The search for Barry Alvarez’s replacement as the University of Wisconsin’s athletic director is nearly finished.
The UW Board of Regents is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday to approve a contract for Alvarez’s successor.
The University of Wisconsin plans to name its new athletic director Wednesday, with Chancellor Rebecca Blank revealing her pick to replace the retiring Barry Alvarez.
I think this view is overly rosy. If we scientists are not forced to confront the issues of laboratory safety and risky research in a serious and sustained manner, history suggests that we will not do so. In 2012, controversy erupted when it transpired that two sets of researchers — at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands — were altering highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses to enhance their transmissibility among mammals (to understand their potential to cause a pandemic). The subsequent debate led to a three-year moratorium on the funding of experiments designed to enhance the transmissibility or disease-causing capabilities of influenza viruses or coronaviruses.
That rapid change began to show up across the globe between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, around the same time people began clearing land to grow crops, said Jack Williams, a UW-Madison geographer who uses fossil records to study how life adapts to climate change.
Jewish leaders wrote to the University of Wisconsin system leadership asking the system to direct six UW campuses that plan to commence their fall semesters during the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah to move their start dates. The UW campuses at La Crosse, Madison, Oshkosh, Parkside, Stout and Superior all have scheduled their semesters to begin during Rosh Hashanah, which this year will begin Sept. 6 and end Sept. 8.
After months of county-wide caps on gatherings, capacity limits and face covering requirements, COVID-19 restrictions in Wisconsin’s second-biggest county have come to an end.
UW Health, the county’s largest private employer, says it has encouraged those who can to work remotely throughout the pandemic and will continue to support telecommuting into the future. “At UW Health, remote work is not confined strictly to non-clinical roles,” said spokeswoman Emily Kumlien. “As telehealth and video visits become a major component of UW Health’s patient care, many providers are now able to perform much of their work outside of a hospital or clinic setting as well.”
Saeed Khalif, who served as the director of player personnel, has left and a State Journal source said he was accepting a similar position at Michigan State. The Spartans just lost director of player personnel Scott Aligo to Kansas.
“Having just one child or no children has become the social norm in China,” Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told AFP.
