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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, April 16, 2007 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, UW–Madison Division of International Studies, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu Madison, WI — Madison, WI –Fifty UW–Madison students have been awarded prestigious study-abroad scholarships, the Division of International Studies’ International Academic Programs (IAP) announced today. The awards, totaling nearly $80,000, have been made possible in large …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: April 4, 2007 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590 Madison, WI — UW–Madison students took top honors last month at the third Midwest Chinese Speech Contest, sponsored at Northwestern University by the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago. According to Hongming Zhang, associate …
From University of Wisconsin–Madison News by Liz Beyler, UW Communications University of Wisconsin–Madison juniors Adam Schmidt and Max Bruner are among 65 students from 56 colleges and universities nationwide who have been selected as 2007 Truman Scholars. They were chosen from among 585 candidates nominated by 280 public and private institutions. “It is a great …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: March 28, 2007 CONTACT: Mary DeNiro, WAA Vice-President for Marketing and Communications, mdeniro@uwalumni.com Madison, WI – The Wisconsin Alumni Association has announced its 2007 Distinguished Alumni Awards. The awards are the highest honor bestowed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. Since 1936, WAA has been presenting the awards to the most prestigious …
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Untitled Document UW–Madison’s Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker Awarded NYU’s Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book on Drama or Theatre Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the winner of the Joe A. Callaway Prize for 2004-2005 for the best book on drama or theatre, presented by New York University’s Department of …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Thursday, August 24, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu; Courtney Skare, Director of Marketing/Communications, International Academic Programs, UW–Madison, (608) 261-1020, caskare@bascom.wisc.edu EXHIBIT OF UW-MADISON STUDENTS’ PHOTOS CELEBRATES STUDY ABROAD, TRAVELING THE WORLD Madison, WI – Two dozen photographs from around the world …
Untitled Document DATE: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu NEW FEDERAL GRANTS REFLECT CONTINUED PREEMINENCE OF UW-MADISON IN AREA, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Madison, WI – Eight of UW–Madison’s international and area studies programs have been awarded a combined total of nearly four million dollars …
For nearly 30 years, Wisconsin archaeologist T. Douglas Price has tramped the damp fields and coastal meadows of Denmark looking to put flesh on the bones of prehistory. In the Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age, an epoch that spanned a period of about 6,000 years beginning in 10,000 B.C., Denmark, it turns out, was a …
Twin grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), coupled with matching institutional funds, will give a $6.8 million boost to innovative graduate study and research in global sustainability, development, and the environment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. http://www.news.wisc.edu/12602.html