Announcement comes after positive test rate more than doubled over five day period.
UW Chancellor directs students to restrict in-person contact, movement for two weeks
Badger Herald
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UW Chancellor directs all undergraduate students to limit in-person interactions for two weeks
Daily Cardinal
Effective at 5 p.m. Monday, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank directed all undergraduate students to “severely limit in-person interaction and restrict their movement” for two weeks following a rise in COVID-19 cases.
UW calls lockdown for students
Madison365
Facing an increasing number of coronavirus cases among students and staff, University of Wisconsin will ask all undergraduate students to shelter in place for two weeks, beginning at of 5 pm today, according to an announcement from Chancellor Becky Blank.
UW Health and UW focus on diversity for COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial
Madison365
“People of color are a vital population to making this study a success,” said Shiva Bidar, vice president and chief diversity officer at UW Health.
UW Health doctors call for diversity in vaccine trial
WISC-TV 3
As UW Health and the UW School of Medicine roll out a Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial, they’re asking people of all backgrounds to participate.
UW System first-day enrollment for 2020 fall semester shows decrease of 1% compared to 2019
WISC-TV 3
In total, nearly 126,000 students enrolled at the universities that started on-campus instruction on Wednesday. UW System officials said the numbers are unofficial. Officials also said the numbers are fluid due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
UW-Madison denounces racist graffiti found at Library Mall
WISC-TV 3
The university was alerted to the incident after receiving a report Thursday. The graffiti was spray-painted on a number of buildings in the Library Mall area of campus, including the University Book Store, Extension Building and several city and privately owned properties.
UW Health focuses on diversity for COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial
WKOW-TV 27
UW Health is working with churches, nonprofits and community organizations to ensure Black and African American, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous populations are informed about the opportunity to participate in the trial.
UW-Whitewater chancellor under investigation, UW System won’t say why
WKOW-TV 27
As students traversed the UW-Whitewater campus Thursday during the second day of classes, most had their faces covered. What also remained under cover was the reason why the university’s chancellor has been placed on leave amid an investigation into his conduct.
‘We did a lot of good that day,’ UW Med Flight’s first all-woman crew makes history
WKOW-TV 27
“It was very empowering and I feel like we were a really good mix that day,” said Dr. Cynthia Griffin, a Med Flight physician.
UW Health: Diversity is key for vaccine trials
NBC-15
UW Health’s Chief Diversity Officer Shiva Bidar-Sielaff says a diverse group of participants will give researchers a better understanding of how the vaccine works for everyone and the virus is disproportionately affecting people of color.
UW- Madison reports racist graffiti found on Library Mall
NBC-15
Two buildings on the Library Mall of University of Wisconsin- Madison’s campus were spray painted with racist graffiti.
UW students react to first day of classes under COVID-19 Smart Restart plan
Badger Herald
UW started the first day of classes for undergraduate students Sept. 2, during which several students reported technical difficulties due to online platforms Canvas and Kaltura mediaspace outages.
College from afar: some UW-Madison students decide to stay home for fall semester
Daily Cardinal
For various reasons, including health, logistical and financial concerns, a number of students have chosen to spend their semester from their permanent residences.
‘Smart Restart’ faces campus spread before classes begin
Daily Cardinal
As UW-Madison welcomes students back to campus, student COVID-19 cases begin to rise despite the school’s “Smart Restart” approach.
A White professor with Ph.D. from UW-Madison says she has been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career
WISC-TV 3 via cnn
She apologized for what she calls her “continued appropriation of a Black Caribbean identity,” saying she was wrong, unethical, immoral, anti-Black and colonial.
Jessica A. Krug, a White professor at George Washington University, admits she falsely claimed Black identity
The Washington Post
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, where Krug earned a PhD in 2012, announced in 2009 that she was one of the recipients of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships who would be traveling to Angola and Brazil to study history. A spokeswoman for the Education Department was not immediately able to confirm that.
Dr. Seymour Schwartz, Who Wrote the Book on Surgery, Dies at 92
New York Times
A gifted actor in student productions at DeWitt Clinton High School, Sy was encouraged by his father to pursue a theatrical career, but decided to become a surgeon instead. Accepted by Yale but unable to afford the tuition, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin on a scholarship and completed his pre-med degree in two years.
George Washington University Professor ‘Cancels’ Self Over Claiming She Is Black: ‘I’m a Culture Leech’
Pop Culture
According to Krug’s George Washington University profile, she earned a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 and is a historian of “politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African Diaspora, with a particular interest in West Central Africa and maroon societies in the early modern period and Black transnational cultural studies.” She was also a finalist for the Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass book prizes, reports CBS News. A university spokesperson told CBS News they are working on a response.
Jessica Krug: University Investigates Claim That White Professor Pretended to Be Black
The New York Times
In an essay published last year in Essence, Professor Krug, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012, called herself “boricua,” or Puerto Rican. She also called herself “an unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood” devoted to “the struggle for her community in El Barrio and worldwide,” a description she repeated in RaceBaitr.
