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On December 5, 2012, NSF Director Subra Suresh announced Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW), a new and coordinated effort that will expand and enhance international collaborative research opportunities for NSF Graduate Research Fellows, with initial agreements with science agencies in eight countries. “Today’s graduate students being trained as scientists and engineers in the U.S. will …
There will be several webinars on aspects of the Boren Fellowships competition for graduate students. The deadline for submission of a Boren Fellowships application to Boren is Thursday, January 31 5:00 PM EST. Monday, December 10, 2012, 2pm EST, Thursday, December 27, 2012, 4pm EST We have 9 more webinars scheduled in January, including a …
Seven German Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS7) is pleased to announce that in addition to the Study and Internship Program (SIP), in 2013-14 we will offer two new competitive programs that include scholarships for all successful applicants. The Study Program (SP) includes a semester on one of our member campuses, and our Internship Program (IP) …
Joe Elder got involved with the University of Wisconsin’s study abroad program in India in 1961, the first year UW students could go there to earn credit. That fall, UW sent five students there. But by early 1962, no one at the university had heard from them, so Elder, a first-year faculty member, took off …
Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet—accompanied by her husband, Steve Radelet, chief economist of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—will be in Madison on Monday, November 26, for two public appearances. From noon to 1 p.m., Hessler-Radelet will speak on “The Peace Corps and Global Health: Sustainable Solutions” on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. …
The Ideas and Universities Project of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is sponsoring a virtual seminar series that brings together leading higher education scholars from around the world to consider the roles of universities in the global knowledge economy and the evolving identity of university teacher-researchers and their changing roles in institutions of higher learning. …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison continues to rank among the national leaders in the number of students studying abroad, with 2,159 students studying outside the United States for academic credit in 2010-11, according to the 2012 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. UW–Madison ranked ninth among peer institutions in the latest Open Doors Report, published …
Nancy Heingartner never expected that studying in Soviet Union to teach Russian language would lead to diplomatic work. Yet Heingartner went on to receive a Fascell Fellowship in the late 1990s and worked for a year and a half for the U.S. State Department in Kiev, Ukraine. She even got to meet then-President Bill Clinton. …
Two information sessions for students interested in applying for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) awards for Summer 2013 and the 2013-14 academic year are scheduled (please note different times for graduate and undergraduate applicants): Wednesday, December 5, 2012, in 206 Ingraham Hall: 2-3 p.m. for undergraduate applicants; 3:30-4:30 p.m. for graduate applicants Thursday, January …
On Thursday, November 8, Fatima Sadiqi will speak on the UW–Madison campus about North African Women’s Rights in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring as this fall’s J. Jobe Soffa and Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Distinguished International Visitor. Her talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held at Union South, at 4 …