by Jennifer Price For the State Journal, December 22, 2007 NAIROBI, Kenya — After almost a year here, Susan Gold missed a lot of things. Her 2-year-old grandson Jack back home in Madison. The Saturn …
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New Fulbright Program Hopes to Develop International Peacemakers
By JJ HERMES, The Chronicle of Higher Education Mustafa Khattab speaks excellent English for someone who grew up on a farm in Egypt and was the first in his family to attend college. That skill …
U.S. to Cut 10 Percent of Diplomatic Posts Next Year [Washington Post]
By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 13, 2007; A26 Diplomatic posts at the State Department and U.S. embassies worldwide will be cut by 10 percent next year because of heavy staffing demands …
TUNE IN: UW International Students on WPR
Next week, four UW-Madison international students will appear on WPR’s “Here on Earth,” hosted by Jean Feraca. The students–from East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia–are the winners of an essay contest that …
Canadian Educators Strive to Make Their Campuses More International
Making the college experience more international, forging stronger ties with India, and selling Canadian higher education overseas were among the hot topics at the annual conference of the Canadian Bureau for International Education, which wrapped …
The Wall Street Journal: American Brain Drain
From The Wall Street Journal, 11/30/2007 One myth dogging the immigration debate is that employers are fibbing (or grossly exaggerating) when they claim that hiring foreign professionals is unavoidable because U.S.-born Ph.D.s are hard to …
Kuwaitis Tour UW For Ideas
From WMTV News 11/28/2007. Click here to watch the video. Madison: The UW campus is being used as a model for a new university in the middle east. Officials from Kuwait University were on campus …
Recent sightings: Thanksgiving tradition
From UW-Madison Communications During a Madison Friends of International Students (MFIS) Thanksgiving dinner, hosts Eng and Bill Braun (left), along with their son Paul (far left), talk with their guests, Shoji Shimomura and his wife, …
Global engineering forum targets looming engineering shortage
by Mark Ignatowski, UW-Madison Communications The United States and the world face severe shortages of engineers by the year 2025, according to research based on U.S. Bureau of Labor data. The challenge of developing leaders …
WISCTV to Air Series on UW-Alumn, Nazi Resister
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Masarah Van Eyck, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, mvaneyck2@international.wisc.edu, 608-262-5590 Madison—Most people wouldn’t recognize her face or her name, but this Wisconsin woman’s story stretches far beyond our borders. …