Category: Research

TATA Graduate Research Grants: Research on Contemporary India

The India Initiative is pleased to announce a new TATA Graduate Research Grant on Contemporary India. Applicants shall be doctoral students in good standing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in any of the university’s social science programs. We request applications for pre-dissertation and dissertation research on topics related to contemporary and post-Independence India. We are …

UW Medical Students Rave About Exchange Program

From the Capital Times: Todd Finkelmeyer —  7/20/2009 10:19 am Jason Chiang became sold on the importance of research exchange programs during his undergraduate years at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Although Chiang has traveled overseas several times to study over the past couple years, it was an experience a bit closer to home, an …

UW-Madison Russia Experts Meet with Obama at Summit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2009 CONTACT: Nancy Heingartner, 608-265-6298, outreach@creeca.wisc.edu UW–Madison Russia Experts Make Civil Society Recommendations to President Obama and Others in Moscow Summit University of Wisconsin–Madison professors Theodore P. Gerber, Sociology, and Mark S. Johnson, Educational Policy Studies (beginning fall 2009) , along with colleagues from the Eurasia Foundation, the New Eurasia …

UW Global Health Director Profiled in Wisconsin State Journal

Know Your Madisonian: Cynthia Haq, UW–Madison Center for Global Health From the Wisconsin State Journal June 6, 2009 Dr. Cynthia Haq directs UW–Madison’s Center for Global Health, formed in 2005. It includes students and faculty from the schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and veterinary medicine. Haq also heads up the medical school’s new program in …

Mellon Foundation Grant Establishes New Faculty Positions

CONTACT: Gary Sandefur, 608-263-2303, gsandefur@ls.admin.wisc.edu MADISON – The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science has received the first $400,000 of a $2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will establish 12 faculty positions for teaching and research in the humanities focused on the interdisciplinary crossings and connections between the …

WAGE Remaking the Developmental State Pre-dissertation Travel Awards

The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 pre-dissertation travel awards sponsored by WAGE’s “Remaking the Developmental State” research collaborative. The graduate work of these students fits within a larger effort to understand what new strategies have worked, or might work, in today’s competitive global …

UW-Madison Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) International Collaboration Travel Awards

Deadline: June 1, 2009. All UW–Madison faculty and academic staff are invited to apply for travel grants of up to $1500 to support the development of WUN collaborative research projects. Read more online.

WAGE Awards Four Individual Research Awards Related to Globalization

The UW–Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce the winners of our 2009 Individual Research Award competition. WAGE will provide support to four research projects that explore the consequences of and challenges posed by economic globalization and its governance. Four faculty, Menzie Chinn (Public Affairs and Economics) , …

Organizing a World of Knowledge [Inside Higher Education]

By Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Education At “globalized” universities, mapping can be a challenge – mapping where and in what forms international connections and research can be found on a campus. But try mapping what’s happening across multiple universities and you could end up – as a dozen researchers recently did – with 10,000+ pages …

The Illinois – WUN International Development Grant Program

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are invited to apply to WUN at UIUC for up to $15K for participation in new WUN collaborations. The deadline is May 1. UW–Madison collaborators of UIUC researchers may want to encourage their partners to apply. The Division of International Programs and Studies (IPS) at the University of …