University of Wisconsin–Madison
From WISC-TV.com MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin students whose study abroad trips to Mexico were sunk because of flu concerns are being offered other options. Last Friday, university officials canceled the trips this summer because of the so-called swine flu, or H1N1 virus, outbreak. To compensate, UW officials have set up alternate plans to …
May 26 and 27 Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Building University of Wisconsin – Madison Registration is free. Spring Workshop of the WAGE Managing Import Safety Collaborative This workshop is designed for business, government, and nonprofit professionals, and open to the academic community. ABOUT THE EVENT: This conference will address food import safety from a variety …
Based on the recommendations of the university’s International Emergency Response Committee, Chancellor Biddy Martin is instructing campus units to cancel student programs in Mexico that are scheduled to depart before June 1. Programs that will not be operating include a language program in Oaxaca affecting 25 students; a nursing program based in Taxco involving eight …
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 pre-dissertation travel awards sponsored by WAGE’s “Remaking the Developmental State” research collaborative. The graduate work of these students fits within a larger effort to understand what new strategies have worked, or might work, in today’s competitive global …
Professor Susan Robertson, University of Bristol In this presentation I look closely at globalization of Europe’s Bologna Process (otherwise known as the external dimension) that is altering the terms and terrain of higher education both within and beyond Europe. I argue that there are distinctive phases in this project of creating a unified higher education …
From Alumni eCALS There was no well-worn path leading the late Kamaluddin Ahmad to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s biochemistry department, but come he did. Born and raised in a family of modest means in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Ahmad excelled at the University of Dhaka and then traveled to Madison for his graduate studies, receiving his Ph.D. …
On Wednesday, May 6, Joan Spero, UW–Madison alumna and an expert in philanthropic issues, addressed an audience that included students, faculty, and community members. She spoke about impact of Global Philanthropy and U.S. Foreign Policy at home and abroad. Find more information. Video to come.
From WISC-TV.com Concerns about swine flu are prompting possible travel changes for some University of Wisconsin students. VIDEO: Watch The Report Reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and the U.S. State Department have cautioned people against traveling to Mexico because of swine flu, and that could mean some …
Earlier this month, Associate Dean and Professor of Veterinary Medicine Chris Olsen delivered a talk to Madison-area learners titled Influenza: A Disease at the Interface between Animals and Humans. Viruses know nothing of nations and require neither passport nor permission to cross borders. With increased travel and trade, an epidemic anywhere in the world becomes …
Watch the Madison CW report on the 2009 Study Abroad Photo Contest.