When Claudia Calderón touched down in the fertile highlands of western Guatemala, she was stepping into a sociological experiment already afoot.
Month: January 2018
ALUMNUS SHARES WISCONSIN AG EXPERTISE WITH JAPANESE DAIRY FARMS
Wisconsin’s reputation as a leading producer and innovator in the dairy industry does not stop at the borders of the state. Even beyond international boundaries, the word “Wisconsin” is synonymous with “dairy.”
UW–Madison alumna third Badger to win prestigious new international scholarship
Fangdi Pan remembers being immediately intrigued a few years ago when she heard about a major new international scholarship program that would give students a deeper understanding of China’s role in global trends.
Language summit to address Wisconsin’s multilingual workforce needs
Leaders from Wisconsin’s business, human service, K–16 education, community, and government sectors will meet to discuss language and cultural competencies and their role in the state’s economic success.
Four Waisman Center director finalists to present public seminars
Four finalists for director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Waisman Center, one of the nation’s premier hubs for research and clinical outreach on human development, developmental disability and neurodegenerative disease, will be presenting public seminars during the …
New travel advisory and alerts guidelines announced by Department of State
New changes to the U.S. Department of State’s (DoS) Travel Advisory System will likely impact how UW–Madison students, faculty, and staff plan and prepare for university-affiliated travel to other nations.
Celebrating the past, planning for the future
For almost 30 years, Vicki Bier’s career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has focused on risk and decision analysis. As a professor of industrial and systems engineering, she has used complex mathematical models to improve nuclear safety …
Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago
Researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest …
Bringing cheap and accurate tuberculosis tests to Africa
Since the 1970s, millions of women have appreciated the ease of a urine-based home pregnancy test to find out if their family is about to grow.
Award-winning international journalists to attend February conference in Madison
A group of award-winning journalists will visit Madison in February to attend a University of Wisconsin-Madison conference on ethics in human rights reporting. The conference, titled “Cultures in Conflict: Navigating Cultural Difference in International Human …