Sunny Yudkoff, originally from Montclair, NJ, joined the UW-Madison community recently. We took a few minutes to get to know the new Yiddish Instructor.
Languages
New summer program helps international students acclimate before the fall rush
Alfred Sunaryo, an incoming UW–Madison freshman, began learning English at age 6 in his native Indonesia.
Undergraduate Russian Flagship students present research at UCLA conference
Congratulations to Russian Flagship students Alex Steiner and Kendall Werneiwski, who participated in the UCLA Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies in Los Angeles on April 29, 2017. Steiner and Werneiwski were nominated by the Russian …
Connecting through Language
Kyle Studnicka Pineda is not your typical freshman. He boasts a comprehensive international background at the ripe age of 19. He now finds himself impassioned by the power of language in his Wisconsin Experience.
Gained in translation
For Patrick Peczerski, who triple majored in International Studies, Spanish and Polish, mastering another language has proven to be a competitive advantage in business.
In On Wisconsin Magazine: In search of the Lao Unicorn
Bill Robichaud (B.S.’83, Zoology) just wanted to go hunting.
Loving Language: The College Experience
Daniel Clark just finished his fourth year as a Portuguese and business student at UW-Madison. He’s always known that a global profile would be a fool-proof path.
MIPA student Frankel receives foreign-studies fellowship
Cassie Frankel, a second-year student at the La Follette School of Public Affairs received a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship for the 2017–18 academic year. Frankel will use the fellowship to study Arabic …
A path unlocked by language
For Kevin Barry, learning Yoruba while earning a degree in International Studies and certificates in African Studies and Global Cultures has proven to be a ‘golden key’ to a career that’s taken him from Nigeria …
New ESL active learning lab expands learning possibilities for international students
It might be hard to imagine a journalism student, a future economist, a cancer researcher and an aspiring statistician in the same 16-person class in Helen C. White Hall. More than 1,000 undergraduate and graduate …