The isolation centers will be run by the State Emergency Operations Center. One center is at Lowell Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The other is a Super 8 hotel in Milwaukee near the airport.
On Thursday, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Karl Scholz announced the campus would offer a special pass/fail grading option for students. Students will have until May 22 — after they’ve received traditional grades in their classes — to decide if they would rather get a less specific passing or failing mark.
What began two weeks ago with a pair of scientists urging the use of plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to rescue the sick has blown up into a national movement.
UW-Madison anticipates a $100 million loss because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has thrown its campus into chaos as dorms are emptied, classes moved online and students told to stay away.
UW-Madison is telling students who traveled over spring break to quarantine themselves for two weeks, whether or not they have symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students will now have the option to finish their spring semester courses pass/fail, according to an email from Provost Karl Scholz on Thursday.
UW-Madison students can skip the letter grades this semester, one of several recently announced measures by the university to offer flexibility during the pandemic.
Over 400 people tuned into a virtual town hall Thursday to hear University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators discuss responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably a recent rise in hate and racist incidents.
Early last week, Lennon Rodgers, director of the Engineering Design Innovation Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, got an urgent email from the university’s hospital. Could his lab make 1,000 face shields to protect staff testing and treating Covid-19 patients? The hospital’s usual suppliers were out of stock, due to the spike in demand prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The university announced Monday that the springtime graduation ceremonies at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center will be postponed to sometime later this year. Officials are working with senior class officers on a “virtual commencement” to be held May 8, the day before the in-person event was scheduled to occur for most students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has postponed its Spring commencement ceremony at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center, UW announced Monday. Graduation celebrations for schools, colleges, departments, and campus organizations will not happen in May either.
UW-Madison will not hold in-person commencement ceremonies May 8 and 9, instead offering a virtual ceremony with plans to hold an in-person event at a later date.
“Of all the decisions we’ve had to make in this extraordinary time, this one has been the most heartbreaking for me,” Blank said. “There is no better event at UW than commencement when we award degrees and celebrate the completion of school for our graduates.”
Virtual ceremony will be posted May 8 to celebrate class of 2020, Blank said in statement.
“Commencement is the best event of the year at UW, and I am deeply sorry about this decision,” Blank said in the video. “For the class of 2020, this is a painful loss. You should have a chance to celebrate with your teachers, friends and family, and that will not happen this May.”
UW-Madison’s biggest educational experiment begins Monday.
In his UW-Madison lab, Adel Talaat developed an experimental vaccine to protect chickens from coronavirus. When the pandemic of a different strain arose in people late last year, Talaat used his technique to create a vaccine candidate for humans.
It was less than a week since University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Baileigh Remy had flown into Lima, Peru, for a study abroad semester, and, under normal circumstances, she would have been settling into her new home.
University of Wisconsin students who paid for meal plans and residence hall rooms only to leave halfway through the semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic will receive refunds, according to a UW System announcement.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Tuesday that the campus will stay online for the rest of the spring semester, including finals.
UW-Madison announced Tuesday that instruction and exams would remain online through the end of the spring semester, another aggressive step by Wisconsin’s largest university to stem the spread of COVID-19.
As University of Wisconsin-Madison students left town for spring break last week, they expected to be gone for a bit longer than usual to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. But on Tuesday, they were forced to quickly come to terms with a new announcement: there will be no more in-person instruction this spring.
With hundreds of coronavirus test specimens now coming in daily to UW-Madison’s Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, the lab stayed open over the weekend and has more than tripled its capacity.
The move comes the day after several University of Wisconsin System schools made changes to how they operate to slow the spread of COVID-19, and the same day Gov. Tony Evers declared a public health emergency in response to the virus.
Red carts rolled in and out of residence halls. Students stuck without suitcases lugged trash bags of belongings out to cars. Desk receptionists collected students’ keys, a requirement in the move-out process.
At a press conference Wednesday, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said students will still need to keep up with their classwork. UW leaders are working with schools and professors to move class materials, lectures and discussions online when possible. Blank said independent study is another option.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is canceling in-person classes after spring break from Monday, March 23 until at least Friday, April 10. The university is also asking students to stay home, if possible, and not return to campus until at least April 10.
Multiple Wisconsin universities on Wednesday took dramatic steps to ward off or curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, everything from moving courses online to canceling university-sponsored travel and events to extending spring break.
UW-Madison will suspend in-person classes for at least three weeks, an unprecedented action by Wisconsin’s largest university taken to slow the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
With study abroad programs suspended amid coronavirus fears, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are returning to the United States. And while they’re able to complete coursework online, they remain surprised and disappointed to have their experiences cut short.
