University of Wisconsin–Madison
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: January 15, 2009 CONTACT: Masarah Van Eyck, (608) 262-5590, mvaneyck2@international.wisc.edu Madison — City University London will award University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of mechanical engineering Patrick Farrell with an honorary degree [DSc (h.c.)] later this month in recognition of his long-standing contributions to research and education in the field of mechanical engineering. …
Co-sponsored by the new Center for Translation Studies and the Program in Medieval Studies, this international conference brought together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on October 28 and 29, 2008, medievalists whose scholarship focuses on translation in the Middle Ages or on the cultural transfer of medieval ideas, images, and ideologies. View video …
“In Search of Stability: The Politics and Economics of the Global Financial Crisis” Professor Mark Copelovitch (Political Science) will discuss the causes and consequences of the ongoing global crisis, as well as the key issues facing domestic and international policymakers in the coming year. 1:30-2:30 p.m. Friday, January 23, 2009 Pyle Center For information, visit …
Adjusting to Hollywood Style: International trends in the 1910s and 1920s Professor David Bordwell (UW–Madison) Within a very few years — approximately 1910-1917 — Hollywood filmmakers developed a distinctive approach to visual storytelling. Within a few more years, most filmmakers in the major producing countries of Europe and Asia had accepted the premises of this …
As part of her semester break, Dean of Students Lori Berquam has accompanied three UW–Madison faculty members and four students on a two-week service-learning trip to Punta Gorda, Belize. The educational travel fellowship is aimed at giving students in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation’s physical therapy program the opportunity to develop community education programs …
On Tuesday, January 6, Michael Knetter, Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discussed the economic outlook for 2009 at the Rotary Club of Milwaukee. While his short term outlook is cloudy and turbulent, Knetter has a long term positive outlook. Knetter believes that U.S. companies that have embraced technological …
February 2008 features the eighth annual International Opportunities Month (IOM) on the UW–Madison campus, organized by a campus-wide committee of globally focused organizations, chaired by CIBER. Throughout the month, students of all majors can attend IOM events to learn about global issues and to hear about ways to travel, work, study and volunteer abroad. UW–Madison …
By Deborah Zif for the Wisconsin State Journal University officials say there are no UW–Madison students studying in Gaza as Israeli air strikes rain down on the area. But Jennifer Loewenstein, associate director of UW–Madison’s Middle East Studies Program, said she was supposed to be there. After living in Gaza for six months in 2002, …
[UW–Madison news release] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/29/08 CONTACT: Sam Dennis, 608-263-7699, sfdennisjr@wisc.edu; Curt Staats, 608-274-3636, staats@wisc.edu STUDENT’S VISION COMES TO LIFE IN HONDURAS MADISON – One of the failings of university learning is that the work of students is often left on the shelf. Assignments, though faithfully completed, rarely make it out of the theoretical. …
By Kris Olds, Global Higher Ed The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is one of several international consortia that have been created, since the late 1990s, to deepen linkages between universities. I’ve been involved with two of them (the WUN and Universitas 21) while working at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the National University of Singapore. …