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Updates to university travel for employees, guests, students and registered student organizations
Campus will continue to monitor and adjust the travel policy as necessary.
Clinical trial repurposes cancer drug for treatment of vascular malformations
The multi-site trial at UW–Madison is in its first phase and is testing a personalized topical medication in the form of a gel as a way to treat vascular anomalies.
Lynch selected as vice chancellor for legal affairs
Nancy Lynch, who has served as deputy to the vice chancellor since 2013, will succeed Raymond Taffora as the chief legal officer of the university, heading the Office of Legal Affairs and Office of Compliance.
Van Hise, Humanities reopen
Emergency repairs to two campus buildings are now complete, but both buildings will require further work over the next year.
No evidence of COVID-19 spread to local community after UW–Madison residence hall outbreak
A study led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the UW–Madison’s prevention efforts, including a two-week quarantine of two residence halls, likely helped contain the outbreak.
Earth’s vegetation is changing faster today than it has over the last 18,000 years
The research suggests that humanity’s dominant influence on ecosystems that is so visible today has its origin in the earliest civilizations and the rise of agriculture, deforestation and other ways our species has influenced the landscape.
School of Pharmacy volunteers help vaccinate underserved communities
The school and the Boys and Girls Club hosted eight vaccine clinics in neighborhoods around Madison on Saturdays in April and May, providing vaccines to more than 600 community members.
UW’s Prenatal to Five Initiative advances early childhood solutions in Wisconsin
The initiative uses UW–Madison expertise to help Wisconsin child-care providers find solutions to the problems they face, especially through the difficulties of the pandemic.
COVID questions: Keeping unvaccinated children safe; when quarantine is needed
My husband and I are vaccinated, but our young children are currently not eligible to receive the vaccine. Which activities are safe to resume? Which disease require quarantining?
Chancellor Blank: Thanks and looking ahead
Chancellor Blank thanks faculty and staff for their extraordinary work during the pandemic and shares more information about the coming academic year.
First we tamed turnips. Then we turned them into bok choy and other veggies.
This new research represents the most complete look yet at how humans domesticated the ubiquitous species Brassica rapa, untangling the complex web of domestication.
Video: Dean Robertson engineering expansion
“The new facility will stimulate collaboration, spark research discoveries and serve as the focal point of our engineering campus, Robertson said.
See what summer has in store
UW–Madison Summer Term has more than 1,000 courses — hundreds of them available online — to keep students moving forward on their academic journey.
Healthy Minds app provides relief from pandemic stress
The app, which has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, offers a guided path to well-being, grounded in neuroscience and the concept that people can train their minds to be more calm, focused and resilient.
Badger Talks: Is the pandemic affecting our memory?
In this Badger Talks, Haley Vlach walks us through the reasons why the pandemic has been so challenging for our memory.
People 12 and older can get vaccinated against COVID-19 at UW–Madison
The new authorization will enable even more people vulnerable to COVID-19 to safely build immunity to the virus that causes it.
Celebrating IceCube’s first decade of discovery
The Antarctic observatory's founders believed that studying cosmic neutrinos would reveal hidden parts of the universe. Over the course of the next decade, they would be proven right.
Employees encouraged to prepare for the transition to a biweekly payroll schedule
Most of the changes employees will see on their paychecks will happen automatically. However, it is important that employees understand the changes and how they affect their paycheck amounts.
COVID-19 Update: Campus policies for summer
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Designer alterations to brain cells reduce anxious behavior in monkeys, hold promise for new treatments
The technique used by psychiatry Professor Ned Kalin could point to a new way to help people with severe anxiety and other treatment-resistant psychiatric illnesses.