The University of Wisconsin will welcome a limited number of athletes back to campus this week, with voluntary strength and conditioning activities to begin June 15.
The FDA authorized the emergency use of the anti-viral after studies showed it shortened the recovery time for people hospitalized with COVID-19.
Football and volleyball players were allowed to return to campus Monday on a voluntary basis, beginning a week of initial health assessments and COVID-19 screenings.
A limited number of University of Wisconsin student-athletes have returned to campus for voluntary athletics activities in a phased approach.
Noted: A three-day short course in ice cream making has been taught for decades at the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Dairy Science in Madison. Students travel from as far away as Asia, often with a goal to make ice cream with indigenous ingredients and flavors.
“Certain ingredients behave differently when added to ice cream,” explains Scott Rankin, who heads the UW program. “Alcoholic beverages are one example. You can’t just add them” without consequences.
The novel coronavirus’s overall impact on internships and entry-level hiring could be huge. “I think this will end up being a pretty devastating event for college students,” said Matthew Hora, director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Cats are still much more likely to get COVID-19 from you, rather than you get it from a cat,” researcher Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, said in a University of Wisconsin news release.
Quoted: UW Health pediatrician and sports medicine expert Dr. Alison Brooks urges them to set realistic expectation for what they can expect to do this summer and when fall sports come.
Interviewed: NBC15 sat down with Jirs Meuris, a professor at UW-Madison and an expert on law enforcement management to explain what defunding or disbanding a police force might look like.
Noted: Ashley is a graduate of Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, DePaul University and the University of Wisconsin Law School. She joined the state bar in 2012, and worked in criminal defense at Alex Flynn & Associates for three years before joining Legal Action.
