Democrat Joe Biden led GOP President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and two other battleground states in a poll released Monday by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“All three states remain battlegrounds that should not be ignored by either campaign,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center, in a news release Monday.
The Chicago Quantum Exchange is another meeting place for collaboration and community creation for National Laboratories (Argonne and Fermi), universities (University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northwestern University) and a number of large corporations (e.g., Boeing, Applied Materials, JPMorgan Chase) and startups (e.g., Rigetti Computing).
Noted: Lauren Yoder, vice-chair of the College Democrats chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has more of a formal role with the convention, as a delegate.
Yoder, who is 19 and going into her second year at UW-Madison, said that before the pandemic hit “there was a lot of interest in volunteering … because we are in such close proximity to Milwaukee, being only an hour and a half away, we were definitely planning on getting people together … to bring together a lot of these young, progressive voices in one spot.”
First, the council demands moving all courses online until there are zero new cases of COVID-19 in Dane County for 14 consecutive days.
Aside from the campuses in Eau Claire, Green Bay and Platteville, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and University of Wisconsin-Madison have introduced required pledges for students too.
Johanna Hussain, a UW-Madison junior, says she’s excited to vote in her first presidential race. “I kind of got interested in politics during the 2016 election and I was 16 at the time,” Hussain said. “I’ve been waiting the last four years for this.”
Quoted: Christopher Coe, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he describes himself as being fairly tolerant of risk, with one caveat. That he has a sense of control and predictability about that risk.
With an invisible virus, he said the risk is a lot harder to gauge, especially when he knows there are also a lot of people who are not behaving in the right way.
“I am not afraid of pathogens per se. I do research with infectious agents,” Coe said. “But when I do, I wear the appropriate protective personal equipment. I handle the specimens in biosafety cabinets. I sanitize contaminated surfaces, etc. That is, the risk is tempered by a logical series of steps to lessen and control.”
There have been unanticipated moments in an unusual start to training for the 2020 season for coach Paula Wilkins and the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team.
Members of the Wisconsin Badgers football team are sharing their thoughts as the Big Ten is reportedly considering canceling all fall sports for the 2020 season.“Me and football (have) been going for 11 years strong,” cornerback Faion Hicks tweeted Sunday night. “Smh no football would be the worst breakup.”
According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department, 259 student-athletes in a variety of sports have participated in voluntary workouts this summer. The department has conducted 1,788 COVID-19 tests since early June, with 21 student-athletes testing positive.
An ESPN report published Sunday evening said the commissioners of the Power Five conferences — the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC — held an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss postponing or canceling the football season due to COVID-19 pandemic.
College football players are speaking out in an attempt to save their season.
Uncertainty hangs like a cloud over the University of Wisconsin football team as it prepares to open training camp on Monday.
When contacted to confirm reports of the Big Ten presidents and chancellors meeting, UW system did not have a comment on the reports.
The virus, and people’s reaction to it, are at the root of the problem — not the Safer At Home order from Gov. Tony Evers that ran from March 25 until the state Supreme Court threw it out on May 13, says Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
“We were lucky in April here, I don’t know if we would be that lucky again,” said Malia Jones, an associate scientist in health geography for the applied population laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In early April, there was “very little disease circulating,” in the state, Jones said, noting that voting by mail “is clearly the safer option.”
Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spent eight years interviewing rural Wisconsinites for her book “The Politics of Resentment,” published months before Trump’s election. “I heard so many complaints about teachers,” she told me. “ ‘How is it that they can get off of work? People who really work hard don’t have time to go out and protest.’ ”
Steve Deller, agricultural and applied economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he agrees that the high number of Chapter 12 filings will likely continue this year.
Because the messages are individualized, the often-false or inflammatory content is seen only by a few people, which can keep racially charged or untrue messages from being exposed and refuted, notes Young Mie Kim, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who specializes in studying social media.
“The dam is holding but there are dark clouds on the horizon,” said Kurt Paulsen, a professor at UW-Madison who is surveying housing providers in the county to get insight into the extent of problems and the impact of rental assistance programs.
“When a kid is at school for seven hours there is a good chunk of time that is social or play,” said Jason Horowitz, a clinical assistant professor in the UW-Madison Department of Psychiatry. “We have to recognize there’s more to school than learning. We need to try to replace all the different aspects that help a kid grow.”
Beth Graue is a Sorenson Professor of Early Childhood Education at UW-Madison and the director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. She’s also a former kindergarten teacher. Her research focuses on how school policies translate into opportunities for teachers, students and families.
Quoted: UW Health psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain shared tips on how to stay physically and mentally healthy, while dealing with different kinds of social pressures.
Quoted: “There is increased concern not because of all the data that’s being collected by TikTok, but also because of who has access to the data, where it’s being stored and what the implications of that might mean,” Nicholas Davis, UW System Director of Information Security said.
After graduating from Eastern High School, he received a scholarship to George Washington University provided by the newspaper. He continued to work for the Star as a student, completing his bachelor’s degree in 1963. He did graduate work in political science at the University of Wisconsin.
As we have seen in the health care system, even temporary changes such as reimbursement for telehealth visits will be hard to reverse. The educational system would be wise to implement even temporary policies such that they leave the door open for the future. Unfortunately, it will likely take another global pandemic to create a similar window of opportunity for change.
Jennifer Lacy received her PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She teaches high school science in Kansas City, Missouri, and is the director of Education for American Daughters.
Shi, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at UW-Madison, has been studying the complementary demand concept of a grocery store and food court and has seen its popularity growing in the U.S. in the past five to 10 years.
