Wisconsin is now conducting its own tests for the new coronavirus, but the state has yet to see its second case. As of Monday, 18 people in the state have tested negative and test results for two people remain pending.
The testing will be done at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and at the Milwaukee Health Department, health officials said. Test samples previously were sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Officials are dusting off a “campus pandemic plan” put together 10 years ago when the H1N1 virus became a worldwide concern, she said. The plan is being reviewed and updated to prepare for the possibility of coronavirus spreading to campus.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank named Steve Ackerman the next vice chancellor for research and graduate education, one of a handful of high-profile positions that report directly to Blank. The job entails overseeing $1.2 billion in annual research spending and thousands of graduate students.
The testing will be done at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and at the Milwaukee Health Department, health officials said.
Researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and others analyzed groundwater data collected by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from 2000 to 2018. They found radium levels were trending upward in wells drawing from a regional aquifer underlying the southern two-thirds of the state. The findings were published in a American Water Works Association journal.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created LRRK2 mutants in both embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells (ESCs and iPSCs, respectively). They allowed these cells to grow into mature neurons, to compare the growth characteristics of all cells.
As debate rages on about just how far is too far, UW balances research, public opinion, policy.
Patterson announced Monday that he’ll step down in December . Patterson has served as chancellor at the school since July 2010. He drew intense criticism from faculty and students in 2018 after administrators proposed eliminating 13 programs to help cope with a $4.5 million deficit.
Chancellor Bernie Patterson will retire in December, giving the University of Wisconsin System time to search for his successor. He announced his departure Monday in an email to students, staff and faculty.
Patterson, who began serving as chancellor in 2010, will officially step down in December to allow time for the UW System to find a replacement.
“(The program) had the potential to be so amazing because it’s immersed into the city and you get to see so much of it, but then if something like this happens, it’s all taken away,” said UW junior Molly Davis.
UW-Madison officials announced Saturday that in response to the virus outbreak overseas they have recalled 170 students studying in Italy, in accordance with the university’s international travel policy. The university and several other UW system campuses previously suspended exchange programs in South Korea and China.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate passed two resolutions Monday, one to approve the academic staff title “professor of practice” and another to add emergency and helpline numbers to faculty/staff identification cards.
CET Academic Programs suspended its Spring term programs in Florence and Siena after the Center for Disease Control issued a level three travel warning Friday recommending avoidance of non-essential travel to Italy.
The University of Wisconsin placed her on paid leave in mid-2019 after colleagues inside and outside the hospital accused her of intimidation or retaliation, an internal letter shows.
For all of her career accomplishments, Pember, a member of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, can still remember way back in 1985 when she was the first Native woman to graduate from the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication (or, as faculty and alumni call it, the J-School).
A new book from University of Wisconsin-Madison poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson — “Imperial Liquor” — taps into themes of paternal protectiveness, the pervasiveness of racism and the possibility of empathy.
Aformer UW doctor was sentenced last week to 18 months of probation after he pleaded guilty to fourth-degree sexual assault for an incident at a clinic in 2016.
Several medical experts reviewed biological, political factors driving epidemic.
Quoted: “Whatever the magic was in 2008, it’s not been re-created this year in terms of bringing out voters,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Barry Burden, who is the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison, says that mail-in ballots also take longer to count in some cases: Checking that ballot signatures match, problems with mail-in envelopes, and myriad other issues can all slow things down.
