An Ever-Growing Collection of News, Features & Achievements
New Tower. Work in the new tower continues. The remaining concrete for the eighth floor was poured last week and the west side of the ninth floor (mechanical area and roof) is ready for concrete to be poured this week. The temporary stairway that enables workers to access upper floors without using ladders has been …
COVID-19. Although the department has shut down due to the COVID-19 situation, we thought it would be helpful to continue to supply information about the progress of various construction projects—at least to provide as much information as we can get. Here is an update as of Friday, March 20. At this writing we don’t know …
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 …