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University of Wisconsin Madison – Extension Lincoln County, in partnership with Lincoln County, has recently completed a survey of County residents to determine their broadband use and high-speed internet needs. Households in the County’s unincorporated areas were invited to complete the survey in late Fall 2020.
Preliminary survey results are in and over 1,300 households in Lincoln County responded to the survey! This great response rate is statistically significant, meaning that the survey results are not likely due to chance or some other factor, and that the data relatively accurately reflects Lincoln County residents as a whole.
Arriving in my inbox at 7:50 a.m. on Jan. 21 was an email that I anxiously had been anticipating.
It was from the University of Wisconsin Madison doctor who is running UW’s clinical trial of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine. I, along with 460 volunteers, had been making monthly appearances at UW Hospital to provide blood samples and to get two shots spaced a month apart.
For every two of us, real vaccine shots were given; every third person got a saline injection. The email told me that I had gotten placebo injections, which meant I had no protection against COVID-19.
All that day I was in a somber mood, though part of that was because I had also learned that morning that my boyhood hero, baseball great Henry Aaron, had died. The last time I saw Aaron was in a news video of him getting vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks earlier.
IIT Madras Robert Bosch Centre presents Distinguished Fellowship to world-renowned researchers IIT Madras Robert Bosch Centre presents Distinguished Fellowship to world-renowned researchers
The IIT Madras Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) has awarded the RBCDSAI Distinguished Fellowship to three world-renowned researchers from International Institutions for their valuable contributions to Data Science and AI.
The Fellows will engage in long-term collaborations with the Centre, by inspiring, mentoring and initiating meaningful collaborations.
As part of welcoming the Distinguished Fellows, RBCDSAI is holding a series of events interacting with them on topical issues in Data Science and AI.
In the first of these events, a fireside chat with Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarathy on the topic AI Ethics: Separating Perception from Truth has been scheduled for January 21 and you can check out the official website to register for the same.
Managing the spread of the Covid-19 is challenging for many universities worldwide. A new study shows how the return to campus may be a superspreader event for US colleges.
With the conclusion of the fall 2020 semester, the University of Wisconsin Madison closes out one of the more tense semesters in campus history, and conflicts between administration and black students activists currently remain unresolved.
Students continue to voice frustration over a number of racial equality issues, including a call for more diversity training, a response from campus leaders to racism allegations, and the demand to remove several campus fixtures deemed divisive and oppressive by activists.
The university has become a microcosm of the racial equality movement that has taken the U.S. by storm following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.