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LODI – When Max Love attended the annual International Education Week at Lodi High School as a student there, it fueled his interest in global learning and led to his desire to serve in the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe. A 2009 Lodi High School graduate, he returned to the event this year as a …
In a Few Wor(l)ds: The World Literature/s Conference will happen December 3-5, in the Pyle Center located at 702 Langdon Street. The keynote address, “World Literature in a Post-Literary Age” will be given by David Damrosch from Harvard University on Thursday, December 3 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. …
The Sixth Annual Global Health Symposium titled, “Wisconsin Ideas for Improving Global Health” will be held February 3, 2010, from 5-9 p.m. at the Health Sciences Learning Center, Room1306. Are you interested or engaged in global health? The UW–Madison Center for Global Health will sponsor its sixth annual symposium to highlight the exciting global health …
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2009, UW–Madison is once again ranked in the top 20 (#17) of world universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Check out Global Higher Ed’s articles to read about the complexities inherent in rankings.
The Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (MCFR) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison and invite you to participate in a special event, China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections. The event will take place December 8 from 5:30-8:15 p.m., in the Pacific Room at the Edgewater Hotel located at 666 Wisconsin Avenue. Registration is required (details …
UW–Madison’s long-standing focus on “targeted minorities” is a much-too-provincial view of “diversity” in the global world of the 21st century. This narrow approach ignores the many channels through which students are exposed to the wide range of subject matter, ideas, people, cultures, and attitudes that characterize UW–Madison. For starters, in 2008-09 UW–Madison undergraduates came from …
UW–Madison News — MADISON – Work on a project to provide a Haitian community with hydroelectric power has won the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders a prestigious United Nations engineering award. “This is a huge honor, and it feels really good to have the project recognized at such a high level,” says …
International children’s and young adult literature will be the focus of an all-day celebration at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 21, 2009, at the Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin. The conference, entitled “Open a Book … Open a Door … Open your Mind … to …
The Human Rights Initiative invites you to a lecture, “Making Climate Change a Health Issue: The Lancet/University College of London Commission on Climate Change” by Dr. Nora Groce from the University College London, on Monday, November 23 from 3:30-5 p.m. at 206 Ingraham. Learn more about Dr. Nora Groce Professor Nora Groce is the Leonard …
Center for European Studies is pleased to announce that there are funds available for tenure-track faculty travel grants for conference attendance and international research in European Studies, including: • Several awards of approximately $600 for travel to conferences within the United States only (no international conferences). To apply, please provide a one-page description of your …