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UW-Madison senior Samantha Galinson offers instructions and advice to an individual arriving for a COVID-19 test at the campus' Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
A building access badge is displayed on the phone of a UW-Madison employee after the employee received a negative COVID-19 test result.
Workers at one of UW-Madison's COVID-19 test sites receive samples. The shift to saliva-based testing is expected to increase the college's weekly testing capacity from 12,000 to 82,000.
UW-Madison will have more than a dozen COVID-19 testing sites this semester, with weekend and evening hours available to accommodate students and staff who face increased testing requirements compared with the fall.
UW-Madison student Connor Hanson inspects his saliva sample during a visit to a COVID-19 testing site at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
A UW-Madison worker examines an individual's COVID-19 test sample last winter.
Fave 5: Higher education reporter Kelly Meyerhofer shares her top picks of 2020
The first story I wrote this year was about a two-legged dog. 2020 only got more weird from there.
In early March, I sat in a room with about a hundred others listening to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank brief professors on how the coronavirus might affect campus operations. During the Faculty Senate meeting, she encouraged instructors to consider what classes or meetings could be delivered online.
UW-Platteville Richland had nearly 250 students in 1980 when the campus was considered for closure. Today, it has 155.
The annual Match Day tradition, where students stand on stage to learn where they will do their residencies, was scuttled because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Thousands of students moved into UW-Madison's dorms with a mixed set of emotions about the semester ahead — excitement, hope, doubt, fear — and I tried to capture it all in this story.
UW-Madison's return to the physical classroom stokes fear among some who say the safest option is to continue online and relief from others whose experience teaching or learning remotely was underwhelming.
The Trump administration proposed a number of actions that made life difficult for international students.
