When Jeff Pothof, who grew up in Randolph, goes to the store to get some milk or supplies for a weekend project he wears a face mask.
‘Wear a mask’: UW doctor works to get message out about COVID-19
Wisconsin State Journal
June 30, 2020
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Research
UW-Madison ‘Tick Team’ Researches Lyme Disease In Wisconsin
Spectrum News 1
Bron, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was on the hunt for a tiny threat: the black-legged tick. Also known as a deer tick, this arachnid is notorious for its ability to spread illnesses like Lyme disease to humans.
India Covid-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin: What is Covaxin and how was it developed?
Indian Express
How does Covaxin compare to other vaccine candidates around the world? Where does it figure in the global race for a Covid-19 vaccine?
Covaxin has reached a more advanced stage of testing than two other vaccine candidates that Bharat Biotech is developing through global collaborations–the first is in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University, while the second is with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and vaccine maker FluGen. Both these candidates are currently in the pre-clinical stage, according to the World Health Organisation’s draft landscape of Covid-19 candidate vaccines.
Higher Education/System
UW-Whitewater asking students to sign covenant for safe behavior amid pandemic
WKOW-TV 27
It would ask students to wear masks and maintain distancing both inside and outside of the classroom.
Campus life
UW-Madison says Abraham Lincoln statue will stay
Campus Reform
While conceding that “like those of all presidents, Lincoln’s legacy is complex and contains actions which, 150 years later, appear flawed,” Blank noted that Lincoln is considered to be “one of our greatest presidents, having issued the Emancipation Proclamation, persuaded Congress to adopt the 13th Amendment ending slavery and preserved the Union during the Civil War.”
College Republicans launch petition to oppose efforts to remove Lincoln statue from UW-Madison campus
WISC-TV 3
“While we can certainly admit that President Lincoln is not perfect when examining him under today’s moral lens over 150 years later, erasing our shared history does not lead to progress,” according to a release from College Republicans.
Community
Two of Mayor Rhodes-Conway’s deputy mayors resign
NBC-15
Orrantia previously served as the Director of Community Relations for UW-Madison’s Chancellor and worked as Assistant Director for the Wisconsin Collaborative Education Research Network and as a caseworker in Madison outside the university.
Arts & Humanities
How Slavery Persisted in New England Until the 19th Century
History.com
“Most of the general public in the U.S. has no understanding of the very long history of slavery in the northern colonies and the northern states,” says Christy Clark-Pujara, a professor of history and Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island.
UW Experts in the News
Why we should explore Venus before Mars
Mashable
Not so fast. The Pioneer probe sent to Venus in 1978 detected traces of methane in that CO2-filled atmosphere. Methane is a rare chemical to produce without life acting as some kind of intermediary. “People tried to explain it away and they couldn’t,” says Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a former chair of NASA’s Venus Exploration Analysis Group.
Despite Gains, State’s Share Of Teachers Of Color Lags Far Behind The Share Of Nonwhite Students
Wisconsin Public Radio
Gloria Ladson-Billings, a teacher educator who worked in school districts for years and most recently was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said her own experience bears that out.
Obituaries
Longtime Marshfield Clinic neurologist dies at 82
Hub City Times
He served as an adjunct Clinical Professor of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1989-98.