The University of Wisconsin-Madison will begin offering free rapid COVID-19 testing to all community members Thursday as part of a federally funded initiative.
With over 30,000 undergraduates, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is truly massive. In spite of that, the school breaks down into much more manageable groups, with students finding a home away from home on sports teams, in fraternities and sororities, or even in political activism; something the school is known for.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison released a guideline Thursday morning to students on how to plan for Thanksgiving and beyond. The university says beginning November 30th in-person group instruction, including finals, will be fully remote. For students who wish to travel outside of the state, the university recommends that students stay home to complete the rest of the semester online.
The colors were to honor and recognize the men and women who have fought for our country on Veterans Day.
“We’ve been expressing concern for several weeks now, along with local and state leaders, about the continuing spike in COVID-19 cases in Dane County and throughout Wisconsin,” Director of News and Media Relations Meredith McGlone said of the ongoing spike in campus cases. “It is unfortunately not surprising that we are also seeing an increase in positivity rates on campus, although our rates continue to be below the surrounding community.”
Meanwhile, UW-Madison said its rapid tests for COVID-19 will be available to the general public starting Thursday, by appointment only at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
Working in tandem with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), the volunteers with the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project (UW MIA RIP) work to locate and repatriate the remains of American military members unaccounted for.
Oguz Alagoz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor who specializes in modeling the spread of infectious diseases, said many factors, like changing human behavior or the availability of a vaccine, could impact the accuracy of a projection. But he agrees with IHME’s estimate.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will start offering free COVID -19 testing to area residents starting Thursday as part of a new effort by the UW System to help with testing efforts statewide.
UW Health is thanking and recognizing veterans.
Rapid antigen testing from Abbott BinaxNOW delivers results in as little as 15 minutes. Tests will be available by appointment only at the Nielsen Tennis Stadium. The site is fully accessible.
The university will start offering the tests to everyone, not just students and staff, and they do not need to be suffering symptoms to participate.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will start offering free COVID-19 testing to area residents, ages five years and older, starting Thursday as part of a new effort by the UW System to help with testing efforts statewide.
UW-Madison will offer free COVID-19 tests to members of the local community, not just UW students and staff, starting on Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
The early signing period for college basketball recruits began Wednesday.Top athletes signed letters of intent to play at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University next season.
Wisconsin men’s and women’s basketball and men’s and women’s hockey home games will continue to hold home games, just without fans in the stands. The update applies to both LaBahn Arena and Kohl Center.
Extending a decision made for University of Wisconsin football games at Camp Randall Stadium, parents of Badgers players won’t immediately be allowed to watch basketball and hockey games in person this season.
Wednesday night originally was scheduled to be the start of the 2020-21 season, and it would have been a doozy of a matchup for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
Amid the bleak landscape that has been 2020, finding moments of brightness and pleasure has been an understandable challenge. For Sami Schalk, a Black and disabled writer and professor, navigating the physical and emotional strain of the pandemic has proved particularly challenging. Enter her multi-part project, #QuarantineLooks: Embracing the Fabulously Mundane, soon to be presented as part of the ongoing exhibition Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, now online via the Ford Foundation Gallery.
“If you’re a rural resident, you’re seeing that economically, your type of community is struggling,” said Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
According to data from UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, more than two-thirds of high school athletes surveyed since the pandemic reported feelings of anxiety and depression at levels typically requiring medical intervention.
