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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.
’Til the cows come home
The cows returned to UW's Dairy Cattle Center on Sept. 1, five months after they were removed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without students on campus or research projects, the center was temporarily shuttered on March 27.
New Faculty Focus: Brandon Quarles
Humans have always expressed themselves through music and this pandemic has shown us just how crucial music and the arts are to us. Music serves as a refuge in the storm and a catalyst for positive change in our society.
Chancellor directs 14-day student restrictions for health, safety
Chancellor Blank is directing all undergraduate students to restrict their movements over the next two weeks in order to reverse the recent rise in COVID-19 cases.
UW, Public Health act to stop COVID-19 spread in fraternity, sorority houses
In coordination with UW–Madison, Public Health Madison & Dane County today directed members of nine fraternities and sororities with off-campus live-in chapter houses to quarantine for at least 14 days in response to confirmed cases of COVID-19 among their members.
UW statement on racist Library Mall graffiti
University of Wisconsin–Madison was alerted Thursday to racist graffiti that was spray painted on multiple buildings in the Library Mall area. Two buildings connected to…
UW Health and UW focus on diversity for COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial
As UW Health begins scheduling participants for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine study, experts are focused on equity and inclusion to ensure a diverse population takes part. "People of color are a vital population to making this study a success."
COVID questions: Dog park safety, antibody testing
Is it safe to go to dog parks again? What is antibody testing for? Does a positive antibody test mean I don't need to follow distancing requirements?
New Faculty Focus: Carlyn Mueller
"So often in the field of special education, we train educators to think of themselves as the ultimate “helpers” -- but students with disabilities have so much power, agency, and ability to guide us toward building educational systems that reflect their needs."
In-person classes start, with masks and distancing
Campus sparkled under a warm September sun on Wednesday, as students returned to in-person classes for the first time in five months. Students and staff members followed the Smart Restart safety protocols that include mask wearing and physical distancing.
Message from Dean of Students Christina Olstad
For individuals who have intentionally behaved in ways that risk the health of our community, we are pursuing actions that could result in discipline up to and including the revocation of Housing contracts and emergency suspension.