Month: October 2024

Tom Erickson, executive associate dean for strategy and innovation and founding director of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s College of Letters & Science, has announced he will step down from his leadership roles effective January 2025. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, the Grace Wahba and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor …

Some students skip calculus class, even when required to attend. Valeria Diaz Moreno x’26 flipped that script: she snuck into a university calculus class before she was old enough to enroll. Growing up in Medellín, Colombia, Moreno said, many schools tended to “place a lot of importance on the humanities,” rather than science and mathematics. …