The majority of people who die from COVID-19 are killed by a dangerous immune system overreaction called a cytokine storm, but researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and dozens of other sites around the world are now testing a potential weapon against it.
The University of Wisconsin System regents’ leader has picked Republican darling Tommy Thompson as the system’s interim president, delivering another twist in what has become a messy search to replace outgoing President Ray Cross.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents appointed former Gov. Tommy Thompson as the interim system president during a closed session meeting Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says many classes will be in-person starting Sept. 2 but will move online after Thanksgiving. UW-Milwaukee says classes will be a mix of online and in-person instruction throughout the semester.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee announced Wednesday that they would bring students and employees back for the fall 2020 semester.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will reopen Sept. 2 for the fall semester with free access to COVID-19 testing, required face coverings and a balance between online and in-person teaching.
Come on back to campus this fall, UW-Madison told its 45,000 students Wednesday.
“The health and safety steps we are announcing today are rigorous, thorough and backed by science,” UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank said.
As part of the university’s “Smart Restart” plan, students will be allowed to come back to campus for academic instruction on Sept. 2, according to a statement from the university. Classes will be held with a mix of in-person and online classes until Thanksgiving break. After the break, all classes will switch to virtual for the last nine days of instruction in addition to exams.
UW-Madison plans to begin fall classes as scheduled on Sept. 2 with in-person instruction and a full curriculum. After Thanksgiving, UW-Madison will switch to a virtual format for the final nine days including exams. UW-Madison made this decision based on the likelihood that students leaving and returning to Madison over the Thanksgiving recess would increase the risk for COVID-19 infections on campus.
University of Wisconsin System officials are offering campuses guidelines for reopening this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sole finalist in the running to lead the University of Wisconsin System withdrew his name from consideration Friday after a months-long search marred with criticism and growing concern about the candidate’s qualifications.
“We have a large group of students and a big faculty. In terms of research, in dollars we are second to the School of Medicine and Public Health. It’s the biggest college at UW-Madison,” Wilcots tells Madison365. “It’s an enormous and broad operation … a lot of responsibility.”
The leader of the committee tasked with identifying candidates for the University of Wisconsin System president opening defended the panel’s decision Thursday to advance University of Alaska System President Jim Johnsen as the only finalist after all other contenders withdrew from the running.
Wisconsin has joined more than a dozen other states seeking to block new federal restrictions over how schools handle sexual assault and harassment allegations, even as University of Wisconsin System officials work to get the ball rolling on implementing the changes.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is asking Gov. Tony Evers and state lawmakers for a line of credit, fewer regulations and the ability to begin classes early in the fall.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross asked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and legislative leaders Wednesday to consider temporary changes for UW campuses in response to COVID-19, including potentially starting the fall semester early.
Daniel Tokaji, 52, has been a professor at Ohio State since 2003 and served as associate dean for faculty since 2018. Before that, he worked as a civil rights attorney in California for eight years.
Officials named University of Alaska System President Jim Johnsen, 62, the sole finalist, saying several other candidates removed their names from consideration toward the end of the search process because they did not want to be publicly named.
Entering the next phase of a presidential search process marred by criticism and hindered by a global pandemic, the committee tasked with hiring a replacement for retiring-University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross named a single finalist Tuesday.
The University of Alaska System president will likely succeed Ray Cross to lead the University of Wisconsin System, as the one finalist moving forward in a months-long, controversial presidential search process.
Gov. Tony Evers announced three new appointees to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Monday, including a Madison lawyer who represented the women who accused former UW-Madison Badgers football player Quintez Cephus of sexual assault.
A Madison attorney who often represents sexual assault victims, the CEO of a Milwaukee startup and a UW-Whitewater student joined the state’s board overseeing public universities, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday.
For the second day, a Madison protest against police violence against black people led to tense confrontations between activists and officers downtown. After a lengthy march, protesters engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with authorities that stretched past midnight.
Noted: The problems were concentrated along State Street, the normally thriving pedestrian avenue that connects the state Capitol to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Protesters broke out the windows of Urban Outfitters, an art museum’s gift shop, Ragstock, AT&T and other stores.
UW-Madison has named astronomer Eric Wilcots to lead the university’s largest academic unit, marking the first time an African American will serve as dean of the College of Letters and Science.
University of Wisconsin System graduates earn a median annual salary of just under $50,000 after receiving their bachelor’s degree, according to a first-of-its-kind System study released Sunday.
More than half of the $70 million in state agency spending cuts ordered by Gov. Tony Evers will be to University of Wisconsin campuses in the first move to stabilize state finances during the coronavirus pandemic.
With the close of the spring semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison comes the annual work of admitting incoming students for the fall. This year is no different, but with the absence of tools typically used to help prospective Badgers finalize their decisions and take steps toward enrollment, students and staff have refocused their approach.
