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spotlights ‘connections’
A new Web site showcases UW-Green Bay’s strong connections to the community
and region. The site, located at www.uwgb.edu/connect, links to a list of more
than 100 ways UW-Green Bay is connecting. The site also highlights recent news
items focusing on campus-community connections and the substance behind UW-Green
Bay’s “Connecting learning to life” campuswide theme. Among the
stories highlighted this week are a major study involving black bears in Wisconsin,
the Phuture Phoenix program which introduces elementary school students to the
idea of higher education, and the continuing success of the Green Bay Film Society
series.
UW-Green Bay friends are pulling for ‘Dr. Miss America’
Tina Sauerhammer will contend for the title of Miss America in the competition
to be aired nationally by ABC on Saturday night, Sept. 20. Friends from UW-Green
Bay are rooting for Sauerhammer, a Green Bay native and Miss Wisconsin with
a history of advanced achievement. She enrolled at UW-Green Bay at age 14 after
she all but aced the SAT and ACT. When she graduated in 1999, she had a 3.96
gradepoint average and the unofficial title of the University’s youngest
graduate ever (18). Earlier this year she followed up by becoming the youngest
person (22) to complete studies at the UW Medical School. While she concedes
postponing her surgical residency for the pageant route might not be a typical
career path, she has no doubts about the choice. Sauerhammer’s platform
is organ donation. Her father died last year, on his 45th birthday, awaiting
a donor kidney that never came. She has done numerous print and TV interviews
(including one with CNN), and told one reporter: “Every single time I have
these interviews, whether it is at a local, state or national level, it increases
awareness about organ and tissue donation. Which is an amazing thing.”
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UW-Green
Bay is movin’ on up
UW-Green Bay moved into the top ten of Midwest master’s-level public universities
in the highly publicized “America’s Best Colleges” guide published
by U.S. News and World Report. UW System schools accounted for five of the top
ten among 56 universities in the category “Best public universities without
doctoral programs in the Midwest.” The data is from the 2002–03 academic
year and precedes the impact of budget reductions for the 2003–05 budget
period.
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Liebl halls away naming honor
It’s not UW-Green Bay’s first new residence hall, but it’s the
first to be named for someone who helped in its construction. General contractor
Richard J. (Dick) Liebl, whose company has built 15 residence halls here over
two decades, will be honored in a dedication ceremony Monday, Sept. 8. Richard
J. Liebl Hall is the second of three new 120-bed residence halls to open between
the fall of 2002 and the fall of 2004. The buildings feature “suite-style”
apartments with private bedrooms and shared kitchens and bathrooms. Completion
brings the total on-campus housing capacity to about 1,790 residents.
Six faculty and staff receive Founders Awards
Six UW-Green Bay faculty and staff won Founders Association Awards for Excellence
at UW-Green Bay’s fall convocation last week. They are Gregory Aldrete,
for teaching; Clifford Abbott, scholarship; Jerrold Rodesch, institutional development;
David Coury, community outreach; Sherri Urcavich, academic support; and Christine
Terrien for administrative support. The awards were presented by Nan Nelson,
president of the Founders Association, the philanthropic organization that instituted
the awards program in 1975.
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