Quoted: “I was disturbed, not shocked. We know this goes on,” Michele LaVigne, UW-Madison Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus said. “I refuse to believe only African-American males are acting up.”
The annual back-to-school charity drive ‘Badgers Give Back,’ is a partnership with UW Athletics and Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) in Madison. The drive collects school supplies to give to littles in the BBBS program for the start of the school year.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined all other UW colleges in waiving its test score requirements for fall 2021 admission as students nationwide struggle to access the ACT and SAT during the pandemic.
Yes, said R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“
One of the most important things to keep in mind when discussing public health is the fact that this is fundamentally a community issue, not merely an individual health concern,” she said. “We are all in this together. What I do affects everyone around me, and what they do affects me.”
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy, or COWS, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently unveiled a website to track COVID-19’s impact on the state’s economy. In its initial review of the pandemic’s influence, released on July 22, the report shows that inequality in the workplace has been further exacerbated.
Patients at UW Hospital and Clinics can get free wigs again, after the coronavirus halted the service for several months.
Research on the effectiveness of wearing face masks is limited, but the idea is that wearing a mask helps reduce the transmission of the virus from the wearer to people in proximity through talking, coughing or sneezing. Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, said cloth masks can achieve that quite well.
The Wisconsin Black Market is an Instagram page that showcases Black business owners in Wisconsin. The creators, Nalah Shea and Jalia Labre, hope this page will foster a prosperous Black market in Wisconsin.
Letter to the editor: The entire University of Wisconsin System should stay virtual until it can open safely for real.
Gracie Lund made her first Today show debut when she was just a child. She is now working remotely as an intern for the show.
Shortly after finding out about the money from the county, Mt. Zion lead pastor Rev. Marcus Allen called University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings about getting something started. “Like this,” he said while snapping his fingers, “she had a whole acronym and everything ready to go.” Ladson-Billings said she’s “been thinking about questions of summer slide for a while,” and this was a good opportunity to put some of those thoughts into practice.
William Hartman, a doctor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who is treating hospitalized Covid-19 patients with convalescent plasma, said FDA emergency-use authorization may prompt more hospitals to give the treatment earlier.
One committee member, Paul Hunter, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, offered this summary: “If I was looking at the data correctly, if you’re a middle-aged-to-older African American female medical assistant with diabetes and hypertension, it looks to me like you’re on top of the list to get the vaccine.”
Hart Posen, a professor who specializes in retail strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business, said Kwik Trip’s expansion in the Midwest can be attributed in part to its unique model. The company owns many parts of its own supply chain, like dairy facilities and bakeries. Posen said while this model has been part of the chain’s success, it also means that when the company expands, it’s likely to happen locally.
Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that larger operations are able to contain certain costs in ways that smaller operations can’t.
It will take coordinated effort from national, state, and local leadership, individual behavior change, and funding to bring the outbreak under control and to return to in-person schooling safely. Measuring exactly 6 feet in between desks will not be enough to achieve these aims; we need to think about the big picture and consider how each reopening plan stacks up against these goals.
A new survey, conducted by the United Faculty and Academic Staff and the Teaching Assistants Association, shows 86.4 percent of UW-Madison workers are uncomfortable with the university’s reopening plan. Most responses came from graduate student workers and faculty, but some undergraduate students feel the same
UW-Madison announced Wednesday afternoon that it will not require standardized test scores for Fall 2020 applicants.
High school seniors applying to UW-Madison this fall can opt out of the standardized testing admissions requirement. Students can still submit ACT or SAT scores, but they won’t be penalized in the admissions process if they choose not to, the university announced Wednesday.
A federal agency fined UW-Madison $74,000 in the spring for 28 violations of federal animal research treatment standards.
UW-Madison houses about 8,000 students on a typical year, but Director of Marketing and Communication for University Housing Brendon Dybdahl said they’re expecting between 7,300 and 7,500 students to live on campus for the 2020-2021 school year.
Christine Whelan, director of the Money, Relationships and Equality Initiative at UW-Madison, shares information about some free resources that could make the uncertain financial time a bit more manageable.
In 2015, she and two friends — Khoa Tran and Kelly Montgomery — founded an online publishing company called JKX Comics. At the time, all three were pursuing PhDs in science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Each knew how tough it can be to explain research and to engage students in its details.
For the ninth year in a row, University of Wisconsin Hospitals, including University Hospital and UW Health at the American Center, have been ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals.”
It’s time for college volleyball to think spring, University of Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield said Tuesday.
Researchers at UW are trying to figure out if certain antiseptic solutions can help protect frontline workers from contracting COVID-19.
With five weeks left in summer break before the start of fall classes, hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, graduate workers and academic staff say they are uncomfortable returning to campus, citing confusion about reopening policies and lack of clear communication from administrators.
Earlier this month, Patrick Remington, a UW-Madison emeritus professor and former chief medical officer for Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention in the state Division of Health, said the legal question behind a statewide mask mandate would come down to the court’s interpretation of “reasonable and necessary.”
A survey of staff at UW-Madison shows an overwhelming majority are uncomfortable returning to work on campus this fall.
