Shaped by his experience growing up and getting his education in a refugee camp in Uganda, UW-Madison student Joel Baraka spent years developing a way to help children back home learn in a fun and engaging way.
A new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study has found that the quick test used by UW campuses to regularly test students missed about 1 in 5 positive cases for people who have symptoms.
Interim UW System President Tommy Thompson says the school system could help with the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Thompson told WKOW’s Milwaukee affiliate WISN 12 the schools could help administer the vaccine to all Wisconsin residents.
Just over two weeks before instruction starts on Jan. 25, Blank updated the UW-Madison community with the university’s plans for students’ return to campus in an email.
Associated Students of Madison (ASM) legislation calling to compensate student hourly employees telecommuting from abroad has been accepted by UW-Madison officials for the spring semester.
Dr. Jonathan Temte, co-chair of the subcommittee and former chair of the CDC advisory committee, said that if disabled people who live in group homes are prioritized, inmates should be too because both live in congregate settings. “I think we should be unwilling to decouple those,” said Temte, associate dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Arecord 548 patients got organ transplants at UW Hospital last year, including a record 315 people who received kidneys, even though the COVID-19 pandemic led doctors to shut down elements of the transplant program for parts of the year.
Saunders Nordeen, who oversaw Badgers women’s athletics after the UW Athletic Board approved varsity status in 1974, died Jan. 1 at age 80. She suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, according to an obituary.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has estimated 6 hectares are required for monarchs to stay afloat in the long run. “Current monarch numbers are not sustainable,” says ecologist Karen Oberhauser of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“The era of landslide elections appears to be behind us,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist. “The strengthening of partisanship in the electorate has dampened the magnitude of swings from one party to the other.”
Many journals have teams that check images for mistakes in image manipulation, notes Kevin Eliceiri, a biomedical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
UW-Madison professor Mike Wagner explained this would require the vice president and a majority of cabinet members to agree the president can no longer carry out his duties.“The vice president would become acting president if that took place,” Wagner said.
She was employed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an administrative assistant for 28 years, retiring in 2009.
She then started her career as an administrative assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agriculture, which she retired from in 1994 after over 40 years and created even more lifelong friendships.
Franklin Delano Wilson, Ph.D., the William H. Sewell-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, passed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Wallace then worked for the University of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin System for 21 years under five different UW presidents. His final position was Vice President of Administration and State Government Affairs – coordinating UW planning, development and finances with the legislative and executive branches of state government.
He was a trusted and responsive administrator, serving as Associate Dean and then as a Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences University of Wisconsin.
Kit Saunders Nordeen, who pioneered women’s athletics at the University of Wisconsin in the 1960s and ’70s, and as a top national administrator fought for equal opportunities for women athletes in the tumultuous years following the passage of Title IX, died Jan. 1, 2021.
A recent survey found that an overwhelming majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison think the government should be able to punish “hate speech.” Of course, “hate speech” is simply the left’s ambiguous term for anything veering from the leftist orthodoxy on issues such as abortion, sex, race, and immigration.
Political science professor Yoshiko Herrera, one of seven University of Wisconsin-Madison professors who signed the letter, said she sees the statement not as a partisan position, but “an effort to engage in politics in the national interest.
The nonpartisan Thompson Center published a report Thursday characterizing University of Wisconsin-Madison students’ views on free speech as “troubling” and recommended increased First Amendment education on college campuses.
The quadruplets had always been a package deal, together even before they were born. College was supposed to represent the fork in the road where each of them would take a new, independent path at different schools. But the pandemic extended their time together.
James Barron’s new biography helps Elias Demetracopoulos posthumously tell his mythic story.
