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[UW–Madison news release] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/29/08 CONTACT: Sam Dennis, 608-263-7699, sfdennisjr@wisc.edu; Curt Staats, 608-274-3636, staats@wisc.edu STUDENT’S VISION COMES TO LIFE IN HONDURAS MADISON – One of the failings of university learning is that the work of students is often left on the shelf. Assignments, though faithfully completed, rarely make it out of the theoretical. …
By Kris Olds, Global Higher Ed The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is one of several international consortia that have been created, since the late 1990s, to deepen linkages between universities. I’ve been involved with two of them (the WUN and Universitas 21) while working at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the National University of Singapore. …
The UW–Madison EUCE has resources available for the study of the European Union, Europe and/or EU- US relations. The EUCE will grant a small number of travel awards of up to $1,000 to UW faculty and graduate students conducting research on the EU, European integration, and/or transatlantic relations, defined broadly. For example, such research projects …
By Lynn F. Jacobs, Jeremy S. Hyman U.S. News & World Report Thinking you might want to study abroad? For some, it’ll prove to be one of the most rewarding, life-enhancing experiences of their college careers. For others—well, they’ll enjoy the fish and chips, but that’s about all. This week, visiting blogger Sara Dumont , director …
By Graham Spanier for The Chronicle of Higher Education The humorist Dave Barry once observed, “Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.” Here’s another take on travel …
News article Dec 19, 2008 Graham Sykes We are pleased to announce that funding has been secured to help support a summer school in Nanjing in July 2009. The 2009 July 22 solar total eclipse, with nearly 6 minutes available on the ground in China, is the longest one over a century. This is an …
The Division of International Studies, the College of Letters & Science, the Graduate School, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, along with the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) , invite all UW–Madison faculty and academic staff to apply for seed funds designed to facilitate international collaboration. Funded initiatives …
On November 20th the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) convened a panel of distinguished UW–Madison professors who offered different perspectives on the causes, consequences, and potential solutions for the global economic crisis. Experts from economics, business, law, public affairs, and political science provided insight into the following questions: How did a crisis …
Jorge Avendaño, professor of law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, will receive the 2008 Division of International Studies Wisconsin Global Citizen Award. Avendaño demonstrated outstanding leadership in the study of international law and furthered collaborative relations between the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and legal and Latin American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. …
The WUN Leeds FIRC provides individual development grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 for use over an 18 months period. The aim is to provide vital seed funding to allow new, high quality, long term research collaborations led by individuals or groups from Leeds with a minimum of two international partners to develop into sustainable …