FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, April 30, 2007 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW-Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu Madison, WI – John Campbell, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria since May, 2004, will …
Month: April 2007
Ambassador of Indonesia to Visit UW-Madison Campus
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, April 30, 2007 CONTACT: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, (608) 263-1755 Madison, WI – The Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the United States, Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, will visit the …
Conflict Resolution: Swedish and Norwegian Experiences
His Excellency Knut Vollebaek. Ambassador of Norway to the United States & His Excellency Jan Kenneth Eliasson, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States, President elect of the United Nations Assembly. Place: Memorial Union, Main …
Major International Conference on Darfur
“Disaster in Darfur: Sudan’s Defiance of International Human Rights,” Friday evening, April 27 and all day Saturday, 28, 200, will gather leading Sudan specialists, including government and UN officials, human rights activists, international lawyers, investigative …
Students Receive Study-Abroad Scholarships
Fifty UW-Madison students were awarded prestigious study-abroad scholarships this spring. The awards, ranging from $500 to $4,000 and totaling nearly $80,000, were made possible in large part through gifts such as the Study Abroad Alumni …
Human Rights Event Features AIUSA’s Larry Cox
UW-Madison students representing several campus-based human rights organizations explained their work at the annual Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture, sponsored by the Division of International Studies and the Global Legal Studies Center. Participating …
News Reports: Amnesty International’s Larry Cox
“Amnesty exec: U.S. is abuser of rights” by Samara Kalk Derby , The Capital Times “Speaker condemns U.S.” by Sean Sullivan, The Badger Herald “U.S. violates human rights, Amnesty Int’l leader Cox declares” by Marly …
2007 Teaching Awards Announced
Teaching faculty provide a laboratory for the Wisconsin Idea and a conduit for the knowledge, experiences and skills produced on campus to reach the rest of Wisconsin, the nation and the world. Whatever paths they …
Special Student Study Abroad Awards Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, April 16, 2007 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, UW-Madison Division of International Studies, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu Madison, WI — Madison, WI –Fifty UW-Madison students have been awarded prestigious study-abroad scholarships, the Division …
First Wisconsin International Scholars Class to Graduate
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, April 16, 2007 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of International Studies. (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu Madison, WI – A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison seniors will be making history …