Dane County is reporting a sharp increase in coronavirus cases, with 279 people testing positive for COVID-19 in the last five days.
Half of those new cases involve people in their 20s, and multiple cases have been linked to businesses near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, local health officials said Thursday.
Patrick Sims, deputy vice chancellor and chief diversity officer, has taken a position as the executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Sherri Ann Charleston, assistant vice provost and chief affirmative action officer, will become the chief diversity and inclusion officer at Harvard University.
As far as historical figures go, most people might consider Honest Abe worthy of a statue — but Nalah McWhorter would tell you what you probably learned about the 16th President of the United States is only part of the story.
The statue has overlooked Bascom Hill for more than a hundred years and is a staple of graduate photos, but what he symbolizes for marginalized students isn’t land-grant universities or even emancipating slaves.
Cheryl Gittens, an assistant vice provost in UW-Madison’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement, has been named interim leader of UW’s diversity and inclusion efforts, the university announced on Thursday.
Widespread criticism has rained down on those who led a night of destructive protestsin Madison on Tuesday night after the arrest of a Black protester.
Many on the left and right were left baffled and upset that rioters toppled two iconic Capitol statues — one of an abolitionist who died during the Civil War and the other a female figure representing the state motto “Forward.”
But one state Senate candidate, Nada Elmikashfi, defended the destruction in no uncertain terms.
Finally, Elmikashfi, a 24-year-old recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and a Muslim immigrant from Sudan, said, “I’m glad my future colleagues in the legislature are getting a good introduction of how nice I’ll be in the Capitol when it comes to their anti-blackness.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Lindsay Kalan said that level of antimicrobial — a broad term for something that can kill bacteria and fungi — use might not have been required, but was part of an early learning curve of treating a new disease.
Dr. Apple Bodemer, a UW Health integrative dermatologist, says COVID-19 impacts every part of life and that she is not surprised of these side affects given all the changes and uncertainty COVID-19 creates.
Judd Kinzley is an associate professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“I don’t see how that’s sustainable through the fall election,” professor Barry Burden, director of the Election Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told AFP.”
There will come a point where Biden will need to be a physical presence on the campaign trail, if only to reassure voters he is a real person, in good health and ready to serve.”
She worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Environmental Toxicology Department, studying the effects of toxins on fish in Lake Michigan. In 1997, Linda shifted careers and obtained a master’s degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison LaFollette Institute with an emphasis on healthcare.
The disparities in Madison are stark. The capital city is one of the wealthiest in the state and home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the country’s premier research institutions. The city is a liberal bastion with a history of political activism dating back to the Vietnam War era. The district attorney, Ismael Ozanne, is Black. So are some city council members.
The agency is investigating multiple cases associated with businesses near UW-Madison’s campus. For example, photos on social media last week showed a long line of unmasked students waiting to be let into a bar.
