Clipsheet

October 12, 2022

Top Stories

UW Odyssey Project turns 20: Grads recount how it’s changed their lives

Posted on 10/12/2022

Wisconsin State Journal

Around 30 people are accepted into the Odyssey Project each year and are registered as a special class of part-time UW-Madison students. It includes a six-credit course in the humanities, split over two semesters, for people who are low-income or facing other barriers to education. Approximately 95% of students are people of color.

Taught on Wednesday nights on Madison’s South Side, the program provides child care (dubbed Odyssey Junior), and students are fed a full meal before the start of class.

UW-Madison brings in largest, most diverse freshman class in history

Posted on 10/12/2022

The Capital Times

The university announced Monday 8,628 freshmen are enrolled this fall, compared to last year’s 8,465 freshmen. Despite the university offering nearly 3,000 fewer acceptance letters this year than the year prior, a greater percentage of those admitted chose to attend UW-Madison.

Research

Despite 2 decades of progress, Wisconsin still isn’t meeting national air quality standards

Posted on 10/12/2022

Wisconsin Public Radio

Noted: One of the major polluters, Sonoda said, is the fossil fuel industry. Across the country, coal-fired and gas power plants make up a third of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2020 University of Wisconsin-Madison study.

According to the UW-Madison study, transitioning to 100 percent clean energy would save $21 billion per year by averting health issues. That change, the study said, would prevent nearly 2,000 premature deaths, 650 respiratory emergency room visits and 34,400 cases of asthma exacerbation each year.

Higher Education/System

University of Wisconsin System’s new social media advocacy campaign hopes to boost FAFSA applications

Posted on 10/12/2022

Daily Cardinal

The social media campaign aims to promote the FAFSA to Wisconsin high school seniors and prospective college students.

Pink lawn flamingos are about to invade UW-Madison’s Bascom Hill

Posted on 10/12/2022

TMJ4

Bascom Hill will soon be covered in loads of plastic lawn flamingos because of the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association’s (WFAA) 10th annual Fill the Hill event.

Campus life

Gender & Sexuality Campus Center celebrates National Coming Out Day

Posted on 10/12/2022

Badger Herald

The day’s celebration included a “coming out door” that was painted with the rainbow flag and a photo booth, which were available all day, as well as free donuts and coffee.

Crime and safety

Man charged in sexual assault of woman sleeping inside apartment near UW-Madison campus

Posted on 10/12/2022

WISC-TV 3

A 19-year-old man faces four felony charges after allegedly breaking into an apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus last week and sexually assaulting a sleeping woman.

UWPD looking for person of interest in battery after Oct. 1 game

Posted on 10/12/2022

WISC-TV 3

Police did not give many details on the incident, but said the battery occurred in a crosswalk on Johnson Street near campus on October 1 after the Badgers’ loss to Illinois.

UWPD seeks person of interest in attack after Illinois game

Posted on 10/12/2022

NBC-15

The University of Wisconsin Police Department released two pictures of the person of interest in a battery that happened right after a Badgers football game and are asking for help identifying the individual.

Health

Forget Weed, Wine and Xanax: Science Has Better Ways to Treat Anxiety

Posted on 10/12/2022

Newsweek

Dr. Ned Kalin, chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry, has been studying the genetics and neurobiology of stress and anxiety for decades. One of the big surprises he’s uncovered is that the amygdala, the brain structure long thought to be the seat of fear, is not genetically associated with anxiety.

Medical debt lawsuits, paused early in pandemic, ramping up in Wisconsin, report says

Posted on 10/12/2022

Wisconsin State Journal

Peterson said UW Hospital, which stopped collection lawsuits in March 2020, has not restarted them, according to ABC for Health’s analysis of court records this year. UnityPoint Health-Meriter, which has a joint operating agreement with UW Health, also apparently did not have any cases this year.

UW Experts in the News

UCSF professor of medicine calls for American Academy of Pediatrics to be DISSOLVED

Posted on 10/12/2022

Daily Mail

Dr Ashley Ruba, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Child Emotion Lab, previously told CNN: ’There are sensitive periods in early childhood development in which language development and emotional development are really rapidly developing for the first few years of life.’

Climate change, deforestation is increasing risks for primates: study

Posted on 10/12/2022

USA Today

Putting together such a massive amount of information was “a huge job” by Eppley, said co-author Karen Strier, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s anthropology department. Strier has studied the northern muriqui, a primate species in Brazil since 1982.