The University of Wisconsin-Madison is requesting that the Board of Regents approve increased tuition plans for some graduate and professional programs, a process that has taken place every two years since December 2014.
UW to allow ASM reps to be paid for international work, ASM reps express disappointment after UW Dean leaves meeting early.
In its final meeting of the semester, the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) approved legislation Tuesday night supporting international telecommuters and calling for a Pass/Fail and Satisfactory Disruption/Non-Satisfactory Disruption option for the Fall 2020 semester.
UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) Professor Michael Wagner focused specifically on a “pre-election” swing state and democratic agenda survey conducted by the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR), an SJMC research group dedicated “to understand[ing] the communication ecology and political culture in Wisconsin over the last decade.”
The DHS plans to implement a hub-and-spoke model, where Pfizer vaccine doses will be stored in a central location like UW Health before being shipped to healthcare systems. The Pfizer vaccine requires storage in a facility that is colder than -94 degrees Fahrenheit.
The first scheduling snafu this season arrived for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, and nobody within the program was particularly surprised or discouraged.
University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Steve Deller said the shortage continues to be a problem in Wisconsin. Deller pointed to a mismatch between the industries and positions that have seen large job losses during the pandemic, and those that are in need of workers.
The new fusion road map identifies technological gaps and nearer-term facilities to fill them (see partial list, below). “By identifying [a power plant] as a goal, that can trigger more research in those areas that support that mission,” says Stephanie Diem, a fusion physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For example, in a fusion power plant a barrage of energetic neutrons would degrade materials, so the report calls for developing a particle-accelerator–based neutron source to test new ones.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student government passed two resolutions Tuesday requesting that the school allow undergraduate student workers living abroad to keep their jobs and implement more flexible final exam and grading policies this semester.
