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By Anita Clar, Wisconsin State Journal Dr. Jonathan Patz is an international authority on global warming, and it’s more than an academic study for him. At home in Madison, he has installed solar panels on his house and grocery baskets on his bicycle. He drives a Prius hybrid but bicycles to work. For Patz, who …
Join Jeremi Suri as he reads from his recently published book, Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2007). 7 pm, Thursday, December 6 Borders Books West, 3750 University Avenue, Madison. This is an event of the Division of International Studies’ World Beyond Our Borders reading series. In Henry Kissinger and the American …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Global Health (CGH) is pleased to announce the awarding of six educational travel fellowships to UW faculty and staff members. These grants are awarded to CGH affiliates to support international travel related to educational activities, including development for global health courses, initiation of field experiences and field research, and …
by Dennis Chaptman, UW–Madison Communications Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin–Madison political scientist, will travel to Australia as part of an international delegation observing that nation’s federal elections on Saturday, Nov. 24. “I’m thrilled to be part of this program as one of only two academic members of the international delegation,” says Mayer. “It is …
Professors Monika Chavez, Department of German and Sally Magnan, Department of French and Italian, are quoted in an article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education: “Foreign-Language Departments Bring Everyday Texts to Teaching” by Burton Bollag (subscription only, excerpts below). “If you compare textbooks to those 10 years ago,” says Sally S. Magnan, a professor of …
by Terry Devitt, University of Wisconsin–Madison Communications The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed world, according to a new study. In a paper to be published the …
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) invites all University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty to apply for a multi-year collaborative grant to increase understanding of globalization and the international economy. WAGE will award up to $100,000 to each of three separate collaboratives, with the awards spread over a three-year period. Click here to …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Global Health is pleased to announce that funding support is available for UW faculty and staff for educational travel that pertains to the mission of the Center for Global Health. Applications are due November 1, 2007. Please see the website below for details. For more information about the …
Reviews are under way for School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Daryl Buss and Division of International Studies Dean Gilles Bousquet. The university adopted a standard five-year review procedure for deans several years ago. The purpose is to assess each dean’s academic and administrative leadership and performance in such areas as external relations and resource management. …
Jeremi Suri, a University of Wisconsin–Madison historian whose work is reshaping views of how political power is forged in a globally connected age, has been named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s “37 Under 36: America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences.” Click here to read the full story.