University of Wisconsin–Madison
While en route to Beijing in 2011 to begin his post as the new U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke stopped at a Starbucks in Seattle–Tacoma International Airport to buy a cup of coffee. A Chinese-American businessman snapped a photo and posted it on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. Reposted over 40,000 times, …
Fourteen University of Wisconsin–Madison students have received 2012-13 fellowships from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the country’s flagship program for international exchange. Additionally, three graduate students have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grants, and four faculty members have been awarded grants through the CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Since its establishment in 1946 under …
The Wisconsin China Initiative (WCI) is ramping up efforts to engage with faculty and staff across campus to promote interests and coordinate activities in the Greater China region, as Nicole Huang, professor of Chinese literature and visual culture, succeeds law professor John Ohnesorge as WCI’s director. Faculty and staff are invited to a public reception …
Guido Podestá, associate dean of of the Division of International Studies at UW–Madison, will serve as the interim dean of International Studies and Vice Provost for Globalization through the 2012-2013 academic year. He replaces Gilles Bousquet, who will take a leave of absence to serve as interim chancellor of UW-Eau Claire. “Guido is a respected …
University of Wisconsin–Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward is leading a Wisconsin delegation to China, where he will inaugurate UW–Madison’s first overseas outpost and participate in events aimed at deepening engagement with Chinese partners. The delegation, which includes UW–Madison representatives along with state of Wisconsin and state business officials, will travel to Shanghai, Beijing and Hong …
Graduate students in the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education have a new opportunity to bring a global perspective into their work as they seek to tackle some of the toughest issues in education. On May 14, leaders from Stockholm University in Sweden visited campus to sign a partnership agreement with the School of Education …
The seeds of Dan Gold’s international interests were planted even before he was born, when his parents took a year off to travel around the world. “I remember hearing about that trip and seeing the pictures,” recalls Gold, who lived in the San Francisco Bay area and Northern Virginia while growing up. “It inspired me …
Five projects at UW–Madison have been awarded Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Seed Grants, funded through the Division of International Studies, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), and the Graduate School. “Seed Funding” Project Development Grants are designed to support faculty and academic staff who seek to establish new research linkages via exchanges and jointly sponsored …
Cuba is reforming and establishing close ties with Brazil and China. At the same time, Cuba is facing economic and political changes. “Fifty years after the United States enacted an embargo on all trade and commercial transactions, relations between the two countries remain frozen, even as Raul Castro has been moving in the direction of …
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly announced Wednesday that Gilles Bousquet has agreed to serve as the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Interim Chancellor following the departure of Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich next month. Levin-Stankevich announced on March 27 that he will leave Wisconsin to become President of Westminster College in Utah. May 1 will …