I was at the Detroit Airport last evening, struggling to get back to Wisconsin along with hundreds of other displaced travelers, when something wonderful happened. A nice gentleman noticed the UW-Whitewater shirt my traveling companion was wearing, and came over to talk with us. He introduced himself as someone very interested in economic development and said he had heard of us. He said, "Someone at your university developed an invention that is most certainly going to stimulate manufacturing in Wisconsin." He was referring to UW-W art professor Dan McGuire’s invention for scaling back the time required to produce ceramic shells. I was quick to tell him that not only is Dan a great inventor, he’s a great teacher who was inspired to develop this process in order to keep his students better engaged in the creative process.
We really do make a difference.
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