Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that Madison’s thriving industries, such as biotechnology, software and gaming, are “areas that are basically all very much rooted in both the students who graduate from here and the faculty and the research work that we do here”.
January 21, 2021
Top Stories
UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank: Up to 70,000 tests per week will help protect our campus and community
As we prepare to resume classes, we’re going to continue doing our part to curb the spread of the virus. We learned from experience that a high degree of testing, followed by quickly isolating and quarantining those who test positive or were exposed, is key to limiting that spread.
Campus life
At home, alone and online, Wisconsin observes historic inauguration
The UW-Madison campus was uncharacteristically quiet as COVID-19 kept students and staff from coming together and pushed back the spring semester’s start to Monday. Just two UW-Madison students were seen in Memorial Union.
Reserve Board approves sponsorship of COVID-19 Student Relief Fund legislation
Board members raise concerns about legality but ultimately unanimously vote in favor of sponsorship.
Arts & Humanities
Nathans And Ronstadt Premier A New Music Video For ‘Ghost Writer’
Nathans has roots in Madison. He said he “began playing guitar and writing songs when I lived in Madison roughly two decades ago. I worked for The Capital Times covering the (University of Wisconsin) System, and I remember sitting at the Board of Regents meetings at the top of Van Hise Hall and scrawling song lyrics in my reporter’s notebook.
UW Experts in the News
Op-ed: Black student loan borrowers ‘need cancellation, and they need it now’
Fenaba Addo is an associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ashley Harrington is the federal advocacy director at the Center for Responsible Lending.
The debate around canceling student debt has been front and center in the wake of the presidential election, and President-elect Biden should provide substantial cancellation on his first day in office.
Lawmakers Push for ‘Selena’ to Be Added to National Film Registry
“It’s a recognition of Chicana and Latina talent in acting and representation,” said Theresa Delgadillo, a Chicana and Latina studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “and a woman innovator in music at the center of it.”
President Biden starts term at “historically difficult” time, says UW-Madison professor
University of Wisconsin – Madison political science professor Kenneth Mayer said Biden is starting out with a “challenging set of circumstances.””It’s historically difficult. The country is as polarized as it has ever been at any time in the last 140 years. We have serious economic distress…COVID-19 is not remotely under control,” Mayer said.
Visions and views of America, as told by Pres. Biden and 22-year-old poet
Allison Prasch, an assistant professor and expert on political speeches at UW-Madison, said Biden mentioned words like “we” or “us” roughly three times more than the word “I.” She compared his speech to the Gettysburg Address, in which Abraham Lincoln did not mention the North and the South as divided entities. He, instead, spoke about the Union and American unity.