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Court Backlogs Are Clogging the System – New Research Finds a Surprising Fix
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 21, 2025 – Courts around the world are struggling to keep up with growing caseloads, leaving individuals and businesses waiting months – sometimes years – for resolution. But a new study in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management has uncovered a surprisingly simple way to speed up the system that doesn’t require hiring more judges.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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WATCH: Advice for filling out your NCAA bracket

WATCH: Advice for filling out your NCAA bracket

Channel 3000, March 15, 2023

UW-Madison professor of industrial and systems engineering and bracketologist Laura Albert joins Live at Four to talk about how to fill out your bracket for this year's NCAA tournament.

An experiment at a CPA firm revealed how much training through play achieves results

An experiment at a CPA firm revealed how much training through play achieves results

Time News, March 21, 2023

Organizational training is not a fun process or a game, but maybe it should be that way. Most of us have used (often reluctantly) corporate learning systems, such as skimming through the 50 slides of PowerPoint presentations. A new study by the CPA firm KPMG shows that training through game techniques done correctly – lessons that are conducted carefully and over time, incorporating elements such as progress through challenges and different levels, immediate feedback, points and competition – can significantly improve employee performance.

Business names and changes for the week of March 19, 2023

Business names and changes for the week of March 19, 2023

The Roanoke Times, March 19, 2023

Christopher “Topher” Merrill has been appointed to the Roanoke College Board of Trustees. The board also granted emeritus status to retired Roanoke College registrar Leah Russell, and former board of trustees members David L. Guy and John E. Lang.

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