UW-Madison Postcolonial, Migration and Transnational Studies (Part of Worldwide Universities Network [WUN] International Network in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies) Presents Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism: An International Conference University of Wisconsin-Madison The Pyle Center June 20-21, 2008 …
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International Exposure Leads UW Student to Form Innovative Student Group on Stem Cell Research
By Dana Bedessem, Division of International Studies Bundled-up students file into the Paul Ebling Symposium Center with wind-burnt red cheeks and noses, brushing off the snow before finding a seat among the crowd. The auditorium …
Brainstorm: Why Study Abroad? [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
By Stan Katz, The Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle recently reported on a new American Council on Education report (“Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses: 2008 Edition”) on the status of the internationalization of American …
Kikkoman to Open Research Facility at UW [The Capital Times]
Kikkoman Foods Inc. will establish a research and development laboratory as well as an environmental studies scholarship in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The new lab, which will open this fall, will be located …
Alumni Donations Make Study Abroad Possible: 2008 Study Abroad Award Ceremony
This year 50 undergraduate students received scholarships to study abroad in 23 different countries. The students come from all over Wisconsin and the U.S. and are highly diversified in majors and destination countries. At the …
How Networks Impact the Myanmar, China Disaster Responses
The recent disasters in China and Myanmar underline the network aspects of the crisis response, says emergency management expert Donald Moynihan, associate professor at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the …
Diplomats in a Global Age: Panel Discussion
Please join us to hear firsthand how three UW-Madison visiting diplomats-in-residence each dealt with a challenge or crisis that arose during their diplomatic career. The panel, comprised of John Campbell, Alfred Defago, and Florence Chenoweth, …
UW Receives Large Grant from German Government for German and European Studies
Contact: Elizabeth Covington, Executive Director, European Studies Alliance, (608) 265-4778, eecovington@wisc.edu The Center for German and European Studies (CGES) at University of Wisconsin–Madison has received a grant for $530,000 from the German Academic Exchange Service …
Foreign Universities Want More U.S. Students [The Chronicle of Higher Ed]
By BETH MCMURTRIE for the Chronicle of Higher Education A new report by the Institute of International Education says that foreign universities would welcome more students from the United States but that American students increasingly …
Where Multicultural Ed and Internationalization Meet [Inside Higher Ed]
By Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed “Elitist, frivolous, escapist.” “Divisive, political, provincial.” Such are some common perceptions of college officials involved in internationalization (see the former colorful set of adjectives) and multicultural education (see the …