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Summer Internship Making an Impact

Forum One

Ayomide Fatoye, Technical Team – Ayomide attends Texas A&M University majoring in General Engineering – Computer Science. Beatrice Mhando, Marketing Team – Beatrice attends Vanderbilt University majoring in Communications Studies & Computer Science. Feru is a Posse Foundation Leadership Scholarship recipient.

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U. of Wisconsin Donor Offers $1 for Each New Twitter Follower

AFP Blog

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education : But the University of Wisconsin at Madison may be the first college to get a donation for increasing its follower count. After four days, the university has raised almost $8,000 dollars with the project, called the Bucky Challenge.

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Confessions of a former DEI skeptic  

Candid

Once, a manager told me he wasn’t interested in candidates from “Wisconsin Community College”—meaning he didn’t want someone who hadn’t gone somewhere prestigious, ruling out capable individuals who couldn’t afford a fancy school or had been overlooked in admissions due to systemic racism. It was a clear class bias.

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Everything you know about computer vision may soon be wrong

TechCrunch

Sebastian Bauer is the company’s CEO and a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin, where he was working on lidar systems. student at the MIT Media Lab for eight years. The company itself is a collaboration between its co-founders. Tristan Swedish is now Ubicept’s CTO.

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Forum One Honored With 11 Vega Awards

Forum One

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. We’re proud to share that Forum One was recently honored as a 2024 Vega Awards winner of 11 awards in five different categories!

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Facebook’s whistleblower report confirms what researchers have known for years

The Verge

Megan Moreno, principal investigator of the Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says Haugen’s interpretation of the internal research squares perfectly with other work done on social media, especially Instagram. “I I didn’t feel like it was tremendously surprising”.

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Scholarships in the Time of COVID-19: A Conversation with UW Madison

Connection Cafe

Their fundraising team got to work right away raising emergency funds to help students who were impacted financially by the pandemic. Once that money was raised, Keith and his team began making awards and disbursing the money to their students. Going virtual does bring some added work on the front end.