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UW–Madison teams top national competition to help middle class
Connect Rx will help families get the economic support they need to reduce financial stress and achieve better health. Opportunity Calculator plans to develop a mobile platform to tell workers how career and training opportunities could affect their income.
Spring academic calendar changed
The updated calendar includes a long weekend from Friday, April 2, through Sunday, April 4. Under the previous calendar, spring break had been scheduled for March 27 through April 3.
Chancellor Blank: Update on COVID-19 response
“We must bring our daily case totals down and we are taking aggressive action to do that,” the chancellor says. Testing will be increased and more contact tracers will be added.
New Faculty Focus: Kate Walsh
"I was hired to lead an interdisciplinary research cluster on sexual violence so I am very excited about the resources and commitment of the university to the issues I study."
2 new staff members join Employee Assistance Office
The Employee Assistance Office (EAO), which provides no-cost, confidential consultation and counseling services to UW–Madison employees and their families, has added consultants Hailey Krueger and…
A program created to promote community on campus
In hopes of helping new students connect this semester, the Cener for First-Year Experience created Badger Welcome Groups. More than 600 signed to get to know each other.
Meet the campus innovators launching successful companies in an unprecedented time
While the global pandemic has challenged business owners across many sectors, startup companies helped by UW–Madison's UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product program have managed to demonstrate resilience.
U.S. News rankings: UW–Madison rises to 42nd overall, 13th best public college
Highly ranked programs include business, computer science, insurance/risk management and engineering. UW–Madison was also recognized for "best value" and "best for veterans."
New Faculty Focus: Sin Yin (Sean) Lim
"My goal as a researcher is to advance pediatric pharmacotherapy using a quantitative approach. I hope that my efforts can benefit all sick children in the state, the country, and beyond."
University shifts to two weeks of remote instruction, quarantines two residence halls
All in-person undergraduate, graduate and professional school group instruction will be paused from Sept. 10 – 25. These classes will be cancelled Thursday, Sept. 10 – Saturday, Sept. 12 and will resume remotely beginning Monday, Sept. 14 for at least two weeks.
Chancellor Blank statement in response to County Executive Parisi
"We have created significant testing capacity on our campus, which has had available slots every day for members of the campus community. It is also why we have hired, and continue to hire dozens of contact tracers, and have set aside more than 1,000 spaces for students in need of isolation or quarantine."
Enhanced health and safety protocols for employees
Due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in the campus community, Chancellor Blank announced a 14-day emphasis on health and safety protocols. While many of the temporary restrictions were aimed at curbing behaviors of undergraduate students, some also apply to UW–Madison employees in an effort to protect the health and safety of everyone in our campus community.
Diversity Inventory launches new website to track campus initiatives
Students, faculty and staff have already added more than 600 initiatives to the database, ranging from professional workshops and graduation events to inclusive restroom signage and innovative course curricula.
Waisman Biomanufacturing partners with GigaGen to manufacture new COVID-19 drug
The drug, called GIGA-2050, uses a new approach similar to treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma.
Brand New Badgers: Twin valedictorians take on UW–Madison together
Morgan and Riley Parks were co-valedictorians at Altoona High School. Now the two are now freshmen at UW–Madison, experiencing together many of the same pandemic-tinged college experiences.
UW Health’s anti-racism strategy to promote health equity
UW Health's ambitious diversity, equity and inclusion vision is to be a leader in dismantling racism in ourselves as individuals, our system and our community.
Massive halo finally explains stream of gas swirling around the Milky Way
Astronomers have solved a 50-year-old puzzle, discovering that the halo of warm gas surrounding the Magellanic Clouds likely acts as a protective cocoon.
Claudia Guzmán named director of Multicultural Student Center
More than ever this year, Guzmán says it will be crucial that the MSC provide students of color with the services, support and resources they need to succeed.
Message from Chancellor Rebecca Blank
Chancellor Rebecca Blank addresses students about the new 14-day student restrictions for health and safety instituted because of the rise in COVID-19 cases on campus.
Everybody poops, some shed the virus that causes COVID-19. Wisconsin’s wastewater surveillance is looking for it.
Detecting and measuring how much virus is in wastewater is may provide an early warning signal that cases of COVID-19 may soon rise and provide a readout of how levels of virus change in a population over time.