One of the fewer than 20 doctors who will be making federal vaccine recommendations is in Madison, and he said it won’t be easy. The lab is like a second home to University of Wisconsin Medical School Associate Dean Jonathan Temte, who has decades of experience developing vaccines for viruses.
May 12, 2020
Research
Opinion: The University of Wisconsin and other public universities are on the front lines of the battle against coronavirus
From Rebecca M. Blank is chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and chair of the Council of Presidents of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, a research, policy, and advocacy organization. Peter McPherson is president of APLU and former president of Michigan State University.
Arts & Humanities
Students Graduate Into Economy Rocked By The Coronavirus Pandemic
Here & Now’s Tonya Mosley speaks with Rebekah Pryor Paré, associate dean for the Career Initiative in the College of Letters & Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
UW Experts in the News
Would airport coronavirus testing get people flying? Not alone, experts say
For diagnostic tests that are designed to detect current infections, the possibility of some false-negative tests could also allow infected travelers slipping through the cracks, Laura Albert, an industrial and systems engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told ABC News.
Fact check: The coronavirus pandemic isn’t slowing climate change
“This may sound small at first, but it is the largest drop since World War II, as emissions have generally increased year-over-year, even during recessions,” Ankur Desai, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA TODAY.
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Leo Burt, the Unabomber and me
I’d been thinking about Burt anyway, as the 50th anniversary of the day that made him infamous fast approaches.