Testing sites will be set up at every University of Wisconsin System campus, including two-year campuses that are often located in more rural areas of the state. Most sites are scheduled to open up next week.
The University of Wisconsin System will pioneer a new, federally funded testing plan by providing 250,000 COVID-19 tests at on-campus sites as early as Thursday.
“I wouldn’t want to speculate on how the Court would rule, but the argument that voters relied on the rules in place on and before Election Day – and should therefore have their votes counted – is very strong,” said Dan Tokaji, dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
The Abbot BinaxNOW tests can provide results in 15 minutes, according to a press release from the UW System sent Wednesday.
“Our universities are perfectly positioned to help Wisconsin combat the spread of COVID-19,” said UW System President Tommy Thompson on Wednesday.
On Wednesday the University of Wisconsin announced its campuses will open free “surge testing sites” that provide rapid-result COVID-19 tests to off-campus community members, with the aim of alleviating the high demand for testing across the state.
The University of Wisconsin System has been provided with 250,000 rapid-result COVID-19 tests as part of a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to establish surge testing sites on UW System campuses.
’There has never been a more important time to support UW–Madison,’ Chancellor Blank says.
The UW-Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service’s BadgersVote initiative aims to educate and assist students in preparation for elections. Recent campaigns and events — such as Zoom the Vote sessions and Virtual Voting Office Hours — uphold the BadgersVote mission “to drive student civic and voter engagement.”
Madison residents living in 13 wards with high concentrations of UW-Madison students cast 13,759 ballots at their local polling places, a 31 percent decrease in votes cast in those same districts during the 2016 presidential election. Votes from the five wards that encompass the university’s residence halls and Eagle Heights graduate student neighborhood totaled 2,526 — less than half of the 5,692 from four years ago.
A day after lines at the Madison COVID-19 testing center stretched more than two hours long, the city’s health department is investigating several large gatherings over the Halloween weekend.
The violations come amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in the state and over a weekend in which Wisconsin reached the grim milestone of 2,000 deaths.
For the second consecutive week, the University of Wisconsin canceled a football game because of a coronavirus outbreak in the program.
The University of Wisconsin canceled this weekend’s planned football game against Purdue University after at least 27 positive cases within the program, including Coach Paul Chryst. Wisconsin had previously canceled its game against the University of Nebraska.
Midway through a second week of a COVID-19 shutdown, the players of the University of Wisconsin football team are in a holding pattern.
For the first time in over a week, University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst can return to work at his office at Camp Randall Stadium.
Letter to the editor: The state, like Wisconsin football, is setting records we don’t like: Rising COVID-19 cases, record hospitalizations, more deaths.
Letter to the editor: UW System policy sets one year as the default length for fixed-term appointments. Other UW campuses set the minimum position length at one academic year. UW-Madison can and should do better.
Hunting also increased in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan after wolves in those states were federally delisted, adds Adrian Treves, an ecologist who leads the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“Fruits are treated differently in Asian culture and in Japanese society especially,” Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CNN in 2019. “Fruit purchase and consumption are tied to social and cultural practices.
Nancy Wong, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s because stockpiling items, like we had seen earlier in the pandemic, serves as a security blanket.
“People feel assured and soothed by something that is concrete,” she said.
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds, has helped create a series of meditative soundtracks to cope with the anxiety of the election.
Broad-based shutdowns in March and April brought economic worries to places such as the rural upper midwest long before the virus was widespread there. Political scientist Kathy Cramer, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this was certainly the case in Wisconsin, where an edge-of-your-seat finish is now playing out.
“There is no doubt that, in general, people were experiencing economic effects more than the health effects of the pandemic,” especially in the spring and summer, said Cramer. Cramer is also author of the Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.
Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said earlier on Wednesday that Trump appeared to be trailing Biden by about 22,000 to 23,000 votes in the state, which would amount to less than one percentage point.
UW Political Science Professor Howard Schweber, who is an expert in constitutional law, judicial law, democratic theory and American politics, said the current political climate and election are complicated, and political parties are less sure than they thought they were with the election numbers and results.
Shalala previously served as President Bill Clinton’s secretary of Health and Human Services. Shalala also is a former president of the University of Miami and chancellor at the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin has one of the highest proportions of white voters without college degrees in the country, and few voters of color. But Mr. Biden ultimately was able to eke about 20,000 more votes than Mr. Trump, with healthy margins in more populated counties like Dane, home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Milwaukee.
