Lack of health insurance benefits for domestic partners prompted Rob Carpick, an associate professor of engineering, to end his six-and-a-half year tenure in nanotechnology research at UW-Madison for a position that provides such benefits at the University of Pennsylvania.
According to UWââ?¬â?¢s domestic partner qualifications, Carpickââ?¬â?¢s partner Carlos Chan, whom he married in Canada in 2003, is recognized because of the ââ?¬Å?legal registration of a domestic partner relationship with a … foreign governmentââ?¬Â and the coupleââ?¬â?¢s commitment to ââ?¬Å?share the same residence … indefinitely,ââ?¬Â amongst other criteria.