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The India Initiative is pleased to announce a new TATA Graduate Research Grant on Contemporary India. Applicants shall be doctoral students in good standing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in any of the university’s social science programs. We request applications for pre-dissertation and dissertation research on topics related to contemporary and post-Independence India. We are …
From the Wisconsin State Journal “On Campus” blog, June 14, 2009 On Campus: University of Wisconsin Medical School to lead effort to improve care for AIDS patients in Ethiopia By DAVID WAHLBERG 608-252-6125 dwahlberg@madison.com The UW School of Medicine and Public Health is leading a federally funded partnership to improve emergency medicine for people with …
UW–Madison News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6/30/09 CONTACT: Jim Delehanty, jmdeleha@wisc.edu, 608-262-4458 MADISON – This week, the University of Wisconsin–Madison African Studies Program is taking 15 high school social studies teachers and curriculum planners from across the United States to Rwanda for 30 days. This endeavor is made possible by the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad …
Thanks to the superb writing of Mai Chou Her and the other UW–Madison Student Correspondents, LexioPhiles has nominated the Badgers Abroad Blog among the Top 100 International Exchange and Experience Blogs from around the world! Cast your vote for the Badgers Abroad Blog!
CIBER’s Applied Funds program provides grants of up to $2,000 to support travel, conference registration, and participation in faculty development programs. Deadline: Monday, June 1 Eligibility: All University of Wisconsin faculty, academic staff, and Ph.D. students are eligible to apply. All Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa Community and Technical College instructors and administrators are eligible to …
CONTACT: Gary Sandefur, 608-263-2303, gsandefur@ls.admin.wisc.edu MADISON – The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science has received the first $400,000 of a $2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will establish 12 faculty positions for teaching and research in the humanities focused on the interdisciplinary crossings and connections between the …
CONTACT: Kenneth Zeichner, 608-263-4651, zeichner@education.wisc.edu MADISON – Kenneth Zeichner, the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and associate dean of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Education (NAEd). The NAEd seeks advancement of the highest quality education research and …
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 pre-dissertation travel awards sponsored by WAGE’s “Remaking the Developmental State” research collaborative. The graduate work of these students fits within a larger effort to understand what new strategies have worked, or might work, in today’s competitive global …
From Alumni eCALS There was no well-worn path leading the late Kamaluddin Ahmad to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s biochemistry department, but come he did. Born and raised in a family of modest means in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Ahmad excelled at the University of Dhaka and then traveled to Madison for his graduate studies, receiving his Ph.D. …
Deadline: June 1, 2009. All UW–Madison faculty and academic staff are invited to apply for travel grants of up to $1500 to support the development of WUN collaborative research projects. Read more online.