University of Wisconsin–Madison
Using data for meaningful environmental impact is at the heart of Nelson Institute alumna Lea Shanley’s work. As the executive director of International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), a non-profit research center based in Berkeley, CA, Shanley not only fosters important research in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence and more, but also makes it a …
The British Academy elected 84 new fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the SHAPE subjects — the social sciences, humanities, and the arts. And among this year’s cohort of new fellows is UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor emerita with the School of Education who formerly held the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban …
Associate Professor Marianne Fairbanks reflects on her partnership and collaboration: In 2018, I first visited Sweden and Denmark on a research trip to learn more about how textiles are currently taught and more widely perceived as an art form in the Scandinavian culture. As part of this research, I arranged a studio visit with the …
UW–Madison’s Daniella Molle and Scarlett (Weiqiong) Huang have published a new paper in Science Education International, titled “Bridging Science and Language Development Through Interdisciplinary and Interorganizational Collaboration: What Does It Take?” Molle is an associate researcher at WIDA, housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Huang is a graduate student researcher …
Badgers may be returning to the familiar sights of Madison, Wisconsin this fall when classes resume, but James Llewellyn – a master’s student in Southeast Asian Studies – has a very different semester planned. With assistance from a Boren Fellowship, he will be taking his last academic year in Malang, Indonesia. For a person who …
Russian has taken 2016 UW–Madison graduate Elizabeth Olguin everywhere from her ballet classes in the U.S. to development projects in Moldova. Thanks to a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award for 2021-2022, her next destination will be a classroom in Kazakhstan. Olguin began taking Russian in her freshman year of college at Ohio State University and …
Representatives from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Engineers Without Borders International (EWB), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) held a webinar on June 23 with attendees from around the world to discuss their recent cooperation in Yemen to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured panelists included representatives from all three organizations involved in the organization, including …
In a forest grove, a samurai is found dead, his wife assaulted, and a notorious bandit is captured. But as the mystery of the crime unfolds, witnesses tell very different stories of what happened. Based on stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa that were adapted into the iconic 1950 film by Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, “Rashomon,” to …
As of July 1, 2021, International Student Services (ISS) and International Faculty and Staff Services (IFSS) have become part of the International Division. Bringing the expertise of ISS and IFSS into the International Division will provide opportunities for collaboration on a broad scale among colleagues addressing immigration and related issues involving international students, staff, and …
Kathryn Ciancia’s fascination with how people have historically mobilized the idea of “civilization” began with the stories her Polish grandfather shared. As a child growing up in a town near Liverpool in the United Kingdom, Ciancia, now an associate professor of history, would listen to him describe his childhood in Poland in the 1920s. He …