Election of six faculty members in a year is a record for university
American Academy of Arts and Sciences adds six UW faculty members
Badger Herald
April 28, 2020
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Research
UW study suggests people with respiratory allergies, asthma not as high-risk to COVID-19 as previously thought
NBC-15
The study was published by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) on April 22 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
UW Researchers provide zip code data for COVID-19 susceptibility
Badger Herald
Data is given to local public health officials to help decide personal protective equipment allocation.
Campus life
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, talks rocks with UW geology 101 class
WKOW-TV 27
If you’re overseeing a Geology 101 class and were seeking inspiration for your students whose class was disrupted by COVID-19, who would you call? How about actor Dwayne Johnson, who goes by the nickname, The Rock, since his pro wrestling days?
Health
UW Health respiratory therapists discuss COVID-19 pandemic
WISC-TV 3
Respiratory therapists at UW Health say they’ve never experienced anything like COVID-19 before.
Opinion
From Fox News, a big dose of dumb on hydroxychloroquine
The Washington Post
Quoted: None of these studies provides the sort of evidence that health professionals consider robust, like a large double-blind trial. Nasia Safdar, a professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, says the current state of research, while not optimal, has inspired caution. “At the moment there’s no evidence to suggest that this is a harmless, helpful treatment, as was suggested by some,” says Safdar. The pitfalls of the studies to date, says Safdar, are “exactly why you need to wait for the science to demonstrate whether it works.”
UW Experts in the News
Stimulus Checks Show Trump, Congress Abandoned Kids Mid-Pandemic
Fatherly
Last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Nathan Seltzer analyzed 24 years of data, looking at every birth in America at the county level. He found that a lack of manufacturing jobs in an area was an incredibly accurate predictor of fertility rates compared to unemployment rates, which have long been used as the ur-economic indicator.
As Roughly 1,500 Turned Out For Stay-At-Home Protest, Epidemiologist Saw ‘Vehicle’ For Viral Spread
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Malia Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison epidemiologist, called the event a “vehicle” for the disease to spread across the state.
Oldest evidence of a moving tectonic plate found in Australia
National Geographic UK
Quoted: “This is kind of the smoking gun,” says geochemist Annie Bauer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not part of the new study. “This is the most important evidence we can get [of early plate motion].”