Column by Hesselbein, D-Middleton, who represents the 79th Assembly District and is ranking Democratic member on the Assembly Committee for Colleges and Universities.
Column by Theo, president and CEO of the Wisconsin Realtors Association, and O’Connell, executive director of the Wisconsin Counties Association.
The system canceled its youth programs and camps last summer as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the country.System officials said Thursday that they feel they can resume the programs and camps this year thanks to renewed demand and better knowledge of how to contain the disease. The system plans to require pre-arrival testing, symptom screening, masks, social distancing and train instructors on safety protocols.
A new state Senate report calls for further restructuring of all University of Wisconsin System campuses except UW-Madison. The plan recommends “regionalization” of the state’s 12 other universities to achieve 15 percent spending reductions and avoid “the closure of several comprehensive campuses.”
Laurent Heller, vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been named senior vice president for finance and administration at the Johns Hopkins University.
As University of Wisconsin- Madison seniors are set to graduate Saturday, the university announced more than half of its students are graduating without debt for the fifth year in a row. Around 57.2% of students did not take out student loans while in school, UW notes.
In her career, Litza Bixler has been a choreographer, writer, teacher, costume designer, visual artist and filmmaker. So it’s ironic that the thing this eclectic artist may be best known for is a movie scene in which everybody is doing the same thing.
The skulls of living cats are drilled with holes to screw metal strainer posts into their heads, then steel coils are implanted into their eyes and finally, the cats are deafened in “sound localization” animal experiments. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals describes the horrific details of this inhumane experiment conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and adds that the lead experimenter did not expect to produce a clinical treatment or cure from their tests on animals.
UW-Madison assistant professor Jirs Meuris said clear policies and communication with staff will help employees transition from traditionally in-person work environments to flexible and remote work. Because working from the office is still an ingrained habit, employees might not be open to a change they don’t fully understand.
This was new information for the microbiology community, which prior to his discovery believed only spore-forming bacteria would be able to survive in those hot springs. Brock, who had a long career in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s bacteriology department, proved there were all kinds of bacteria living there.
Noted: Battino has done extensive work with the nonprofit RAD-AID International, which according to its website “brings radiology to low-resource areas by delivering education, equipment, infrastructure, and support.” According to an online biography, Battino “led the development of Guyana’s first Diagnostic Imaging residency while building Guyana’s CT and breast cancer screening programs.”
She also co-founded the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of RAD-AID.
A native of Ames, Iowa, he grew up in River Falls, Wisconsin, one of six children whose father Richard was a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin. His mother Grace became a Lutheran minister when her children were grown. He earned his undergraduate degree at University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
