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Earlier this month, Associate Dean and Professor of Veterinary Medicine Chris Olsen delivered a talk to Madison-area learners titled Influenza: A Disease at the Interface between Animals and Humans. Viruses know nothing of nations and require neither passport nor permission to cross borders. With increased travel and trade, an epidemic anywhere in the world becomes …
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.
The UW–Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce the winners of our 2009 Individual Research Award competition. WAGE will provide support to four research projects that explore the consequences of and challenges posed by economic globalization and its governance. Four faculty, Menzie Chinn (Public Affairs and Economics) , …
CONTACT: Aliko Songolo, 608-262-5937, asongolo@wisc.edu MADISON – It was one of the biggest honors of his life, and Aliko Songolo doesn’t know who to thank. In March, Songolo, professor of French and Italian and African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, received a letter from the French Consulate in Chicago informing him that …
Emeritus Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia, Prof. Usha Nilsson has been awarded one of the highest civilian honors in the field of art and culture in India, the Padmabhushan Moturi Satyanarayan Puraskar by the Ministry of Education. This award is for her outstanding contributions to Hindi literature under her pen name Usha Priyamvada. She …
Professor Aili Mari Tripp (Political Science, Gender & Women’s Studies) was a featured guest on World Focus Radio. Tune in: Online radio show on African women in power Over the past several decades, women politicians have made strides in Africa. The share of parliamentary seats held by women increased from 7 percent in 1990 to …
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are invited to apply to WUN at UIUC for up to $15K for participation in new WUN collaborations. The deadline is May 1. UW–Madison collaborators of UIUC researchers may want to encourage their partners to apply. The Division of International Programs and Studies (IPS) at the University of …
Eight faculty have received Kellett Mid-Career Awards for their research. Kellett Awards are given by the Graduate School and funded by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. They are given to faculty who are five to 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Honorees receive a $60,000 flexible research fund. Among the winners …
Nine faculty have been honored with Romnes Faculty Fellowships. The awards are given by the Graduate School and funded by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. They recognize tenured faculty members who have attained tenure within the prior four years. Winners receive a $50,000 flexible research fund. Among the recipients are: Sara Guyer, English. Guyer received …
by Brian Mattmiller, UW Communications If ignorance of history makes one more likely to repeat it, as the saying goes, then the stakes of historical knowledge are at their highest when involving military strategy and war. A new summer course at UW–Madison will examine the successes and failures of America’s foreign policy “grand strategy” during …