Who Is Jessica Krug? White GWU Professor of Colonialism Pretended to Be Black
Newsweek
She taught classes on African history and received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.
Fortune’s 40 Under 40 in tech give their best book recommendations
Fortune
I grew up in northern Wisconsin, and this was the first “real book” my father read aloud to me. Later I had the opportunity to study Wildlife Ecology in the University of Wisconsin–Madison department that Aldo Leopold himself had founded. I was so impressed with the practical route Leopold took in his career. Before writing A Sand County Almanac, he wrote Game Management on the mathematics and statistics of wildlife population control through hunting.
Wisconsin universities report slight enrollment decline
Associated Press
The University of Wisconsin System on Thursday announced that fall enrollment appears to be only slightly down from last year, with nearly 126,000 students enrolled at the 10 universities that have begun on-campus classes.
UW-Whitewater chancellor put on paid leave because of unspecified complaint
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Whitewater Chancellor Dwight Watson is on paid leave pending an investigation into an unspecified complaint, according to the University of Wisconsin System.
Graduate student workers worry about requirements to teach in person.
The Washington Post
Graduate students at other schools, including Marquette and Boston universities and the University of Wisconsin, have lodged similar complaints about feeling pressured or being required to teach in person.
Parents’ business highlights kids’ books with Black characters
The Washington Post
The University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center analyzed about 3,100 children’s books published in 2018 and found that White characters were featured in half of the books. Books with animal characters were the second-most common, clocking in at 27 percent, and books featuring Black protagonists came in third at 10 percent of the total. Works with Latinx, Asian American and Indigenous characters trailed even further behind, the study said, with American Indians making up 1 percent of characters.
Digital vote suppression efforts are targeting marginalized groups, report warns
NBC News
“It’s really hard to persuade people … to convert or convince the disinterested, but it’s easy to suppress turnout if you target people who are marginalized, like non-whites and female and younger voters,” said Young Mie Kim, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied misinformation networks on social media. “All you need to do is make sure they don’t turn out to vote.”
COVID-19 at colleges: Fauci urges schools to keep students on campus as outbreaks spread
NBC News
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has set aside such housing for sick students to keep them in Madison. “The concern about sending all these college kids back home is that we potentially increase transmission in many communities,” said Dr. Jeff Pothof, an emergency medicine physician who is the university’s chief quality officer.
Florida Dem Rep Shalala Admits Squad Sometimes Pisses Her Off, Lets Loose on ‘Idiotic’ Trump
Newsweek
Despite her rookie status in Congress, Shalala is an experienced Washington hand, having served as secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton. Among the other positions on her long resume: chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, president of the University of Miami and president of the Clinton Foundation.
Commission charts narrow path for editing human embryos
Science Magazine
“I welcome the commission’s report, which continues to add depth to the ongoing global conversation about the science of germline editing,” says Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who is part of a committee organized by WHO that is examining how to best govern this controversial arena.
Sarah Anne Carter: Let’s apply the home science approach when the pandemic ends
The Capital Times
Column by Sarah Anne Carter, visiting executive director of the Center for Design and Material Culture in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
News 3 Now’s Chris Stanford sits down with UW System Interim President, former governor Tommy Thompson
WISC-TV 3
While Thompson has shared plans for how the UW System will handle students’ health and safety in the midst of a pandemic, he has yet to share insights on what would prompt UW schools to close down.
UW Health vaccinates first participants in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial Wednesday
WISC-TV 3
UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is starting to vaccinate the first participants in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 clinical trial Wednesday.
First study participants to receive COVID-19 vaccine at UW Health
WKOW-TV 27
First study participants to receive COVID-19 vaccine today at UW Health.
UW-Madison students head back to school Wednesday
WKOW-TV 27
Students at UW-Madison are attending a mix of virtual and in-person classes this semester, and Wednesday is the first day the school’s health and safety protocols will be put to the test.
UW-Madison experiences partial online outage on first day of classes
WKOW-TV 27
Mary Evansen, a spokesperson for the university’s Division of Information Technology, said a vendor, Kaltura, was experiencing “intermittent outages and issues.”
UW Health’s Dr. Jeff Pothof first to receive COVID-19 vaccine in clinical trial
NBC-15
Over the next eight weeks, 1,600 people will take part in the study at University Hospital.
New UW dining hall restrictions raise food accessibility concerns for off-campus students
Wisconsin State Journal
While all dining facilities will remain open, the university’s Smart Restart plan limits access to only housing residents and housing staff through a key-card system. During peak meal times, students can order from the dining halls on the GrubHub app and pick it up outside.
UW researchers work to develop faster saliva test for COVID-19
Badger Herald
University Health Services also opens testing sites in preparation for the upcoming semester.
Families, off-campus students deal with financial impact of COVID-19
Badger Herald
Utility moratorium shut-offs, mayor requests extension, UW support may help students navigate financial setbacks of pandemic.
