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The newly selected managing director of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Erik Iverson, previously worked as an attorney within the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Expert in scientific research, business initiatives to be WARF managing director

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation selected Erik Iverson, a nationally recognized leader in advancing scientific research and managing intellectual property, as the new managing director of the organization. WARF is a private, nonprofit group that encourages research at UW-Madison by providing patents on new discoveries and licensing them for commercial use, according to its website.


UW-Madison was awarded a $230,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to form a digital collection of sounds from Wisconsin’s cultural heritage.
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University receives grant to preserve sounds of Wisconsin heritage

The UW-Madison Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and the Mills Music Library received a $230,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, according to a university press release, which will be used to digitize a historic collection of music and sound recordings. The recordings provide an auditory history of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, and the cultural traditions captured on them are currently only available on discs and cassettes that are deteriorating or obsolete, according to the release. Jeanette Casey, head of the Mills Music Library, said she is grateful that the grant will provide greater access to the recordings. “We’re thrilled the NEH recognized the importance of this fabulous and historic collection,” Casey said in the release.


Angelito Tenorio (left) is a current UW-Madison student, and Hayley Young graduated last May. Both are running to be the District 5 representative on the Dane County Board of Supervisors.
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Current UW student, recent grad square off in local election

Angelito Tenorio, a UW-Madison sophomore, and Hayley Young, a May 2015 Madison graduate, are fighting to replace another recent Madison graduate, Leland Pan, in the District 5 Dane County Board of Supervisors race. The district is approximately 75 percent Lake Mendota with the remaining area being mostly campus.


James Baughman, a highly respected journalism and mass communication professor, died Saturday at 64 after battling lung cancer.
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Beloved journalism professor James Baughman dies at 64

James Baughman, who spent more than 30 years as a journalism professor and instructor at UW-Madison, died Saturday morning from lung cancer at the age of 64. Highly revered by both his earliest students and current journalism undergraduates, Baughman came to Wisconsin in 1979 as an instructor and became an assistant professor in 1981, according to a School of Journalism and Mass Communication release.


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Walker signs sexual assault amnesty bill

Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill into law Thursday designed to increase reporting of sexual assaults on college campuses.  The measure prevents law enforcement from issuing drinking tickets to victims or witnesses of sexual assault.


Two UW-Madison faculty, Diana Hess (left) and Paula McAvoy (middle), were awarded the AERA Outstanding Book Award on Tuesday for their education research. UW-Madison alumnus Kevin Kumashiro (right) will also receive AERA’s Social Justice in Education Award that honors individuals who advance social justice through education research.
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UW-Madison faculty receive Outstanding Book Award

The American Education Research Association awarded UW-Madison faculty Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy the 2016 AERA Outstanding Book Award Tuesday for the publication, “The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education,” according to a university release.


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