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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu AUSTRALIAN CONSUL-GENERAL TO VISIT UW-MADISON CAMPUS Madison, WI – Bob Charles, Australia’s consul-general in Chicago, will visit the UW–Madison campus January 31, 2006. Mr. Charles will meet with UW–Madison’s Chancellor, the …
Series, in conjunction with UW–Madison School of Journalism seminar, runs from February 1 through May. See Web for list and dates of speakers, films. http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/latest/1_07Warstories.htm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Thursday, January 19, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, rlhess@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5590 CANADA AND CANADA-USA RELATIONS TO BE FOCUS OF SERIES OF EVENTS ON UW-MADISON CAMPUS Madison, WI – Canada, the world’s second-largest country in total area, and Wisconsin’s most important international trading …
Untitled Document by Anthea Lipsett anthea.lipsett@thes.co.uk Published: 19 January 2007 in the Times Higher Education Supplement Networks are becoming even more vital to academic life as they exploit technology to help researchers find colleagues and sustain work in novel fields. Anthea Lipsett reports When Steve Banwart watched a videoconference seminar by a leading American climate …
by Paroma Basu, UW–Madison Communications The president of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, announced today an unprecedented research and education collaboration between the Indian government, several Indian universities, three international corporations and 15 U.S. universities, including UW–Madison. The cross-continental initiative aims to boost interdisciplinary collaborations between U.S. and Indian researchers, particularly in the realms of science …
by Paroma Basu, UW–Madison Communications As global populations swell, farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. As a result, agricultural activity now dominates more than a third of the Earth’s landscape and has emerged as one of the central forces of global …
Interested in globalization and international studies? Looking for one more course to complete your Spring 2006 schedule? 1. Topics in Global Security: Introduction to Global Studies Instructor: Michael Curtin (Comm Arts) International Studies 601 section 001; 3 cr; call number: 69257 Class meets: M 3:30 – 6:00 There is a required discussion section. This course …
by Rob Zaleski, The Capital Times Unless people have actually visited a Third World country such as Cameroon, they can’t possibly appreciate how primitive the health care is. Nobody realizes that more than Emilie Ngo Nguidjol, a 42-year-old Cameroonian native and mother of three who moved to Madison 15 years ago. Read the full story… …
Untitled Document FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/28/05 Contact: Alisha Kirchoff, CREECA events coordinator, at 608-262-3379 or events@creeca.wisc.edu Madison, WI- Jerry Huffman will speak about “The Gucci Revolution” in Kazhakstan at 4 p.m. on Monday, December 5 in room 5055 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue. Huffman, an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, was based in Kazakhstan from 1998 …
In a recent chilling assessment, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that human-induced changes in the Earth’s climate now lead to at least 5 million cases of illness and more than 150,000 deaths every year. Temperature fluctuations may sway human health in a surprising number of ways, scientists have learned, from influencing the spread of …