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The work of the fellows aims to bolster the regional economy by creating new enterprises and helping improve the success of 51ÁÔÆæ graduates by teaching them skills through hands-on entrepreneurial experiences.<\/p>\n
Both Avdeev and Basting are champions of entrepreneurship and innovation at 51ÁÔÆæ.<\/p>\n
Avdeev is a principal investigator of the I-Corps Training Site in southeastern Wisconsin. Backed by the National Science Foundation, the I-Corps site is a partnership among five Milwaukee universities. It equips academic scientists with the skills to launch startup companies from ideas that emerge from research.<\/p>\n
He also is co-founder of the 51ÁÔÆæ Student Startup Challenge, an all-campus program that grew out of his \u201cProduct Realization\u201d course. Students in the course gain real-world experience with local industries by designing, producing and testing a prototype that could eventually lead to corporate sponsorship.<\/p>\n
Over the 15-week process, students collaborate across multiple disciplines creating a mosaic team made up of designers, software engineers, artists and engineers. This course was among the first to be designated as an Ideas Challenge course, which embeds entrepreneurship and innovation into existing courses.<\/p>\n
Avdeev also leads the 51ÁÔÆæ University Innovation Fellows program, in which 51ÁÔÆæ student leaders train with their colleagues from across the country at Stanford University to become \u201cchange agents\u201d for entrepreneurship. Since its inception, a dozen 51ÁÔÆæ students have completed the training.<\/p>\n
Basting\u2019s work during the past 15 years has focused on enriching the lives of elders through long-term care embedded with cognitive art projects. She was nationally recognized as a 2016 MacArthur Fellow for her revolutionary eldercare program TimeSlips, which facilitates storytelling through imagination rather than memory and encourages intergenerational connections.<\/p>\n
Through 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Student Startup Challenge, students are gaining a new perspective on social innovation with Basting\u2019s expert guidance.\u00a0 She leads a \u201csocial enterprise\u201d track within the competition that is helping 51ÁÔÆæ students determine how to launch, sustain and scale their social enterprises.<\/p>\n
Her \u201cPerforming Communities\u201d course, also an Ideas Challenge course, has served as a launch platform for social enterprises. The class teaches students how to collaborate with community partners in order to identify social change goals and learn skills to facilitate that change.<\/p>\n
Basting shares her experience in scaling up the TimeSlips program. She created a nonprofit organization that offers certification and train-the-trainer models. TimeSlips now has creative facilitators in 42 states and 12 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
51ÁÔÆæ faculty members Ilya Avdeev and Anne Basting\u00a0have been named as the first Kellner Entrepreneurship Fellows. The positions are awarded to 51ÁÔÆæ scholars who contribute to the growing culture of entrepreneurship at 51ÁÔÆæ through research and teaching. Avdeev, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Basting, a professor of theater, are supported by the Mary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":48151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,200],"tags":[249],"section":[122],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[267],"uwmnews-feed":[344,149,162,164],"class_list":["post-48150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-in-brief","tag-community-engagement","section-campus-community","related-coverage-entrepreneurship","uwmnews-feed-arts-architecture","uwmnews-feed-engineering-applied-science","uwmnews-feed-business","uwmnews-feed-arts"],"yoast_head":"\n