Delgado joined the board in 2014, where he was “a champion of higher education as a way to improve lives and communities in Wisconsin while holding the UW System accountable,” Board of Regents President Andrew Petersen and Interim UW System President Tommy Thompson said in a joint statement Monday.
University of Wisconsin Regent José Delgado died Sunday. In addition to his service in higher education, Delgado was a lifelong engineer and, most notably, founder of American Transmission Company.
“We thank the federal government for their confidence in us, and we’re pleased that our university sites can continue to be used in the fight against this insidious disease,” Thompson said. “Where there’s a problem, I want the UW System here to help.”
UW System President Tommy Thompson and Regent President Andrew Petersen announced Delgado’s passing in a statement Monday.
Interim System President Tommy Thompson and board president Drew Petersen announced Monday that Regent José Delgado died Sunday. Former Republican Gov. Scott Walker appointed Delgado to the 18-member board in 2014. His term was set to expire in May.
“It is with great sadness that we learned our friend and colleague José Delgado passed away yesterday.”
COVID-19 surge testing sites at University of Wisconsin System campuses will be extended, UW System President Tommy Thompson announced Monday.
University of Wisconsin System Interim President Tommy Thompson says Republican leaders in the state Legislature warned him not to include any tuition increases in his first budget request or it wouldn’t “go anywhere.”
In her latest book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” Isabel Wilkerson details a moment from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s trip to India in 1959, when he realized that India’s caste system was not unique to one country, but mirrored a similar illness in American society.
Day one of the spring semester at UW-Madison also meant day one of new, drop-in COVID testing — which started out a little rocky for sophomores Brian Pfeffer and Madison Tessler.
“I don’t think it’s that bad. I think the appointments made it easier to manage,” Madison Tessler, UW-Madison sophomore said. “I think it’s going to be hard to avoid lines.”
UHS, UWPD will discuss integration of mental health care professionals into responding to mental health situations.
Wilkerson’s recent book ’Caste’ looks at how advent of slavery led to caste system that continues to exist in today’s United States.
UW releases statement claiming ASM’s legislation takes legal liberties, ASM Chair refutes legality claims.
ASM Chair Matthew Mitnick maintains that the organization’s ultimate goal this past fall was to elevate the voices of students previously left out of important conversations and decision-making processes at UW-Madison.
According to UW Health, the good news is that children may be excited to pull away from their screens as the consequences of the pandemic lessen. “We know that while the pandemic has had a huge affect on this cohort and this generation, we also know that they’re going to be coming out of it together and probably very eager to connect and very eager to kind of catch up on those social skills if you will,” said Dr. Megan Moreno.
The two-week athletic shutdown at Michigan that was announced late Saturday didn’t have an immediate impact on the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team schedule.
While First Amendment education could prove beneficial per Thompson Center free speech survey, undergraduates are more sympathetic to free speech protections than results show.
But do these vast differences play a role in forming the politics of future citizens? That’s something political scientists and education experts have debated for decades. “High quality civic education is essential to ensure that this generation of young people is fully prepared to participate wisely and well in the political and civic realms,” said Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s school of education and an expert in civic and political education. “That said, the crisis of epic proportions facing our democracy was caused by a confluence of factors and certainly should not be blamed solely or even primarily on what did or did not happen in our schools.”
Unfortunately, other social media outlets—where 55 percent of Americans often or sometimes get their news, according to a Pew Research study—were bereft of such information. So Ritter, Buttenheim and Malia Jones, a former Penn epidemiologist now at University of Wisconsin-Madison, started a Facebook page called Dear Pandemic, a source for easy-to-understand, science-backed Covid information written by a volunteer team of 12 women scientists from around the country and England, including five in Philly. (The team is supported by a project coordinator and a team of experts, translators, student employees, and interns.)
“Essentially, the huge number of cumulative infections worldwide provides a large number of opportunities for viruses to acquire beneficial mutations and then spread preferentially,” said Thomas Friedrich, a vaccine expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “This is kind of like playing an evolutionary slot machine. One individual slot may be unlikely to hit the jackpot — but if you are able to play millions of slots in parallel, hitting the jackpot on a few becomes much more likely.”
Biden’s administration could also oversee unemployment return to the low levels that it had been at under the past two administrations, though the pandemic is still wreaking havoc on major sectors of the economy, UW-Madison economist Steven Deller said. “Once COVID is under control, there is no reason why we can’t go back to a pre-COVID economy,” Deller said.
A research scientist at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, Cortland Dahl, says stress events, like the previous election and lead-up to the inauguration, can exacerbate a mantel health issues. Dahl noted that cases of anxiety and depression tripled in 2020, and turbulent events like a contentious election can just make things worse.
He left in 1961 for a job at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, then another at Lake Forest College, outside Chicago. But he came to believe that his left-wing politics had foreclosed the possibility of an academic career in the United States.
