Last week’s Global Hot Spots lecture by Jonathan Patz drew a full audience eager to understand the financial and human benefits to addressing climate change. Jonathan Patz, MD, MPP, directs Global Environmental Health at UW–Madison …
Year: 2010
Funding Opportunity: International Institute Seminar Series
The International Institute, with generous support from the Division of International Studies and Global Studies, announces a competition for funding to support Seminar Series in International Studies. $5,000 will be granted to one or more …
Students Use Computing Skills to Hasten Haiti Relief Efforts
UW–Madison News — February 1, 2010 — “I have this bumper sticker that says, ‘Python will save the world. I don’t know how, but it will,’” says Nicholas Preston, a University of Wisconsin-Madison postdoctoral researcher. …
Funding Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellowships to Address Global “Crossings” of Knowledge
UW–Madison News — February 4, 2010 — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded more than $1.8 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, history and humanistic social sciences. …
Celebrate International Opportunities Month this February
February 2010 features the 10th annual International Opportunities Month (IOM) on campus! The celebration is organized by a campus-wide committee of globally focused organizations, chaired by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). …
Ouisconsin – Field Research Scholarship Opportunity: Applications Due Feb. 19
The earliest maps of the land that was to become our state were generated by French explorers, who transcribed the Algonquian lexicon according to French grapho-phonemic relations. Many of these early maps carry the term …
Library Hosts Film Series on Haiti, Honors Black History Month
In celebration of Black History Month, the UW–Madison Library will host “Haiti: Past and Present” film series beginning February 2, with a showing of the film HAITI, Land of Tragedy, Land of Hope in the …
Haitian Student Offers Practical Solutions at Panel Discussion
On January 28, 2010, panelists gathered to discuss, “HAITI: Perspectives on Crisis” in the Red Gym’s On Wisconsin room. Gergens Polynice, an M.A. candidate in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS), who was in …
Study Abroad — Pricey? Or Priceless?
EXCERPT from The Wall Street Journal: Patti Ristau says she was terrified when she first landed in Seville, Spain, for a semester studying abroad. Though she had a double major from the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
International Content in “Year of the Humanities” Series
As part of the Year of the Humanities series, free, public lectures, panels, performances, and a film screening will explore the latest in what is new and exciting in humanities thought, teaching, and research. International …