Money noted the benefits of UW-Madison, including that people 60 and older can audit courses for free; our “bustling restaurant scene and free events,” such as Concerts on the Square and the Dane County Farmers’ Market; the city’s art institutions, and attractions like the Madison’s Children Museum and Henry Vilas Zoo for entertaining young relatives.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield earned a master’s degree in public administration from UW-Madison in 1975, has spoken at African Studies Program events and launched the university’s Young African Leaders Initiative, which brings two dozen African leaders to campus for several weeks.
We now have the first data released from a third covid-19 vaccine, the one in trials here in Madison. The AstraZeneca vaccine seems to be the least effective of the three so far.
Known as Solvent-Targeted Recovery and Precipitation (STRAP) processing, the experimental technology is being developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A white anti-racism speaker was paid more than a black speaker at an annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Forum event.Robin DiAngelo, a white woman who authored the best-selling book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, was paid $12,750 to speak at the event. Austin Channing Brown, a black woman who was the other keynote speaker, was paid $7,500 for her appearance, according to receipts obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. No other speakers were paid for their appearances.
’I hope that [DREAMers of UW-Madison] is not at all discouraged from applying in the future,’ SSFC Rep says.
Minnesota has been battling rising coronavirus numbers within the program and school officials announced Monday night the team will not practice Tuesday.
COVID-19 may call off another University of Wisconsin football game this season, but this time it’s not the Badgers’ fight with the virus that’s causing the problem.
Sensing an increased number of students sticking around campus for the holiday and noticing heightened demand at the university food pantry, student organizers coordinated the pantry’s first holiday food drive. About 100 students placed orders for Thanksgiving groceries, which they pick up this week.
Student activists are calling on the UW Police Department to remove a “thin blue line” flag in its offices, after a social media photo revealed the “Blue Lives Matter” symbol hanging prominently in the department’s office.
If you get the Wisconsin State Journal Sunday mornings, you saw a large open letter signed by thousands of UW Health employees. This is what it looks like, urging Wisconsin families to get through the pandemic. Dr. Ann Sheehy explains.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health–Meriter have received a limited supply (116 doses) of bamlanivimab, an investigational therapy for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adult and pediatric patients.
“The top line is this is more great news,” said Dave O’Connor, a vaccinologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is a volunteer in the AstraZeneca trial. (He believes he received the placebo, because he had no side effects after either dose.)
Luke Carmosino, a junior at University of Wisconsin–Madison, is flying home to Irvington, New York, for Thanksgiving. Carmosino tested positive for the virus in September and said he has little concerns about re-contracting the virus. He plans to follow the protocols New York state has set up for incoming travelers, which entails two tests – one before arrival and one four days after – along with a mandatory quarantine period. If a person has a negative test taken after their fourth day of quarantine, they can exit quarantine.
The scale of the pandemic is straining health care systems in Wisconsin so badly that even large hospitals like UW Health University Hospital in Madison are nearly full, said Jeff Pothof, a physician and chief quality officer at UW Health … “Early on, we managed the surge, we had contingency plans, we were keeping up,” said Pothof. “But now we’re getting towards the end of that book. If we get there, we don’t have anything magic. We don’t have anything else left up our sleeve.”
Biden’s platform states that “student debt both exacerbates and results from the racial wealth gap.” Of the 1 in 5 Americans with student loan debt, a disproportionate number are Black. Nick Hillman, associate professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison, points out that data shows in communities of color, 17% of borrowers are in default and their median loan is $9,067.
Thomas-Greenfield is a University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna who has worked with the Young African Leaders Initiative on campus.
The Biden Transition team noted in a news release that Thomas-Greenfield earned her bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University and her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. She also worked toward a PhD at UW Madison.
Thomas-Greenfield earned a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1975 and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from UW in 2018, a year after she retired following a 35-year career in foreign service.
