The Madison School District and the UW-Madison School of Education announced Monday the formation of a joint early literacy task force to analyze teaching methods for reading and make recommendations to the district to reduce achievement gaps.
A new report on the financial health of Wisconsin’s state universities and technical colleges found lagging state investment, enrollment challenges and — for University of Wisconsin schools — an ongoing tuition freeze as some of several factors threatening their competitiveness.
UW Hospital began vaccinating frontline health care workers on Monday after the hospital received thousands of doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the beginning of an effort to tamp down the pandemic.
University of Wisconsin System campuses are wrapping up their first full semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been anything but normal, and for some first-year students, finding a sense of community on campus has been hampered by heavy restrictions on social gatherings. Mental health experts say that isolation is a problem and has contributed to a myriad of anxieties faced by students.
The university is processing a State Journal public records request submitted Nov. 30 for documents related to Yaeger’s employment and termination. The process typically takes at least a few weeks because state law requires subjects of the records to be notified of the request and given a chance to sue in an attempt to block release of the records.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discussion Project, started in 2017 to help instructors improve the quality of their classroom discussions, has trained nearly 150 participants since pivoting to virtual learning during the pandemic.
An earlier comment by Chancellor Blank, however, is worth noting. The chancellor stated that if it became necessary to start paying athletes, this would greatly hinder the university’s ability to field teams. This may be so.
Ibarra is an associate professor at the School for Workers at UW-Madison.
It sounds like Barry Alvarez thinks too much was made of the Big Ten’s decision to reverse course on its rules and allow Ohio State to play in the league’s football championship game.
UW-Madison’s students will be more closely monitored next semester.A mobile app called “Safer Badgers” will be students’ and employees’ “key to campus,” representing a “significant change from the fall semester,” Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote in a Friday email.
After graduating from Delavan-Darien High School, he got a bachelor’s degree in bioethics at UW-Madison.
A six-month undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals found widespread suffering and neglect of monkeys held at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center in Madison.
Honorlock and other software systems with names like Proctorio, ExamSoft and ProctorU rely on artificial intelligence, facial detection software, browser lockdown tools and eye-tracking technology to flag behaviors that could indicate students are cheating on their exams.
The University of Wisconsin winter commencement ceremony was virtual this year because of the pandemic.The university recognized graduates in a pre-recorded video that aired online Sunday morning.
UW System residential undergraduate students will be tested for COVID-19 at least once per week during the spring 2021 semester, UW System President Tommy Thompson announced Friday.
For students at the University of Wisconsin, the plan for the way breaks are handled are changed drastically for the 2020 holiday season. Students living on campus who went home for Thanksgiving stayed home, finishing the fall semester virtually, returning to the campus for the spring semester.
Although he said the excitement surrounding graduation is not the same this year due to the pandemic, he doesn’t really see that as a bad thing: “I think that it just reminds me that the world needs people that are ready to take on serious issues so, me having a weekend of excitement might have pushed me to reminisce a little more than I should,” said Weigel.
Lavelle shared several life lessons with the graduates and spoke about her time at UW-Madison, which she referred to as the “greatest university to ever grace this planet.”
’It’s the moment that we execute under pressure that’s often remembered the most, but it is the culmination of everything that led to that moment that means the most,’ USWNT player Lavelle says
In an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 during the spring semester, UW-Madison will greatly expand its mandatory testing regime, require proof of up-to-date negative tests and call on students to restrict their movement upon returning to the Madison area, the university announced Friday.
South Asian organizations explain students’ connections to Punjab, how issue impacts all UW students.
’We have the capacity to do these tests. So if you need a test, get a test,’ Wisconsin DHS secretary says.
Yaeger posted a video on his Facebook early Thursday morning claiming the two UW representatives, who he referred to as “hatchet men,” fired him.
In a letter to UW-Madison leadership, the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) called on the university to provide serious financial relief for students, citing university policy concerning segregated fees and international student fees, as well as the current telecommuting policy affecting international student workers, as crises that “mark the difference between eating and going hungry” for some.
UW-Madison employee Rich Yaeger, who drove on a motorcycle through a group of protesters during the Nov. 6 Capitol Square protest, was terminated from his position at the University yesterday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved 2% raises across the board for campus chancellors during a closed session Thursday afternoon.
On Dec. 10, the UW System Board of Regents will meet to vote on an employee compensation increase proposed by UW System officials. The payment plan directly targets two upcoming fiscal years, during which salaries will be raised by 2 and 2.5 percent if the plan successfully passes through the legislative process.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has fired an employee about one month after a viral video showed him driving a motorcycle through a group of protesters in Capitol Square in Madison on Nov. 6.
Dr. Mary McSweeney, the school’s assistant dean, calls it the ‘Fauci Effect’ or ‘Pothof Effect,’ named after Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert; and Dr. Jeff Pothof, UW Health’s Chief Quality Officer.
Rich Yaeger, a senior power plant operator on campus, was caught on video riding his motorcycle through the group on the Capitol Square.
“We felt there was nothing to hide,” said Barry Alvarez, the athletic director at Wisconsin, which recorded at least 112 cases in athletics, missed back-to-back football games during an outbreak and had a third game canceled because of cases within Minnesota’s program. “We felt that it was in our best interest and everyone else’s best interest to put out accurate information, particularly if we had to cancel a game, so you wouldn’t have rumors or misinformation.”
