With a growing number of COVID-19 cases confirmed at UW Madison, Chancellor Rebecca Blank directed students to restrict their movements. We speak with the chair of the Associated Students of Madison about how students are coping with the pandemic and what they think of the university’s restart plan.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are attempting to get a handle on the spread of the coronavirus amidst a recent spike of cases on campus.
Sunday marked the highest number of cases for both Dane County and University of Wisconsin-Madison on-campus testing since the pandemic started in March, breaking the previous record set only one day prior on Saturday.
The COVID-19 vaccine trial underway at multiple locations, including UW Health, is on hold after one participant in the United Kingdom suffered a serious adverse reaction.
The COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial at UW Hospital just started last week, but it’s now on hold.
UW Health is halting their AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trials on Tuesday after a suspected adverse reaction in the United Kingdom.
One day after the University of Wisconsin-Madison said COVID-19 spread was on the verge of jeopardizing plans for in-person instruction, the state’s top Republicans sent a letter to Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren asking that he reconsider the cancellation of the fall 2020 college football season.
While universities attempt to mitigate money loss, students struggle with the idea of paying for Zoom University.
Freshmen say it is difficult to meet, spend time with due to social distancing, restrictions inside UW dormitories.
Protests prompted UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank to search for alternative means to honor former UW President Thomas C. Chamberlin.
As the ever present coronavirus looms, Badgers everywhere are adjusting to the fall semester.
A university spokesperson tells 27 News that officials believe the gathering did not take place in a campus residence hall. The caption in the video reads “Covid dorms”The university is now working to identify the students involved and will be pursuing the appropriate disciplinary action.
APrairie du Sac man treated for an overdose was arrested after barricading himself in a restroom while armed with a knife on Saturday night at University Hospital, police reported.
Madison’s mayor thinks she knows exactly what’s causing so many college students to catch COVID-19, and in her mind, it’s preventable.
A relatively small number of UW-Madison students were tested for COVID-19 on Labor Day, but the percentage of those tests that were positive saw a significant jump.
A spokesperson for the university said in an email that data showed that the spread is due to social interactions, not academic interactions.
At least 71 percent of the 901 people in the county who tested positive were UW students or members of its staff, Public Health Madison & Dane Co. reports. The agency’s numbers come a day after the university directed its students to restrict their in-person interactions and limit their movements to essential actions for the next two weeks.
Agroup of 10 Midwest politicians are adding to the voices pleading for the Big Ten Conference to overturn its decision to postpone the fall football season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Black Lives Matter movement gains traction in media, so does complicated history involving Lincoln statue.
For as long as federal funding for school lunch programs has existed, the labor that makes those meals possible has been low-paid and underappreciated. “A lot of teachers were forming unions in the 1960s and ’70s, but there was a reluctance for cafeteria workers to do the same,” Jennifer Gaddis, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools, told me. “There was this idea that you’re taking money away from free-lunch programs for kids. But historically, there’s never been a lot of national or state-level support within school nutrition, until recently.”
More than a century ago, when the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology was the Department of Home Economics, students learned in a Practice Cottage, a house in which they were required to live for a period of time to apply and test what they had learned in their classes. Learning through doing expanded and amplified what happened in the classroom and reframed the home as a place of innovation, change and possibility.
Quoted: “That will really look different depending on the community resources and assets,” Paula Tran Inzeo, MATCH Director with the UW Population Health Institute said. “Whether there’s a place for folks to go depending on the system or if they’ll be sending folks home, but you’ll want to separate people.”
The mysterious candy factory is the ultimate prize, and with it comes full ownership of the building and a candy making course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Klein said. Whoever claims the candy factory can create their own candy company, though Klein will offer his confectionary expertise if necessary.
