The University of Wisconsin System is continuing to monitor and recoup financial losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, which President Ray Cross said Thursday are only just beginning but already “significantly greater than anything I’ve seen in my 42 years of higher education.”
UW-Madison researchers and the vaccine companies FluGen and Bharat Biotech are developing and testing a vaccine against COVID-19 called CoroFlu, they announced Thursday.
Researchers say vaccine could be ready for human trials by fall 2020.
Amy Shircel and three friends traveled to Portugal early last month in search of sun, sand and scenery. Coronavirus cut the trip short, and within days of returning to her Madison apartment, Shircel felt fatigued. She had a mild cough, but didn’t think much of it.
Police in Madison have made an arrest in the double homicide of a University of Wisconsin doctor and her husband.
A collaboration between virologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and vaccine companies FluGen and Bharat Biotech has begun developing and testing a unique vaccine against COVID-19 called CoroFlu.
The product is described as a nasal spray that would repurpose a regular flu vaccine candidate, M2SR, by inserting gene sequences from the coronavirus strain that leads to COVID-19 into the influenza virus it already uses, according to a statement from the University of Wisconsin.
Virologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have partnered with vaccine companies FluGen and Bharat Biotech to develop a vaccine for the new coronavirus, according to a news release from the university.
University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross cautioned Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak that has already led to the suspension of all in-person spring classes could also force changes to the fall semester, which is scheduled to begin in August.
The University of Wisconsin System regents on Thursday approved hiring Michael Alexander as UW-Green Bay’s new chancellor.
Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council Chair said shortening response times should be a priority for the university.
Committee chair says all future interviews, meetings will be virtual.
University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross says the coronavirus outbreak that’s already led to the suspension of all in-person spring classes could also force changes to the fall semester that’s scheduled to begin in August.
Early-start summer programs still on, admissions creates virtual experiences for admitted students.
The university is expanding online offerings to include more than 300 courses as in-person classes are suspended.
“The decision to suspend in-person instruction was made with the safety of our students in mind,” Associate Dean for Summer Term Aphra Mednick said. “We already had a robust online offering and in response, we are offering even more online courses than ever before so students can continue their academic progress.”
Potter, 52, and Carre, 57, were found dead Tuesday in the University of Wisconsin arboretum, a research and popular recreational area several miles from the Madison campus that includes more than 1,200 acres (486 hectares) of forests and prairies.
An arrest has been made in the killings of a UW-Madison doctor and her husband, the UW-Madison Police Department said Friday morning.
Dane County Sheriff records show Khari Sanford, 18, was booked into jail early Friday morning by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department on a tentative first degree intentional homicide charge.
Dane County Sheriff’s records show 18-year old Khari Sanford was booked into the county jail Friday on the tentative charge of first degree intentional homicide.
It’s just a tragedy. I think we’re all trying to wrap our minds around it. There are no words,” Dr. Melissa Stiles, UW Health Family Medicine, tells NBC15 News via a phone interview.
The department did not identify the suspect and said it planned to release more information about the arrest later in the day.
Quoted: WPR’s WHYsconsin has received numerous questions about how to care for someone with COVID-19. WPR’s Melissa Ingells recently spoke with Patrick Remington, a physician and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, to answer your questions.
The chemical is called bitrix and it’s used to make sure the N95 respirator is snugly on the face of someone wearing it.
Even the act of training has been upended for University of Wisconsin athletes who have already experienced championship event cancellations and are seeing Olympic dreams postponed by a year.
If your firm is fortunate to feel confident in your survival and has the liquidity, you should take this opportunity to pay your vendors early. This can make a huge difference in their short term cash flow and might very well be the determining factors in keeping them operating until the environment changes and/or other funding sources become available.
Written by Dan Olszewski, UW Entrepreneurship Center Director
To the editor: In 2015, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published an article in the journal Policy Insights From the Behavioral and Brain Sciences entitled, “Video Captions Benefit Everyone.”
Quoted: There are many options for reducing jail and prison populations, which in turn will reduce the risk of COVID-19 to the public, according to Cecelia Klingele, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Some prisoners have families willing to take them in, but others have nowhere to go, and the social service agencies that can help them are overloaded.
“These are hard questions,” Klingele said, “but they’re ones that we need to answer quickly.”
When soldiers were training at Camp Randall in 1861 to fight in the Civil War, the founding director of the Wisconsin Historical Society gave them journals to write down their thoughts.
A century later when Freedom Riders, including many University of Wisconsin students, headed to Southern states to work in the civil rights movement, a group of UW grad students collected thousands of pages of contemporary documents that otherwise might have been lost.
