University of Wisconsin–Madison
Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has awarded the Scott Kloeck Jenson Award to eight outstanding graduate students whose work will deepen international understanding and global social justice concerns. The grants given to the eight students are in memory of Scott Kloeck-Jenson and his family. Scott was completing doctoral work on rural poverty in …
The UW–Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) is pleased to announce the winners of our 2008 Individual Research Award competition. WAGE will provide $10,000 to support each of three research projects that explore the consequences of and challenges posed by economic globalization and its governance. Four faculty, Allison Christians (Law), Zhongdang …
by Renee Meiller, UW–Madison Communications University of Wisconsin–Madison nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Slaybaugh never dreamed she’d have the opportunity to chat with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist — much less several of them. Yet, from June 29 through July 4, Slaybaugh will join nearly 500 young researchers from around the world at a unique meeting …
By Masarah Van Eyck, Division of International Studies Trucks, cabs, and horse-drawn carts compete for space with pedestrians and even goats below the skyscrapers of downtown Dakar, Senegal. But passing through the iron gates into the Pasteur Institutes’ garden courtyard, one is greeted by a bust of Louis Pasteur himself and the air settles into …
By Dana Bedessem, Division of International Studies Bundled-up students file into the Paul Ebling Symposium Center with wind-burnt red cheeks and noses, brushing off the snow before finding a seat among the crowd. The auditorium is loud with chatter – mostly about the blizzard they had all just braved to make it to this special …
Kikkoman Foods Inc. will establish a research and development laboratory as well as an environmental studies scholarship in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The new lab, which will open this fall, will be located at University Research Park in Madison. It will be led by one of the company’s research scientists from its research …
CONTACT: Aseem Ansari, (608) 265-4690, ansari@biochem.wisc.edu MADISON – Although still recovering from jet lag, a group of 15 undergraduate students from India are getting situated in various labs across the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, where they will spend the summer conducting research. They are the first official participants in the university’s Khorana Scholars Program, which …
By JO ANNE KILLEEN for Onalaska Community Life Natalie Ammerman, a 2004 graduate of Holmen High School, has been accepted as part of a group of professional students to tour Uganda and help in hospitals, medical clinics and pharmacies. Ammerman, 22, is a doctor of pharmacy candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy. …
by Tom Sinclair, UW–Madison Communications A new online map makes it possible, for the first time, to track news of disease outbreaks around the world that threaten the health of wildlife, domestic animals, and people. The Global Wildlife Disease News Map was developed jointly by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). …
by Brian Mattmiller, UW–Madison Communication The 2009 Reaccreditation Project has reached a critical milestone this month with the completion of six in-depth theme reports that provide a banquet of ideas on how to protect and strengthen the future of UW–Madison. Beginning Friday, May 9, all six reaccreditation theme reports and an executive summary will be …