Less than a month ago, the healthy, 22-year-old senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had a fever so high she was delirious and felt too weak to walk after contracting COVID-19 while on a spring break trip to Portugal in early March.
Noted: DJ Shawna, the official DJ for the Milwaukee Bucks and University of Wisconsin Badgers, said sticking to a routine is key to helping her get through this time.
“I wake up every morning around the same time, work out, meditate, and then tackle my project for the day,” she said. “I have been learning new DJ and production skills, making mixes, recording podcasts, reaching out to friends and family via FaceTime, reading, and making sure I get outside (safely) at least once a day.”
She is sharing her skills by legally live-streaming DJ sets and is raising money for Key to Change, which helps homeless families and individuals.
When asked about racist incidents related to the coronavirus pandemic, including racist chalking on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Kaul said it’s important for people to speak out.
Ms. Karofsky is currently a circuit judge in Dane County, home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With 94% of precincts reporting, she had 54.1% of the vote.
The book pulls together the different strands of Wright’s career, including his time at the Justice Department, his work as co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project working on behalf of the wrongfully convicted, and being an associate law professor and creative writing lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In a letter, University of Wisconsin-Madison staff on Monday requested revisions and a temporary halt to the Title and Total Compensation process, which was previously expected to finalize a new employee title and pay structure by July 1.
I moved to Wisconsin in 2005, joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor. At the time I knew little about the state, but that it enjoyed a reputation for good government. Forcing people to vote in a pandemic – choosing between their health and losing their franchise – would have been unthinkable back then.
The UW-Madison Archives, which is not associated with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is doing its own project to collect digital memories from the campus community during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which has halted in-person classes, closed dorms and has left the campus largely empty.
Noted: Born in Milwaukee in 1940, Miller was in Nicolet High School’s first graduating class in 1958. After earning a degree in drama and speech at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to Los Angeles to find a job in film and television. His first big break was serving as dialogue coach for legendary director Billy Wilder, in what effectively became a four-year apprenticeship.
Lovell was a cool customer, at ease in a pilot’s seat. Before becoming an astronaut, the University of Wisconsin-Madison student and U.S. Naval Academy graduate, whose cellphone ring tone today is “Anchors Away,” had landed jets on aircraft carriers in the middle of the night in the Pacific Ocean. But even for him, this was a steep learning curve.
With sports on hold amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, J.J. Watt took to social media Thursday afternoon to provide a live weather update from Wisconsin.
Noted: Donny went to Brookfield East High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He worked for multiple companies on the Chicago Board of Trade, before accepting his job in New York. He loved hiking and biking, and ran in several ultramarathons.
Noted: Dávila graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison then served as a Spanish linguist in the U.S. Army before attending Marquette University Law School. He graduated the law school in 2011.
When a Saturn rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center half a century ago, it carried three astronauts and a lunar lander to take two of them to the moon’s surface.
When Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Jones went to visit former astronaut James Lovell to discuss the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13, she brought with her some special mementos.
Lovell moved to Milwaukee as a boy, graduated from Juneau High School and studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Over 1,330 people have signed a letter from University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students demanding improved COVID-19 policies for hourly employees, graduate-level course credits and university housing rent payments.
Noted: For Alyssa Birkeland, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying political science and business, volunteering as a poll worker was an easy decision.
“I felt like it was my duty to volunteer, and hopefully relieve the stress,” she said.
But Birkeland, 21, still worried about the risk of contracting the coronavirus as people flock to the polls.
“It’s definitely a little bit of a concern, but I’m probably one of the best people to be put in that position,” she said. “I rather it be me than someone else.”
Perez has deep ties to Wisconsin. His daughter will graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring, but the ceremony, like so many others, has been postponed. His wife is a UW-Madison graduate and they were married in Milwaukee, near where she grew up.
After the coronavirus outbreak caused the university to cancel in-person classes, the couple switched gears. Connected digitally with their students, Barson and Rodriguez have been working to finish the class project in a digital space.
To the editor: In 2015, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published an article in the journal Policy Insights From the Behavioral and Brain Sciences entitled, “Video Captions Benefit Everyone.”
When soldiers were training at Camp Randall in 1861 to fight in the Civil War, the founding director of the Wisconsin Historical Society gave them journals to write down their thoughts.
A century later when Freedom Riders, including many University of Wisconsin students, headed to Southern states to work in the civil rights movement, a group of UW grad students collected thousands of pages of contemporary documents that otherwise might have been lost.
Amy Shircel and three friends traveled to Portugal early last month in search of sun, sand and scenery. Coronavirus cut the trip short, and within days of returning to her Madison apartment, Shircel felt fatigued. She had a mild cough, but didn’t think much of it.
Noted: Spencer’s career has included working as an engineer on transportation infrastructure including railroads, dams and bridges before he earned a law degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and opened a private practice that handles real estate and business cases and consumer protection, according to his campaign.
New America published a new report that makes a series of recommendations for anticipating and managing precipitous college closures. The brief was co-authored by experts from New America, WASC Senior College and University Commission, State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, Southern New Hampshire University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“For a lot of my cohort members and I, it sucked, because we didn’t realize on that Friday (March 13) it was going to be the last time we’d see our students face-to-face,” said Emily Strehlow, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who is student teaching at Lincoln Elementary School in Madison. “It all happened so fast that we were in a state of shock and confusion.”
Athletes at all levels have been affected by the new coronavirus. University of Wisconsin-Madison swimmer Beata Nelson was preparing for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships before they were canceled due to the pandemic. Nelson, who’s from Fitchburg, won national titles in three events last year. She holds the American record in the women’s 100-yard backstroke.
