With the close of the spring semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison comes the annual work of admitting incoming students for the fall. This year is no different, but with the absence of tools typically used to help prospective Badgers finalize their decisions and take steps toward enrollment, students and staff have refocused their approach.
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, UW Health officials planned for the worst, preparing “space, people and stuff” for a surge of COVID-19 patients in need of hospital care. Despite a steadily growing number of positive cases across the state, the surge never materialized, but the plans remain in place in the event of another wave of infections, said Dr. Aimee Becker, chief medical officer for UW Health.
“The main hurdle we have for finding trends is that the data are collected using the best technology at the time,” James Kossin, a NOAA scientist and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, said in a statement. “Every year the data are a bit different than last year, each new satellite has new tools and captures data in different ways, so in the end we have a patchwork quilt of all the satellite data that have been woven together.”
A new smartphone app from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is helping the state’s fruit and vegetable growers understand bee populations on their farm.
Whether it can help fight against COVID-19, a UW-Madison professor says it is too soon to tell. “I am a little bit pessimistic about it because of the difficulty of doing the trials to actually determine definitively that there is a role to be played,” J. Wesley Pike said.
Gov. Tony Evers said last week he plans to appoint three new members to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents before its June meeting, weeks after two board members with expired terms voted on major policies and contracts.
Noted: Madison is both a college town and the state capital. State Street, which extends from the capitol to the University of Wisconsin, is usually jam-packed with people on the weekends. COVID-19 changed all that. Students were sent home to finish their semester online. Restaurants and bars have been closed. No farmers market on Capitol Square on Saturdays. The capitol building itself has been locked for weeks.
Katherine Krska, a 20-year-old marketing major at the University of Wisconsin Madison who is interning with American Family, said that although she would prefer working in an office with colleagues, the virtual experience has value.
An increasing number of anti-Asian incidents such as racist graffiti have appeared on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, as Kelly Meyerhofer detailed for the Wisconsin State Journal. This included graffiti that said “It’s from China #CHINESEVIRUS.” Yes, people are including hashtags on racist graffiti these days.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was not able to honor its class of 2020 UW-Madison engineering graduates in-person this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but for Ebenezer Fanibi it still feels amazing.
Two 19-year-old men were arrested for allegedly tagging UW-Madison buildings with graffiti a total of 21 different times, university police said on Friday.
According to police, the first tags appeared in December 2019 and more followed on various campus buildings and facilities. The graffiti didn’t appear to target any specific groups or identities.
UWPD still looking for potential third suspect for 21 graffiti incidents.
UW-Madison Police say they have finally caught two young men who confessed to 21 separate graffiti taggings made across campus over the last six months.
Noted: “The Coyotes of Carthage” (Ecco), by Steven Wright. In a UW-Madison law professor’s satirical debut, a political operative tries to save his career by masterminding a dark money campaign for corporate mining interests.
Last summer, UW–Madison alumna Taren Mansfield had just two weeks to pack her belongings and relocate to Los Angeles after finding out about the opportunity of a lifetime. She left Madison to spend the next four months in Shondaland — Shonda Rhimes’s television production company — working on alongside actors such as Viola Davis on the hit TV show How to Get Away with Murder.
A new program is providing financial help for UW Health employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Column by Dr. James Stein, a cardiologist and faculty member at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Employees will have to fill out an application, found on the employee intranet U-Connect, and if an employee is approved, they will receive $500 as assistance payment added to their next paycheck, UW Health says.
By the 25-second mark of one of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey players’ social media shows, reality has emerged: They’ve all busted out laughing.
The COVID-19 pandemic not only cut short the Badgers’ spring practice season, but it’s also created the opportunity for some nontraditional team development exercises.
On May 25, 2019 UW men’s assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, his wife Jen, and children, 9-year-old Jaidyn, and 13-year-old Jerell, were traveling to visit family in Michigan. Authorities said a drunken driver driving the wrong way hit their vehicle, killing Jen and Jaidyn.
Born and brought up in Patna, Bihar, Ranjan earned his degree in engineering from Regional Engineering College, Trichy followed by Masters and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been teaching at Georgia Tech for the last six years.
Brian Pinkerton, a 1986 UW-Madison graduate with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, will digitally return to Madison as the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference early next month.
Prom, short for “promenade,” has its roots in debut balls and coming-of-age parties. By the post-World War II era, the dances were a fixture of teenage culture and considered a rite of passage, says William Reese, a professor of education and history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The answer turned out to be more complex and rich than many might have thought. A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors shared some helpful ways to think about these place names and talked about the value of indigenous languages today.
One of them is Monica Macaulay, a professor of language sciences, who is affiliated faculty with the university’s American Indian Studies Program, and also works with the Menominee and their language revitalization and reclamation programs. The other is Brian McInnes, an associate professor of civil society and community studies in the UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology.
The irony is that many people already pay for something they don’t use, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk and insurance at UW-Madison who has studied wellness incentives. “The average gym membership is really underutilized,” Sydnor said. “A high share of people who pay for gym memberships use them barely at all.”
