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September 1, 2021

Research

There are pockets of growth, but many parts of rural Wisconsin continue to lose people

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quoted: In a Harris Poll of 2,050 U.S. adults last year, nearly one-third said they considered moving to a less densely populated place because of the pandemic. The age group 18 to 34 was especially interested.

Still, it’s unknown whether the pandemic-related population gains are sustainable, according to David Egan Robertson, a researcher with UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.

The number of young people in Wisconsin’s metropolitan areas has fallen about 4% over the past 20 years. But it’s down about 13% in the non-metro areas, according to Robertson.

“That’s a real issue for a lot of school districts,” he said.

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Opinion

Coronavirus vaccines work. But this statistical illusion makes people think they don’t.

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The Washington Post

Is the vaccine wearing off? It’s an exhausting thought for those of us who believed the battle against covid-19 would be won once enough needles plunged into enough arms. But outbreaks of the delta variant have blossomed even in places with high levels of vaccination, including Israel, Britain and my own home of Madison, Wis. Recent reports from Israel that nearly 60 percent of people hospitalized with severe covid-19 were fully vaccinated raised particular alarms about the limits of the protection that vaccines provide.

–Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at the University of Wisconsin, is the author of “Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else.”

UW Experts in the News

The legacy of the War on Terror

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NBC-15

“If the goal was to disrupt al-Qaeda, we did that,” Jon Pevehouse, who teaches US foreign policy at UW-Madison, said. “If the goal was to build a functioning civil society and country that would, sort of, be a successful democracy, no. That did not happen.”

Obituaries

Toner, Michael A.

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Wisconsin State Journal

Mike worked as a telecommunications administrator for UW-Madison and the State of Wisconsin for nearly 40 years.

UW-Madison Related

Core Spaces seeks final design approval at Urban Design Commission

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The Capital Times

The Oliv is planning to have approximately 1,100 student beds and is pursuing a model to provide affordable student housing for 10% of those beds. Students who receive financial aid to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be able to get a letter from UW verifying that they receive financial assistance. The student would then provide Core Spaces with that letter and be granted the ability to rent a bed at the Oliv at a reduced rate.