Marquette University leaders announced Wednesday that the campus will furlough some 250 people after April 17, a temporary leave that will continue indefinitely.
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined universities around the country in shutting down dorms, classrooms and event venues because of the coronavirus pandemic, Jennifer Morzfeld found herself wading through a barrage of emails.
In the midst of finding out about her coursework, the junior political science and international affairs student got one message in particular that left her with a pressing concern, one that thousands of college students now face.
Another student, Iman Ariffin, 22, also chose to continue her studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to complete her degree in biochemistry.
The University of Wisconsin’s summer youth sports camps are the latest items wiped off the calendar by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most of UW-Madison’s 45,000 students are gone. Faculty work from home. Campus buildings are closed to all but the few employees deemed essential to university operations. But the robots remain, one of the few fixtures of campus culture still intact since the coronavirus brought much of UW-Madison to an abrupt halt.
Students who are enrolled at UW have the option to apply for an emergency support fund.
Emergency funds still available through Office of Financial Aid.
Panelists answered questions about grading policies, mental health, financial aid.
Dane County prosecutors believe the deaths of a physician and her husband may have been the result of a conflict with their daughter’s boyfriend brought on by a disagreement over social distancing.
Potter, a doctor at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, had a higher risk of infection due to medications she was taking, the complaint said
Two Wisconsin teens were formally charged Wednesday for their alleged roles in killing a University of Wisconsin professor Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre.
Beth Potter, a University of Wisconsin physician and associate professor Robin Carre, an independent education consultant, were found murdered in near the Wisconsin Arboretum. Their bodies were found lying in a ditch on March 31. According to the police, both were shot in their head and on their backs.
The agency worked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension to create a program called “Unexpected Tomorrows,” where farmers can learn stress management techniques and share their experiences with depression, anxiety and loss. They also created a Farm Couples Weekend with workshops on improving communication.
Before becoming the writer and editor that he is today, Brandon Taylor was a doctoral student and biomedical researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And it is that period of his life that he draws on heavily for his debut novel, “Real Life.”
Quoted: “I don’t think that for most people cat-to-human transmission is the most likely way that they would be infected, but I’d be very surprised if this was impossible,” said David O’Connor, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The new rapid testing allows medical workers to conserve personal protective equipment because patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 require a higher usage of PPE compared to patients whose results come back negative, according to a news release. When medical staff know which patients do not have COVID-19, they are able to use less PPE when treating them.
Anesthesiologist Dr. William Hartman is leading a team of physicians, scientists and staff members to use convalescent plasma as a potential treatment for patients considered severely ill or in life-threatening condition.
Rapid testing allows UW Health to provide quicker answers to patients and staff, as well as conserve personal protective equipment. Known COVID-19 positive patients require a higher usage of PPE than identified COVID-19 negative patients.
“That’s the reason we tried to clear out as many spaces as we could,” said Brendon Dybdahl with University Housing. “There’s potential for that and that’s something other communities are preparing to do as well.”
In an update on how the health system is handling the coronavirus pandemic, University Hospital officials say they have drastically reduced the turnaround time for getting test results since the lab first started conducting them in-house several weeks ago. Whereas it took three days then, it now takes hours.
First healthcare worker stayed in Dejope Tuesday night.
This is why I drafted an open letter to Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch, the proprietors of the Fox Corporation, a letter that has been signed by over 190 professors of journalism, including the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, the chair of broadcast journalism at the University of Maryland, the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, and professors at the Columbia Journalism School, the University of Maryland, the University of California at Berkeley, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the Annenberg Schools of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California, the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, New York University, the University of Texas, American University and elsewhere.
Quoted: That makes the real estate markets difficult to predict for industry experts like Mark Eppli, director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We have a lot of uncertainty and not a lot of data,” Eppli said.
The war against the COVID-19 pandemic has come to America, and using the latest information from the frontlines, experts reveals why this novel form of coronavirus is so deadly and how we’re fighting back.
Quoted: “From a public health perspective, this was counter to all good scientific evidence and advice right now for how to continue to curb the pandemic from having serious impacts in the state,” said Kristen Malecki, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Featured: Curt Meine – Senior Fellow, Aldo Leopold Foundation and adjunct professor, University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Quoted: “The virus, people say sometimes, is a piece of bad news wrapped in protein. It is a vector for getting genetic information into a cell and that genetic information just contains a blueprint to make more viruses. They were able to tell that although this virus was new, it was closely related to the original SARS virus,” explained Professor Thomas Friedrich from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Except for the part where he had actually endorsed said judge in January. “And there were no polls,” added Barry Burden, the director of the University of Wisconsin Elections Research Center.
If you’ve found yourself unsure whether a soundbite or headline you saw or shared was true, know that you’re not alone, says Dietram Scheufele, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies science and political communication.
“In every election there’s a stray story of a voter who got stuck in a long line or had difficulty getting their ballot, but those stories are pretty widespread in this election, and especially in some communities like Milwaukee,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. “That will certainly lower people’s confidence that the election was run properly and that all voters were treated equally and fairly.”
