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March 19, 2020 By Mike Klein For news media Originally published here. The move from the University of Wisconsin–Madison classrooms where students have gathered to learn for more than 150 years to the high-tech setups in which professors teach students sitting in their homes and apartments around the world is not necessarily an easy one. But Professor of …
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PHOTO BY: BRYCE RICHTER Chancellor Rebecca Blank speaks during a press conference addressing the COVID-19 measures being taken by UW–Madison, which was held in the UW Police and Security Facility. She is accompanied by Jake Baggott, executive director of University Health Services (rear), and Laurent Heller, vice chancellor for finance and administration.
中文 Chinese Español Hmoob नेपाली Nepali བོད་སྐད Tibetan COVID-19 continues to spread and affect many parts of the U.S. and the rest of the world. UW–Madison is working to mitigate the effects of the disease on our campus population, in consultation with local, state and federal partners. The health of our community is our most …
中文 Chinese Español Hmoob नेपाली Nepali བོད་སྐད Tibetan To our students, faculty and staff, UW–Madison continues to monitor the spread of COVID-19 (formerly novel coronavirus) and is addressing the epidemic in a coordinated campus-wide manner with local, state and federal agency partners. The university is reviewing a range of strategies to limit COVID-19’s spread as …
Should I be concerned? Can I travel? What should I do to protect myself and others? University Health Services answers these and other questions. Please continue to visit this site as guidance is updated this week.
Upcoming Exhibit: What Would a Microbe Say? By Laura Sims Peck School of Human Ecology An exhibition coming to the Ruth Davis Design Gallery in the School of Human Ecology at UW–Madison will make visible the largely invisible world of microbes, inviting viewers to consider non-linguistic interspecies forms of communication, to question human exceptionalism, and …
By Meghan Chua The Graduate School As the conversation about mental health and well-being during graduate school grows nationally, graduate students at UW–Madison are leading a charge to make talking about department climate and mental health the norm. A climate survey in the Department of Chemistry at UW–Madison is improving support for graduate students and …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Chemistry has received a 2020 Diversity Award from the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. The award recognizes the department’s efforts to enhance underrepresented students’ access to and success in the chemistry graduate program.
By Kaine Korzekwa, Department of Biochemistry Graduate students attend multiple conferences during their educational careers. But after his first successful trip to the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) conference, Joseph Kim decided to get more involved and was recently named Communications Chair for MSA’s Student Council. Kim, a physical chemistry graduate student in the lab …