A recent complaint against the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) over mistreatment of animal research subjects at UW-Madison is just one item in a decades-long list of grievances animal rights groups have brought against the laboratory.
Survey results show an even split between University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students’ preferences for how they are taught during the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students were more averse to in-person activities and cited reduced access to physical resources, spaces and research as the biggest barriers to academic progress this year.
Students were selected for the task force by an application process. Several positions on the committee were held for people that represented different student groups — such as first-year students, international students and house fellows.
As a relatively new group on campus, BIPOC Coalition co-founder Tarah Stangler said the organization is trying to gauge what students would like to see the group accomplish in upcoming semesters.
This wasn’t the only recent tree theft. Last month, someone cut down and removed a rare 25-foot Algonquin pillar Swiss mountain pine tree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tree had been planted in 1988 and it was worth an estimated $13,000, according to police.
Doctors and nurses are working around the clock fighting to keep covid-19 patients alive as cases climb in the Badger State.
As the demand for COVID19 testing in Dane County continues to surge, the free public testing site at UW Madison will remain open for most of this month.
UW-Madison officials are reminding people that they are continuing to provide free COVID-19 testing on campus.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez believes the Big Ten Conference may need to change rules regarding the conference’s football championship game if Ohio State isn’t eligible.
Steven Deller, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed the COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity for rural Wisconsin.
Craig Roberts, epidemiologist emeritus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that “bubbles sound good in concept but are difficult to pull off, especially at this scale.”
“The key, he said, “is the degree to which the community stays in the bubble, of course, and nobody violates the rules” — sneaking into town, for example. But staff members could be potential problems if they’re coming and going from the community. That makes it more like a long-term care facility, he said, where only residents are on lockdown.
Bars played a critical role in the COVID-19 outbreaks plaguing UW-Madison earlier this semester, according to a scientific paper by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist.
