UW-Madison told its employees on Thursday that they must be vaccinated by early 2022 to comply with a vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The university said the order applies to all workers, including student employees, those working remotely from home and part-time workers. About 95% of employees are already fully vaccinated.
How did major Chinese and U.S. outlets differ in their initial coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic? That’s the central question behind a new study published last week in the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly journal.
The overall finding: Chinese outlets’ focus on Covid-19 was much more domestic, perhaps because they were focused on trying to contain the outbreak, while the U.S. view was much more focused on politics and the conflict between various levels of government when it came to combatting the crisis.
“Some are more party-focused in China and some more investigative and we tried our best to cover a variety of mainstream outlets,” said Kaiping Chen, an assistant professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the senior author of the new paper.
Manuel P. Teodoro is an associate professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. He works with water sector leaders across the United States on management, policy, and finance.
A Marine Corps veteran and current student Lorence Ayag said joining the Student Veterans of America chapter made his experience on campus better. “I believe there is something special about the veteran community and the way we care about each other on and off the battlefield,” said Ayag.
Health Now!, a completely student-run and constructed public health campaign, will soon be the newest student organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The organization’s founder, junior Kylie Ruprecht, wanted a way to highlight healthcare resources available to students and increase public health outreach on campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday that it will comply with President Joe Biden’s federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate, requiring employees to be vaccinated by Jan. 4, 2022.
A PhD student, who asked to remain anonymous, told Madison365 in an interview Wednesday that he was walking near the Nicholas Recreation Center on October 16 when a man swatted his phone out of his hand from behind, shattering the phone screen on the ground. At first, he assumed it was accidental, but said when he turned, a man called him an ethnic slur and seemed ready to fight. He was able to pick up his phone and leave the scene, and called police from his apartment.
UW Health is joining a growing number of organ transplant programs in requiring patients to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to get transplants or be put on organ waiting lists.
UW Health announced Thursday that patients waiting for organ transplants will now be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before they can be added to the waitlist or receive a transplant.
On Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, Eric David Rothstein, Edgar W. Lacy Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, most loving husband and father, followed stage directions: “Exit, pursued by a bear.”
