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PLATTEVILLE- The University of Wisconsin-Platteville's Heartland Festival brought the Peanuts comic strip to life on Friday, June 19 with the opening night of the musical comedy, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." The comedy, which opened on Broadway in 1999, is a fresh approach to the comic strip by Charles M. Schulz and incorporates song and dance routines into cut-and-pasted scenes of the

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville English Department recently approved four new classes that will be offered beginning in the fall semester. One of the classes will be a course in postcolonial literature and the other three will be courses in gay studies. Amanda Tucker, assistant professor of English for the UWP Humanities Department, will be teaching the postcolonial

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PLATTEVILLE - The city of Platteville will host the Moving Wall memorial in July and the Heartland Festival welcomes the memorial with an event that will showcase the work of University of Wisconsin-Platteville alumnus Lyle Novinski. A photography exhibit titled "Korea Remembered, Then and Now" will be displayed at the Harry and Laura Nohr Gallery on the UWP campus from Monday, July 6 through

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PLATTEVILLE - Susan Hansen has been named interim dean of the College of Business, Industry, Life Science and Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Her appointment is effective Aug. 1. Hansen has taught in the business administration program at UWP since 1991. In making the announcement, UWP dean of Business, Industry, Life Science and Agriculture, Duane Ford, who will

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PLATTEVILLE- Ruben Ernesto, a University of Wisconsin-Platteville alumnus, has taken his passion for multiculturalism and unity among Nicaraguans and turned it into the non-profit business, Nicaragua Unida. The company began as a social and cultural group with the goal of teaching children the Nicaraguan culture and uniting Nicaraguans in Wisconsin. It later developed into an international

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Department of Performing and Visual Arts received a $10,000 grant from the Dubuque Racing Association (DRA) for 10 new iMac computers for the Design Lab in the Art Building. According to Greg Nelson, a UWP art professor, high enrollment in design classes required students to share, supply their own equipment, and/or make arrangements to use

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PLATTEVILLE - For the fourth year, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville College of Business, Industry, Life Science and Agriculture will host a golf outing. On June 26, join current and retired faculty members of BILSA and BILSA students and alumni for a day of golfing, renewing old friendships and raising funds in support of BILSA scholarships. Last year, 48 golfers netted over

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PLATTEVILLE - The Heartland Festival, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Center for the Arts, will present the Broadway musical "The Producers" beginning on July 10. Performances will be held in the Richard and Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall in the Center for the Arts on the UWP campus. The musical is adapted from Mel Brooks' classic cult comedy film and sets the standard for modern

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PLATTEVILLE - Ubersox Chrysler Inc. is helping the University of Wisconsin-Platteville continue and grow its Traveling Technology program through the donation of the use of a truck. Traveling Technology is designed to increase enrollment in the department of industrial studies manufacturing program and introduce high school students to the manufacturing industry. "We felt it was a good thing to

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PLATTEVILLE - It all started in 1999 while researching advertisements via periodicals, newspapers and microfilm for a graduate seminar at Purdue University in Indiana. Adam Stanley, University of Wisconsin-Platteville assistant professor of history, began to generate ideas for his dissertation and over the subsequent years, it culminated in his recently published book "Modernizing Tradition:

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PLATTEVILLE - The Center for the Arts on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus was set for an evening of mystery, entertainment and fine dining on June 12. It was the Heartland Festival's opening night of "And The Killer Is ...," a murder-mystery dinner show. Audience members were welcomed to an awards show setting as they entered a rehearsal room turned dinner theater in the CFA.

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Alumni Association will be hosting the second annual motorcycle tour on Saturday, June 27. Everyone is invited to attend and enjoy an afternoon of southwestern Wisconsin scenery and time with UWP alumni and friends. The event will begin at 10 a.m. when participants will meet and receive a tour of Engineering Hall, located on the UWP campus.

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PLATTEVILLE - The Heartland Festival, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Center for the Arts, welcomes, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" to the lineup, premiering on June 19. "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," opened on Broadway in 1999. It is a fresh approach to the all-time 1967 classic, based on the ever-popular Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz. Heartland

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PLATTEVILLE - Since 1972, University of Wisconsin-Platteville academic staff member Stephen Shepherd has been making country music. Recently, Shepherd has been advancing up the music charts in the United States and Europe. Shepherd released his second and fourth albums only in Europe. "I wanted to see how they would go," Shepherd said. "The market was easier to break into." Shepherd's highest

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Educational Administration Certification Program was created in 2000 to provide a master's degree program designed to certify students to be principals. This year's graduating class of 17 will be the fifth cohort of students to graduate from the program. The program takes two years to complete. The cohort system allows students to get to

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PLATTEVILLE - Local Fare will be hosting a workshop on the gluten-free lifestyle on Monday, June 15. The workshop will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Lundeen Lecture Hall in Doudna Hall, located on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus. Local Fare is a UWP Office of Continuing Education program, dedicated to a regional vision for increasing access to local foods in Southwest Wisconsin

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville in collaboration with the UW-Rock County began an Engineering Program at the Janesville campus in 2005. The goal of the program is to provide convenient class schedules for place-bound people who want to earn a degree in engineering. According to Rich Shultz, dean of the UWP College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science, the first

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PLATTEVILLE - The Heartland Festival, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Center for the Arts, will kick off its 2009 season with "And The Killer Is ..." a murder mystery, dinner theater production. "And The Killer Is ..." comes from the same writing team as last year's production, "Wake Me When I'm Dead." It is described as an audaciously funny "Awards Show" murder mystery.

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PLATTEVILLE- All are invited to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville's 25th annual Boyd Spikerman Scholarship Golf Outing on Saturday, June 13 at the Platteville Golf and Country Club. Tee times will be in the afternoon with a dinner following golf. The exact time and cost of the event are yet to be determined. All proceeds will support the Boyd Spikerman Scholarship. In light of the 25th

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PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is planning to renovate Boebel Hall, which was built in 1977. Upon completion, it will look much the same on the outside as it does now, but the inside will be completely different. There are two construction phases included in the project. Phase I of the construction project is set to begin during the fall 2009 semester. It includes half of

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PLATTEVILLE- The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Collegiate Soil Team competed in the American Society of Agronomy National Collegiate Soils Competition, hosted by Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. The competition is an intensive week-long field study of regional soils and landforms. Competing students describe and classify soil properties and qualities and determine appropriate

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PLATTEVILLE -University of Wisconsin-Platteville civil engineering students Russell Ruplinger of Westbend, Sue Farber of Sheldon, Dan Azarian of Waterford and David Goodchild of Waukesha, worked to assist the university with pollution prevention and elimination for their senior design project this past semester. UWP is required to comply with six tasks on a yearly basis including public

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MADISON, Wis. - University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly yesterday appointed a 19-member search and screen committee to help identify a successor to UW-Platteville Chancellor David Markee, who will retire in August. Reilly appointed 10 faculty members, two academic staff members, one classified staff member, and two student representatives to the committee. They are joined by

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PLATTEVILLE - University of Wisconsin-Platteville Chancellor David Markee recently announced that the university has reached its enrollment goal for new freshmen for the fall class of 2009. In making the announcement, Markee noted, "Throughout the spring semester, our admission staff reported a record number of

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PLATTEVILLE- For the fourth year running, University of Wisconsin-Platteville communication technologies students gained recognition at the National Broadcasting Society's Undergraduate Electronic Media Competition. The awards were announced at the 67th annual NBS National Convention held in New York City in late March. Submissions from UWP earned honorable mention in two categories: video studio

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