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Teaching conversation skills in an Arabic classroom may seem like an uncontroversial thing. It would be standard, after all, in many introductory courses for other languages. But when Munther Younes started integrating instruction of the formal written language with a spoken dialect in Cornell University classrooms 18 years ago, he was a pioneer. “What we’re …
Center for Global Health Travel Fellowships for Education are awarded to UW faculty and staff who are Center for Global Health affiliates, to undertake international travel during 2009 that is related to educational activities, including development for global health courses, initiation of field experiences and field research, and meeting attendance, which pertain directly to the …
by Sandra Knisely for UW Communications A warm glass of brackish water isn’t much relief after spending a day in the sun tilling your small farm by hand and guarding your crops from animals or thieves. Unfortunately, for residents of the small Kenyan agricultural community of Orongo, the alternative to drinking the salty — but …
Friday, 3 October 2008 Noon-1:30 PM Memorial Union (see Today in the Union) Free and open to the public Ambassador Lange served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 1997 to 1999 and headed the embassy as Chargé d’Affaires from January to September 1998. He received the …
The Delegation of the European Commission in Washington, DC, is pleased to announce 11 “European Union Center of Excellence” awards to universities throughout the United States. These grant recipients were selected from a strong field of 23 candidates. The network of EU Centers of Excellence promotes the study of the EU, its institutions and policies …
By: Kathy Mittelstadt /The Daily Cardinal – September 29, 2008 Former Ireland president Mary Robinson spoke on campus to express the need for students to fight for human rights. Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and current U.N. commissioner for human rights visited campus Friday to discuss the continued struggle for global human rights. “Our world …
5:00 p.m. Thursday October 2 Room 4151, Grainger Hall 975 University Ave. Open to the public. Reception follows. Bill Berg, French Professor A Wisconsin-Normandy Connection through Literature and Painting Professor Berg, a specialist in 19th-century French literature and art, discusses the work of painters Boudin and Monet, writers Flaubert and Maupassant. Keith Busby, French Professor …
WUN expands its membership to 18 and welcomes the University of Alberta as its second Canadian partner The Worldwide Universities Network is delighted to announce that the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) has joined the network with immediate effect. Professor Michael Arthur, chairman of WUN said “The University of Alberta’s pioneering spirit and history of …
Utrecht University will award 7 short stay fellowships (3 months) for PhD students at WUN partner universities. The fellowship includes travel and maintenance costs. The deadline for Utrecht supervisors to file applications for the fellowships for North American PhD students is 1 December 2008. This means UW–Madison PhD students interested in applying need to secure …
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies invites you to a free public lecture Global Population and the Global Environment to 2050 with Guest Speaker Joel Cohen Tuesday, October 7 7:00 p.m. 165 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln Drive University of Wisconsin–Madison The first program in this year’s Gaylord Nelson Lecture Series on the theme “Population and …