Citing rapidly rising COVID-19 cases including two straight days in which one in five student tests came back positive, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank locked down the state’s largest university campus for two weeks.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says it has directed nine off-campus sororities and fraternities to quarantine for 14 day
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi is asking the University of Wisconsin-Madison to send students living in residence halls home after the campus has reported more than 1,000 positive cases of COVID-19.
Due to a recent upward trend in positivity rates and coronavirus cases, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will switch to remote learning for at least two weeks, effective immediately, and residents at two different dormitories will be required to quarantine during that time.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving all classes online and quarantining two residence halls due to a spike in positive cases of COVID-19, just one week after students returned to campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving all classes online and quarantining students in two of its largest dorms as it deals with rising cases of COVID-19.
Students scrambled in and out of Witte Residence Hall on Wednesday night with their arms full of Ian’s Pizza boxes, panic-bought groceries and bags full of trash. One student entered the building announcing, “Goodbye, rain! Goodbye, fresh air!” as he prepared to enter two weeks of quarantine announced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison less than two hours earlier.
UW-Madison is moving all classes online and quarantining students in two of its largest dorms for at least the next two weeks, the most significant step by the university to curb a COVID-19 outbreak that has surpassed 1,000 infections in mere days.
Alab at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center started manufacturing a new drug to treat COVID-19 patients, the university announced Wednesday.
“That’s why,” explained astronomer Elena D’Onghia of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “we came out with a new solution that is excellent at explaining the mass of the stream.”
’Our goals are to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 infection and promote the safety of our human research participants and our community,’ the announcement says.
Carl Ross is the director of Waisman Biomanufacturing, which is affiliated with the university. He says the drug, GIGA-2050, is different from a vaccine because it won’t provide long-term immunity.
In a wide-ranging interview hosted by the Milwaukee Press Club, Evers also defended the University of Wisconsin System’s plans to return to campus and said he wouldn’t change anything about how his administration responded to the recent unrest in Kenosha.
If the WIAA has state championships this fall, they won’t happen at the University of Wisconsin.
Wednesday the state’s high school sports governing body and the university announced that due to the “challenging situation with COVID-19 restrictions in Dane County” no state championships will be held on the UW campus this fall.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi has asked the University of Wisconsin-Madison to consider sending undergraduate students who live in dorms home as COVID-19 continues to spread.
42% of 600 initiatives submitted on the site made by students.
Residents who break quarantine cannot come back for two weeks.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has elected not to heed requests from Dane County elected officials, instead opting to move to completely remote instruction from Sept. 10 to the 25.
A record number of COVID-19 cases in Dane County, driven by University of Wisconsin-Madison students returning to campus, prompted a call from the Dane County executive to discontinue in-person classes, and local public health officials Wednesday issued a warning to people who frequent downtown Madison.
The WIAA and the University of Wisconsin announced Wednesday that WIAA tournaments will not be conducted at UW facilities this fall.
The Dane County Jail record for Englert also lists a tentative graffiti charge submitted by UW-Madison Police.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving all classes online and quarantining students in two of its largest dorms as it deals with rising cases of COVID-19.
UW-Madison is going to virtual instruction for the next two weeks and is quarantining students in Sellery and Witte Residence Halls.
A stream of students with bags full of snacks and packs of water filed out of the Fresh Madison Market Wednesday night. As of 10 p.m., residents of Witte and Sellery Halls were to quarantine in place for the next two weeks per an order from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
At least 74% of Dane County’s new positive cases have been connected to UW since beginning of September.
With positive cases per day rising with a sudden spike in cases on the isthmus in early September, little guesswork needs to be done to determine who the culprit might be — university students.
Due to the rise in COVID-19 cases on the UW-Madison campus, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi is asking university officials to require undergraduates living in residence halls to move back home for the rest of this semester.
The health system is actively working to improve recruitment and retention of employees of color, expanding DEI professional development and training programs and integrating tools into decision-making and operational processes that improve equity. UW Health is building upon existing community partnerships and increasing its investment into communities of color. UW Health also plans to support healthcare-related public policy that addresses systemic racism.
The University of Wisconsin football and men’s hockey teams are taking a two-week pause as COVID-19 issues consume campus.
The WIAA and UW Wisconsin-Madison announced the WIAA fall state tournaments and culminating events will not be conducted at UW facilities this fall due to COVID restrictions in Dane County.
Letter to the editor: UW-Madison has restricted student movement and activities for 14 days due to an increase in COVID-19 cases. This increase is to be expected. More students and more testing will do this.
“Everyone is rooting for them to succeed beyond anyone’s expectation, but it’s prudent to think about what happens if they don’t,” says Dave O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “We need to make sure we have back-up plans — and back-up plans to those back-up plans.”
Just days after moving ahead with a critical Phase 3 trial in the U.S., pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has hit pause, even as the nation tops 6 million coronavirus cases and 190,000 deaths. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY. (Dave O’Connor and Shelby O’Connor)
Noted: Polack, who grew up in Racine and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, served at the U.S. Treasury Department as an intelligence analyst and policy adviser under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
