Shiva Bidar, UW Health chief diversity officer and a Madison City Council member, confirmed that Wisconsin residents can come to their health facilities and receive care, no questions asked. “We’ll make sure they go where they need care and nobody’s asking them to pay up front for anything,” Bidar said. “We will figure out on the back end what we need to do to make sure that their bills are covered.”
Equipped with a laptop, legal pad and smartphone, Merta Maaneb de Macedo this week called a UW-Madison student whose roommate recently tested positive for COVID-19.
An infectious disease epidemiologist who teaches a course called “Conspiracies in Public Health,” Ajay Sethi has paid close attention to misinformation related to COVID-19.
“It’s for cases where people want to be able to see faces,” said Lennon Rodgers, director of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It could be a teacher talking to their students, seeing smiles, things like this that are important, some people say, for developmental reasons.”
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The call for hardening our internet infrastructure is especially salient to Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 2018, Barford and two colleagues published a study highlighting the vulnerability of America’s fiber cables to sea level rise, and he’s currently investigating how wildfires threaten mobile networks. In both cases, he says, it’s clear that the telecommunications infrastructure deployed today was designed with historical extreme conditions in mind — and that has to change.
“We’re living in a world of climate change,” he said. “And if the intention is to make this new infrastructure that will serve the population for many years to come, then it is simply not feasible to deploy it without considering the potential effects of climate change, which include, of course, rising seas, severe weather, floods, and wildfires.”
Patients with severe or life-threatening COVID-19 have fared well so far in two clinical trials underway at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to preliminary results.
The university also launched three new COVID-19 clinical trials and began considering offers to host another nine. Since the coronavirus clinical trials began, 80% of all UW Health patients with COVID-19 have been enrolled in one.
Noted: The first collective bargaining agreement for teaching assistants was reached at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the spring of 1970; in the 50 years since, there have been only about 40 more, covering just one in five graduate student workers, according to the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College.
Protesters gathered on Library Mall to say the plan does not take students’ safety into account enough.
Belzer lived in La Crosse until attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to the governor’s office. He worked as Evers’ personal assistant since February of 2019.
The state Department of Health Services is partnering with UW-Madison’s Survey of the Health of Wisconsin to embark on a study of the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies throughout the state. Past SHOW participants, from 10 randomly selected counties and the city of Milwaukee, will receive antibody testing quarterly over the next year.
Sarah Anne Carter is the visiting executive director of the Center for Design and Material Culture and a visiting assistant professor of design studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Like so many other graduating seniors, Amy Shircel is disappointed to have missed out on an in-person commencement this past spring. At the same time, though, she understands far better than most why such a gathering could not happen. Shircel contracted COVID-19 in March.
A new UW-Madison study estimates 66,000 high school athletes across Wisconsin could be at risk for depression amid the pandemic.
The PSA encourages people to use their abilities to help stop the spread of COVID-19. People will hear from Dr. Aimee Becker who is one of the Chief Medical Officers at UW Health.
Perhaps one of the empty pedestals at the state Capitol in Madison would be just the place for “Nails’ Tales,” which lost its spot by Camp Randall Stadium.
The result was a dramatic reversal of a rule that would have kept hundreds of thousands of foreign students off U.S. campuses, including about 5,800 students at UW-Madison, and further complicated a fall semester that was already hard to manage from fiscal as well as educational perspectives.
Each chew contains 30 mg of caffeine, so three chews has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee.
Quoted: Such practices have been justified by the third key component of the vote suppression narrative: the claim of widespread voter fraud. This claim, too, is fallacious, as many voting experts will attest. As Kenneth R. Mayer, a voting expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison declared, “The continued insistence that there are material levels of intentional voter fraud is itself a form of fraud.”
Noted: Swap meets and flea markets are an old practice in the United States, and until the 1960s, they were mostly populated by white vendors who sold mostly secondhand goods outdoors, said Edna Ledesma, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has researched swap meets.
Quoted: Michele LaVigne, a recently retired University of Wisconsin-Madison clinical law professor and director of the Public Defender Project, said implementing the new rules — which require prosecutors to include crime victims in more steps of a prosecution — could slow an already sluggish process.
“All court systems have shut down basically and there is a backlog from hell building up,” LaVigne said, referring to the four months courts have been largely closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Trump is in trouble in Wisconsin and nationally, that’s what the polls are showing,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. “But the fact that the registration is more balanced than that should give Republicans hope and should encourage the Democrats to keep working to get their voters on the registration rolls.”
Tom was hired as academic staff to manage Babcock Hall dairy plant, teach, and do research. For 22 years he proudly taught the farm short course in dairy processing. By retirement in 2008 he had advanced to administration in the food science department and achieved emeritus status.
Jody became publicity director for the UW-Madison Memorial Union, nurturing artistic and writing talents and befriending many of her student employees. She returned to school and earned an MSW in 1986. After advising students at the UW School of Social Work, she became the first director of the Kennedy Heights Community Center.
He was employed by University of Wisconsin-Extension in 1961, with which he stayed until retirement in 1993. At UW his main focus was educational work for local government officials.
Noted: If one is trying to dominate your picnic as well, Dr. Jandt suggests playing along. “Let it land, let it do its thing,” she said. When she collected data for her master’s thesis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she shared a P.B. and J. with her research subjects every day, an experience she said helped her learn to appreciate the insects’ personalities, and “really forced me to be calm all the time.”
