University of Wisconsin–Madison
By: Kathy Mittelstadt /The Daily Cardinal – September 29, 2008 Former Ireland president Mary Robinson spoke on campus to express the need for students to fight for human rights. Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and current U.N. commissioner for human rights visited campus Friday to discuss the continued struggle for global human rights. “Our world …
5:00 p.m. Thursday October 2 Room 4151, Grainger Hall 975 University Ave. Open to the public. Reception follows. Bill Berg, French Professor A Wisconsin-Normandy Connection through Literature and Painting Professor Berg, a specialist in 19th-century French literature and art, discusses the work of painters Boudin and Monet, writers Flaubert and Maupassant. Keith Busby, French Professor …
WUN expands its membership to 18 and welcomes the University of Alberta as its second Canadian partner The Worldwide Universities Network is delighted to announce that the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) has joined the network with immediate effect. Professor Michael Arthur, chairman of WUN said “The University of Alberta’s pioneering spirit and history of …
Utrecht University will award 7 short stay fellowships (3 months) for PhD students at WUN partner universities. The fellowship includes travel and maintenance costs. The deadline for Utrecht supervisors to file applications for the fellowships for North American PhD students is 1 December 2008. This means UW–Madison PhD students interested in applying need to secure …
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies invites you to a free public lecture Global Population and the Global Environment to 2050 with Guest Speaker Joel Cohen Tuesday, October 7 7:00 p.m. 165 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln Drive University of Wisconsin–Madison The first program in this year’s Gaylord Nelson Lecture Series on the theme “Population and …
By David Brown, Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 19, 2008; A01 Courses in epidemiology, public health and global health — three subjects that were not offered by most colleges a generation ago — are hot classes on campuses these days. They are drawing undergraduates to lecture halls in record numbers, prompting a scramble by …
Colleges reach out to minority students in effort to reduce racial disparities by Ingrid Norton- The Chronicle of Higher Education When Jaime Alvarez looks at his life, he sees two narratives: what might have been and what is. In the first, he gets married shortly after high school, buys a house with money from a …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Masarah Van Eyck, mvaneyck2@international.wisc.edu, 608-262-5590 Virginia Vargas will deliver her talk “Women’s Long March for Equality and Democracy in Latin America” at the Pyle Center at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Sponsored by the J. Jobe Soffa and Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Distinguished International Visitor Fund, Vargas’ talk is part of …
by Sandra Knisely During University of Wisconsin–Madison materials science and engineering senior Sarah Treu’s interview with GE Aviation, company recruiters noticed an extra credential on her already impressive resume. In addition to her engineering degree, Treu is pursuing a certificate in international engineering. “I think they were impressed that I had thought about engineering as …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: September 17, 2008 CONTACT: Masarah Van Eyck, mvaneyck2@international.wisc.edu, 608-262-5590 FORMER PRESIDENT OF IRELAND, HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION TO SPEAK AT UW-MADISON MADISON – Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, will deliver a talk on “Human Rights in the 21st Century” for the Mildred Fish-Harnack Human …