The University of Wisconsin System forecasts a $170 million financial hit for the spring semester alone, an estimate that will likely grow as campuses grapple with the broader economic fallout associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
In conservation circles, a litmus test for decisions often is expressed in a question: What would Aldo do (WWAD)?
Aldo is of course Aldo Leopold, the late, great University of Wisconsin professor, pioneer of wildlife management and supreme observer of nature and humankind.
On the case is the somewhat facetiously named Unionid Mussel Strike Force, a collaboration of two researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a half-dozen other scientists from a handful of federal agencies around the country. But in addition to trying to solve a mystery, the Strike Force is struggling against another obstacle long familiar to mussel specialists: apathy.
Goldwater scholarships recognize excellence in undergraduate research.
The University of Wisconsin System is expecting to lose nearly $170 million in revenue this spring due to the new coronavirus. The projection includes housing and dining fee refunds along with losses from college sports revenues after every university and branch campus closed in April to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The University of Wisconsin System released initial estimates on the cost of the coronavirus pandemic Sunday: $168 million across the state’s 13 campuses as of April 10.
When cases of COVID-19 started accelerating around the United States, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was among the first wave of universities to take action. Its administrators suspended in-person classes and directed students and staff to avoid campus in the interest of slowing the contagion’s spread. One century earlier, though, the school faced another pandemic and responded in a very different way.
“Right now we have a little over 500 students still living on campus with us, about 550ish, and we’re doing around 60-70 orders a day,” Director of Dining and Culinary Services Peter Testory said.
UW honored 13 professors with Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Bob Scheuer, director of materials management at UW Health, said the two shipments received from DHS from the stockpile were helpful but a “small fraction” of what the health system actually needs. He was not aware of receiving any other supplies from the state.
The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, at UW-Madison, can do about 400 COVID-19 tests per day and soon should be able to do 500, said Dr. Allen Bateman, assistant director of the lab’s communicable disease division.
To assist families who cannot visit their loved ones, UW Hospital, Saint Mary’s and UnityPoint Health-Meriter have deployed tablets and used phone or video calls to facilitate communication.
As medical director of infection control at UW Hospital, Dr. Nasia Safdar has helped lead UW Health’s response to COVID-19 and assisted local officials in explaining the pandemic to the media and the public.
Beth Blum, director of events for UW Health, said UW Health also has its own fund to support workers, which, as of Monday, had raised about $11,000 … UW Health spokeswoman Emily Kumlien said a $7,000 grant from Friends of UW Health and a $3,000 grant from builder JP Cullen will be used to purchase gift cards.
If the WIAA decides to have a spring sports season, it won’t be able to host the state championships planned at the University of Wisconsin as originally scheduled.
From the day the 2019-20 season ended, Jonathan Tsipis understood his University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team faced a tumultuous offseason.
In a move that wasn’t surprising, University of Wisconsin officials announced last week they had canceled all Badgers sports camps through Aug. 15.
That move, made in response to the coronavirus pandemic, will make evaluating recruits more difficult for UW coaches.
It was a shock, some seniors on University of Wisconsin spring sports teams said, to hear the school had decided not to pursue waivers allowed by the NCAA for an additional year of eligibility.
The WIAA has confirmed that no high school state tournament action will take place at UW-Madison this spring. The school recently announced the cancellation of campus events through June 30th, which eliminated any possibility for state tournament action on campus.
I moved to Wisconsin in 2005, joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor. At the time I knew little about the state, but that it enjoyed a reputation for good government. Forcing people to vote in a pandemic – choosing between their health and losing their franchise – would have been unthinkable back then.
On Friday, representatives from Detroit hospitals started consulting on the project. On Saturday, the group settled on an open-source design from the University of Wisconsin. Suppliers were identified, the factory deployed and prototypes began materializing.
The company is using an open-source design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the project and is being done in collaboration with the UAW, the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, in response to the COVID-19 health crisis.
Quoted: And for this generation of teens, there is little precedent for this kind of threat. Most were born after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and haven’t experienced the type of disruption that would make them fearful of going about their regular lives, said Bradford Brown, a professor of human development at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who specializes in adolescents.
Quoted: In the 2016 presidential election, voters there cast some 145,000 absentee votes by mail; in Tuesday’s election, there were over a million. The state’s election officials regularly process high volumes of absentee ballots, but the last-minute cascade left them swamped, said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “It seems impervious to what happens with voters,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It really looks like an unresponsive institution.”
Quoted: On May 27, hopefully, lessors and lessees will have worked out things in order to have a smooth transition into — what I hope is — a much more normal world,” said Mitch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School clinical professor and director of the Economic Justice Institute and Neighborhood Law Clinic.
Quoted: Sigan Hartley is a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of human development and family studies and the 100 Women Chair for the School of Human Ecology. She’s also a Waisman Center investigator, whose research focuses on positive well-being in individuals with developmental disabilities and their family members.
Quoted: UW Health psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain says there is a way to help fill that empty loss feeling you may have had the last few weeks.
Fostner, who reportedly graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in nuclear engineering and physics, had worked in New York for DV Trading LLC, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm.
Noted: Born in Milwaukee in 1940, Miller was in Nicolet High School’s first graduating class in 1958. After earning a degree in drama and speech at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to Los Angeles to find a job in film and television. His first big break was serving as dialogue coach for legendary director Billy Wilder, in what effectively became a four-year apprenticeship.
Hans was a dump truck owner and operator for over 20 years and then became a motor vehicle operator for the UW-Madison, retiring in 2019.
In 1963, he began his career as a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW Madison.
The UW-Madison Archives, which is not associated with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is doing its own project to collect digital memories from the campus community during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which has halted in-person classes, closed dorms and has left the campus largely empty.
Lovell was a cool customer, at ease in a pilot’s seat. Before becoming an astronaut, the University of Wisconsin-Madison student and U.S. Naval Academy graduate, whose cellphone ring tone today is “Anchors Away,” had landed jets on aircraft carriers in the middle of the night in the Pacific Ocean. But even for him, this was a steep learning curve.
