The University of Wisconsin placed first at the 2018 North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge in April, beating out teams from 38 American and Canadian universities.
But in Denver, pot businesses boosted property values in their host neighbourhoods, according to a report last year from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. In other words, the business of weed can be both a boon to homeowners and a source of stress on local renters.
When school rolls around this fall, it won’t be without a significant change to one of the University of Wisconsin’s most valuable programs: the PEOPLE program.
This summer, the Memorial Union terrace isn’t just home to views and brews, but athletic merchandise, too.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student isn’t letting hemophilia stop him from pursuing his dream of both performing and teaching piano, but an expensive medication is allowing him to do so.
Madison seemed a welcoming place, a liberal island in a largely conservative state — but one that only narrowly tipped for Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The University of Wisconsin’s campus there has an active LGBTQ center, and the UW Health System is building a program catering to trans patients.“I just sort of expected they’re going to be reasonable about this,” Vetens said, “and I guess I learned a bit of a lesson about naiveté.”
Quoted: “We know that the rates of local recurrence after BCS are declining, which could be attributable to our improved radiation techniques and the increased use of systemic therapy, including both targeted therapy and endocrine therapy. We also know that there is a variation in the rates of local recurrence by receptor status,” said Heather Neuman, MD, MS, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Had Vetens chosen a hospital that did not contract with her insurer, the family could have been reimbursed 60 percent, or about $12,000 of the money paid, since her insurance pays a portion of out-of-network care.But since Consolidated Health Plans has a contract with the University of Wisconsin Hospital, it said it would not reimburse anything at all. Contracts between insurers and providers discourage such sideline cash transactions, since hospitals can make more money when patients use insurance, as evidenced by Vetens’ bill.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW Health launched an addiction hotline for primary-care physicians and other health care providers to help their patients with addictions.
The UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, in conjunction with UW Health, debuted the UW Addiction Consultation Hotline earlier this month.
The Badger basketball team has sent more than 25 players to the NBA, including five current professionals.
Featured: According to the U.S. Census, more than 43 million Americans were living below the poverty line in 2016. But a recent report released from the White House says initiatives to reduce poverty in the United States over the last 50 years have largely been a success. Timothy Smeeding–Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics and former Director of the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research on Poverty–joins us to talk about the report and what it could mean for social programs in the future.
Featured: In the last installment of our series on the trade-offs of technology and what it means for our kids, Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood talked with Dr. Megan Moreno, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin who studies how media use affects kids.
Quoted: “It’s hard to know if they were lying now or if they were incompetent before,” said Ian Baird, an expert on Laos at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, referring to Laotian officials. But he said the confusion was to be expected, with a risk-adverse authoritarian government in a poor country that is not accustomed to responding to disasters of this magnitude.
Featured: We’ll discuss what led to the tragedy and how it could’ve been prevented with Ian Baird, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s an expert on Laos and impacts of dams.
Quoted: “Poor people in the project areas are worse off because of these dams, not better off,” said Ian Baird, assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Poor people in the project areas are worse off because of these dams, not better off,” said Ian Baird, assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Gwen Drury, an expert on the Wisconsin Idea who articulated the genesis of this guiding philosophy above, said these three events in 1894 pointed to what is at its heart: “truth, trust and transparency.” Although the philosophy “sounds like this very general thing,” she said it actually refers to something very specific.