An introvert who isn’t usually a big office party enthusiast, Nicole Senter, an administrator in the German, Nordic and Slavic language department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the low-key feel of this year’s festivities come as something of a relief. Earlier this year, she had tried to host a Zoom cocktail hour for the 50-odd members of her department.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously voted Thursday to approve its 2021-2023 pay plan request, asking Governor Tony Evers to fully fund pay increases for System employees.
As University of Wisconsin campuses face steep budget shortfalls caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UW Board of Regents approved 2% raises for chancellors in a closed-door meeting on Thursday.
Kenneth Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said Cicchetti’s approach is “ludicrous.”“The analysis assumes that votes are all independently and randomly distributed,” he said in an email. “This is going to be used in undergraduate statistics classes as a canonical example of how not to do statistics.”
Panelists included Dr. Darrick Hamilton, professor of economics and urban policy at The New School; Dr. Fenaba Addo, professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Tom Shapiro, professor of law and social policy at Brandeis University; Hilary Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the NAACP; and Ashley Harrington, director of federal advocacy at CRL.
Research from the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin Madison has shown that killing gray wolves actually leads to three times more livestock attacks, a finding supported by behavioral studies elsewhere. “The wolf pack is a family,” says Adrian Treves, who runs the lab. They cooperate to defend territory and raise pups. When one is killed, the destabilizing effect ripples through the pack. Reproductive age goes down, and naive juvenile attacks on livestock go up, according to Colleen St. Clair, a biologist at the University of Alberta.
Dr. Matt Anderson, Senior Medical Director of Primary Care at UW Health, expects the vaccine will start being administered late next week or the following week.
On Oct. 26, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a projected budget shortfall of $320 million through June of 2021, due to lost revenues and increased expenses from the pandemic. UW says some of that shortfall has been addressed through cost-saving measures, including a first round of unpaid furloughs for employees that ran from May 15 through Oct. 31, 2020.
The treatments aim to keep high-risk patients out of the hospital.
Thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison students will receive their degrees this weekend. Unfortunately, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means they will not be able to celebrate in a traditional fashion.
UW-Madison fired on Thursday an employee who in early November drove his motorcycle through a group of individuals, injuring several of them and prompting Madison Police to open an investigation into the incident.
Bob Jeanne, a wasp expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the authors are “correct in calling this the first example of tool use by a honeybee… I think they’re applying a reasonable definition.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says students enrolling for the spring semester should expect continued restrictions on social gatherings and a mix of in-person and online classes due to COVID-19.
“We haven’t harnessed that enough, the great creativity of our students,” said Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who examined student behavior for the National Academies. “This is the age where individuals want to be socially active, want to act for good, are aware of the needs of community.”
PHOTO: 15-minute rapid COVID-19 tests are administered, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison‘s campus on November 24, 2020 in Madison, Wisconsin.
The first scheduling snafu this season arrived for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, and nobody within the program was particularly surprised or discouraged.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student government passed two resolutions Tuesday requesting that the school allow undergraduate student workers living abroad to keep their jobs and implement more flexible final exam and grading policies this semester.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is requesting that the Board of Regents approve increased tuition plans for some graduate and professional programs, a process that has taken place every two years since December 2014.
UW to allow ASM reps to be paid for international work, ASM reps express disappointment after UW Dean leaves meeting early.
The DHS plans to implement a hub-and-spoke model, where Pfizer vaccine doses will be stored in a central location like UW Health before being shipped to healthcare systems. The Pfizer vaccine requires storage in a facility that is colder than -94 degrees Fahrenheit.
In its final meeting of the semester, the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) approved legislation Tuesday night supporting international telecommuters and calling for a Pass/Fail and Satisfactory Disruption/Non-Satisfactory Disruption option for the Fall 2020 semester.
UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) Professor Michael Wagner focused specifically on a “pre-election” swing state and democratic agenda survey conducted by the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR), an SJMC research group dedicated “to understand[ing] the communication ecology and political culture in Wisconsin over the last decade.”
The new fusion road map identifies technological gaps and nearer-term facilities to fill them (see partial list, below). “By identifying [a power plant] as a goal, that can trigger more research in those areas that support that mission,” says Stephanie Diem, a fusion physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For example, in a fusion power plant a barrage of energetic neutrons would degrade materials, so the report calls for developing a particle-accelerator–based neutron source to test new ones.
University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Steve Deller said the shortage continues to be a problem in Wisconsin. Deller pointed to a mismatch between the industries and positions that have seen large job losses during the pandemic, and those that are in need of workers.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s final two series of 2020 have been postponed due to a rising number of COVID-19 cases with the Badgers.
St. Mary’s Hospital and UW Health, both in Madison, will operate as regional distribution hubs for the Pfizer vaccine. “These vaccines will be going to frontline healthcare workers first, and there are still uncertainties around the quantities we’ll get and the timing of their arrival,” Matt Anderson, senior medical director of ambulatory operations with UW Health, said in a statement. “The public must remain diligent as it will not be widely available anytime soon.”
Alpha Chi Sigma, a professional chemistry fraternity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is appealing the city Plan Commission’s decision to quash plans to demolish two houses on North Lake Street and replace them with a new building that would house both the fraternity several apartments for rent.
The University of Wisconsin System announced in a release today that they will operate their COVID-19 “surge testing” sites until at least Christmas, thanks to added support from the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The Badgers, who already were in East Lansing as part of a road trip that began last week at Ohio State, started returning home Sunday night after learning earlier in the day one of their players had a confirmed positive test for the coronavirus.
