Soccer star and Badger alumna Rose Lavelle will deliver the keynote address at UW-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony, which will be held online because of COVID-19.
Two hundred and fifty students have withdrawn from the University of Wisconsin-Madison so far this fall, a number not substantially larger than the 208 withdrawals at the same point in the fall semester a year ago. The number makes up about 0.5% of the student body.
Both the Marquette University Law School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Elections Research Center polls showed Mr. Trump moving within the margin of error in September, with just a 4-point lead for Mr. Biden among likely voters. That’s the tightest Marquette result since May and a 4-point improvement for the president in the University of Wisconsin poll since August — a period in which he also narrowed Mr. Biden’s lead among independents in the UW poll.
The University of Wisconsin—Madison joined the Common Application in 2016 but chose then to suppress the school-discipline question from the material it transfers over into its application review system.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has implemented full and partial layoffs affecting 35 people — or about 18% of the staff — in the Division of Continuing Studies, citing the COVID-19 pandemic’s financial toll.
While most of the celebrations will be virtual, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates this December will have a big-time name speaking at commencement.
The speaker for UW-Madison’s Winter Commencement knows a few things about goals.
’The University makes me feel like my Blackness is a burden,’ BIPOC students struggle to find safe, welcoming spaces on campus.
The state government, along with a university, will work to find strategies to help communities of color respond to, and recover from, COVID-19.
Evers was joined by Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, the Department of Health Services and Population Health Institute at University of Wisconsin- Madison to discuss the initiative.
The Dane County Board will meet Thursday to consider various items related to COVID-19, including a resolution to urge University of Wisconsin- Madison to discontinue in-person classes.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey locker room is a different place these days.
The pads are on as UW football started fall camp on Wednesday.
Other archived data could prove useful, too. Sousa-Silva is currently looking through old infrared telescope observations of Venus, hunting for additional overlooked evidence of phosphine. And Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who is a co-author of Mogul’s preprint paper, says old data from the Soviet Venera probes—while unlikely to have been sensitive enough to detect phosphine—may contain evidence for atomic phosphorus, which could hint at the presence of molecular phosphine, too. He notes, however, that the whereabouts of much of those data is unknown. Still, Limaye says, “somebody probably has some records.”
