Early last week, Lennon Rodgers, director of the Engineering Design Innovation Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, got an urgent email from the university’s hospital. Could his lab make 1,000 face shields to protect staff testing and treating Covid-19 patients? The hospital’s usual suppliers were out of stock, due to the spike in demand prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The 60 to 70 researchers who would normally be in the AIDS Vaccine Research Lab (AVRL) at UW are now down to five or six in person, with the others working at home.
Total of 26,505 respondents from Wisconsin completed survey.
The Keep Food Pantry at Luther Memorial Church in Madison, 1021 University Ave., offers food for students, staff and faculty at UW-Madison, Edgewood College, and Madison Area Technical College from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays.
With the spread of the coronavirus wreaking havoc with college and professional sporting events, University of Wisconsin officials on Wednesday pushed back the deadline for fans to renew their football season tickets for the 2020 season.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says the university is responding to an uptick in racism against Asian and Asian-Americans on campus as the coronavirus spreads.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has condemned the bias incidents taking place around campus that have targeted the school’s Asian, Pacific Islander and Desi-American communities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will be bringing in an outside shipping and packing company to pack the rooms of about 4,000 UW students so that the university can be prepared to accommodate potential groups in need of special housing provisions during the COVID-19 emergency.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Becky Blank condemned the graffiti in an email to students and staff, implying that this isn’t the first such incident.
After successful pilot semester, program directors said Odyssey Beyond Bars hopes to continue to expand, inspire.
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Dean of Students Office to hold virtual town hall tomorrow for students to hear university’s response plan, express concerns.
Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book, Hard Damage, (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, New Republic, and elsewhere. She was part of the 2018–2019 Ron Wallace Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The nursing shortage has been a historic problem, said Linda Scott, dean of UW-Madison’s School of Nursing. What’s particularly problematic in this case is that there aren’t enough nurses nor are there enough educators to train future nurses. And many of those educators will soon retire. … UW-Madison’s traditional nursing program alone receives about 400 applicants for 160 spots. At least half of the students not admitted are qualified for the program, Scott said.
The worst and most notable flu outbreak in modern times is the 1918 influenza pandemic, responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. Peter Shult, director of the Communicable Disease Division at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, discussed the factors that contribute to pandemics during an Oct. 10, 2018 presentation at the Wednesday Nite @ the Lab lecture series on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus,and recorded for PBS Wisconsin’s University Place.
For Alta Charo, a bioethicist with the University of Wisconsin – Madison, withholding treatments is a very pragmatic decision. ’It doesn’t help anybody if our doctors and nurses are felled by this virus and not able to care for us,’ she said. ’The code process is one that puts them at an enhanced risk.’
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison bioethicist, acknowledged the prospect of withholding such care is unsettling but pragmatic. “It doesn’t help anybody if our doctors and nurses are felled by this virus and not able to care for us,” she said. “The code process is one that puts them at an enhanced risk.”
The hospitals in Madison have been in communication with the University of Wisconsin – Madison about possibly using their dorms in some capacity during a surge.
“I know how many people are depending on me to get the supplies here,” said UW Health Inventory Control Coordinator Sandy Kreger. “A lot of long hours, nights, and weekends just to get the supplies here.”
Our risk is tied to our limited access to quality health care. We are less likely to receive a COVID-19 test even if we present with symptoms.
Quoted: Vicki Bier, director of the Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said such scenarios are common, not just in government, but in virtually all industries and organizations.
David Noyce, director of the Transportation Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW-Madison, called the drop stunning. “Traffic volumes do not change this drastically without a major influencer,” Noyce said.
Quoted: Trump’s insistence on referring to the illness as the “Chinese virus” plays into a central theme of his presidency, experts say, with the president demonizing foreigners. “I think that approach to this whole catastrophe just feeds the culture wars,” says Katherine Cramer, an American Politics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vicki Bier, director of the Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said such scenarios are common, not just in government, but in virtually all industries and organizations.
