These blazes have produced huge blossoming smoke chimneys. According to NASA Earth Observatory, researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found that the smoke pillars may have reached up to 39,000 feet tall, as far as the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
Madison Ackley, at 18 years old, is on pace to become the youngest graduate the university has seen in the last 40 years, as well as the youngest female graduate ever, with a degree in accounting.
Noted: Political organizers in Wisconsin say the numbers indicate that young people will participate if given the tools and information to do so. In a state where many races are decided by razor-thin margins, this population sees its voice as able to make a difference, said Ali Beneker, 19, who chairs the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of College Republicans.
“When we have 10 statewide elections in the last 22 years that were decided by less than 30,000 votes, and then you look at the UW-Madison campus, and we have around 50,000 people, that’s a huge impact that college students can have on Wisconsin elections,” she said. “I think that students are starting to realize the power we have.”
While students of color say the video has made them feel unsafe, campus administrators have repeatedly said the law binds them in disciplining or punishing the student. That’s true, said political science Professor Howard Schweber, an expert in constitutional law.
“The mere fact that expression is hateful, or deeply offensive, or deeply disturbing does not make it unprotected by the First Amendment,” he said. “I think the university got this one right.”
Core Spaces of Chicago, which has done several big student housing projects Downtown, has revised plans for its latest endeavor and is now proposing a 14-story project called “Johnson & Broom” with roughly 400 units that may help address UW-Madison’s growing enrollment and pressing housing needs.
The opera is about a real person, Omar ibn Said, and is based on his autobiography A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said, written in 1831, mostly in Arabic. The work was translated into English by Ala Alryyes and published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2011.
Former Wisconsin Badgers linebacker Chris Borland is launching his own athlete storytelling company, ByUs Media. He and his co-founder, Olivia Hancock, join us to share why they started the platform and what they’re hoping to accomplish. Then, a sports media professor joins us to explore what we gain and what when miss out on when athletes tell their own stories, instead of relying on traditional media.
Dropping the puck for the first time, Faust Fest brought back some familiar faces to the Madison Ice Arena, including Badger legends Brianna Decker and Meghan Hunter.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face five teams that were ranked in the top 25 of the final AVCA coaches’ poll and will play three home matches in its nonconference schedule announced Monday.
Dan Olszweski, University of Wisconsin-Madison Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, among those cited.
