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The Royal Thai Embassy has granted the Center for Southeast Asian Studies nearly $100,000 to support the university’s Thai studies program. The gift will enhance teaching and research on Thai history, culture, and society. Specifically, it will support the development of certificates in Thai studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, with scholarship funds …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Global Health is pleased to announce that funding support is available for UW faculty and staff for educational travel that pertains to the mission of the Center for Global Health. Applications are due November 1, 2007. Please see the website below for details. For more information about the …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Masarah Van Eyck, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, mvaneyck2@international.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5590. Madison, WI—News reports from Washington, DC and Tehran differ on the reasons why the US may seek to attack Iran in the coming months. Neither country disputes the fact, however, that Iran is next on the list of …
by Madeline Fisher, UW–Madison Communications What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. The ease of manufacturing biodiesel from vegetable oils and animal fats …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: NAME: Elizabeth Covington, Center for German and European Studies, eecovington@wisc.edu Madison–What is democracy? How have both Germany and America, past and present, displayed democratic ideals and practices? What limitations have they revealed? And in today’s changing physical, social, and political worlds, how has democracy surfaced, or not, through each countries’ societies …
Colombian civil organizations are trying to make a change in their country despite constant violence, according to a Colombian peace advocate who visited the University of Wisconsin Wednesday. Click here to read the full story.
Reviews are under way for School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Daryl Buss and Division of International Studies Dean Gilles Bousquet. The university adopted a standard five-year review procedure for deans several years ago. The purpose is to assess each dean’s academic and administrative leadership and performance in such areas as external relations and resource management. …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Wendy Johnson, Outreach Coordinator, Language Institute, Tel. (608) 262-1473, Fax (608) 890-1094, wsjohnso@wisc.edu Madison—Having worked in many countries including France, Morocco, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Peru, and Brazil, three of UW–Madison’s alumni know firsthand how essential their studies in French, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese have been to their international development work. …
Jeremi Suri, a University of Wisconsin–Madison historian whose work is reshaping views of how political power is forged in a globally connected age, has been named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s “37 Under 36: America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences.” Click here to read the full story.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Sharon Dickson, Associate Director, Center for South Asia, sdickson@facstaff.wisc.edu, 608-262-3209. INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE US TO SPEAK IN MADISON Madison—Ambassador Raminder Singh Jassal, the present Indian Ambassador to the U.S., will address U.S.–India relations at the Pyle Center on October 17th from 6pm to 7:30pm. This event is free and open …