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  2. Year: 2008
  3. Month: June

Month: June 2008

Top 10 Cures for Study Abroad Boredom [examiner.com]

Posted on June 25, 2008

By Jessica Warnock, examiner.com Inevitably, once you arrive to your new country, once all the orientations, paper-work filling sessions and unpacking is complete, you will at some point become incredibly and mind-numbingly bored. While it is …

Posted in Study Abroad

WAGE announces individual research award winners

Posted on June 23, 2008

The UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce the winners of our 2008 Individual Research Award competition. WAGE will provide $10,000 to support each of three research projects …

Posted in Awards & Grants, Faculty & Staff, Research

Beyond Borders and Bullets ‘Human security’ advocates call for a different approach to global problems [The Chronicle of Higher Ed]

Posted on June 23, 2008

By Peter Monghan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27 2008 Every day human cataclysms vie for headline space: Hunger and disease plague the war-riven Congo; the Sudanese government stonewalls United Nations peacekeepers; Myanmar’s oppressive …

Posted in News

UW-Madison grad student to meet with Nobel laureates

Posted on June 23, 2008

by Renee Meiller, UW-Madison Communications University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Slaybaugh never dreamed she’d have the opportunity to chat with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist — much less several of them. Yet, from …

Posted in Research

From Molecular Science to Political Science: Pasteur Internship Introduces Students to Global Public Health

Posted on June 19, 2008

By Masarah Van Eyck, Division of International Studies Trucks, cabs, and horse-drawn carts compete for space with pedestrians and even goats below the skyscrapers of downtown Dakar, Senegal. But passing through the iron gates into …

Posted in Research, Study Abroad

UW Welcomes New Chancellor With Global Vision [Message from the Dean]

Posted on June 19, 2008

Dear Friends, As some of you may know, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents recently named Dr. Biddy (Carolyn A.) Martin, provost of Cornell University, as the next chancellor of our campus. We are …

Posted in News

UW-Madison’s ‘African Storyteller’ premieres on ResearchChannel

Posted on June 19, 2008

On June 18, the ResearchChannel began airing “The Storyteller with Professor Harold Scheub,” the story of Sheub’s remarkable experience with African storytellers. Forty years ago, Scheub, a professor of African languages and literature at the …

Posted in Faculty & Staff

Global Sustainability: A Green Curriculum Involves Everyone on the Campus [The Chronicle of Higher Education]

Posted on June 18, 2008

By John Petersen for The Chronicle of Higher Education Recent graduates have a lot to learn about budgeting when they leave college. Many are financially on their own for the first time, and so rent, …

Posted in News

Push for Americans to Learn Arabic Abroad [Inside Higher Ed]

Posted on June 18, 2008

By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed The number of American students studying in Kuwait recently plunged 50 percent in one academic year — well, that is, it fell from two to one. In developing …

Posted in Languages

Wisconsin Attends International BIO Convention

Posted on June 16, 2008

From Wisconsin Technology News Madison, Wis. – A state that has experienced historic floods and the announcement of a major plant closing within the past two weeks could use some good news. Perhaps it’s found …

Posted in News
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