Jermika Jackson believes her son is destined for greatness. From a young age, D’Marion Jackson seemed wise beyond his years. He was a voracious reader who quickly finished handfuls of library books.
He is now a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and that was made possible by the college’s in-state tuition guarantee. D’Marion is one of about 800 freshmen receiving Bucky’s Tuition Promise.
Noted: Wisconsin’s wolf population fell around 14 percent to 972 wolves after the 2021 wolf hunt, according to the Wisconsin DNR. Even so, state wildlife managers say data indicates the state’s wolf population is stable. However, some researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say the agency is overestimating the state’s wolf population.
“Particularly, we are interested in the new products and the new technologies,” Masatoshi Suzuki, researcher and professor at UW-Madison, said.
The other NIH-funded centers are run by the University of California-Davis, the University of Washington, Tulane University, the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Emory University.
When, how limitations will be carried out is unclear.
The funding was awarded to a team of project directors — Professors Kasey Keeler, Ruth Goldstein, Joe Mason, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke and Jen Rose Smith — who received the funding through NEH’s Humanities Initiative Grants. According to the NEH, the funding is intended to “strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities in higher education through the development or enhancement of humanities programs, courses and resources.”
Quoted: Steven Deller, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said U.S. and global economic activity is expected to decline in 2023. Deller cited the Wall Street Journal’s Monthly Survey of Economic Forecasters, which averages 68 economic forecasts from individuals, organizations and universities, in a recent presentation.
“There’s pretty much consensus that we’re going to go into a slowdown, and that, if we go into a recession, it is going to be a very mild recession,” he said. “There’s actually a significant number of economists that are actually saying, ‘No, we’re not going to go into a recession. We’re going to go into a serious slowdown.'”
Noted: The term was coined by Lisa Ellinger, the outreach director at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as we debriefed our first Main Street Agenda event in September. During that town hall, our panelists were crowded around a table sitting on stiff, uncomfortable plastic chairs. The set-up wasn’t exactly conducive to our goal of having relaxed conversations where people felt comfortable sitting talking about complex and often deeply held convictions about democracy, inflation or climate change.
The Madison Fire Department was sent to Cole Hall, 625 Elm Drive, at 7:34 p.m. for reports of a battery fire in a dorm room. An occupant used a fire extinguisher from the common hallway to put out the fire just prior to the arrival of fire crews at 7:39 p.m., and no one was injured, Fire Department spokesperson Cynthia Schuster said in a statement.
The Madison Fire Department was dispatched to Cole Residence Hall shortly after 7:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a battery fire in a dorm room. A student quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the fire before officials arrived.
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that Baerbock’s use of the term “war” was likely more figurative than literal, shaped by the emotional atmosphere at the Council of Europe.
The statements Protasiewicz made about maps and abortion do not appear to violate the ban on making pledges on issues likely to come before the court, said UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon.
“This rule prohibits judicial candidates from promising to rule in particular ways on particular legal questions, but it does not bar them from sharing their values and opinions,” he said.
The New York Times writer then said that if Netanyahu “wanted to speak tomorrow” at the University of Wisconsin, “they’d have to bring out the National Guard,” arguing the prime minister couldn’t address the campus due to large-scale opposition.
