UW-Madison named Corey Pompey as the successor to legendary UW Band director Mike Leckrone, the first passing of the baton in 50 years.
UW-Madison names new band director to succeed Mike Leckrone
Wisconsin State Journal
April 23, 2019
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Passing the baton: New UW marching band director named
WISC-TV 3
It’s a passing of the baton over at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The school has named a new marching band director for the first time in five decades.
Research
Mueller Report Exposes Campaign Finance Problems Far Beyond Russia
Truthout
Russia was not alone in exploiting these digital ad disclosure loopholes. According to a peer-reviewed study by University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Young Mie Kim, 25 percent of Facebook political ads that ran in the final weeks of the 2016 election mentioned candidates and would have been subject to disclosure as electioneering communications if aired on TV.
John Nichols: What Mueller report reveals about meddling with Wisconsin elections
We also know, from a University of Wisconsin-Madison study headed by journalism professor Young Mie Kim, Wisconsin was the scene of Russian measures in 2016 that utilized social media and also probed the websites of government agencies.
Campus life
Dieter Kowalski, UW-Madison graduate, killed in terror attack in Sri Lanka
NBC-15
John Fallon, the Chief Executive Officer of Pearson, confirms that Dieter Kowalski, a man who once lived in Greenfield and graduated of the University of Wisconsin, is one of the victims of a terror attack in Sri Lanka.
SSFC passes new resolution for tracking GSSF hours to prevent wage fraud
Badger Herald
Resolution requires GSSFs to report, file their hours.
UW-Madison community mourns loss of alumnus killed in Sri Lanka attacks
Daily Cardinal
Dieter Kowalski, 40, was a Milwaukee native who graduated from UW-Madison in 2001. He was on a business trip, staying at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo Sri Lanka, when the attacks occurred.
State news
Tony Evers will veto ‘born alive’ abortion bill advanced by GOP lawmakers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “Bills such as these are pure inflammatory rhetoric,” said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of law and bioethics who supports broad access to abortion. “Any baby born alive is granted equal protection of the law from the moment of birth, and thus is covered by child abuse statutes, homicide statutes and any other law that guards children from harm.
“These bills (are offered) merely to create the false impression that abortion providers practice infanticide,” Charo said.
Retired UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs, who specializes in constitutional issues, said he didn’t know whether the proposal includes protections already in state law but said once a baby is born, the state has an interest in providing them.
“Clearly, if you have a baby outside of the womb, that would seem to be a clear case the state has an interest in protecting the rights of the baby,” Downs said. “If indeed this is redundant, then there’s no need for it, but I don’t know what the previous protection is.
“The law protects you when you’re born — you’re a person,” he added.
Health
Zorba Paster: Perception May Play Role In Long Life
Wisconsin Public Radio
I have a trainer I to go to weekly. They’re from the University of Wisconsin-Madison kinesiology department and always the same age, in their 20s. I age, but my trainer doesn’t — rather like literature’s Dorian Gray. One of those guys was a hockey player before he saw the light, realizing he needed a college education to get a good job.
UW Experts in the News
This Is Why These States Aren’t So Chill About What’s Inside Air Conditioners
Huffington Post
Quoted: “I hope it’s a matter of when [national regulation is put in place], and not if,” said David Abel, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who focuses on energy systems, air pollution and public health. “It really has to be, if we’re going to avoid some of this really catastrophic damage.”
Tahoe residents oppose new homes in path of wildfire danger
WKOW-TV 27
Quoted: “There are a lot of buildings and there is a lot of woodland vegetation and they are close to each other, and there is a lot of fire,” said Anu Kramer, a wildfire scientist at the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin who conducted the research. “When those things come together that is when you are going to see a lot of destruction.”
Microsoft wants machine teaching to be the next big AI trend
Fast Company
Quoted: Microsoft can’t claim sole ownership of the term. Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has used “machine teaching” to describe a set of approaches to training machine learning algorithms since 2013, though he and Microsoft both agree there’s some overlap in their definitions.
UW-Madison Related
Langston’s Legacy: These Young Black Poets Rep Their Cultures to the Fullest
The Root
Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Winter Tangerine, Callaloo and The Offing, and has been anthologized in The BreakBeats Poets Vol 2.0: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books, 2018). Hiwot earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was part of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community.
The Book Is Born, Twice
Wisconsin Public Radio
Aldo Leopold was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his legacy is carried on by many people, one being Stanley Temple.
UW grad Dieter Kowalski killed in Sri Lanka bombings
Wisconsin State Journal
Dieter Kowalski, 40, had just arrived at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when suicide bombers set off bombs at luxury hotels and churches in the island nation off the southern tip of India.