:
'Bless My Sole'
Thursday, May 16, Noon, 'Bless My Sole'
Meet at Shoe Tree near Housing
Sponsored by Ecumenical Center
The event, held on the first day of final exams, seems like an apparent tie-in
with two time-honored traditions: The campus Shoe Tree, a tall oak into whose
branches departing seniors toss their used, laces-knotted footwear. . . and
the need for a quick,last-minute prayer before test-taking starts.
Popular 'old time' plant
sale is popping up soon
A few "old-time" flowers, 21 varieties of heirloom lettuces, new herbs
and some other vegetables are new offerings at the Heirloom Plant Sale from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 11 and 12 in the Laboratory Sciences
Building greenhouse. Sale organizer Prof. Jeff Nekola reassures tomato and pepper
lovers that those vegetables still constitute 90 percent of the plants available.
Sale proceeds benefit student scholarships. The entire exercise benefits renewed
awareness of genetic diversity and the cultural identities embodied in rare,
old-time varieties. If you're employed on campus, you'll get another e-mail
reminder and more information on the sale in coming days.
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Bravo!
UW-Green Bay opera star ranks among Met's best young artists
Graduating senior Andrea Wiltzius placed second in auditions for the Metropolitan
Opera's young artist development program held in mid-April in New York. She
won a cash prize and is "under contract" to the Met until the first-place
winner actually arrives to begin the Metropolitan Opera internship that is the
top award. If the winner doesn't appear, Wiltzius gets the internship. Wiltzius
was one of a select group of 20 artists under age 30 from around the country
who competed. Auditioning for the Metropolitan Opera "Young Artist"
internship was an "incredible" experience, she says. The auditions took
place in the form of a series of master classes — beginning with Met artistic
director James Levine, and including famed tenor Placido Domingo — from
which contestants were eliminated down to a final four. The four then performed
for a final judging. Wiltzius has been accepted at The Julliard School and at
Peabody Conservatory, both of which have offered assistantships, and she'll
spend the next few weeks deciding which to attend in the fall.
"It's
been great. Kind of stressful but it helped me become a stronger person. It
gave me the confidence to know I really can do anything that I want to do."
 Outgoing
Student Government President Joanelle Jackson, a senior from Milwaukee,
reflecting on her term in office
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