With the end of the 2019-2020 school year approaching during this unprecedented pandemic, The Badger Herald interviewed University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank on issues relating to COVID-19 and the UW community.
Quoted: “The fact that we are not seeing those from one community cropping up in the other community suggests that the stay-at-home orders are working,” said David O’Connor, a UW professor of pathology and laboratory medicine.
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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Faculty Senate unanimously approved on Monday a proposal to change the university’s grade submission deadline, as well as two resolutions recommitting to its recognition of the Ho-Chunk nation and supporting the university’s DACA employees.
NBC15 News checked in with UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics, Kathleen Bartzen Culver two months after virtual lectures and assignments began.
The fifth annual Water@UW-Madison symposium will take place virtually Tuesday, highlighting water challenges at the university and state levels.
Virtual health assessments at a Madison homeless shelter, support for students with medical conditions at Madison schools and research on ways to better test and track COVID-19 are among 21 projects receiving $2.2 million from a COVID-19 Response Grant Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
UW Health in Madison is treating patients who are a lot sicker, said Dr. Joshua Ross, executive vice chair of the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Starting Tuesday, each adult patient will be allowed one visitor age 18 or older. One visitor age 12 and older will be allowed to accompany adult patients to outpatient clinic appointments.
Roman Ahcan was named the most valuable player for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s 2019-20 season on Monday.
The conference canceled remaining winter and spring sports on the schedule in March, and on- and off-campus recruiting remains on indefinite hold.
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David Fields is the author of Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea and the editor of The Diary of Syngman Rhee, 1904–34, 1944, published by the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History. Fields is currently the associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Noted: EatStreet, co-founded by Howard in a University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm room in 2010, has around 150 employees in its Madison headquarters. More than 15,000 restaurants in 250 cities are on the platform.
Faculty members and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a free website and mobile app to provide information, social support and resources to Wisconsinites amid the coronavirus pandemic.
With dozens of updates a day tracking positive cases, deaths, and modifications to the safer at home order, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched a COVID-19 app to put all these resources in one spot.
Andrew Stevens, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said shortages could happen because the meat supply chain is complex and relies on refrigeration in transport and production facilities.
