Clipsheet

January 20, 2022

Research

Is a universal coronavirus vaccine coming soon?

Posted on 1/20/2022

The Capital Times

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are developing a universal vaccine that would protect against multiple diseases and coronavirus strains, including COVID-19. Last fall, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invested $7 million in the UW-Madison research collaboration, named the Pan-Coronavirus Vaccine consortium. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a pathobiological sciences professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine, is leading the team working toward a universal vaccine.

Higher Education/System

Professors surprised, disappointed by lack of public interviews for two finalists to lead UW System

Posted on 1/20/2022

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents is facing some pushback after the UW System announced Friday that there would be no public interviews of the two finalists named for the role of system president.

Faculty call for public forums with UW System presidential finalists

Posted on 1/20/2022

Wisconsin State Journal

Multiple faculty groups are calling on the University of Wisconsin System to hold public forums with the two finalists in its presidential search, a measure that was included even in the widely criticized search that failed two years ago.

Athletics

Players aren’t the only Wisconsin Badgers connection to Olympic hockey tournaments

Posted on 1/20/2022

Wisconsin State Journal

Not only have an unprecedented 10 former or future UW women’s hockey players been selected to play for the U.S. or Canada in Beijing next month, another familiar face from the back of a Badgers bench will be there.

Wisconsin athletic department condemns fan’s actions at Tuesday’s men’s basketball game

Posted on 1/20/2022

Wisconsin State Journal

UW athletics responded via a tweet saying: “We are deeply disturbed by this behavior and find it abhorrent & disgusting. This is no representation of what it means to be a Badger. We denounce any acts of racism or discrimination. We applaud Northwestern for removing this individual. His actions have no place at our events.”

UW Athletics denounce Badger fan making slant-eye gesture at Northwestern students

Posted on 1/20/2022

Madison365

“We are deeply disturbed by this behavior and we find it abhorrent and disgusting,” the University of Wisconsin Athletics said in a Twitter statement responding to the video.

Obituaries

Sara McLanahan, Who Studied Single Motherhood, Dies at 81

Posted on 1/20/2022

The New York Times

While completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. McLanahan came across “The Underclass,” a 60,000-word article by Ken Auletta that appeared in three consecutive issues of The New Yorker in 1981. (It was later expanded into a book.) In it Mr. Auletta argued that the “weakened family structure of the poor’’ was a major reason for poverty in the country.

UW-Madison Related

The Great Wright Road Trip Highlights Iconic American Architecture

Posted on 1/20/2022

Forbes

Designed in 1905 for a site at the University of Wisconsin but never built, this working boathouse ultimately found a companionable home in 2007 at Buffalo’s West Side Rowing Club overlooking the Black Rock Canal and Niagara River. Open by appointment.