University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says students enrolling for the spring semester should expect continued restrictions on social gatherings and a mix of in-person and online classes due to COVID-19.
December 10, 2020
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PHOTO: 15-minute rapid COVID-19 tests are administered, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison‘s campus on November 24, 2020 in Madison, Wisconsin.
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“We haven’t harnessed that enough, the great creativity of our students,” said Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who examined student behavior for the National Academies. “This is the age where individuals want to be socially active, want to act for good, are aware of the needs of community.”
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