FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: January 15, 2009 CONTACT: Masarah Van Eyck, (608) 262-5590, mvaneyck2@international.wisc.edu Madison — City University London will award University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of mechanical engineering Patrick Farrell with an honorary degree [DSc …
Year: 2009
Medieval Conference Unites Scholars
Co-sponsored by the new Center for Translation Studies and the Program in Medieval Studies, this international conference brought together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on October 28 and 29, 2008, medievalists whose scholarship …
Global Hot Spots: The Global Financial Crisis
“In Search of Stability: The Politics and Economics of the Global Financial Crisis” Professor Mark Copelovitch (Political Science) will discuss the causes and consequences of the ongoing global crisis, as well as the key issues …
The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) World Cinema Virtual Seminar Series
Adjusting to Hollywood Style: International trends in the 1910s and 1920s Professor David Bordwell (UW-Madison) Within a very few years — approximately 1910-1917 — Hollywood filmmakers developed a distinctive approach to visual storytelling. Within a …
The Wisconsin Experience in Motion: Physical Therapy in Belize
As part of her semester break, Dean of Students Lori Berquam has accompanied three UW-Madison faculty members and four students on a two-week service-learning trip to Punta Gorda, Belize. The educational travel fellowship is aimed …
Dean Michael Knetter – 2009 Economic Forecast
On Tuesday, January 6, Michael Knetter, Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discussed the economic outlook for 2009 at the Rotary Club of Milwaukee. While his short term outlook …
February is International Opportunities Month
February 2008 features the eighth annual International Opportunities Month (IOM) on the UW-Madison campus, organized by a campus-wide committee of globally focused organizations, chaired by CIBER. Throughout the month, students of all majors can attend …
No University of Wisconsin-Madison students in line of fire in Gaza
By Deborah Zif for the Wisconsin State Journal University officials say there are no UW-Madison students studying in Gaza as Israeli air strikes rain down on the area. But Jennifer Loewenstein, associate director of UW-Madison’s …