FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Friday, September 23 Contact: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW-Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu Leading German Jurist to Give Human Rights, Democracy Talk Madison, WI – Brun-Otto …
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World Beyond Our Borders Book Series
From Colonial Landscapes to Cannibalism to Italian Culinary Rituals: World Beyond Our Borders Series Features New UW-Madison Faculty Books The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s International Institute and Borders Books announce the fall 2005 series of the …
Africans in India Reveal their Histories in Quilts
Madison will get a vivid impression of the quilts by Africans of India — the Siddis — in an exhibition in the Gallery of Design at the university’s School of Human Ecology. http://www.news.wisc.edu/11407.html
Renowned Russian poet Sergey Gandlevsky to visit the UW-Madison campus
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 9, 2005 CONTACT: Alisha Kirchoff, CREECA Events Coordinator 608-262-3379 or events@creeca.wisc.edu Madison, WI – Renowned Russian poet Sergey Gandlevsky will visit the UW-Madison campus, the Center for Russia, East Europe and …
Ugandan Human Rights Leader to Deliver Soffa Lecture
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: Friday, September 9, 2005 Contact: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu UGANDAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER TO DELIVER SOFFA LECTURE Madison, WI – Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, …
UW alumnus who chaired world federation of U.N. associations to visit campus
Madison, WI – A distinguished UW-Madison alumnus who until recently was secretary-general of the World Federation of United Nations Associations will be on campus at the end of September to meet with faculty and students, …
UW Telescope May Help State Firms
Through a unique partnership, UW-Madison has helped South Africa build and fund SALT, the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest telescope in the hemisphere. The partnership is featured in WisBusiness.com http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=41914
South African Telescope On Line
Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountain top near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronmers released the first images captured by SALT.
Madison World Music Festival to be Held September 15-17
Following the success of last year’s World Music Festival, this year’s festival will be held on campus from Thursday, Sept. 15-Saturday, Sept. 17. http://www.union.wisc.edu/worldmusicfest/
UW-Madison land tenure expert Thiesenhusen dead at 68
William C. Thiesenhusen, emeritus professor of agricultural economics and agricultural journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the university’s Land Tenure Center, died the weekend of June 25-26 at his residence near …