Almost 90% of Wisconsin residents with a bachelor’s degree from the Universities of Wisconsin were still living in the state five years after graduation.
August 8, 2024
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Health
Health systems are using AI. UW Health wants to help them do it ethically.
This summer, UW Health and Verona-based Epic Systems organized a summit in Washington, D.C., with health care leaders, federal officials, academics, insurance industry leaders and tech companies to discuss how AI is being used and next steps for the technology.
Athletics
What’s It Like to Be Drug-Tested? We Asked Three Olympic Runners.
Hoare, a former N.C.A.A. champion at the University of Wisconsin who lives and trains in Boulder, Colo., acknowledged that he had to get used to the process. No one, not even some of the testers, would admit that any of this is normal.
Opinion
Inclusion and caregiving burdens and health-care concerns
–Dessie Clark is the director of curriculum development and implementation for the University of Wisconsin at Madison Inclusion in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute. (Co-author)
UW Experts in the News
Kamala Harris Crowd Size Compared to JD Vance’s in Viral Video
Barry Burden, a professor of politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggested that Harris’ ability to draw large crowds would benefit her in the 2024 race. “It has been a point of pride among Trump’s supporters that his rallies have attracted much larger crowds than did Biden in 2020 or Clinton in 2016,” Burden told Agence France-Presse. He added, “Now that Harris is speaking to large crowds that rival or exceed Trump’s, this rationale for believing Trump is the advantaged candidate disappears.”
UW professor weighs in on influx of political text messages this campaign season
Wisconsin’s Primary Election is now less than a week away and if you feel like you’re being bombarded with political campaign text messages, you’re not alone. “There is a method to the madness,” UW-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner said.
Madison expands air quality monitors to pinpoint causes of pollution
When Tracey Holloway studied Madison’s air quality last year under a contract for Madison Gas and Electric, she walked away surprised that “transportation and coal-fired power plants weren’t a bigger part of the pie.”
Holloway is a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of energy analysis and policy, and a science advisor to Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. The mayor announced the installation of the new monitors on July 22.
Both Trump and Harris are missing many moderate voters, poll says
Allison Prasch, a political rhetoric scholar from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks Walz’s approach to policy might be refreshing for voters turned off by the extremes.
“Walz has an ability to speak to voters in such a way that it brings the focus back to what we might call kitchen table issues — cost of child care, grocery budget, thinking about health care — and I think that that has a way of connecting with voters who understandably are exhausted by this looming, never-ending cycle of existential crisis,” Prasch said.
Expert, UW-Madison students weigh in on presidential candidates use of social media
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and experts are weighing in on how the use of social media is impacting both Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s campaign. Thomas Pyle is the Chair of College Republicans at UW-Madison. Joey Wendtland is the Chair of College Democrats at UW-Madison.