Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying the use of psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD, substance abuse and depression are coordinating efforts through a new Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances.
Economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic will depend on providing workers better wages, consistent schedules and stronger benefits, including accessible health care. That’s according to a new report from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The report from COWS, formerly the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, indicates Wisconsin still has 114,000 fewer jobs available as of July than it did before the onset of COVID-19. Leisure and hospitality in particular have been affected, losing 49,600 jobs. According to the report, that has disproportionately affected women and people of color.
Laura Dresser, the associate director of COWS, said the problems in Wisconsin’s job market came about well before the pandemic.
“Many of the problems that the State of Working Wisconsin has documented for more than two decades were really exposed and exacerbated by the COVID pandemic and its impact on work,” said Dresser. “The very workers that have faced the worst wage trends, faced the hardest conditions in their jobs were the workers who were either unemployed, lost their work through the pandemic, or who faced exposure in their jobs and could not be protected from exposure.”
Sen. Steve Nass officially asked the Legislature’s Republican leaders Tuesday to sue the University of Wisconsin System after system officials refused to submit their COVID-19 protocols to his committee for approval.
UW-Whitewater is hoping to help students and community members capitalize on the extension of the $100 COVID vaccine gift card benefit.
State Senator Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) is requesting legislative leadership take legal action against the UW System for refusing to comply with rules regarding COVID-19 mandates.
Interim UW System president Tommy Thompson visited UW-Oshkosh on Tuesday, where he thanked students for getting vaccinated for COVID-19 and encouraged the unvaccinated to get a shot.
On Tuesday, state Sen. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) formally sent a letter to Senate Maj. Leader Devin LeMahieu and Speaker Robin Vos, asking them sue UW System to determine if university administrators need legislative approval to enact any COVID-19 restrictions.
Many thousands of students have returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to begin the 2021-22 school year, and once again, the pandemic looms large over how it will unfold. The university is aiming to maintain in-person instruction over the course of the fall semester, something many students have not experienced for over a year. Yet with the COVID-19 pandemic on the upswing once again due to the Delta variant, some students are concerned about returning to campus.
“This dashboard provides information to the campus community and the public about vaccinations and on-campus COVID-19 test results among current UW–Madison faculty, staff and students,” said a statement on the website.
For months employers, politicians and economists have squared off over what role additional federal unemployment benefits had in contributing to a worker shortage in Wisconsin.
Now that an extra $300 a week in pandemic jobless benefits has ended, the question many have is whether — and when — people will return to the workforce.
“They will, but at a very small margin. Particularly for low wage jobs,” predicts economist Steven Deller from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new exhibit open in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery on UW-Madison’s campus explores how everyday objects of the home represent the political discourse of the time.
To kick off the school year, UW-Madison is teaming up with the Red Cross for a major blood drive.It started Tuesday and runs through Thursday at the Nicholas Recreation Center.
Column by Jeremy Stoddard, Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, UW-Madison, and Diana Hess, Professor of Curriculum & Instruction and Dean of the School of Education, UW-Madison.
The phrase “Never Forget” is often associated with the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But what does this phrase mean for U.S. students who are too young to remember? What are they being asked to never forget?
As education researchers in curriculum and instruction, we have studied since 2002 how the events of 9/11 and the global war on terror are integrated into secondary level U.S. classrooms and curricula. What we have found is a relatively consistent narrative that focuses on 9/11 as an unprecedented and shocking attack, the heroism of the firefighters and other first responders and a global community that stood behind the U.S. in its pursuit of terrorists.
-Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess
Party members who worry reforms might weaken political control appear to have decided China’s rise is permanent and liberalization is no longer needed, said Edward Friedman, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Andrew Kydd, a new assistant professor, tries to get The New York Times web page to load in his Harvard office — a stark, unlived-in place with a scattering of books.
Tommy Thompson, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, views television coverage from his office in Washington, D.C., and knows the day’s meeting — a discussion of pandemic flu preparations — is history.
“At the end of the ’90s some intellectuals thought, ‘History is going to be kind of boring for a while,'” says Kydd, now a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“My memory is that 9/11 was unlike anything I’d ever seen before and potentially disastrous in terms of the follow-up. A lot of us were thinking about chemical plants, oil refineries, nuclear power plants. It struck me, if they could do this, they could probably do more. I thought this could be the precursor to a lot more high-casualty attacks.”
“There’s been some research on the states that ended the supplement early. It had very little impact on overall labor supply,” UW-Madison labor economist Laura Dresser said.
Most teachers in America teach the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the day of the anniversary and often talk about their own experiences, a UW-Madison education professor says. “It’s that collective memory,” Jeremy Stoddard, who works to prepare social studies teachers at the university, said. “It was such burning for a lot of teachers, especially teachers who were teaching at the time or maybe in college, and they want students to feel a little bit of that shock and horror of people witnessing it on TV.”
Like many veterans of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) said the news and images in the days leading up to the Aug. 31 withdrawal from Afghanistan were difficult to absorb. “I knew that it wasn’t going to be a great ending. I was pretty confident of that,” Crow said. “But I’m not sure I really allowed my brain to kind of wrap around that.”
As a student at the University of Wisconsin, he was in the ROTC and an enlisted National Guard member. Crow had planned to stick with the Guard after graduation, but he said the events of 9/11 pushed him to enter active duty. That choice led to two tours in Afghanistan as an Army ranger.
One of the most conservative members of the U.S. House of Representatives is pointing to the University of Wisconsin – and, specifically, Camp Randall this weekend – as a sign that many Americans are ready to move on from COVID-19 safety protocols.
