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March 8, 2021

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ASM introduces bill to expand Ethnic Studies requirements

Daily Cardinal

The Associated Students of Madison (ASM) introduced an endorsement seeking to increase the Ethnic Studies Requirement at UW-Madison from three credits to six on March 4. There has been an increase of bias and hate towards minority groups on campus, pushing the university to seek ways to foster a more inclusive environment.

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‘Think about them like individual songs’: UW-Madison professor explains COVID-19 variants

NBC-15

“I think a really useful way of thinking about these variants isn’t to think about their abstract names which are impossible to remember, it isn’t to think about where they were originally from, but instead, it’s to think about them like individual songs,” explained UW-Madison professor of pathology and laboratory medicine Dave O’Connor.

Obituaries

Collins, Denis

Wisconsin State Journal

He began his academic career in 1990 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business and completed it at Edgewood College … At the time of his death, he was Professor Emeritus at Edgewood College School of Business and Visiting Professor at UW-Madison.

UW-Madison Related

What Spring Looks Like in Every State, in Photos

Newsweek

Wisconsin residents know it’s spring when the first tulips begin to peek through the snow—and what better place to catch a glimpse than the state’s many botanical gardens? The garden at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is home to more than 500 species representing 100 families and 40 taxonomic orders of plants from all over the world.