Two new studies spearheaded by researchers from UW-Madison highlight the shortcomings of racial and ethnic diversity progress among mentorship relationships in the postsecondary Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematic and Medicine (STEMM) fields.
In early September, 37 volunteers received their first dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate at University Hospital at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
At a voting tent in front of UW-Madison’s Memorial Union, students were waiting more than 45 minutes to get their opportunity to vote. But students said they didn’t mind spending time waiting out in the cold.
Despite the drastic change in the event’s formatting, Mary Carr Lee, the communications director for the DDEEA, noted that the virtual space allows for more participants.
Gov. Tony Evers praised University of Wisconsin-Madison officials for taking COVID-19 precautions “very seriously” by closing down parking lots to prevent tailgating and allowing only essential personnel inside the stadium, reversing an earlier decision to allow parents of players inside Camp Randall.
The Madison Common Council rejected sending a letter to UW-Madison urging them to move all classes online and close dorms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a late night vote, the council voted 14-5 against a non-binding resolution that called for the university to move all classes online, empty out dorms, expand testing capacity, hire more contact tracers and reconsider moving forward with the football season.
Madison’s City Council voted Tuesday not to send an official message to University of Wisconsin-Madison officials that would have urged them to discontinue in-person classes and alter policies to reduce the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the Madison community.
University Health Services (UHS) Associate Psychologist Dr. Corey Steele hosted a REDtalk on student mental health and wellness during the current semester as part of Wisconsin Alumni Association’s homecoming 2020 festivities.
Public Health Madison and Dane County last week did walk-throughs of Regent Street businesses in Madison — near Camp Randall Stadium, where the Badgers will host Illinois beginning at 7 p.m. Friday — to make sure bars weren’t behaving as restaurants and allowing indoor dining.
Black student athletes, at UW-Madison and beyond, have long demanded more seats at the table within a college athletics system that uniquely depends on them for success and survival. But even at a university with a long tradition of student activism, student athletes leading protesters across campus was a “demonstration of solidarity that we’ve never seen before,” said associate athletic director Mike Jackson in an interview with NBC15 News at the protest.
Following list of demands from UW BIPOC committee, Chancellor Blank must implement student safety committee, among other demands.
The election of a U.S. president is complicated. Though the voting ends Nov. 3, at that point the process of presidential selection is just getting started. It takes weeks for the institutional machinery to crank. As eager as we at the end of a long campaign season to know who won, it is imperative to let the system work as we intended.
Voter ID laws have emerged in the last decade as part of a wider push by Republican legislatures, ostensibly with the aim of curbing voter fraud, says University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Kenneth Mayer. But he says the laws’ real aim is to keep voters who are more likely to vote Democrat – like the young, poor or African-Americans – at home.
Merritt Norvell, a former University of Wisconsin halfback who became a successful Madison businessman and fought for racial equality, died Monday. He was 79.
