Eleven UW System schools including LaCrosse, Oshkosh and Milwaukee announced furlough plans last week. The University of Wisconsin-Madison ordered furloughs for nearly 16,000 employees this week in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering received a $470,000 grant for the project through the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the School of Medicine and Public Health. CHESS collaborated with faculty, staff and students at the journalism school’s Center for Communication and Civic Renewal, which received a $140,000 subcontract.
To most fairly assess a semester that has been far from normal, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking liberties with final exams and projects.
Faculty and staff at UW-Madison put together a new website and app to help people navigate through COVID-19.
Many Floridians appear to have reached a similar conclusion. Analysis of cellphone location data by companies like Descartes Labs Inc. and SafeGraph Inc. shows that residents’ daily mobility began dropping sharply after March 15, as it did in other parts of the U.S. By the following week, it had declined more than 50% statewide from an established baseline, according to a compilation of such data by a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Miami-Dade and Broward counties, it had decreased more than 80%.
ong Gao, a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been aggregating cell phone data that shows how far Wisconsinites are traveling each day as a way to understand if residents are following the state’s “Safer At Home” order. Gao said residents’ mobility has been reduced significantly in the past month, especially in urban areas like Dane and Milwaukee counties.
By using tests from infected patients, UW-Madison Professor Dr. Thomas Friedrich is tracking the genetic sequences of the coronavirus, which provides scientists with a better understanding of the virus.
Those theories also found support in Harlow’s monumental research with baby monkeys in a University of Wisconsin laboratory.
“That is incredibly accelerated when you consider most vaccines have been in development 10 to 15 years before they come to market,” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, a family medicine professor and associate dean at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Schools already are facing staggering losses. They’ll have to refund $7.8 billion in room and board for the current school year, according to Hartle’s group, which made its estimate based on Department Education statistics. For the University of Wisconsin, which has 11 campuses, he says that will mean returning $78 million.
Quoted: “If you’re asking me as a public health official whether this increases the risk of transmission, the answer is definitive — yes,” said Dr. Patrick Remington, director of the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Preventative Medicine Residency Program. “That is a scientific fact, no matter how much protective equipment people wear.”
Quoted: “It’s quite common to project with a model sort of what would be expected in epidemiology,” said Patrick Remington, a former CDC epidemiologist and director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “What better way to predict than … to say, particularly early in an epidemic, what if we did nothing? The early transmission velocity in an epidemic, what if that were to continue throughout the course of the epidemic?
Nearly 2,000 colorful flowers were delivered Friday to healthcare workers at UW Health as a thank you from Hilldale and its landscaping firm, according to a news release.
While access to key supplies remains a limiting factor, UW Health expects to see further increases to their number of daily completed COVID-19 tests, according to a news release.
UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) is announcing a total of $2.2 million in awards given to researchers and community organizations who are working to lessen the impact of coronavirus in Wisconsin.
According to the health system, they have both increased the number of tests they can perform and reduced the turnaround time. UW Health says it doubled the tests it can perform in a day to 400 over the past ten days and expects to be able to run even more soon. It is also now to get results in hours, rather than days.
Quoted: UW Health Distinguished Psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain said the daily uncertainty around the pandemic causes people’s bodies to experience wear and tear. “We are bombarded with daily stressors–something as simple as grocery shopping can be overwhelming and leave us feeling drained and fatigued,” Mirgain explained.
Quoted: “It’s going to be tough for some companies,” said Matthew Hora, director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin. “Converting to working remotely requires quite a bit of forethought as to how to design meaningful tasks and how to supervise them in a productive way.”
Quoted: Social media wars with misinformation on all things COVID-19, and it’s harder to spot. According to Mike Wagner, a journalism professor at UW-Madison, coronavirus misinformation is less absurd or intentional.
In 1966, he was appointed Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
In all, Meg worked in various roles for the University of Wisconsin for over 40 years before her retirement in June 2017. She worked for the medical school, school of business, agricultural journalism department, and as a publication editor at UW-Extension. She was a public information specialist for UW-Extension at the time of her retirement.
She taught 18 different courses at UW including Biocore, in which she taught “Organismal Biology” to undergraduates for 28 years. During her tenure, she also Chaired the Departments of Neurophysiology, Physiology, and Neuroscience.
Dr. Yandell taught at UW-Madison from 1966 until 2011.
He enjoyed sports because of the competition, but also because of the numbers that explained how well the players were performing. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, majoring in applied math, engineering, and physics, then earned a master’s and doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois.
