Author: Benjamin Whitcomb

Benjamin Whitcomb is Professor of Cello at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

WATCH: NIH Director Bhattacharya Diagnoses COVID-19 ‘Failure,’ Prescribes Reforms to Make Bio-Medical Research Great Again

The new Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor who gained fame as an early critic of U.S. COVID-19 policy, delivered his first public speech on May 2 at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He described the “failed” response to COVID-19 and then explained how this failure informed his […]

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Music Education in the Age of COVID-19

Quite a bit has been written about the relative merits of online education versus in-person instruction. Before this year, most online courses around the country were taken voluntarily, but when the COVID-19 shutdown occurred in mid-March, thousands of instructors found themselves forced to hurriedly convert their classes to an online format, for better or worse. […]

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