• The University of Tennessee’s Writing Program including the Writing Center established in 1936 has received a Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
• Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang, an engineering professor at the University of California, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to continue his research to improve the visual tracking of computers. The award comes with a near half million dollars in funding over the next five years and the hope that Yang’s research may offer improvements in a variety of areas, most notably, perhaps, in adaptive technology for the visually impaired.
• Dr. Victor Fet of Marshall University has received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to pursue research and collaboration with Greek biologists at the University of Athens and the University of Crete.
• The 2012 best National Model Graduate Entrepreneurship Program is the Bloch Business School of Management of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation according to an award sponsored by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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