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, UW Health officials planned for the worst, preparing “space, people and stuff” for a surge of COVID-19 patients in need of hospital care. Despite a steadily growing number of positive cases across the state, the surge never materialized, but the plans remain in place in the event of another wave of infections, said Dr. Aimee Becker, chief medical officer for UW Health.
Column by Petersen, president of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced plans Monday to begin a careful, phased reopening of the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the summer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s summer term began Tuesday, with over 1,300 online courses across sessions lasting into August.
Widespread testing and temperature checks. Socially distanced classes and labs. Isolation protocols. Contact tracing and cellphone tracking devices. Hybrid in-person and online classes. Modified academic calendars.
’We need to make a substantial share of the curriculum available remotely,’ UW Chancellor says.
UW-Madison will likely offer a hybrid mix of educational offerings in the fall, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday.
“In short, it won’t be a normal semester next fall. And let’s be clear, we’re not just talking about the fall semester,” Blank wrote. “As we’re looking forward, we’re preparing for an entire academic year where concern over COVID-19 affects our educational programming.”
No matter what the University of Wisconsin does about classes, UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank still expects to see thousands of students flocking back to Madison this fall.
“We’re doing all the planning we can to think about how we manage that scenario, even if the coronavirus is ongoing, but there’s just an enormous amount of uncertainty,” said Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Braver’s alma mater).
Sports are a part of college life but the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak could upend athletics for the foreseeable future. We’ll talk to a sports reporter about how COVID-19 is impacting recruitment and the upcoming football and basketball seasons at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and Peter Halfmann of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with other researchers from both the United States and Japan, conducted the study, in which three domestic cats were inoculated with the virus and three additional uninfected cats were put in cages, one with each of the inoculated cats.
Cats can get the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and pass the virus on to other cats, according to a study led by a UW-Madison researcher.
“It’s not always going to be monkeys,” says Dave O’Connor, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin. He works with the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, which, like Tulane, is part of a network of primate research centers jointly supported by the NIH and university hosts around the country. The centers are now diverting most of their focus to coronavirus research.
The University of Wisconsin pulled off an awesome move for recent graduates.
With everybody needing to take online classes because of the coronavirus pandemic, students were robbed of the chance to enjoy a proper commencement.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says campuses will provide extensive COVID-19 testing for students, faculty and staff in hopes that campuses can resume in-person classes this fall.
Graduates and their loved ones tuned into the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s first ever virtual commencement ceremony Saturday.
This was the weekend it begins: The celebratory season in which thousands of proud family members traditionally descend on campuses statewide to witness and revel in what for most is the academic accomplishment of a lifetime.
But this year, the campuses are largely empty.
Nearly 8,500 University of Wisconsin-Madison students graduated Saturday, when a commencement video was published online at noon in lieu of the annual pomp and circumstance at Camp Randall Stadium.
Graduating seniors said an abrupt and socially distanced goodbye to their campuses in March when classes moved online in a matter of days. The pandemic stripped much of the pomp and all of the in-person options from commencement ceremonies. And the graduates now enter a job market in which unemployment is the highest since the Great Depression.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are working on safety protocols that could enable students to return to campus if the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into fall, System President Ray Cross told Regents Thursday.
Thousands of UW-Madison students in the Class of 2020 imagined the culmination of their college career to end at Camp Randall Stadium. They pictured the moment they’d throw their mortarboards high into the sky and sit in Abe Lincoln’s lap for the quintessential photo opp.
The leader of the University of Wisconsin System will unveil Thursday a three-part plan that radically re-imagines the network of schools that has been in place for a half-century.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross sounded a warning Thursday about ending some academic programs and layoffs as campuses brace for coronavirus-related budget cuts in the coming years.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there are questions about what a college football season will look like — if one happens at all. Will fans be allowed in stadiums? How many? What kinds of distancing practices will be in place, and how would they impact capacity?
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross directed campuses Thursday to quickly identify signature programs worthy of preservation and brace for layoffs as the coronavirus pandemic deepens the system’s financial losses.
ACT testing requirements will be temporarily suspended at all University of Wisconsin System campuses except UW-Madison under a proposed policy change aimed at easing college entrance requirements amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the end of the 2019-2020 school year approaching during this unprecedented pandemic, The Badger Herald interviewed University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank on issues relating to COVID-19 and the UW community.
Eleven UW System schools including LaCrosse, Oshkosh and Milwaukee announced furlough plans last week. The University of Wisconsin-Madison ordered furloughs for nearly 16,000 employees this week in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering received a $470,000 grant for the project through the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the School of Medicine and Public Health. CHESS collaborated with faculty, staff and students at the journalism school’s Center for Communication and Civic Renewal, which received a $140,000 subcontract.
To most fairly assess a semester that has been far from normal, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking liberties with final exams and projects.
