More than half of the $70 million in state agency spending cuts ordered by Gov. Tony Evers will be to University of Wisconsin campuses in the first move to stabilize state finances during the coronavirus pandemic.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has announced the layoffs of dozens of employees working in the division known as UW-Shared Services due to financial challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The program will be all online from June through August. It helps students from 8th grade to high school prepare for higher education.
Wilcots previously worked as deputy dean and associate dean for research of L&S before becoming interim dean.
Ahead of the town hall meeting, organized by the online news site Madison365 and the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman, president of the Dane County Chiefs of Police Association, called the death of George Floyd heinous and unacceptable. “Nothing can justify the actions or inactions of these officers,” Roman said of the officer who knelt on the back of Floyd’s neck for several minutes and three other officers who failed to intervene or render aid.
The town hall included UW Police Chief Kristen Roman, Fitchburg Police Chief Chad Brecklin, Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, Madison Police Chief Victor Wahl, Sun Prairie Police Chief Michael Steffes, Middleton Police Chief Troy Hellenbrand and Dane County mother Jaquelyn Hunt.
UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman wrote that the officers’ actions in Minneapolis were “heinous and unacceptable.”
“Regardless of further information that may be discovered in this case, nothing can justify the actions or inactions of these officers,” Kristen Roman wrote in a statement released Thursday morning. “If someone calls for help, it is our duty to help.”
UW-Madison Police Chief Kristin Roman said ensuring diverse officers have a chance to succeed is also crucial. “Once you get diverse candidates within an organization, you need a mechanism and processes and structures in place to support that diversity,” Roman said.
UW Police Chief Roman said the Law Enforcement and Leaders of Color Collaboration have done great work to address trust gaps in Dane County in the aftermath of the 2014 Ferguson Unrest.
Quoted: “It’s kind of like a family that’s involved with their children in sports,” said Richard Halopka, a University of Wisconsin-Extension agent from Clark County.
“Not having the state fair would be a big letdown. But, unfortunately, this year it’s a sign of the times,” Halopka said.
“It worries us,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, the medical director for infection prevention at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. “We wonder if this is a trend in an unfavorable direction.”
We have to wait another year to cheer on Wisconsin athletes in the summer Olympics, but at least we can ride one high from 2016. In those games in Rio, Jorgensen became the first American to win gold in Olympic Triathlon, after she had dominated the world triathlete circuit over the previous three years. Jorgensen, a Waukesha native, didn’t start doing triathlon until she was recruited by USA Triathlon as a collegiate runner and swimmer at the University of Wisconsin, then began training while she worked as a CPA in Milwaukee. Jorgensen retired from triathlon in 2017, had a baby and announced a new goal: pursuing Olympic gold in track and field and eventually marathon.
While the NCAA’s Division I Council has opened the door for football and basketball players to begin working out on campus on June 1, Big Ten Conference schools are mixed on when they’ll allow them to happen.
Michael Wagner, a UW-Madison journalism professor, and Jordon Foley, a Ph.D. candidate, published an article a few days ago on the Brookings Institution website based on a survey conducted in five “swing” states in the 2020 election, including Wisconsin.
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Quoted: “It looks really similar,” Pamela Oliver UW-Madison Professor Emerita of Sociology said. “Racism is an issue and structural racism is still an issue, but how it works is still changing, moving and evolving.”
Germany’s demand for solar power “not only installed a lot of solar, but it catalyzed the learning curve,” said Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written a book on how solar energy became cheap. In China, where most of the world’s solar panels are now made, production processes were refined further to bring prices down to levels that compete with coal.
Patrica G. Devine, a social psychologist at the University of Wisconsin who studies unintended bias, argues that there has been little rigorous evaluation of the training strategies deployed to combat it, and as a result we simply don’t know enough about what makes a difference.
But other researchers stress that these findings do not constitute an outright proof of the weak gravity conjecture. Gary Shiu, a theoretical physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said the belief that entropy should always increase when you take quantum gravity into account is “an intuition that some might have, but it’s not always true.”
But Judith Leavitt, professor emerita in the department of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says Mary Mallon may have only been directly linked to about 50 cases over a 12-year period when she wasn’t forcibly quarantined and may have been mislabeled due to fear and prejudice.
