The University of Wisconsin-Madison Middle East Studies program (MESP) hosted more than 200 people at its international conference this past weekend to discuss post-Arab-Uprising changes in the Middle East.
Quoted: Laura Albert is a professor of industrial and systems engineering with University of Wisconsin-Madison. She said business travel in particular is slower to return to pre-pandemic levels.
“We found ways to do things remotely that are quite effective,” Albert said. “There’s not a substitute for everything, but some of that, I think, will stick around, and that might affect where routes are selected, because a lot of routes follow where business travel is needed.”
Quoted: Wisconsin producers primarily grow winter wheat, which is planted in the fall and harvested in the summer, making it unlikely farmers will plant more this spring in response to potential shortages or to capitalize on higher prices, Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said.
But farmers in the state will likely spend more time managing the wheat fields they do have planted this spring, he said.
“More fertilizer, maybe more concerned about fungicide applications if you’re looking at a problem with disease. That’s what we might see, is farmers more willing to spend money on managing the planted crop for winter wheat,” he said.
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The hospital was designated an “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equity Leader,” after earning a top score of 100 by the foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index. The index measures performance in Foundational Policies and Training in LGBTQ+ Patient-Centered Care, LGBTQ+ Patient Services and Support, Employee Benefits and Policies, and Patient and Community Engagement.
Recent increases in Consumer Price Index make already low student wages impractical.
Happiness expert Dr. Christine Whelan from the University of Wisconsin-Madison joins Live at Four to talk about Madison’s high ranking on a recent WalletHub study of the happiest U.S. cities.
