“If you have a dysregulated dopaminergic, serotonergic or neurogenic system, exercise could help re-regulate that system,” UW professor Dane Cook says.
UW researcher shares findings on effects of exercise on mental health
Badger Herald
September 29, 2023
Research
New study reveals high arrest disparities in Wisconsin, nationwide decrease in incarceration
WKOW-TV 27
Michael Light, another co-author of the study and a professor of sociology at UW-Madison, noted the percentage of Black men more likely to go to college has increased and is trending upward.
Why Are Carrots Orange? Scientists Reveal the Answer
Newsweek
In their research, which was a collaborative project with scientists at USDA-ARS, UW-Madison, UC-Davis, Bayer, and other collaborators from Poland, the authors also found that areas of the carrot genome under strongest selection by humans were genes involved in flowering.
How to Be Better at Stress
The New York Times
While we know that stress is associated with health problems, plenty of people with high-stress lives are thriving. How is that possible? In 2012, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison published a seminal study looking at how 28,000 people perceived stress in their lives.
Higher Education/System
UW System allocated ARPA funds to improve literacy training for teachers, but no university participated
Wisconsin Public Radio
Two years ago, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction allocated $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to the University of Wisconsin System to analyze and improve literacy instruction programs, but the money went unused.
Campus life
UW-Madison officials prepare for potential government shutdown
Daily Cardinal
Mike Lenn, UW-Madison federal relations director, told The Daily Cardinal the university is aware of the likelihood of a shutdown and has taken necessary precautions. “We have experience from past shutdowns, and we have the resources in place to ensure smooth operations,” Lenn said. “In fact, preparations began a month ago.”
Watch the UW’s full homecoming parade live
NBC-15
A jam-packed homecoming week will celebrate the university’s 175th anniversary, with events scheduled throughout. The pink flamingos are already thinking about where they will plant themselves as they Fill the Hill. UW football fans will be primed Saturday when the Badgers come home to Camp Randall for a Big Ten showdown against Rutgers.
State news
Gender-affirming health care would be banned for Wisconsin minors under GOP proposal
Wisconsin Public Radio
In a statement, UW School of Medicine and Public Health Dean Robert N. Golden and UW Health CEO Dr. Alan Kaplan said they will continue to support transgender and nonbinary patients.
“UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are committed to providing gender-affirming care that is evidence-based, patient-centered, and that focuses on the health and wellbeing of patients seeking the bright future they deserve,” the statement reads. “We will continue to lead clinical, research and education endeavors that allow patients to live their best and most fulfilled lives.”
Crime and safety
No closure despite guilty verdict in rape of UW student
WKOW-TV 27
Authorities said Salgado-Arroyo and another man tackled the 20-year-old student as she walked home on West Dayton Street in 2011. They sexually assaulted her until a man on his balcony heard her screams, yelled out and the attackers ran off.
Madison reaches 6-year high in bike thefts — and some of the thefts are pretty brazen
Wisconsin State Journal
In the summer months, the churn of leases starting and ending and the steady stream of people relocating in the city and starting classes at UW-Madison entice opportunistic criminals, many of whom, Becker says, are serial offenders also participating in other types of theft and drug crime.
Health
Wisconsin ban on gender care would put kids at risk, advocates say
The Capital Times
UW Health is among the primary providers of gender-affirming health care in Dane County after the launch of its Comprehensive Gender Services Program in 2022.
Athletics
Wisconsin Badgers men’s soccer team sees hard work paying off
The Capital Times
On the pitch, Jones has been demanding a hard-working, attention-to-detail, defensive focus. On the season, the Badgers are 4-2-3 overall, 4-0-2 on their home turf at McClimon Soccer Complex.
Wisconsin men’s basketball adds former players as radio analysts
Wisconsin State Journal
Brian Butch, who scored over 1,000 points in four years with the Badgers from 2004-08, will take over as the lead men’s basketball analyst for the Badger Radio Network beginning this season, Wisconsin Athletics said in a release. Charlie Wills, who won a Big Ten title in 2002 and was a member of Wisconsin’s Final Four team in 2000, will also join the team by filling in as an analyst for select games.
Mike Hastings turned around Minnesota State quickly. There are similarities at Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
Mike Hastings engineered one of the most successful turnarounds for a first-year men’s college hockey coach in the last 25 years, and two games at the Kohl Center served as an pivotal point.
Opinion
Guest column: Top 5% admissions bill re-affirms diversity in post-affirmative action era
Badger Herald
Republican-proposed bill aims to guarantee admission to UW-Madison for in-state students, ironically represents chance to expand access to underrepresented students.
UW Experts in the News
There’s a good reason yellow jackets are hanging around you
Wisconsin Public Radio
This time of year, yellow jacket wasps can be a bit ornery and aggressive. PJ Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, said there’s a good reason for that.
“To put it shortly, they’re basically ‘hangry,'” he said. “They are really hungry this time of the year because they’re running low on food.”
What we know about hand-counting ballots
Wisconsin Public Radio
Republicans who are skeptical about the 2020 election have argued that hand-counting ballots is the way forward. Barry Burden, a professor of political science at UW-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center, explains when hand-counting makes sense — and when it actually makes results less accurate.
What the United States Can Learn From Brazil About Asylum
Mother Jones
But not all asylum seekers in Brazil are treated equally. In a new book published this month titled The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil, Katherine Jensen, an assistant professor of sociology and international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers a more complicated look at how different groups of asylum seekers, namely Congolese and Syrians, navigate the asylum process in South America’s largest nation.
Madison lacks units for low-income and affluent; onerous housing-approval process seen as factor
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison professor of urban planning Kurt Paulsen, who studies affordable housing, agreed that Madison’s onerous residential development-approval process is a factor in Madison’s shortage of rental units and lack of affordable residential units.
UW-Madison Related
‘These kids were all struggling’: the real story behind The Bling Ring
The Guardian
Carr, a prolific documentary director, has been a fan of the Bling Ring story since her undergraduate days at the University of Wisconsin.
Sterling Hall bomber Karl Armstrong’s case was ‘tragedy upon tragedy’ 50 years ago
Wisconsin State Journal
Rerun of a Wisconsin State Journal editorial that first ran on Oct. 1, 1973.