The University of Wisconsin-Madison hired a record number of faculty and graduated a record number of students in the last academic year, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Monday.
After news came out that President Donald Trump was undergoing an experimental antibody treatment, doctors at UW Health say interest in the study spiked after months of running tests.
UW Health is one of 100 clinical trial sites in the United States using a new antibody cocktail to treat coronavirus patients. Dr. William Hartman, UW Health’s principal investigator for the Regeneron clinical trial, joins Live at Four to talk about the experimental treatment.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team intends to play a full Big Ten Conference schedule in 2020-21 but has to eliminate some of its non-conference games.
Blank said economic losses from COVID-19 pandemic have put UW in ’the worst situation that anyone has seen.’
Schools, colleges and universities are exempt from the order, along with outdoor spaces.
UW Health has been working to donate child care equipment to local organizations.
A ‘mobility map’ out of UW-Madison tracks how Wisconsin came to be the “nation’s COVID-19 hot spot,” according to Governor Tony Evers.
Despite the recent decrease in COVID-19 cases on UW-Madison campus, it remains uncertain whether this improvement is merely a routine fluctuation or the result of adherence to on campus COVID-19 guidelines, PHMDC Public Health Supervisor and COVID-19 Data Team Lead Katherine Grande said.
Meeting expectations for a new chief is a “tough ask,” said Keith Findley, a UW-Madison law professor who co-chaired a resident-led ad hoc committee that studied the MPD. The panel was formed after an officer shot and killed Black teenager Tony Robinson in 2015.
Noted: Some election scholars, however, cite the charged atmosphere. “We’ve got a perfect storm of open challenges from the president to the integrity of the election process, and the termination of the consent decree,” said Kenneth Mayer, an election law expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s not too hard to envision circumstances in which this really gets out of hand.”
Noted: “Our public education system is a massive hidden child care subsidy,” said Jon Shelton, a historian of the teaching work force at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Jo Carter, 50, a project manager at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who lives alone, said that, pre-pandemic, she would regularly get massages and pedicures to have consistent touch.
