University of Wisconsin–Madison

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2020 Wisconsin Without Borders Awards recognize global health efforts

This year's Wisconsin Without Borders award winners are especially involved with global health and well-being.

Researchers at UW–Madison lead data science coalition to aid with COVID-19

GHI team members join campus-wide collaboration to understand and respond to COVID-19.

Artist creates free downloadable coloring book to keep kids busy at home

Artist Will Santino worked with Lori DiPrete Brown and a UW COVID communications task force to create coloring pages to help children understand the coronavirus.

WPR: Hospitals in Madison, Milwaukee testing plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients

Aurora St. Luke and UW Hospital are part of a nationwide clinical trial to determine if antibodies from a recovered coronavirus patient can help others.

Climate change affects everything: Even the coronavirus

UW-Madison researchers weigh in on how climate change can contribute to virus transmission.

State may have seen COVID-19 peak without big surge, but officials say risk remains

Wisconsin is still flattening the curve of the coronavirus, and researchers say it could get worse without maintaining strict guidelines.

The Mysterious Demise of Freshwater Mussels

GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg is part of the Unionid Mussel Strike Force to solve the mystery of fresh water mussel die-offs.

UW-Madison researchers tracking travel, social media to help contain virus

Forced to choose between staying away from others to prevent the spread of a pandemic and casting a ballot in Wisconsin’s April 7 election, crowds lined up at polling places across the state — including thousands funneled to five sites in Milwaukee. New data shows that Wisconsinites traveled more during Tuesday’s election than they did …

Know your Madisonian: UW Hospital doctor at forefront of COVID-19 pandemic response

Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at UW Hospital, is helping lead UW Health's response to COVID-19.

Four UW-Madison students named 2020 Goldwater scholars – the most possible for any institution

Among them is junior Elizabeth Sumiec, a global health certificate student.