For UW-Madison professors Thomas Friedrich and David O’Connor, some of the biggest questions are how the virus made its way to humans in the first place, why it causes more severe illness than some other coronaviruses and how long it persists in the body.
UW-Madison has opened a second investigation into the professor at the center of a “toxic” engineering lab who was previously disciplined after the suicide of a graduate student.
Wisconsin is now conducting its own tests for the new coronavirus, but the state has yet to see its second case. As of Monday, 18 people in the state have tested negative and test results for two people remain pending.
The testing will be done at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and at the Milwaukee Health Department, health officials said. Test samples previously were sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Officials are dusting off a “campus pandemic plan” put together 10 years ago when the H1N1 virus became a worldwide concern, she said. The plan is being reviewed and updated to prepare for the possibility of coronavirus spreading to campus.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank named Steve Ackerman the next vice chancellor for research and graduate education, one of a handful of high-profile positions that report directly to Blank. The job entails overseeing $1.2 billion in annual research spending and thousands of graduate students.
The UW System’s 12 other branch campuses face a similar storm of challenges: rising costs, repeated budget cuts and a tuition freeze for 12 of the past 14 years.
UW–Madison has suspended all university-sponsored student programs in Italy following elevated warnings from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and State Department in response to the global spread of the new COVID-19 coronavirus.
The application deadline for those hoping to be named the University of Wisconsin System’s next president is March 15, with final decisions to be made in May, according to the search committee’s most recent timeline.
UW-Madison has the highest number of alumni across the globe volunteering with the Peace Corps, the fourth consecutive year that the university has earned the top spot.
2020 is UW-Madison’s fourth straight year atop the Corps’ annual rankings.
Noted: In the UW-Madison survey, there was a lot less separation among the three states, with Trump essentially even or modestly behind in matchups with most Democrats. Of the three, Pennsylvania was the worst state for Trump in the Quinnipiac polls. Michigan was the worst for Trump in the UW-Madison polls.
“All three states are up for grabs in 2020,” said Barry Burden, political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of its Elections Research Center.
Sanders holds a 16-point lead over his closest competitors in Wisconsin, based on the University of Wisconsin-Madison survey.
“All three states are up for grabs in 2020,” said Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center, which conducted the poll. “Trump is in a more difficult position in Michigan than the other two states, but each of the Midwest battlegrounds could be won by either party, almost regardless of who becomes the Democratic nominee.”
Sanders holds a 17-point lead over his closest competitors in Wisconsin, based on the University of Wisconsin-Madison survey.
“Sanders is well-positioned to pick up the lion’s share of delegates in these states unless another Democrat breaks away from the pack to challenge him,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin and and director of the Elections Research Center.
This year, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Elections Research Center (ERC) conducted polls in three Midwestern battleground states: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The findings come from the first UW-Madison Elections Research Center Battleground Survey of 2020. The Wisconsin Poll is conducted in collaboration with the Wisconsin State Journal.
According to UW-Madison Election Research Center, three major battleground states, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, appear to be up for grabs in November.
The Wisconsin poll, coordinated by the UW-Madison Elections Research Center in collaboration with the Wisconsin State Journal, also shows a precipitous decline in support for former Vice President Joe Biden and an upswing for the newcomer to the race, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The world’s best-selling author of the past 20 years is coming to Camp Randall for UW-Madison’s 2020 spring commencement.
Patterson has had 96 titles reach No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List and is featured in the “Guinness Book of World Records” as the first author to sell 1 million e-books.
“Very few people have reached Mr. Patterson’s level of success or had such a profound impact on education and the lives of students,” says Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
“We are thrilled that someone of James Patterson’s stature, international acclaim and generosity has agreed to share his insights with our graduates,” Chancellor Rebecca Blank said.
Patterson is world’s best selling author, Felder was the spokeperson for the Black Student Strike of 1969.
He has had 96 titles reach the top of the New York Times Bestsellers List. Patterson’s wife, Susan, is a UW-Madison alumna.
University of Wisconsin-Madison are hopeful the long-awaited Nicholas Recreation Center will open by the beginning of fall semester, according to updates from state and university officials.
The school announced Thursday that alumni John and Tashia Morgridge have agreed to match up to $70 million of donor gifts intended to establish or enhance endowed professorships or chair funds.
A University of Wisconsin System regent committee approved spending $32.6 million Thursday to cover cost overruns for two UW-Madison construction projects.
Billionaire Badgers John and Tashia Morgridge announced another gift to their alma mater Thursday that will support up to $70 million in matching donations for faculty recruitment and retention at UW-Madison.
Many years ago, I had a dog that developed a tumor. Our regular vet recommended taking her to UW-Madison to have them look at her. Unfortunately for our dog, it was too late.
