University of Wisconsin–Madison
By Peter Schworm, The Boston Globe The faltering US dollar, which has steadily lost value against major currencies around the world, has produced a silver lining for foreign students, and the American universities that recruit them. With every dip in the exchange rate, the cost of college for many foreign students has dropped in kind, …
By Jessica Warnock, examiner.com Inevitably, once you arrive to your new country, once all the orientations, paper-work filling sessions and unpacking is complete, you will at some point become incredibly and mind-numbingly bored. While it is easy to assume the first few weeks will be a whirlwind of cultural infusion and fun, most likely, after the …
The UW–Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce the winners of our 2008 Individual Research Award competition. WAGE will provide $10,000 to support each of three research projects that explore the consequences of and challenges posed by economic globalization and its governance. Four faculty, Allison Christians (Law), Zhongdang …
By Peter Monghan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27 2008 Every day human cataclysms vie for headline space: Hunger and disease plague the war-riven Congo; the Sudanese government stonewalls United Nations peacekeepers; Myanmar’s oppressive regime blocks aid for cyclone victims. Increasingly, it seems, the world’s trouble spots are afflicted by both man-made miseries — civil …
by Renee Meiller, UW–Madison Communications University of Wisconsin–Madison nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Slaybaugh never dreamed she’d have the opportunity to chat with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist — much less several of them. Yet, from June 29 through July 4, Slaybaugh will join nearly 500 young researchers from around the world at a unique meeting …
By Masarah Van Eyck, Division of International Studies Trucks, cabs, and horse-drawn carts compete for space with pedestrians and even goats below the skyscrapers of downtown Dakar, Senegal. But passing through the iron gates into the Pasteur Institutes’ garden courtyard, one is greeted by a bust of Louis Pasteur himself and the air settles into …
Dear Friends, As some of you may know, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents recently named Dr. Biddy (Carolyn A.) Martin, provost of Cornell University, as the next chancellor of our campus. We are delighted. Both Dr. Martin’s background and vision indicate that she understands how important it is for this great research university …
On June 18, the ResearchChannel began airing “The Storyteller with Professor Harold Scheub,” the story of Sheub’s remarkable experience with African storytellers. Forty years ago, Scheub, a professor of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, walked thousands of miles along the southeastern coast of Africa recording native storytellers of the Xhosa, Swati, …
By John Petersen for The Chronicle of Higher Education Recent graduates have a lot to learn about budgeting when they leave college. Many are financially on their own for the first time, and so rent, grocery bills, taxes, and, of course, student loans are expenditures they will need to balance against their incomes. In addition …
By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed The number of American students studying in Kuwait recently plunged 50 percent in one academic year — well, that is, it fell from two to one. In developing a new study abroad arm, America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. is counting on that number going up, as well …