Jill Karofsky went on to receive her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her master’s and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On March 20, the University of Tampa said five of its students had tested positive after a spring break trip and that a sixth had tested positive after traveling internationally. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, meanwhile, said earlier this week that “multiple” students had tested positive after a spring break trip to Nashville and Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Also, university students should fill out the census using the address of where they live when attending school.
The state will open a voluntary isolation facility for people with COVID-19 symptoms Wednesday at UW-Madison’s Lowell Center and at a Super 8 hotel in Milwaukee, officials said Tuesday.
So he created a Google form on which at-risk neighbors can list the grocery items and medications they need, then posted it to several local Facebook groups in his hometown of Mequon, Wis., offering to deliver the items. The pre-med student, who moved back home after the University of Wisconsin-Madison shifted to distance learning, wears gloves when he shops and leaves the bags on the front porch of recipients’ homes. He asks that people reimburse him for the items using Venmo or PayPal, but since many of the seniors he is shopping for don’t use digital payment apps, they slip an envelope of cash beneath the door.
“I don’t know how many of the people who have renewed plots will be here to garden,” Padorr said. “Right now, a lot of people have left campus and about half, maybe two-thirds of our gardeners, are connected with the (University of Wisconsin-Madison).”
Noted: Conley started collecting art when he was in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied art and economics. He was also a cartoonist for school publications.
Nathan Ng doesn’t feel sick, but he does feel guilty about taking a four-day trip to the Alabama oceanfront with a group of friends over spring break.
UW-Madison announced it will bring in an outside shipping and packing company to pack and store the belongings of approximately 4,000 students in residence halls. This allows the university to prepare for accommodation of groups in need of special housing provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, including students and the possibility of hospital residences if hospitals overflow.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Lowell Center opened Thursday morning as an isolation facility for people who have tested positive for COVID-19, following a request from the state’s Emergency Operations Center.
Noted: Neubauer graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Chicago Law School, clerked for a federal district judge and became a litigation partner at Foley & Lardner before being elected to the appeals court.
Scout, the dear dog beloved by many at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine and star of several Super Bowl commercials, died Sunday. He was 7.
Johnson Crosby is finishing her final semester of nursing school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Under most circumstances she would be poised to start her final clinical rotation at University Hospital while preparing to join the workforce in May.
Katie Malloy, the Associated Students of Madison’s legislative affairs committee chair, regularly plans voter registration events, speaks with lawmakers in the Capitol and advocates for policy change.
“They’re not letting us party,” said an irate Allie Shoman, 21, a junior at the University of Wisconsin. Her friend, McKenzie Feyen, chimed in, saying the virus doesn’t scare her at all: “There’s more cases where we go to school than here. We might as well stay and get hammered.”
Noted: While at the University of Wisconsin, Brian met Mary while washing dishes at Barnard Residence Hall. The two were married for 62 years and have five children, 26 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
Pat Hanrahan was a young biophysics student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s when he decided to give up his work with microscopic insects and join a small group of computer scientists in their quest to make a movie.
In Madison, Erica Kauten, a retired former program director at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, wore disposable rubber gloves while she was out for a walk.
The Sheboygan Lutheran boys basketball team’s coaches had the film already rolling for Randolph, its scheduled opponent in Saturday’s sectional final.
Noted: Wetselaar, who was 33 when he died in the Molson Coors shootings Feb. 26, grew up in the Milwaukee area. He graduated from Pius XI High School in 2005 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a degree in political science. He met his wife while at UW-Madison, where they both worked at a restaurant.
Elizabeth Pulvermacher, a University of Wisconsin student, arrived Saturday at O’Hare from Madrid, where she had been studying and spent hours in line. The customs process made her feel “unsafe,” she said.
Kai Linsenmeyer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior who had been studying in Germany, landed late Sunday afternoon expecting to be held up after seeing online what other passengers had experienced. Instead, he got through customs, had his temperature taken and grabbed his bags in about an hour.
Kai Linsenmeyer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior who had been studying in Germany, landed late Sunday afternoon expecting to be held up after seeing online what other passengers had experienced. Instead, he got through customs, had his temperature taken and grabbed his bags in about an hour.
Aaron Bird Bear, a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Diné nations, is the first tribal relations director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Mr. Spiegel, 33, is a co-founder and the chief operating officer of Highfield, a creative agency in New York. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
Danielle Yancey, a member of the Menominee/Santee Nation, is the director for the Native American Center for Health Professions at the School of Medicine and Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Letter to the editor: These systems highlight that impact matters regardless of intention. These forms are not so that we can tattle to “nanny campus bureaucracy.” They allow us to enact the change we want to see.
Letter to the editor: It appears that sufficient time has passed to comment on the bothersome fact that not a single review of the UW Faculty Exhibition at the Chazen Museum, which began Feb. 1, has appeared in any of the local media.
Many biosafety officers rank their involvement in research, albeit in a supporting role, as one of the key attractions of the job. “One of the things I’ve loved most about this job is that I’m still involved in and helping the research community,” says Andrea Ladd, assistant director of the environment, health and safety office at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Anderson earned his PhD at MIT and went on to teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was the chair of the meteorology department. The American Meteorological Society has named an award for Anderson, recognizing work promoting diversity in the atmospheric sciences.
Wetselaar began working at Molson Coors in 2018, according to his LinkedIn page. Before working at the brewery, Wetselaar worked on nuclear submarines as a member of the U.S. Navy. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a political science degree.
Smith is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Florida and President of ElectionSmith, Inc. He is a nationally-recognized expert on direct democracy, campaign finance, and voting rights in the American states. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his B.A. in History from Penn State.
Omer Poler has spent most of the past decade as an outreach specialist for the UW-Madison Information School, supporting tribal librarians, archivists and museum curators across the state.
He had also worked as a manager at a pizza company and as a Health Care Services account manager. He had a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science and government. He spoke Dutch.
