The University of Wisconsin has announced new eligibility for university staff and students to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
UPDATED: UW announces increased vaccine eligibility for staff, students, future eligibility depends on supply
Badger Herald
March 16, 2021
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Research
How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks
Scientific American
In a 2015 study, Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga, both then at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, found that this kind of corrective juxtapositioning can reduce users’ misperceptions.
Campus life
Student Safety is Key
The Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison Housing Locksmith Josh Armbruster treasures the essential trade of prioritizing repairs that foster residential safety for thousands of undergraduate students living on campus.
PAVE at UW-Madison advocates for an end to sexual violence on campus
The Daily Cardinal
The UW-Madison student organization that was established in 2001, PAVE works by facilitating workshops on gender-based violence, allyship, rape culture and dating norms. They also offer volunteer opportunities and host campus-wide events to educate and raise awareness.
Madison Plan Commission rejects second Hub II proposal
The Daily Cardinal
According to plans submitted to the committee by the Chicago-based real estate firm Core Spaces, the proposed building would be a 7-story, 106-unit apartment building situated at 126 Langdon St. The most recent proposal came after initial plans for the Hub II were denied by local officials in July.
Warmer weather, looser restrictions draw students to gather outdoors
Badger Herald
Students are ready to take advantage of the warm spring weather and the CDC verified gathering outside as the notably safer option, but the risk of increasing COVID-19 cases is largely dependent on how students chose to gather. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Professor Oguzhan Alagoz spoke on students gathering outdoors. “Yes, people are going to spend more time outdoors, which is great. But are they going to wear masks or are they going to let their guard down?” Alagoz said. “And that’s where I think it’s a big unknown.”
UW’s Sexual Harassment Policy remains relatively unchanged despite shifting Title IX regulations
Badger Herald
Despite Wisconsin lawmakers currently making permanent rules to conform to the Trump Administration’s Title IX policy changes — which, among other things, narrowed the Title IX definition of sexual harassment — the University of Wisconsin’s sexual harassment policy will remain relatively unchanged, according to UW’s Title IX director Lauren Hasselbacher.
Arts & Humanities
Madison singer wins Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Wisconsin State Journal
Sarah Brailey already hosts a Madison radio show, runs a music competition, co-founded a popular local live performance series, and is a month away from finishing her doctorate at UW-Madison.
Health
In the 608: UW Med Flight sharing positive perspective from high in the sky
Channel 3000
There’s a group of frontline workers going into work with a positive outlook every day, even in the middle of the pandemic. The UW Health Med Flight team is showing us a different point of view, many of us will never get the chance to see.
Few COVID-19 vaccine doses have been wasted in Wisconsin
Associated Press
The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, based at UW-Madison, is getting $2.7 million in federal funds to expand the whole genome sequencing necessary to identify such variants, state officials said. The lab will be able to do sequencing on 400 to 500 samples a week, up from 250 to 300 before.
Athletics
What’s life like in the bubble for the Badgers men’s basketball team?
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers arrived in Indiana last Wednesday for the Big Ten Conference tournament and will remain in the same hotel in downtown Indianapolis until they’re eliminated from the NCAA tournament.
UW Experts in the News
2 million Americans have been repaying their federal student-loans for 20 years
MarketWatch
“You’re working with a small number of people in the first place who were in it,” said Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor in the school of education at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. “A lot can happen in your life in 25 years; to whittle it down to 32 at the end, 32 people who must have stuck with that bureaucratic mess over this period of time, in some ways that’s not at all surprising because it’s a gauntlet.”
Other States Seek to Emulate Wisconsin’s Wolf Massacre
Sierra Club
Dr. Adrian Treves, a professor of environmental studies at UW-Madison and founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab, says the hunt was problematic for many reasons, but a few stand out. First, it throws off last year’s wolf count, which would have been used to create a new wolf management plan. “The data is now unreliable because a wolf that might have been counted could very well be dead by now,” says Treves.
Wisconsin Has Wasted Few COVID-19 Vaccine Doses, Data Shows
Wisconsin Public Radio
Providers at 167 sites reported losing at least one dose through February, with a median loss of five doses per site.
Ajay Sethi, a public health and infectious disease epidemiology researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called those figures impressive.
‘Transitions are hard’: Preparing students for a return to in-person learning
WKOW-TV 27
“Transitions are challenging for kids even under the most normal of circumstances,” Sarah Halpern-Meekin, a Human Development & Family Studies professor at UW-Madison, said Monday. “This is not the most normal circumstances.”
UW-Madison Related
UW experts offer perspective on recent Faculty Senate fossil fuel divestment resolution
Badger Herald
Earlier this month, the University of Wisconsin’s faculty senate passed a non-binding resolution urging the UW Foundation to do the same with the $3.3 billion endowment it manages on behalf of the university. In addition to divestment, the resolution calls on UW and the UW Foundation to disclose its financial stake in fossil fuels and take carbon footprint into account in their purchases.
UW researcher explores pandemic-exacerbated gender equity issues in blog
Badger Herald
Associate researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research Bailey Smolarek has created a blog series exploring pandemic-exacerbated gender equity issues to celebrate Women’s History Month.