ACT testing requirements will be temporarily suspended at all University of Wisconsin System campuses except UW-Madison under a proposed policy change aimed at easing college entrance requirements amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Similarly, Bharat Biotech has partnered with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the US-based company FluGen to develop a vaccine, Coro-Flu.
Two months have passed since coronavirus first began major disruptions to American society, and the nation still lacks a clear timeline back to “normalcy.”
The COVID-19 financial pressures build at Wisconsin colleges with each passing week.
UW System President Ray Cross will ask the UW Board of Regents Thursday to temporarily suspend, for all campuses but UW-Madison, a Systemwide policy requiring applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores, according to board meeting materials. The suspension would be in place for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years.
University of Wisconsin System officials are looking at the possibility of temporarily suspending the ACT/SAT requirements in its Freshman Admissions Policy.
Photo caption: One of the highlights of the drive to school for Anna Mullen’s son, Ryan, was looking for food delivery robots on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the second week of quarantine, they went on a socially-distanced outing to see robots up close on the library mall. Photo courtesy of Anna Mullen
Bob Cropp, emeritus professor of agricultural and applied economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the trend has already continued into 2020 despite price improvements at the end of 2019.
“An epidemiologist is a scientist in search of a denominator,” said Dr. Patrick Remington, an epidemiologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Beth Sommerfeldt and Barb Uselman were happy to answer the call when they got it from UW Health to work on the COVID-19 hotline.
For the team at USF, the process started by leveraging open-source design materials from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and making adjustments according to feedback from their local hospitals. Now, Celestin has shared all that he and his team have learned about producing face shields online including directions, 3-D printing details and instructional videos.
The University of Wisconsin Madison launched a new app to help inform the state of Wisconsin on all things coronavirus.
David O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, said the most interesting feature of the Los Alamos research is that the same pattern was seen in multiple locations. But he said “significant caution is warranted” because the data was not collected randomly. The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in online databases come from Europe and North America, meaning strains from these regions are overrepresented in research
University of Wisconsin virologist Thomas Friedrich, who has spent years studying the evolution and transmission of the Zika virus, said a virus that makes its way into a highly susceptible population — for example, Europe in January — will spread like wildfire, quickly becoming the dominant strain in the region
Quoted: “It’s an old language, where all we’re trying to do is maintain it,” UW-Madison Professor Emeritus of Computer Science Charles Fischer said.
Noted: Pallen graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in communications arts and advertising. Beer was always in his bloodline — and, occasionally, his car.
