The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously approved emergency rules Wednesday to comply with new federal regulations on sexual assault and harassment, which will be effective Aug. 14 pending the governor’s approval.
Additionally, the board ensured the continuation of federal funding of nearly $1 billion Wednesday.
I think of the frictions in my life, too. Legos underfoot. Track changes. Heavy books. Grading. Laundry. Emails. Cardio. Recycling. Which frictions are about privilege, and which help me move in the world with weight and worry, using that friction to open the jar, to pay attention, to feel the potential in the things around me?
Sarah Anne Carter runs the Center for Design and Material Culture at UW-Madison. She writes about museums and making sense of the world.
The location is on Henry Mall, between University Avenue and Linden Drive.Testing is by appointment only.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s athletic department estimates it could miss out on $60 million in revenue this football season, and that’s if the season goes according to plan.
Blanford co-founded Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Council of Excellence — pronounced dice — with her counterpart at Nebraska, DaWon Baker, last summer. The group formally launched publicly yesterday.
“We are greatly appreciative that 85 percent of our season ticket holders made the choice to order season tickets again this year, and it disappoints me that we will not be able to provide those season tickets.”
The University of Wisconsin athletic department acknowledged Wednesday that fans won’t be able to use the football season tickets they’ve already secured for a 2020 season that remains in question.
Football season could look different for Badger fans this fall.
“The players can’t leave the facility to go to restaurants. It’s very clear what they can and cannot do because they’re in a facility and many things are just not accessible to the players,” said Laura Albert, professor of industrial and systems engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This drastically reduces the risk.”
“The lottery is a form of entertainment for many,” said UW-Madison Engineering Professor Laura Albert, who has studied sports analytics.
Quoted: “Wow,” was the reaction of political scientist Byron Shafer, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and a scholar of conventions, to the news that Biden would not be present here.
“That was really all that was left” of a traditional convention, Shafer said of Biden’s now canceled-plans to accept the nomination in Milwaukee.
Malia Jones, a UW-Madison infectious disease epidemiologist who runs the Facebook page Dear Pandemic and is the mother of two elementary students, sent the letter to local officials last week. The letter, signed by 363 other people, asked for an immediate ban on nonessential, high-risk gatherings in public and private settings to further reduce the spread of the coronavirus. That could allow schools to reopen in person more quickly, the letter said.
Quoted: According to University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden it will take at least a few days until anything is official.”It’s possible for people to challenge the signature, the individual signatures not being legitimate or being signed more than once, or maybe one of the circulators not being eligible to circulate the petitions, that’s a pretty standard part of the process,” Burden said.
Patricia Thompson was born in Athens, Tenn., and moved to Lake City, Fla., as a child. She graduated from Florida State University and earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
In the late 1980s she began working as a payroll clerk and librarian for the Biochemistry department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she remained until her retirement in 2008.
Noted: Nay Hinain was one of the many Lebanese citizens packed the city of Beirut on Aug. 4, rushing to stock up on supplies before the country went into a second lockdown after a rise in the country’s COVID-19 cases.
Hinain, who was born in Lebanon and graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019, was picking out nail polish colors with a salon employee when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the nearby Beirut port.
On Thanksgiving weekend 2018, a University of Wisconsin student visiting the area with his parents walked into Mar-a-Lago by mingling with a group that was entering. He was arrested and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.
Dr. Jenkins received a Master of Science in Educational Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
