Newly-appointed director of the Division of the Arts Chris Walker will introduce a multitude of new grants and programming that center on art and activism and broadening cultural horizons.
UW-Madison is considering a campuswide mask mandate and will announce its decision by the middle of this week, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said on Monday. The university is also weighing whether to expand testing requirements for unvaccinated members of the campus community.
Revel Sims, an assistant professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that when housing with five or more units is under construction and as residents begin to sign leases, neighborhood evictions increase.
Many other schools are offering similar incentives, such as the University of Wisconsin’s regional campuses giving away 70 $7,000 scholarships to vaccinated students at sites with at least 70% vaccination rates. Missouri State has a $150,000 program with prizes that include free tuition, meal plans and computers.
As returning sophomores and incoming freshmen plan for expected return to normal this fall, class of 2024 shares unique first-year experiences on campus.
These collaborations include mental health reforms, affordable housing for students.
’Every step of the renovation and building process on campus can be made more sustainable,’ Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Chair says.
Emissions and waste being reduced, more should be done to combat climate change, student says.
UW Health reassured parents that with the proper infection control processes in place, everyone should be able to have a safe school year.
Several health systems in Wisconsin are requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for employees but UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter are not, even as the state’s largest doctor organization on Monday joined dozens of national health care groups in urging mandates for health care workers.
“We have learned so much in the past year and we have so much more data to guide our decisions going forward,” said UW Health pediatric infectious diseases specialist Dr. Gregory DeMuri. “Now that we have this information, it is our job to use what we’ve learned. If we do that, kids can return to school and near-normal activities.”
In Wisconsin, we try to adjust our deer population up or down by releasing fewer, or more quotas for antlerless deer, because that’s where you get the population control,” Tim Van Deelen, UW-Madison Prof. of Forestry and Wildlife Ecology said.
Local health officials continue encouraging vaccination. “We’ll see severe disease in people who are not vaccinated, and I think we’ll see amplification and movement of the virus in those individuals to begin with. Because of that, it’s likely there will be continued spread and transmission of Delta,” UW-Health’s Dr. Nasia Safdar.
Gene Purcell, a state public broadcasting leader, died Saturday as the result of a motorcycle crash. He was 61.