“I’ve had a couple patients recently who have dealt with delayed diagnosis because how things have played out during the pandemic,” said Madison family physician Dr. Jeff Huebner. “They had health insurance but it was an example of delayed diagnosis for, in both cases, cancer because people aren’t coming in.” Huebner, who is also a clinical assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Medicine, said doctors are especially worried about what will happen in the coming months.
The morning of Friday 24 July 2020 was a day of mixed emotions in Tanzania. Many were saddened by the news that former President Benjamin William Mkapa had passed away. But his death triggered negative emotions too.
For instance, University of Wisconsin President Fred Harrington was hesitant to engage in collaborations with black colleges because he felt desegregation would negate the need for black colleges. He believed black colleges would become extinct, and the black talent on those campuses was better served at Wisconsin or other similar universities. Harrington went as far as attempting to recruit Samuel DeWitt Proctor, the president of North Carolina A&T, to lead an institute at Wisconsin.
Researchers at UW have helped develop new device that may be able to diagnosis diseases that might otherwise go undetected.
Seamus Rohrer, 17, will study journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, drawn to the prospect of writing for two student newspapers. He will drive northwest with one of his parents from his New York City home come fall, a plan he had made before the coronavirus outbreak.
In response to an anonymous post on a student-run social media page, University of Wisconsin’s Health Services will explore alternative options to police hospital transportation.
“Data is (sic) suggesting that we may want to revisit the idea of projecting an image. Research shows that onlookers subconsciously register lack of authenticity. Just by looking at someone, we download large amounts of information others. We are programmed to observe each other’s states so we can more appropriately interact, empathize, or assert our boundaries, whatever the situation may require,” says Paula Niedenthal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are wired to read each others’ expressions in a very nuanced way. This process is called “resonance” and it is so automatic and rapid that it often happens below our awareness.”
In June, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced UW Madison students, faculty and staff will be welcomed back to campus this fall after careful consideration with public health experts.
So this means some travelers will slip through the net. Skipping quarantine yet out in the community. Even if rapid (less accurate) tests miss some infected people, they can still have a significant impact on transmission says Dave O’Connor, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A lightweight bracelet that can continuously track 3D hand movements could bring activity tracking to the next level, believe researchers from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In Wisconsin, for example, the state’s Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection produced an eight-point list of rules that farmers markets must follow during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services produced a four-point list—which has since disappeared from the internet—that contradicted the eight-point list. Between May 1 and mid-June, however, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension reconciled the two lists with a third set of instructions.
Dave O’Connor, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said tests can miss lots of people with low levels of the virus and yet have a profound impact on transmission.
Kathy Cramer, who leads the BadgersVote committee at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that group’s activities have shifted to virtual engagement and absentee voting education.
Ajay Sethi, faculty director of the master of public health program and associate professor of population health sciences says the public and patients need to be thoughtful and careful when absorbing information about the coronavirus.
Former Wisconsin 4-H Youth Development Director Greg Hutchins was inducted into the 4-H National Hall of Fame.
The University of Wisconsin System received a $2 million anonymous donation to improve online education as campuses try to make classes more engaging than was offered in the spring.
Ajay Sethi, Faculty Director of the Master of Public Health program at the UW SMPH says there’s a lot of false messages being circulated around COVID-19.
UW-Madison’s University Housing division plans to reopen all 21 of its residential halls next month. The dorms are set to hold between 7,300 and 7,500 undergraduate students and university leaders finalized a series of changes that aim to prevent the spread of COVID-19 between students and out into the community.
J.T., as he was known at work, had a fascinating career with the Space, Science, and Engineering Center at UW-Madison, applying his scientific knowledge and ingenuity.
Later she was an Academic Specialist-Administrator at the UW Endocrinology- Reproductive Physiology program from 1963 until her retirement in 1994.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison epidemiologist, who offered her thoughts early in the pandemic in a pair of Q&As with the Cap Times, is also a parent of two school-age children.
Annual publication of UW System salaries.
As part of its Back to School webinar series to help college and K-12 dining programs get ready for the fall, Food Management held a session titled “How to Start a Delivery Program on Your Campus” on July 21 featuring Peter Testory, director of dining & culinary services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM), and Darin Schluep, director of Associated Students Dining Services at the University of California-Davis (UCD). It was moderated by FM Group Content Director Becky Schilling
“The main issue is transparency,” said Kathleen Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It would be a very simple move to disclose that to readers. That just builds trust with your readers.”
After graduating in 1969 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Black taught in the Milwaukee school district and later became executive director of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, according to the Republic.
A UW Health employee is questioning a dress code policy, saying its implementation should be reexamined.
UW Health is reopening a salon that provides services to its cancer patients.
Molecules that fold are fundamental to life. ‘If you look at biology as a chemist, you can’t escape the conclusion that almost every complicated thing that biology does at the molecular level is carried out by a sequence-specific folded heteropolymer,’ says Sam Gellman from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the US.
Jerry worked as a photographer for UW-Madison before retiring.
It turns out that readers’ comments apparently do matter. Online incivility among users can polarize other people’s perceptions about emerging technologies, researchers at George Mason University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found.
After receiving her Master’s degree, Sue became the Nursing Labor Relations Manager for UW-Hospital and Clinics.
