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July 29, 2022

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A Navajo scientist couldn’t translate his work to his family. Now, because of a UW-Madison project he co-founded, he can.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

That’s when Martin and his colleagues — Joanna Bundus, a biology post-doctoral fellow at UW-Madison, and Susana Wadgymar, an assistant professor of biology at Davidson College in North Carolina — founded Project ENABLE (Enriching Navajo As a Biology Language for Education), an online dictionary of biology terms translated from English to Diné Bizaad, a Navajo language.

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Madison Chamber’s first economic inclusion manager sees empathy, listening as key

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Wisconsin State Journal

She was also a project assistant with the university’s RISE program, which still runs to this day. The program creates an employment pipeline for UW-Madison students of color seeking internships. Assefa went on to serve in various directorial and advisory roles for UW-Madison, all in an effort to promote DEI on campus.

Most notably, Assefa was previously the director of the African American Student Academic Services department and an adviser to the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship program out of the Multicultural Arts Initiatives office, where she eventually became the director.

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Have Wisconsin’s fake electors been subpoenaed? If not, ‘it would be surprising’

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Wisconsin State Journal

Saying “it would be surprising” if Wisconsin’s fake electors weren’t subpoenaed while other states’ fake electors were, UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said, “Government officials issuing these subpoenas would treat all of the states equivalently, especially because it was a shared network of conspirators who were communicating across state lines.”