Rick Steves, guidebook author, television host, columnist and European travel expert will present this year’s International Education Week keynote lecture “Travel as a Political Act.” The lecture will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Thurs., …
Year: 2018
Badgers without borders: MS&E students abroad
Today’s global economy means more opportunities than ever for engineers to work in diverse teams and in far-flung locations.
UW-MADISON RUSSIAN FLAGSHIP STUDENTS AND ALUMNI ATTEND HACKATHON EVENT
In order to connect, network, and learn with other Language Flagship students throughout the United States, the Russian Flagship Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sent four attendees to the Flagship Hackathon in Washington DC …
UW-Madison’s King, Lang conduct workshops on Authentic Intellectual Work in Israel
UW-Madison’s Bruce King and Laura Lang conducted four days of workshops in Tel Aviv, Israel, with regional teacher leaders, as well as leaders from the Mofet Institute, the Ministry of Education, and the Yad Hanadiv Foundation.
Carnegie Corporation Awards $900,000 to UW-Madison for Russian Studies
A project established in 2016 to strengthen Russian studies at UW–Madison will continue through 2020 thanks to a $900,000 award from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The renewed funding will allow the Wisconsin Russia Project …
EU Ambassador to the US and Financial Times Editor to Headline Conference on Migration and Displacement
Wars that devastated Europe over the past 100 years can still teach valuable lessons on the long-term impact of population displacement. The lasting outcomes of wars in Europe that have driven population displacement will be …
UW–Madison is top university for 2018 Fulbright DDRA awards
Seven University of Wisconsin–Madison students have been selected as recipients of the highly competitive Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Awards. UW–Madison boasts the highest number of DDRA awardees of any university in the nation …
Going Global
UW-MADISON EAP PROGRAM LEGACY POSITIVELY IMPACTS INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVES
Jessica Weeks
Jessica Weeks is fascinated by the “dark side” of international relations: dictatorships. But her award-winning research combats the black-and-white view of authoritarian regimes and democracies. Dictators at War and Peace, published in 2014, classifies regimes to better understand …
Beauty Vanishes
During more than four decades as a photographer, Michael Kienitz ’74 has worked in some of the most beautiful spots in the world — from Peru to the Hindu Kush mountain range near the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. But …