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Three University of Wisconsin-Whitewater faculty members, James Jaffe, Carol Scovotti, and Helena Addae, received Fulbright scholars awards for 2012-2013. These three awards mark a new milestone in campus history: the most in any year. [From UW-Whitewater, 5/16/12]

Google Map Maker Competition

Four University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students affiliated with the Geographic Information Systems Center have tied with three other teams for third place in a Google Map Maker Competition. [From JSOnline.com, 5/10/12]

Student entrepreneurs at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater invented a project that could revolutionize the retail industry. Joe Scanlin and Ryan Boyd, of Scanalytics, invented a pressure-sensitive mat connect to software that measures customers attention. [From UW-Whitewater, 5/7/12]

"Renwig Custom is based at the Whitewater Innovation Center, $5.7 million, 38,000-square-foot business incubator that opened a year ago in the 130-acre Whitewater University Technology Park on the city's east side. The park and innovation center are collaborative projects of the city, Whitewater Community Development Authority and UW-Whitewater." [From the Wisconsin State Journal, 3/29/12]

"The diverse group of competitors in the 2012 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest offers the latest evidence that not every startup idea is required to cure cancer or turn your mobile phone into a personal concierge. Sometimes, innovation begins close to home – in the kitchens, backyards and basements where 'what if?' epiphanies so often occur." [From WisBusiness.com 3/19/12]

"BusinessUSA implements a “no wrong door” approach for small businesses and exporters by using technology to quickly connect businesses to the services and information relevant to them, regardless of where the information is located or which agency’s website, call center, or office they go to for help. Looking forward, the more federal agencies continue to add resources to BusinessUSA to encompass the full range of business programs and services, the more we will be able to reduce the confusing

Virginia Pease, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, was recently awarded a UW-Whitewater Education Outreach grant in the amount of $44,645. Nancy Stevens, John Zbikowski and Richard Mason are collaborating on this project, "Building Leadership Capacity for Common Core State Standards-Mathematics Implementation Among a Cadre of CESA #2 Area Educators."

LEAP Day

An unusual celebration during this leap year at UW-Whitewater will mark the campus success of LEAP, a national effort to improve learning and teaching. LEAP Day will be observed on the calendar's leap day, Wednesday, Feb. 29, with speakers and discussions expected to draw students, faculty and staff members from UW-Whitewater and other campuses. [From UW-Whitewater 2/13/12]

Entrepreneurs from 81 Wisconsin communities submitted 248 entries in the 9th annual Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest, organizers said. [From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2/8/2012]

Future teachers will graduate with top skills in the latest technology for learning, thanks to a $150,000 grant received by the College of Education and Professional Studies at UW-Whitewater. [From Walworth County Today 01/31/2012]

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