Clipsheet

September 10, 2021

Research

Two UW-Madison researchers have spent 20 years studying how 9/11 is taught in schools. Here’s what they learned.

Posted on 9/10/2021

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

As the World Trade Center towers collapsed, Diana Hess wondered if she should cancel class.

It was Sept. 11, 2001.

Hess, then an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, started hearing whispers that the entire campus would shut down. She had been preparing for an evening class for social studies student teachers, who were working in area middle schools and high schools.

But now, the world was changing before her eyes — and so was the social studies curriculum.

The Next Chapter for Farm to School: Milling Whole Grains in the Cafeteria

Posted on 9/10/2021

Civil Eats

Last year, researchers at the Center for Integrated Agriculture Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture & Life Sciences and the Artisan Grain Collaborative in Madison received a $516,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers’ Market Promotion Program to expand the value chain for Midwest grain growers in institutions over the next three years.

Campus life

‘Repair the Lake’ clean-up event honors Jewish new year

Posted on 9/10/2021

Daily Cardinal

Students participated in a Repair the Lake trash cleanup event on Sept. 7, organized by Hillel, Interfraternity Council and National Panhellenic Conference. The event is a modernized version of the reverse Taschlish, a Jewish ritual observed for Rosh Hashana.

UW students transition to fall semester with 90% in-person instruction

Posted on 9/10/2021

Badger Herald

90% of UW classes this semester will be in-person with 88% of student population fully vaccinated.

How 9/11 inspired a UW Health doctor to change career paths

Posted on 9/10/2021

NBC-15

Lisa Arkin is currently the Director of Pediatric Dermatology at UW Health and an associate professor at the UW-Madison School of Medicine. Twenty years ago, she had never given any thought to becoming a physician or attending medical school.

Crime and safety

UWPD arrest two who allegedly broke into University Apartments

Posted on 9/10/2021

WISC-TV 3

Officers arrested two men — 26-year-old David Cartagena of Madison and 25-year-old Chikezie Obiora of Milwaukee — on tentative charges of burglary, resisting and obstructing, and disorderly conduct.

UW police warn against ‘massive uptick’ in scams targeting students

Posted on 9/10/2021

WKOW-TV 27

With students returning to campus for the 2021-22 school year, scammers are out in full force. UW Police Department says it’s seeing a “massive uptick” in the number of scams targeting students and community members. According to a report from the UW Police Department, the FBI tracked over $3.5 billion in losses due to scams in 2019.

Two suspects arrested following Madison residential burglary

Posted on 9/10/2021

NBC-15

According to a news release from the UW-Madison Police Department, at approximately 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning two suspects entered an unlocked apartment in the University Apartments indenting to steal property.

Health

‘It’s Criminal’: Milwaukeeans Call for Speedier Lead Pipeline Removal to Cut Childhood Poisoning

Posted on 9/10/2021

PBS Wisconsin

Quoted: Henry Anderson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of population health and expert on environmental and occupational diseases, said prioritizing paint hazards made sense — particularly for protecting toddlers who can cruise around a house.

“There’s so much more lead in a paint chip than there is in a glass of water,” said Anderson, Wisconsin’s former state chief medical officer. “When there’s an old house, it has paint chipping off the walls, they are crawling around, putting their hands in their mouth — and hands are sticky. And so ingestion of paint chips remains important.”

Rockford-based SwedishAmerican Health System to officially join UW Health

Posted on 9/10/2021

WKOW-TV 27

After six years as a division of UW Health, SwedishAmerican in Rockford will now be an official part of the UW Health system.

Illinois- based SwedishAmerican Health System changes name to UW Health

Posted on 9/10/2021

NBC-15

SwedishAmerican Health Systems has now fully integrated in the Wisconsin’s UW Health System. The Rockford, IL health system has been recognized as a division of UW Health since 2015, but effective immediately, SwedishAmerican will now be known as UW Health.

Madison School District to partner with UW Health on COVID testing study

Posted on 9/10/2021

Wisconsin State Journal

UW Health plans to launch the study next week and will use a sample group of about 400 students, staff and teachers from Leopold and Lincoln elementary schools who display COVID symptoms in an effort to determine a more accessible method of testing.

UW Experts in the News

Time, misinfo complicate teaching 9/11 to kids born after it

Posted on 9/10/2021

The Washington Post

“I think that the way it’s been taught has largely been memorializing the events versus really digging into the context of 9/11 and the ongoing sort of results of 9/11,” says Jeremy Stoddard, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who has researched that subject.

‘My guess is Dane County wasn’t the target’: How the new federal vaccine rule could affect Wisconsin employers

Posted on 9/10/2021

WKOW-TV 27

UW-Madison epidemiology professor Ajay Sethi said the new mandate will make a big impact nationwide in slowing the spread of the virus. “Because of the Delta variant and what it’s doing right now in unvaccinated people, this kind of policy will really accelerate having more people vaccinated,” he said. “So it’s a good idea.”