Noted: Out of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, Milwaukee County ranks 70th in both health outcomes and health factors, according to the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Health outcomes measure length and quality of life, while health factors account for things that can improve health, such as access to education, quality clinical care, healthy food or affordable housing.
Noted: The prime injury culprits are specialization — which the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health defines as participation in a single sport for more than 8 months of the year — and overtraining.
A groundbreaking 2017 University of Wisconsin study of 1,544 Wisconsin high school athletes found that those who specialized were 70% more likely to sustain a lower extremity injury than athletes who played multiple sports.
“Should we really be asking our young kids to do what we’re asking our collegiate athletes?” asked David Bell, associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Injury in Sport Laboratory.
One issue is whether there can be only one flagship per state. Flagship is a nautical metaphor. The flagship is the grandest vessel in a flotilla; the leader. In this metaphor, the flagship is the “top” campus in a university system. For some states, this makes sense. The University of Wisconsin at Madison leads the University of Wisconsin system. In other states, two universities claim flagship status, such as the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses for the University of California system. Some states have two or more major university systems. The University of Texas at Austin is the University of Texas system’s flagship, but the College Station campus is the Texas A&M system’s flagship.
Classes on six UW System campuses start Sept. 7 or 8, while Rosh Hashanah begins on the evening of Sept. 6, ends sundown Sept. 8.
Wisconsin college leaders will take a close look in the coming weeks at President Joe Biden’s plan for a free community college program, which could influence already precarious enrollment patterns at schools struggling to fill seats.
According to the director of Marketing and Communication at University Housing, Brendon Dybdahl, the university is working in creative ways to open housing space and make sure every student feels at home.
University Housing and UW Conference Centers partnered in the temporary move as they expect an increase in the number of residents expected next year. According to the university, continued enrollment growth, an increase in the number of students living on campus and the renovation project at Sellery Hall are all factors in the new housing situation.
n this legislation, the Student Council officially committed to promoting self-determination, justice and liberation for Indigenous people at the UW-Madison and across Wisconsin. They further demanded that UW-Madison students should be able to apply to receive financial assistance from the COVID-19 Student Relief Fund as a one-time use of allocable fee reserves and demanded that UW-Madison eliminate a surcharge on students who take over 165 credits.
Associated Students of Madison Chair-elect junior Adrian Lampron and Vice Chair-elect sophomore Lennox Owino look forward to leading the student government’s 28th session beginning in the fall.
UW-Madison announced “thousands” of open appointments for vaccines Wednesday, as the state looks to continue a strong vaccine rollout.
At UW Health, telehealth was “very minimal” before the pandemic but accounted for the “vast majority” of visits last March and April, said Dr. Pete Newcomer, chief medical officer. It has settled at about 30% of visits, an amount he expects to remain. For some specialties, such as dermatology, telehealth hasn’t worked as well as expected, Newcomer said. “Sometimes you just need to see that lesion in person,” he said.
The deadline to apply to be the next University of Wisconsin athletic director has passed, but it might be a month or more until Chancellor Rebecca Blank and a selection committee decide on a successor to Barry Alvarez.
Mifflin party events shows double standard policing, failure of UW to protect students, enforce regulations.
Entering the school year, students and faculty alike were anxious for how the semester would look.
The experience taught camps “what you don’t want to do,” said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health who has been working to develop Covid-19 protocols for camps, including one in Wisconsin.
Yi Fuxian, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote last year that China had “seriously overestimated the country’s actual birth rate and population size” as of 2019. He also cast some doubt on the “quality” of the census data set to be released in the coming months by Chinese Communist Party officials.
While more fresh air and daylight may improve employee health and morale, Malia Jones, an infectious disease researcher at UW-Madison, said employers need to normalize having employees stay home when they’re not feeling well.
After taking 2020 off, University of Wisconsin-Madison students resumed the Mifflin Street Block Party tradition last weekend, forming large crowds, damaging property and posing for selfies with Madison police officers, some of whom joined games of beer pong.
