University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI – A distinguished UW–Madison alumnus who until recently was secretary-general of the World Federation of United Nations Associations will be on campus at the end of September to meet with faculty and students, and give a public talk on international law. James Baker Sitrick, chairman of the executive committee of the international law …
UW–Madison’s Global Studies program has awarded seven Scott Kloeck-Jenson Pre-Dissertation Travel Awards and three Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Internship Awards to outstanding graduate students whose work is expected to foster international understanding and serve social justice concerns around the globe. The grants are awarded in memory of the UW–Madison graduate student who died in South Africa …
Nursing professor Linda Baumann, whose interests range from sailing to nurses’ training in developing countries to her neighborhood’s exercise group, says she has learned to “do what you love to do until the end of your life.” Baumann has been training nurses in developing countries for more than 20 years while also putting her interests …
Through a unique partnership, UW–Madison has helped South Africa build and fund SALT, the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest telescope in the hemisphere. The partnership is featured in WisBusiness.com http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=41914
Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountain top near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronmers released the first images captured by SALT.
Following the success of last year’s World Music Festival, this year’s festival will be held on campus from Thursday, Sept. 15-Saturday, Sept. 17. http://www.union.wisc.edu/worldmusicfest/
Clearing — or perhaps roiling — the murky and often contentious waters of Mesoamerican archeology, a study of 3,000-year-old pottery provides new evidence that the Olmec may not have been the mother culture after all. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists led by UW–Madison archeologist James Stoltman …
Stephen Bunker, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of Sociology and a well-known Latin Americanist, died in July 2005 after a long battle against cancer. The university community will feel the loss of this remarkable individual. http://www.intlstudies.wisc.edu/news/Bunker.asp
Wisconsin State Journal Sunday, July 24, 2005 Denise Thornton For the State Journal As college students arrive home for the summer, many are returning to Wisconsin from classrooms around the world. Volatile international politics have not slowed the flow of students with an urge to see for themselves what they are reading in the newspaper. …
From the La Crosse Tribune By Kate Schott Hala Ghoneim is never off duty this summer. An instructor for the Summer Arabic and Persian Immersion Program at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, she doesn’t just teach classes, but also lives with her students in Baird residence hall. “There is no shift,” she said. “I’m never …