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Days after Chancellor Martin returned from Greater China, International Education Week (November 15 – 19) offered students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to reflect on how best to prepare for careers in a fast changing, interconnected world. A joint initiative of the U. S. Departments of State and Education, International Education Week was celebrated across …
Do you have any contacts in companies that work internationally? Colleagues in overseas labs that might host our students? A international site where you’ve worked and to which you’d like to return with a group of students for practical application of what they’re learning in their classes? An organization here in Wisconsin that could use …
This fall, International Academic Programs (IAP) announces its first annual Study Abroad Open House series. Throughout the semester, the Study Abroad Resource Center in 250 Bascom Hall will play host to numerous drop-in events in which students can learn more about study abroad opportunities at UW. Students who attend will also meet with returned study …
Attend the Study Abroad Fair, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 from 4 -7 p.m. in the Memorial Union, Great Hall, to find out why the University of Wisconsin–Madison is a national leader in study abroad and why so many Badgers are making the experience a part of their UW career! The Division of International Studies asked …
In Business Blogger Walter Simpson‘s son is interning in Germany for a Wisconsin manufacturing business. In his latest post, Simpson discusses Wisconsin’s international reach, and the importance of preparing our citizens accordingly. EXCERPT: My son has a great manufacturing internship. He really enjoys it. In many ways, he is living the life that his Wisconsin …
Maj Fischer is the managing director of the International Internships Program (IIP) on campus. She works to connect local Wisconsin businesses and internship program offices with foreign exchange and Madison students. Before leading IIP, Maj traveled the world, served in the Peace Corps in Poland, and worked in Fiji and Denmark. Are more students demonstrating …
The Wisconsin China Initiative and the Division of International Studies are pleased to present the Summer 2010 Wisconsin China Initiative newsletter. Newsletter highlights include: a summary of the chancellor’s delegation to China last spring; information on the visiting Chinese athletes who will arrive July 23; and an article introducing UW–Madison’s new Ming historian Joseph Dennis. …
Mandy [Sioman] Chan grew up in Macau, China. She came to UW–Madison in 2008 to study computer engineering. Mandy has worked in UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies’ communications office for the past year. This summer, she traveled back to China to intern at Companhia de Electricidade in her hometown of Macau. She works there as …
From WI Department of Commerce Newsletter Starting International Careers in China: An Interview with Two Former Commerce Interns In the coming weeks many students at Wisconsin’s colleges and universities will be receiving their degrees and embarking upon careers in international business. Two former interns at the Bureau of Export Development, Kevin Bartel and Benjamin Voss, …
Next month, four UW–Madison undergraduates will leave for Nyargia, Ghana for five weeks to study the impact of a poverty reduction model in the village. The impact assessment internship is run by the Blessing Basket Project, which works to reduce poverty in developing countries by paying “Prosperity Wages” for artisan products, thus supporting entrepreneurs and …