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Mary Kiernan Inducted into American Academy of Chefs
In July, Associate Teaching Professor Mary Kiernan was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs (AAC), the honor society of the American Culinary Foundation (ACF). The ACF was established in 1929. Today, the professional chefs’ organization boasts 17,500 members and…
How to protect your sports trademarks
Falk faculty members John Wolohan, Jeeyoon Kim and Patrick Walsh write for Athletic Business on how businesses can protect their trademarks. “Since companies, teams and organizations work hard and spend a lot of money to develop the right image, it is…
Selfies Are Everywhere—But Why?
Selfies: the self-portraits of the digital age. These photos posted on social media serve as a way to document a new haircut, a vacation or a night out on the town. But researchers from the Newhouse School have taken a…
Sawyer Awarded NSF Grant to Study Workers in the Gig Economy
Driving a car for ridesharing companies Uber or Lyft. Completing a programming assignment on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. Performing data entry tasks on the Mechanical Turk digital worker platform. These are all examples of jobs that people are working on…
Dessa Bergen-Cico: We are all ‘Same Same, but Different’
Since June 12, Dessa Bergen-Cico, associate professor of public health in Falk College, has been participating in a three-month Rotary Peace Fellowship at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The program covers such areas as peace, conflict prevention and resolution. For…
Geologist Offers New Clues to Cause of World’s Greatest Extinction
James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications titled “Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction.”
iSchool Helps High School Students Build Cybersecurity Skills
It’s the watchword of the 21st century: cybersecurity. Recently, the iSchool played host to an event that gives high school students a taste of what it’s like to build cyber security defenses.
Professor Jason Dedrick on Foxconn’s New Wisconsin Plant
Technology expert and iSchool Professor Jason Dedrick offers insight on the news that Foxconn is opening a new plant in Wisconsin. “Foxconn’s announced $10 billion investment looks like good news for Wisconsin. If completed, it would create a significant number…
Biochemists Link Synthetic Compound to Hunger-Hormone Production
New research suggests that a man-made cousin of a small molecule found in olive oil can disrupt the hunger-signaling pathway. Researchers identified this promising new target by screening a library of roughly 1,600 small molecules for potential disruptors. Because the…
Professor Jason Dedrick Quoted on the News of Foxconn Opening a Plant in the U.S.
iSchool Professor Jason Dedrick is interviewed by Wired for the article The Tech Skills Gap Will Test Foxconn’s New Wisconsin Factory.