University of Wisconsin–Madison
Please forward to grad students. Applicants to the Fulbright US Student program must be US citizens. The Fulbright US Student Program 2016-17 competition will open on Tuesday, March 31. New application and country program information will be available on the Fulbright US website. Erin Crawley, the campus Fulbright program advisor, will hold an information session …
Applicants to the Fulbright US Student program must be US citizens. The Fulbright US Student Program 2016-17 competition will open on Tuesday, March 31. New application and country program information will be available on the Fulbright US website. Erin Crawley, the campus Fulbright program advisor, will hold an information session for Undergraduates interested in learning …
Imagine writing an article as an assignment for a French workshop class and ending up with your prose published in a newspaper in France. Two students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison just added that milestone to their list of undergraduate experiences. Juan Fonseca and Zuzanna Sztul are among the 38 students in French 312 (Advanced …
Yao Yang, dean of the National School of Development and director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University in Beijing, will deliver a free public lecture on Understanding the Political Economy of China’s Economic Growth on Tuesday, March 24, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. Yao, who earned his Ph.D. in agricultural …
Contrary to high hopes at the time, the peace process at the end of the so-called “War to End All Wars” a century ago laid the groundwork for many current global conflicts. Today’s tensions between NATO and Russia, ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, the as-yet unfinished reconciliation between France and Germany, and the ever-fragile …
Incorporating international news reports into school-wide announcements, having high school students give language lessons to elementary students, and hosting international dinners for the community are among the ideas for increasing global awareness offered by high school students at the 2015 Wisconsin Global Youth Summit. The Wisconsin Global Youth Summit brought approximately 170 students from more …
When Katrina Kalcic enrolled at Columbia College Chicago in 2008, the Kenosha, Wisconsin, native was still reeling after losing her father to esophageal cancer in 2005. “When I first went to college, it was a lot less about academic achievement and a lot more about struggling to find myself and struggling to redefine my identity …
The Pushkin Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been awarded two grants totaling $230,000 to help fund summer Russian-language classes for high school students from under-represented, low-income and minority communities. A $90,000 grant from STARTALK, a project of the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland, will help fund the program …
For Graduate students who are US citizens or permanent residents. The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) competition is open and the student applicant submission deadline is 12:00 Noon Wednesday, April 22, 2015. The national application deadline noted in the formal announcement is the institutional deadline; complete student applications MUST be submitted by the campus …
After spending four weeks in China as a Global Gateway Scholar last summer, Tammy Tian returned to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, determined to bring some of her experiences back to campus. Tian, a junior studying journalism and East Asian Studies, wanted to start a student organization that bridged the social gap between Chinese and American …