Widespread testing and temperature checks. Socially distanced classes and labs. Isolation protocols. Contact tracing and cellphone tracking devices. Hybrid in-person and online classes. Modified academic calendars.
’We need to make a substantial share of the curriculum available remotely,’ UW Chancellor says.
UW-Madison will likely offer a hybrid mix of educational offerings in the fall, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday.
“In short, it won’t be a normal semester next fall. And let’s be clear, we’re not just talking about the fall semester,” Blank wrote. “As we’re looking forward, we’re preparing for an entire academic year where concern over COVID-19 affects our educational programming.”
No matter what the University of Wisconsin does about classes, UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank still expects to see thousands of students flocking back to Madison this fall.
The study, by a group of researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, builds on previous research that found a trend, though not a statistically robust one, toward stronger tropical cyclones
In almost every part of the world where tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger, according to a study of nearly 40 years of satellite images by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM).
Hurricanes are getting windier. That’s the sobering conclusion of a study led by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist James Kossin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The paper appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on Monday.
“The trend is there and it is real,” says James P. Kossin, a researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and lead author of the study. “There’s this remarkable building of this body of evidence that we’re making these storms more deleterious.
”The research was a collaboration between the NOAA National Center for Environmental Information and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. The team looked at global hurricane data from 1979 to 2017, and used analytical techniques to create a uniform data set with which to identify trends.
Also, the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech has partnered with the US-based FluGen and University of Wisconsin Madison, for producing 300 million doses of CoroFlu, a COVID-19 vaccine which could be in human clinical trials by the fall of 2020.
Additional researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory contributed to the work. Funding came from the US Department of Energy and Stanford University.
NOAA STUDY RAISES CLIMATE QUESTIONS: The intensity of hurricanes and typhoons have increased over the past four decades, according to a new study from the NOAA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, indicating a link between the power of the tropical storms and human-driven climate change. The peer-reviewed study, Pro’s Zack Colman reports, is the first to show tropical cyclones have grown stronger as planetary temperatures have increased.
University of Wisconsin-River Falls Chancellor Dean Van Galen has been chosen as the new president of Missouri Southern State University, the two schools announced Monday.
The Madison Plan Commission tackled a proposal Monday for new housing on Langdon Street from the same developers that brought The Hub and The James apartment buildings to UW-Madison’s campus in 2015 and 2017, respectively.
Several University of Wisconsin-Madison students are registered to speak at the Monday, May 18, meeting of Madison’s Plan Commission to express their opposition to The Langdon, a proposed apartment building slated for 126 Langdon St. They allege that the developer has been improperly offering special benefits to students who sign on in support of the project.
But researchers like Malia Jones, an assistant scientist in health geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say the impact of COVID-19 can’t always be traced to an urban-rural divide.Jones studies how infectious diseases spread. In Wisconsin, four rural counties have remained case-free, yet plenty of other rural counties have not.
Vicky Opitz never says no when (rowing coach Bebe) Bryans calls for a favor. And the Middleton native and former Badgers rowing All-American has a compelling story to put behind a message of resilience.
Educators, students, families, and communities are the ones with the most to lose, and they must determine how to develop our shared future after the pandemic. At the very least, they deserve to be at the table to choose who leads these efforts rather than hearing about it in a daily briefing after the deal has been closed.
Kathryn Moeller is an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin and the author of “The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development.” Rebecca Tarlau is an assistant professor of education and labor and employment relations at the Pennsylvania State University and the author of “Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education.”
“It’s utter nonsense. This has been shown over and over. The continued insistence that there are material levels of intentional voter fraud is itself a form of fraud.”
KENNETH R. MAYER, an elections expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Voting experts said this was “utter nonsense.””This has been shown over and over,” Kenneth Mayer, an elections expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the Times. “The continued insistence that there are material levels of intentional voter fraud is itself a form of fraud.”
Quoted: “The social distancing requirements set everyone on their heels,” said Dr. Michael Miller with the Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program at the UW School of Medicine.
According to its filing with the state Public Service Commission, MGE has contracts with the state of Wisconsin, UW-Madison, the city of Fitchburg, Placon Corp., Promega Corp. and the Willy Street Co-op to buy about 85% of the project’s energy output. The company said it plans to contract with others for the remainder.
