Dane County Executive Joe Parisi is asking UW-Madison administrators to consider sending students home for the fall semester or increasing the campus’ staffing to counter COVID-19. The request comes after the University reported a spike in COVID-19 cases this weekend. According to Public Health Madison Dane County, since September 1st, more than nine hundred people […]
Job Hunting In a Pandemic
With so much of the world shut down during the coronavirus pandemic, it’s not the greatest time to go looking for a job, especially for the class of 2020 who may be graduating into a recession. Unemployment is high, many employers have slowed or ceased their operations and many traditional ways of networking or accessing […]
Local colleges, universities weighing how to reopen for fall semester
In a letter published yesterday, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote that the campus will begin a phased reopening process beginning this summer. But, Blank says that university officials are still unclear on how many of those classes will be in person, and how many will be online. In March, Blank told the University Committee that […]
Modelling the COVID-19 Virus
In the fall of 1918, Colorado business owners started campaigns to pressure Denver Mayor W.F.R. Mills to lift restrictions on businesses and public gatherings designed to combat the influenza outbreak. The restrictions were costing them heaps of money, said the business interests, and besides, the virus appeared to have leveled off. Surely, the greatest risk […]
University of Wisconsin researchers testing temporary cure for COVID-1...
According to the best estimates from public health officials, a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus is still at least a year away. But that hasn’t stopped some medical researchers from looking for short-term cures for the pandemic. Dr. William Hartman is an assistant professor of anesthesiology in the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and […]
Jonathan Z.S. Pollack, “Wisconsin, The New Home of the Jew, 150 ...
Madison BookBeat, your listener-sponsored community radio home for Madison authors, Madison book events, Madison topics, and Madison publishers. In this hour, Stu Levitan talks with Jonathan Pollack, author of Wisconsin The New Home of the Jew: 150 years of Jewish life at the UW-Madison, just published by the George L. Mosse / Laurence A Weinstein […]
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