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GOP chairman says Republicans largely agree on supporting Trump through impeachment

Badgers United aids UW amid $320 million in financial losses We cant have a strong state of Wisconsin without a strong UW-Madison campus, Badgers United board member says Jonah Leurquin Badgers United, a nonprofit formed by Wisconsin residents and University of Wisconsin alumni, aims to increase financial support for the institution following Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s reports of the university’s $320 million pandemic-related losses. The nonprofit focuses primarily on the impact of the Wisc...

Zoey Colglazier watched her graduation from the University of Wisconsin on a computer screen, while sitting in the same chair she sat in when she wrote her college application. After five years of grad school, recent University of California-Santa Barbara graduate Patrick Corona defended his 400-page dissertation over Zoom. The only high school teacher UW freshman Grace DeGroot has seen since March has been her Spanish teacher — who handed DeGroot her diploma through her car window. Whether f...

Humans are completely part of the ecosystem, not separate from it, artist says ©Norbert Miguletz / In the exhibition space, visitors found traces of the performance Microbial Entanglement, which took place during the opening at the Frankfurt Kunstverein in Germany. This exhibit was on view from October 2019 - February 2020. copyright Norbert Miguletz She makes the invisible, visible. An artist brings light to a community of life seldom seen — except by scientists. Jan. 29, artist Sonja Bäum...

Celebrity-backed products have seemingly reached their peak as more and more famous faces slap their name onto nearly everything from skincare to clothing lines — and now a recent surprising rise in liquor. Celebrity-owned alcohol and collaborations have been circulating around for a decent amount of time, popping up for a brief period every few years or so only to die down and sit on a shelf alongside thousands of other pretty bottles. What separates them from the competition and the distill...

Masks will continue to be required indoors and indoor groups must have no more than 25 people, Emergency Order #13 says

Universities across Wisconsin drew up a variety protocols to combat COVID-19 on campus as classes resume for the semester and the schools of the University of Wisconsin System face the same challenge. To combat COVID-19 through the start of spring semester, UW-Madison adopted two major enhancements to ensure the safety of the campus community. The university adopted expanded testing requirements and a new app — Safer Badgers — according to the UW-Madison COVID-19 Response site. The recent i...

BioLife Plasma opened a new plasma center in Madison Jan. 30, their first to be open in the city and 14th open in the state, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Plasma has been of particular interest for COVID-19 due to convalescent plasma, an effective treatment for patients in critical condition, according to the Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic states the treatment involves giving patients hospitalized for COVID-19 plasma from individuals who have recovered from the virus. The plasma conta...

The Distinguished Teaching Awards have been held since 1953 to recognize exceptional educators on the University of Wisconsin campus. Faculty, departments and student organizations can submit nominations for faculty members who they feel not only exceeded expectations as teachers but also profoundly changed the community. Associate Professor in English Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, awarded the Community-Based Learning Teaching Award. Professor of Anthropology John Hawks, awarded the Van Hise O...

A recently deleted Reddit post about a University of Wisconsin student calling their teaching assistant brought attention to UW publishing TA’s personal phone numbers in their faculty directory. The university is not transparent about the disclosure of this information, according to UW Teaching Assistants’ Association Leader of Membership Coordination Rachel McClure. Unless they opt out, the data of university employees is shared with members of the public upon their request, McClure said. ...