If the college football season is able to be played this fall, the University of Wisconsin football team now knows who it’ll face and when.
Wisconsin Badgers football schedule released
Wisconsin State Journal
August 5, 2020
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Research
75 in Wisconsin died from farm activities in 2017-18, new report says
Wisconsin State Journal
Agriculture workers are up to eight times more likely to die on the job than workers in other industries, according to the National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield. The center, along with the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, the UW-Madison Division of Extension and UW’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, restarted the annual reports to bring attention to farm fatalities and ways to prevent them.
UW-Madison reports more animal research incidents, group says in complaint
Wisconsin State Journal
The four recent incidents, reported to federal authorities by the university from October through February, also violate the federal Animal Welfare Act, the group Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, or SAEN, said in a complaint filed Monday with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
UW researchers launch effort to develop unique type of COVID-19 vaccine
WKOW-TV 27
Researchers at UW-Madison are working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, one that operates differently than traditional vaccines and would primarily benefit people who are at most risk from the disease.
Higher Education/System
Wisconsin Colleges Push Ahead With Reopening Plans As COVID-19 Cases Surge
Wisconsin Public Radio
Public and private universities issued tens of millions of dollars worth in housing and dining refunds to students who were no longer on campus. Sporting events and summer camps were canceled. For the University of Wisconsin System alone, there was an estimated $212 million in lost revenues.
Campus life
Metro Transit to boost service as COVID-19 pandemic continues
Wisconsin State Journal
Service will increase by approximately 300 bus hours a day, from 700 to approximately 1,000, not including UW-Madison campus circulators or service for the Madison School District, Metro planning manager Drew Beck said. The pre-COVID-19 level was about 1,300 bus hours a day.
Health
The Covid Drug Wars That Pitted Doctor vs. Doctor
The New York Times
But during the early months of the pandemic, the disagreements — what one critical-care doctor called, on his well-read blog, the profession’s “intellectual food fight” — provided another layer of painful stress to some doctors already near their limits. “It became like Republicans and Democrats,” said Pierre Kory, a critical-care doctor who faced that tension himself at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. “The two sides can’t talk to each other.”
Athletics
Big Ten announces 2020 football schedule, Badgers scheduled to begin September 4th
WISC-TV 3
Under the plan, the Wisconsin Badgers would actually begin their season with a Friday night game on September 4th against Indiana at Camp Randall Stadium.
UW Experts in the News
Why Isn’t The UP Part Of Wisconsin?
Wisconsin Public Radio
Joseph Salmons, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, chalks these similarities up to a number of factors.
Obituaries
Sewell, Richard Herbert
Wisconsin State Journal
After graduating from Harvard, Richard taught for three years at Northern Illinois University and in 1965 accepted a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he remained until his retirement in 1995. In addition to mentoring many graduate students who went on to prestigious university positions, Richard taught undergraduate lecture courses on the Age of Jefferson and Jackson, and the American Civil War Era. In 1989, the University of Wisconsin presented him with a distinguished teacher award.