The Nicholas Recreation Center is scheduled to open Monday with limited capacity on the site of the former Southeast Recreational Facility near the Kohl Center and LaBahn Arena. The University Recreation and Wellbeing building includes the Soderholm Family Aquatic Center that will be home to the Badgers swimming and diving teams.
Researchers are developing a new experimental vaccine which would be taken through the nose. The vaccine activates a different part of the immune system called T-cells, which can rapidly protect against multiple strains of influenza.
Faculty members from at least two universities have held no-confidence votes in recent weeks against their top leaders, in part over reopening decisions. Government leaders want the University of Wisconsin-Madison to send its students home. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, alarmed by what he sees as draconian rules on college campuses, said he is drawing up a “bill of rights” for college students.
In Wednesday’s newsletter, we mentioned a spat between the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and the executive of the surrounding Dane County. Over the past week, there have been an average of 2,018 cases per day in Wisconsin, an increase of 112 percent from the average two weeks earlier, according to a Times tracker.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison lifted quarantine orders for two of its largest dorms on Wednesday, on a day when the state added 56 hospitalizations from COVID-19 complications to its record total.
Just two weeks after going remote because of a COVID-19 spike, the University of Wisconsin Madison is resuming in-person activities, despite what Gov. Tony Evers described as a “near-exponential” increase in coronavirus cases in the state.
The positivity rate for students has decreased to a level the University feels safe for in-person classes to resume.
When the news came down, drum major Josh Richlen said his first reaction was disappointment. “There are a lot of good memories from being in Camp Randall, so it’s just really unfortunate to not be able to do that this year,” he said.
A small group of UW-Madison students is feeding hundreds of others for free. They’re making quarantine grocery shopping healthy and affordable.
“We are of course sad that we can not get together because it’s a great event and we’ve had a great time with the 5K every year,” said co-president Andreas Kyrvasilis, “but on the plus side, it’s giving us the possibility to engage people all over the country.”
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on campus have led UW-Madison to establish a partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“This is a time of great complexity and challenge for colleges and universities,” Blank said. “I look forward to working with my colleagues to address the many important issues affecting our student athletes and our athletic programs.”
While the 2020 season is scheduled to occur without fans, the Badger Band, or university-sponsored tailgates, Governor Tony Evers said he believes the Big Ten Conference should do more to discourage fans from having large watch parties or crowding bars to watch games, which begin the weekend of October 23-24.
Easy, guys. Instead of pointing fingers, let’s acknowledge that the novel coronavirus has been hard to control, and no one is really sure where the pandemic is heading. We hope a reliable vaccine will emerge soon.
Interviewed: Joining us to talk about what we can learn from debates from years past is UW professor Mike Wagner.
Quoted: “We think that the racial disparities we see are something that we can really start chipping away at,” Dr. John Eason, an associate professor of sociology at UW-Madison, tells Madison365.
Interviewed: Jackson is a Vilas Distinguished Professor and Chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
One conceit of the film was that Dr. Cheney had to act out much of her ambition vicariously because of her sex. But she says that she rarely felt limitations as a woman and recalls that her first real encounter with sexism came when she was looking for a job after getting a Ph.D. in 19th-century British literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“One department head said to me, ‘Now Dr. Cheney, I need to ask: Are you married or are you really interested in a career?’” Such attitudes pushed her toward the flexibility of writing, she says, which she could do at odd hours at the dining table. When she lived in places where libraries were inaccessible, she resorted to writing fiction.
Bryan Fisher, a UW-Madison freshman quarantined in the dorms, said students were allowed to leave only to get food from the dining hall, and they were given only 30 minutes to make each trip. He said he spent his time studying and watching movies.
