For The Record: Engineers Without Borders [WISC-TV]
WISC-TV’s Neil Heinen talks with members of a University of Wisconsin–Madison group who are making life significantly better for the people of Rwanda. Click here to watch the video.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
WISC-TV’s Neil Heinen talks with members of a University of Wisconsin–Madison group who are making life significantly better for the people of Rwanda. Click here to watch the video.
By Sarah Butrymowicz, USA TODAY For years, rising numbers of U.S. college students have been packing their bags and flying overseas, typically to Europe, for a semester or year abroad and a wealth of irreplaceable memories. Lately, though, these students have been stung by a nasty adversary that they and their parents didn’t have to …
By Karen Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education Officials from research universities meeting here this week agree there is a pressing need to build stronger and more sustained partnerships with African institutions. They also concur that such collaborations face real challenges. International partnerships, particularly in Africa but also in China, have been the focus of …
by Renee Meiller, UW Communications From June 29-July 4, UW–Madison nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Slaybaugh was among nearly 500 young researchers from around the world to attend the Lindau Meeting, a unique event in Lindau, Germany, that draws 25 Nobel laureates for lectures, panel and roundtable discussions, and social and networking events. Slaybaugh, who …
The Dalai Lama is admired around the world but he’s a particularly big hit in this slice of America’s Dairyland. The Tibetan political and spiritual leader has developed a tight relationship with Madison over the last 30 years and it will be on full display when he visits the city for the seventh time later …
By Peter Schworm, The Boston Globe The faltering US dollar, which has steadily lost value against major currencies around the world, has produced a silver lining for foreign students, and the American universities that recruit them. With every dip in the exchange rate, the cost of college for many foreign students has dropped in kind, …
By Jessica Warnock, examiner.com Inevitably, once you arrive to your new country, once all the orientations, paper-work filling sessions and unpacking is complete, you will at some point become incredibly and mind-numbingly bored. While it is easy to assume the first few weeks will be a whirlwind of cultural infusion and fun, most likely, after the …
The UW–Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce the winners of our 2008 Individual Research Award competition. WAGE will provide $10,000 to support each of three research projects that explore the consequences of and challenges posed by economic globalization and its governance. Four faculty, Allison Christians (Law), Zhongdang …
By Peter Monghan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27 2008 Every day human cataclysms vie for headline space: Hunger and disease plague the war-riven Congo; the Sudanese government stonewalls United Nations peacekeepers; Myanmar’s oppressive regime blocks aid for cyclone victims. Increasingly, it seems, the world’s trouble spots are afflicted by both man-made miseries — civil …
by Renee Meiller, UW–Madison Communications University of Wisconsin–Madison nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Slaybaugh never dreamed she’d have the opportunity to chat with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist — much less several of them. Yet, from June 29 through July 4, Slaybaugh will join nearly 500 young researchers from around the world at a unique meeting …