A new center at UW-Madison will help DREAMers in Wisconsin access and coordinate legal representation, mental health and social services, educational and career counseling, and provide a place of community. The Sandra Rosenbaum School of …
Month: June 2021
UW Law School Clinical Professor Erin Barbato receives grant to launch Center for DREAMers
The UW Law School will launch a new center to support Wisconsin’s DREAMers, an all-encompassing term describing individuals who have lived in the United States without official lawful status since coming to the country as …
Study examines international students’ career development in the U.S.
A research proposal by UW–Madison students Hannah Rapp and Yi-jung (Sally) Wu was one of three to be awarded a $1,000 graduate research scholarship in fall 2020 by the Future Institute Research Center (FIRC). Rapp …
WIDA’s Erika Rosales Wins $110K WI Idea Grant to Help DREAMers
The School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research is delighted to congratulate Erika Rosales on her two-year, $110,000 grant from the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment to create the Center for DREAMers at UW with Erin …
Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree
Cambodians struggle to stay afloat, retain their identity after losing their homes to country’s biggest dam
Thai Protesters Return as Parliament Backs Charter Recast
Memoir by UW–Madison alumnus Lor recounts journey from Laos to U.S.
UW–Madison alumnus Pao Lor is the author of a new memoir, titled “Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival,” published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Lor earned his doctorate from the School …
A View from Space Can Save the Trees
For government agencies and conservation groups, protecting forests can be a tall order. Their resources often don’t allow them to cover the sheer amount of acreage they need to monitor, and there are a lot …
Class Act | Speaking Up for Farmers in Malawi
Lusayo Mwakatika BS’21 grew his first garden at the age of 14. He harvested his own vegetables, sold them to friends and neighbors, and used the earnings as his allowance. It was a living extension …