Kikkoman Foods Inc. will establish a research and development laboratory as well as an environmental studies scholarship in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The new lab, which will open this fall, will be located …
Year: 2008
Alumni Donations Make Study Abroad Possible: 2008 Study Abroad Award Ceremony
This year 50 undergraduate students received scholarships to study abroad in 23 different countries. The students come from all over Wisconsin and the U.S. and are highly diversified in majors and destination countries. At the …
How Networks Impact the Myanmar, China Disaster Responses
The recent disasters in China and Myanmar underline the network aspects of the crisis response, says emergency management expert Donald Moynihan, associate professor at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the …
Diplomats in a Global Age: Panel Discussion
Please join us to hear firsthand how three UW-Madison visiting diplomats-in-residence each dealt with a challenge or crisis that arose during their diplomatic career. The panel, comprised of John Campbell, Alfred Defago, and Florence Chenoweth, …
UW Receives Large Grant from German Government for German and European Studies
Contact: Elizabeth Covington, Executive Director, European Studies Alliance, (608) 265-4778, eecovington@wisc.edu The Center for German and European Studies (CGES) at University of Wisconsin–Madison has received a grant for $530,000 from the German Academic Exchange Service …
Foreign Universities Want More U.S. Students [The Chronicle of Higher Ed]
By BETH MCMURTRIE for the Chronicle of Higher Education A new report by the Institute of International Education says that foreign universities would welcome more students from the United States but that American students increasingly …
Where Multicultural Ed and Internationalization Meet [Inside Higher Ed]
By Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed “Elitist, frivolous, escapist.” “Divisive, political, provincial.” Such are some common perceptions of college officials involved in internationalization (see the former colorful set of adjectives) and multicultural education (see the …
Conference Participants Discuss Key Issues in International Education [The Chroncile of Higher Ed]
By KARIN FISCHER and BETH MCMURTRIE, The Chronicle of Higher Education Washington– More than 9,000 participants from 110 countries gathered here to talk about the future of international education as the 60th annual meeting of …
New Exchange Program to Build Bridges Between UW and India
CONTACT: Aseem Ansari, (608) 265-4690, ansari@biochem.wisc.edu MADISON – Although still recovering from jet lag, a group of 15 undergraduate students from India are getting situated in various labs across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where …
Study abroad students featured in más+menos magazine
The new online version of más+menos 9 at www.ciee.org/masmenos, the magazine created each semester by students on the Liberal Arts program at the CIEE Study Center in Sevilla, Spain features stories by UW-Madison study abroad …