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January 22, 2020

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Research

A Balloon Above Antarctica Found Signals That May Lead to New Physics

VICE

“Our paper was less about exotic Beyond the Standard Model scenarios as it was investigating one of the few remaining Standard Model explanations of these odd events ANITA detected,” explained Alex Pizzuto, a graduate student in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study’s leads, in an email.

Campus life

‘When was the last time you looked up?’ Mae Jemison delivers MLK Day speech at UW-Madison

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

When she was 8 years old, Mae Jemison looked to the world’s first astronauts venturing into space and asked: “What happens if the aliens only see these guys and they think that everybody on Earth is a buzz-cut-haired white male?”

Decades later, Jemison would remedy that quandary on her own by becoming the first woman of color to go to space.

State news

Three local finalists named in American Dream Ideas Challenge

Deseret News

In March the three local finalists will compete against teams from Ohio State University, Arizona State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pitching their ideas to the advisory board of Schmidt Futures. The winners will move on to the final round of competition this summer and are eligible for up to $1 million in funding from Schmidt Futures.

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Goodwill Sparks Deep Division, at Least on Balance Sheets

Wall Street Journal

Quoted: Thomas Linsmeier, a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, said he thinks there is “momentum on the board to move toward amortization.” A “driving factor of concern … is the amount of cost in the impairment test,” Mr. Linsmeier, a professor of accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said.

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