Experts from Northeastern University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and California State University, Long Beach also participated in the research.
Native American lost city of Cahokia: Experts debunk myth surrounding its demise
Fox News
February 6, 2020
Research
Higher Education/System
An attempt to restore equal voting rights: Lawsuit challenges restrictive student ID policies
The Daily Cardinal
As of 2018, the UW System accommodated 37,735 students from outside of Wisconsin. The increase in time for voting eligibility poses a conflict for the upcoming August primary as a significant amount of college students that do not live in-state could become ineligible to vote, creating a domino effect leading up to the general election, according to Heck.
Campus life
UW graduate student pushes to alleviate student food insecurity
Badger Herald
Master of Public Affairs student Jessica Rutstein completed a report analyzing student food insecurity and current efforts to remedy it.
Water main break closes 2 UW-Madison engineering buildings
Wisconsin State Journal
The break occurred outside about a half-block from the Engineering campus and traveled through steam tunnels into the Engineering Centers building, 1550 Engineering Drive, and the Materials Science and Engineering building, 1509 University Ave. Other buildings on the Engineering mall were not affected.
State news
Hundreds of evacuees to be held on bases in California; Hong Kong and Taiwan restrict travel from mainland China
The Washington Post
The patient reportedly had not been hospitalized. However, they had been evaluated and tested at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, according to Ryan Westergaard, chief medical officer in the Department of Health Services Bureau of Communicable Disease.
The Novel Coronavirus And How Isolation And Quarantine Authority Works In Wisconsin
WisContext
In Dane County, which has a population of international students from China mostly affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, public health officials declined to comment on any action plans that may include the use of quarantine or isolation orders — a Public Health Madison & Dane County spokesperson cited a lack of time amid pressures to monitor the 2019-nCoV outbreak as it unfolds.
Wisconsin Resident Who Traveled To China Is State’s First Confirmed Coronavirus Case
Wisconsin Public Radio
An email from Jake Baggot, executive director of University Health Services, said officials have no information indicating that the patient visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus other than to seek care at the hospital.
Crime and safety
Robbery suspect impersonated UW-Madison student, police say
Wisconsin State Journal
AUW-Madison student discovered one of his roommates, who he was living with temporarily, stole his debit card to make multiple purchases at several Madison stores, police said.
Community
Drop in UW water use attributed to ‘cumulative effect’ of transition to efficient fixtures
The Capital Times
Nathan Jandl, assistant director of the UW-Madison Office of Sustainability, said he believes the drop in water usage reflects active efforts on campus to be more sustainable, such as upgrading water fixtures.
Health
Wisconsin’s first case of new coronavirus from China is resident of Dane County
Wisconsin State Journal
The person returned to Dane County Regional Airport after a trip to Beijing Jan. 30 and went directly to UW Hospital’s emergency room, officials said. The person was evaluated and tested in the ER but not admitted to the hospital because the symptoms — which include fever, cough and shortness of breath — were relatively mild, officials said.
Madison company’s surgery imaging device approved by FDA
Wisconsin State Journal
The technology is based on research at UW-Madison’s Morgridge Institute for Research … Surgeons at UW Hospital are expected to be among the first to use the device, within the next two months, before a nationwide launch later this year, said Adam Uselmann, CEO.
Athletics
National Signing Day 2020: Badgers Football Update
Wisconsin Public Radio
The Wisconsin Badgers won 10 games last year and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they lost by one point to the Oregon Ducks. That marked the final game of running back Jonathan Taylor’s University of Wisconsin career. He’ll go down as one of the program’s all-time greats.
NCAA needs Congress to act on name, image, likeness issue, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says, but she’s leery
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said college athletics’ “only alternative” in response to multiple states passing or considering laws allowing athletes to capitalize on their name, image and likeness is to seek clarity through federal legislation.
UW-Madison Related
Princeton Review names UW best value college
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin has again been named a best value college by the Princeton Review.