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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, May 1, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu UW-MADISON’S SCHLEICHER RECEIVES PRESIDENT’S VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD Madison, WI – Antonia Folarin Schleicher, UW–Madison professor of African Languages and Literature, has been awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award. The Award was presented Friday, April …
Untitled Document FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies. (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu UW-MADISON STUDENTS OF CHINESE TAKE TOP MEDALS AT SECOND CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE SYMPOSIUM Madison, WI – UW–Madison students took top honors last month at the third Wisconsin Chinese Language and Culture Symposium. …
by Rachel Alkon, UW-Communications It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Monday, and nine American students are learning how to prepare okonomi yaki, the Japanese version of a pancake. The instructor, Nobuyoshi Asaoka, is the floor coordinator of the Nihongo Hausu, the newest addition to the International Learning Community (ILC), a foreign language immersion residence in Adams …
Aili Tripp, UW–Madison professor of political science and associate dean of International Studies, spent last summer in the midst of civil war in northern Uganda. In an op-ed. in the Wisconsin State Journal she writes that the conflict is extremely grave and what she saw and learned shook her to the core. http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/wsj/2006/04/29/0604280410.php
Untitled Document FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Thursday, April 20, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, UW–Madison Division of International Studies, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu UW-MADISON STUDENTS RECEIVE SPECIAL STUDY-ABROAD AWARDS Madison, WI – Some 40 UW–Madison students have been awarded prestigious study- abroad scholarships, the Division of International Studies’ International Academic Programs (IAP) announced today. …
Before the Chilean government vanquished the indigenous Mapuche people at the end of the 19th century, heavy forests and abundant rivers, lakes and coastal inlets teemed with resources, everything the Mapuche needed to survive. “When they were resettled after the military defeat, they were left with a fraction of their original territory and without the …
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Untitled Document Julie Curti, a UW–Madison undergraduate who studied abroad in Bonn, Germany and was a peer advisor in International Academic Programs’ (study abroad) office, is the recipient of a Truman scholarship. Click here for more on Curti’s scholarship. Click here for more on Curti’s study-abroad academic experience.
The UW–Madison Language Institute will host more than 700 high school students and teachers from 24 high schools for World Languages Day on Thursday, April 20. http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/12421.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: April 12, 2006 CONTACT: Antonia Schleicher, Executive Director, National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, (608) 265-7906 or ayschlei@facstaff.wisc.edu CONFERENCE TO ADDRESS STATUS OF LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES IN U.S. Madison, WI — The Ninth Annual Meeting of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) will be held …