UW will have $10 million budget cuts, redistribute money to students
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin System announced Aug. 11 an untold number of employees would be laid off over the next two years resulting in a total of $10 million in budget cuts. Interim System President Tommy Thomson announced these cuts will reach across UW System Administration only.
‘Weird first day’ of Badgers men’s hockey practice: coaches in masks, smaller groups, patience with schedule
Wisconsin State Journal
Things were unusual Wednesday for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team, and not just in that its coaches were wearing face coverings while leading the first day of on-ice practice.
UW to start stage III clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine
Badger Herald
’It’s an honor for UW now to be able to contribute to the effort to find a vaccine, to do our part in helping bring the world back to normal,’ associate professor of anesthesiology says
COVID-19 in College: Students recovered from COVID-19 share experiences as year begins
Badger Herald
UW senior Courtney Degen said she was frustrated by the loss of those senses. Degen experienced a consistent sore throat, headaches and congestion, and reported feeling sick to the point she couldn’t get out of bed and needed frequent naps for a few days.
Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today
The New York Times
These experiments follow a long history of scientists openly testing vaccines on themselves and their children, but they have become less common in recent decades, according to a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Virologist Explains His Quest To Track Down The Origin Of COVID-19
The Federalist
Latham holds a master’s degree in crop genetics and a Ph.D. in virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to having published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, toxicology, genetics, and genetic engineering, Latham is the director of the Poison Papers project, which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Recently, I interviewed Latham to discuss his work on COVID-19.
Interim UW System President Tommy Thompson talks college campuses amid pandemic
WISC-TV 3
Wednesday is the first day of classes for University of Wisconsin campuses. UW-Madison has tested about 15% of its students and staff on campus for COVID-19.There have been 124 positive results, about the same number off campus.
UW System Begins In-Person Classes As Outbreaks Drive Other Major Universities Online
Wisconsin Public Radio
Tens of thousands of students started classes Wednesday at most University of Wisconsin System campuses, just months after concerns about COVID-19 led administrators to send them home to take courses online.
UW Health vaccinates first participants in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial Wednesday
WISC-TV 3
UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is starting to vaccinate the first participants in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 clinical trial Wednesday.
UW-Madison students prepare for semester with skepticism
WKOW-TV 27
Classes at UW-Madison will start Wednesday, but some students think they’ll be sent home soon. “I’d give it a month, maximum,” sophomore Daniel Sendelbach said Tuesday afternoon.
What is ‘herd immunity’? Can it fight COVID-19?
NBC-15
Quoted: As explained by Jeff Pothoff, the chief quality officer at UW Health, the herd immunity approach assumes that people who get infected with COVID-19 develop antibodies preventing re-infections. Currently, experts aren’t completely sure how long antibodies can last.
UW-System schools set expectations for residence halls, COVID-19 enforcement
NBC-15
There are a few rules that every student is expected to follow. Firstly, every resident will be tested every two weeks. UW-Madison Housing Dir. Of Communications Brendon Dybdahl said everyone living in a dormitory on campus was tested for COVID-19 on move-in day.
Trump talks to Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren about starting football season ‘immediately’
Wisconsin State Journal
Ahead of his visit to Kenosha on Tuesday, President Donald Trump tweeted he’d spoken to Big Ten Conference Commissioner Kevin Warren about starting the football season “immediately.”
UW partners with biotech company to develop COVID-19 vaccine
Badger Herald
’There’s no one out there doing anything like this,’ spokesperson of biotech company said.
Column: For everyone’s safety, UW must revert to fully online courses for fall semester
Badger Herald
UW’s response to the ongoing pandemic is insufficient, university must consider revising Smart Restart plan for upcoming semester.
What new police accountability measures would mean for Madison: An interview with Matthew Mitnick
Daily Cardinal
Mitnick, a UW-Madison student and former candidate for the Madison City Council, is a current member of the Madison Public Safety Review Committee.
Madison City Council approves years-in-the-making civilian oversight for police
Wisconsin State Journal
But UW-Madison law professor Keith Findley said civilians need help accessing the PFC’s process for disciplining officers because it’s complicated and officers usually have legal counsel while residents do not.
LaCroix, Richard Lee
Wisconsin State Journal
Richard’s first position was a management role with UW-Extension at Ashland and Spooner Agricultural Research Stations. Thereafter, he served in Calumet and Fond du Lac counties as a Dairy Agent.
Baumgartner, Lawrence Edward
Wisconsin State Journal
Larry spent most of his working years at UW Madison. He started in the mail room and worked his way through many positions, because every few years he wanted something new and challenging. His last campus position was working in heating and cooling at Biotron Laboratories.
Back on campus, COVID-19 challenges students’ mental health
The Capital Times
As students return to campus for the fall semester, colleges are taking measures to protect students, physically as well as mentally, from the pandemic and its effects.