Let’s start with an inconvertible fact: Being outdoors is very low risk. This holds for kids and adults. A new study, out in preprint but not fully peer reviewed, from the University of Wisconsin, which followed nearly 1,000 schools and more than 150,000 athletes, found that outdoor sports had half the rate of new cases as indoor sports.
After a year of virtual graduation ceremonies spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, students at some University of Wisconsin System campuses will be able to receive their diplomas in person this spring. While festivities will be mostly virtual, a growing number of universities are working on plans to allow students to walk across the stage.
The UW System is reviewing communications involving UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank after reports that she kept those discussions last fall out of the public eye, according to a spokesperson. In response, Blank is apologizing for the ‘appearance’ of skirting public record laws last fall during Big Ten discussions about a return to campus and football season plans.
Students should observe COVID-19 protocols, Director of UW News and Media Relations says.
The election will determine the 33 representatives that will serve on the 28th session of ASM. Students vote for the allotted amount of representatives within their school or college, and each student casts three votes for SSFC, which oversees the allocation of nearly $51 million in segregated fees.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Interfraternity Council organized “Mend Mendota” — a cleanup event on Lake Mendota Monday afternoon — after trash left on the ice after weekend gatherings garnered social media attention. Members of eight IFC chapters and one Panhellenic Association sorority gathered on the melting ice to pick up trash left behind after parties over the weekend.
The list speaks to many parts of the Latino experience, including people who are native to the United States and its territories and those who migrated to the country because of its politics and interventions in Latin America, Theresa Delgadillo, a Chicana and Latina studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an interview.
Texas A&M University opted for a three-day weekend instead of a whole week off. The University of Alabama and the University of Wisconsin-Madison also did away with spring break but are giving students a day off later in the semester.
The top-ranked Badgers (10-0) had their season paused due to positive tests for COVID-19 following their matches Feb. 20-21 at Michigan State. Double matches against Nebraska and Iowa the past two weekends were postponed.
The Badgers are a virtual lock for the NCAA tournament regardless of how they do in the Big Ten playoffs that start March 14 in South Bend, Indiana. UW plays the winner of the Notre Dame-Penn State quarterfinal in the March 15 semifinals.
“The thing that struck me first and I think will stay with me the longest is that she began the interview” with ethics-related disclosures, said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That was such a fantastic way to be transparent about what we were going to see in that interview last night, and how we as viewers can judge its credibility.”
UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer said maintaining a high level of security is “absolutely crucial,” but fraud of the kind that was claimed in 2020 is “vanishingly rare.”
In written testimony presented to the Senate’s education committee last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Sarah Gesner said lessons about the Holocaust at her Racine high school spurred greater awareness of bullying and prejudice in the community.
