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By Mara Hvistendahl, The Chronicle of Higher Education Rising up from the eastern edge of Peking University’s campus, the sleek, U-shaped Leo KoGuan Building wraps around a red Qing-dynasty edifice. The result of a record-breaking donation from a Singaporean tycoon, this merger of old and new marks a departure from the drab socialist architecture so …
Tuesday, February 17 4:30 – 6:00 pm Grainger Hall (see TIGH for room location) Interested in visiting China? Join Professor Wang Xiaojun (Helen) , of the South-Central University for Nationalities in Wuhan, China, for an overview of Chinese social and business etiquette. Her presentation will help U.S. students prepare to interact with Chinese professors and …
The Institute for Legal Studies and the Global Legal Studies Center announce the visiting scholars who will be working at the the Law School in room 6210. Please join us in welcoming the following people to our community of scholars: Spring 2009: Anna Jaron Visiting Scholar Spring 2009 PhD Candidate in Law European University Institute, …
You are cordially invited to a lecture on: The Transformation of the Legal Profession in Contemporary China by Sida Liu Research Associate at the American Bar Foundation & Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Chicago Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Lubar Commons (Law School room 7200) For additional information, please contact …
By Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Education Ask study abroad professionals what their challenges are, and the increasing cost for students – followed by the rising cost of program administration and insufficient institutional scholarship support – top the list (according to a 2008 survey from the Forum on Education Abroad). A handful of colleges across the …
The Human Rights Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Presents: “War and Human Rights in Africa: Insights from Darfur/Chad, DRC, and Liberia” Professor Jennifer Leaning Monday February 9, 4-5:30pm 206 Ingraham Hall Professor Leaning is Professor of the Practice of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at …
By Barbara McFadden Allen for Global Higher Ed Throughout its 50-year history, the consortium of prominent research universities in the American Midwest known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) has sought to create a “union of strengths” as envisioned by the Presidents of the member universities back in 1958. With the recent launch of …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment is supporting a diverse portfolio of community-inspired projects for 2009, from improving Midwest flood-response policies to exploring Wisconsin’s language roots. Included in the 14 projects totaling more than $800,000 this year are initiatives to get Wisconsin youth involved in the National Science Olympiad; …
The Division of International Studies would like to announce an extension for the two Wisconsin and the Emerging Regional Powers funding opportunities co-sponsored by the Wisconsin School of Business, and the International Institute. The original deadline of January 28, 2009 for the International Executive Speaker Series and the Visiting International Professor Program has been extended …
Fifth Annual Global Health Symposium February 4, 2009, 5— 9 p.m. 1306 Health Sciences Learning Center “Wisconsin and the World: Working Together for Sustainable Health” You are cordially invited to attend University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Global Health’s fifth annual Global Health Symposium which will highlight the exciting global health efforts of UW faculty, staff, …