“I will say that it’s encouraging to see a group of scientists like this say we have talked about this standard of behavior and we’re willing to agree to it,” said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved with the paper. “It’s a step forward for them to say at least we’re going to follow the law.”
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison want to know if people who are highly allergic to other things are more likely to have an allergic reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine.
What exactly happens when we change our mind? Pursuing this question is how I found myself, one recent morning, lying in a fancy brain scanner known as an fMRI machine and watching cartoons at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Last week, the University of Wisconsin-Madison community was informed of the departure of Chancellor Rebecca Blank to Northwestern University this summer after nine years serving as their leader. Blank will be the first female to serve as Northwestern University’s president.
With data showing the number of academic misconduct cases nearly doubled last school year compared with the previous year, UW-Madison is renewing its contract with an online proctoring software company. That’s despite more than 90% of classes returning to a face-to-face format this fall and some in the campus community expressing concerns that the testing technology is “creepy,” “invasive“ and discriminatory.
Science on the Square is one of the largest events happening in downtown Madison.
’There are so many tiny groups that have a say over [adding lights to Lakeshore Path]. It’s impossible to please all of them and that’s basically what the trouble is,’ ASM Legislative Affairs Chair says.
UW last conducted a campus climate survey five years ago.
undocumented students’My ultimate goal is to have a place where DACA recipients feel seen and heard, and where their whole humanity is being acknowledged,’ founder says.
UW students who test positive for COVID are currently isolated in Eagle Heights apartment complex, home to children, families.
Seven facilities on the UW-Madison will receive an upgrade, including in elevators that range in age from 45-56 years old and do not meet current accessibility standards.
Bradley Carl, assistant scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at UW-Madison, said it would be helpful to have thresholds or criteria that allow districts or even DPI to compare last year’s numbers to pre-pandemic years, but that hasn’t been established, Carl said, so parents, researchers, mayors and others are “left to wonder and make sense of it.”
A 26-year-old Madison man reportedly had thousands of dollars in counterfeit cash on him Tuesday when he was arrested for allegedly spending it on the University of Wisconsin campus. According to the UW Police Dept., Ishmael Riley spent the funny money at least three times on the campus. Police did not indicate if they have found evidence of him trying to pass it off-campus.
A Madison resident was arrested Tuesday after committing three counts of fraud, using counterfeit money during each incident. Over $13,000 in counterfeit money was later located in the suspect’s possession, said University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department Director of Communications Marc Lovicott.
UW-Madison communications, health and housing staff held an online town hall Aug. 19 to address resident’s concerns. If residents wear masks and avoid interacting with COVID-19 positive students, “there’s really no real increase of risk of having people in these spaces,” Collin Pitts, associate director of campus health, said at the meeting.
Work on the $77.6 million CR Future project is scheduled to start immediately following the Badgers’ final home game of the 2021 season, and the new spaces are expected to be ready by next year’s season opener.
Several proposals that would have split up the student district, though unsuccessful, could have threatened power of student voting.
