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  2. Year: 2017
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Month: October 2017

High-speed internship features lessons in Japanese transportation and work culture

Posted on October 24, 2017

A summer internship with the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) is giving students incredible insights into one of the world’s leading high-speed-rail operators as well as the professional culture of Japan. The internship, developed …

Posted in Alumni, Internships & Careers, StudentsTagged Internships, japan, jr-central, kasai

UW-Madison’s Hawkins to lead study abroad opportunity in China

Posted on October 23, 2017

If you’re interested in studying comparative education in China next summer, apply to this four-week study abroad program led by School of Education Professor Maggie Hawkins. 

Posted in Faculty & Staff, Study AbroadTagged Comparative Education, School of Education, Study Abroad

Summer internships provide students with experience in U.S., abroad

Posted on October 23, 2017

Summer Internships took La Follette Schools students to Germany, California, Missouri, Chicago, India, Washington, D.C., and other locations during 2017. Several students stayed in Wisconsin, gaining valuable experience at government agencies, with nonprofit organizations, and …

Posted in Internships & Careers, StudentsTagged International Internship, La Follette School, Summer Internship

Russ Feingold to teach course on UW-Madison campus next fall

Posted on October 23, 2017

Four decades after walking across the commencement stage, Russ Feingold will return to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in fall 2018 as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in International Studies.

Posted in Alumni, NewsTagged International Studies, Russ Feingold

Student Takes Language Skills Abroad to Belgium

Posted on October 16, 2017

For 21-year-old Liz Vaala, traveling to Belgium in the summer of 2017 proved more fruitful than she ever imagined.

Posted in Awards & Grants, Languages, StudentsTagged Liz Vaala, Study Abroad

Yu’s work performed at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, reviewed by Dancing Times

Posted on October 12, 2017

UW-Madison’s Jin-Wen Yu presented “Fine, Without Me/You?” in the Dance-Forms 74th International Choreographers’ Showcase in August. The performance was part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world.

Posted in Faculty & Staff, NewsTagged Edinburgh Festival Fringe, International Choreographers' Showcase, Jin-Wen Yu

Ugandan Coffee Leads to International Internship Opportunities

Posted on October 11, 2017

If you can build professional connections over a single cup of coffee, imagine what you can do with an entire coffee company. Partnering with the National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses & Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE), a …

Posted in Internships & CareersTagged nucafe, promega, Uganda

Mitra Sharafi’s book on Parsi legal culture featured in review symposium

Posted on October 11, 2017

Law & Social Inquiry, the journal of the American Bar Foundation, has published a review symposium on Mitra Sharafi’s “Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947.”

Posted in Faculty & Staff, NewsTagged Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, Mitra Sharafi

Four UW-Madison Students Win 2017-2018 Fulbright-Hays Awards

Posted on October 10, 2017

The U.S. Department of Education has announced that four students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been selected as recipients of the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Awards for 2017.

Posted in Awards & GrantsTagged fulbright-hays ddra

Fish-Harnack Lecture: Civil Liberties Advocate To Discuss Upholding America’s Promise

Posted on October 10, 2017

Farhana Khera has been a strong presence in advocating to ensure civil liberties for Americans of all religious and cultural backgrounds. At the frontlines in fights against religious and racial profiling in the face of …

Posted in NewsTagged farhana khera, fish-harnack lecture, muslim advocates
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