Droughts can grip the vast Sahel region of Africa for decades, dramatically altering the border where forest and savannahs give way to the Sahara Desert. Predicting those droughts is vital, but hard.
Faculty & Staff
Apple gives keynote at Re-Imagining Education for Democracy Summit in Australia
UW-Madison’s Michael W. Apple delivered the keynote address at the Re-Imagining Education for Democracy Summit in Queensland, Australia, on Nov. 13.
Grant supports Tjernström’s study of online news company in Kenya
Assistant Professor Emilia Tjernström received a grant to measure the effects of introducing performance-pay contracts for citizen journalists in an online English-language news company in Kenya. The study will improve understanding of whether performance contracts …
UW-Madison’s Apple delivers opening keynote at Conference on Peace Activism in Seoul
Earlier this fall, UW-Madison’s Michael Apple gave the opening keynote address at the 5th Anniversary PEACEMOMO Conference on Peace Activism in Seoul, Korea, and major newspapers in Seoul published interviews with Apple.
New Faculty Focus: Fernando J. Marqués
Title: Clinical associate professor in large animal internal medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine.
UW-Madison’s Hawkins to lead study abroad opportunity in China
If you’re interested in studying comparative education in China next summer, apply to this four-week study abroad program led by School of Education Professor Maggie Hawkins.
Yu’s work performed at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, reviewed by Dancing Times
UW-Madison’s Jin-Wen Yu presented “Fine, Without Me/You?” in the Dance-Forms 74th International Choreographers’ Showcase in August. The performance was part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world.
Mitra Sharafi’s book on Parsi legal culture featured in review symposium
Law & Social Inquiry, the journal of the American Bar Foundation, has published a review symposium on Mitra Sharafi’s “Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947.”
UW System researchers played role in Nobel-winning gravitational wave discovery
Today’s announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to researchers Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish of the California Institute of Technology, bears University of Wisconsin …
Q&A with Claus Elholm Andersen
Language Institute: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Why did you decide to come to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?