University of Wisconsin–Madison
Four students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison are among more than 800 American undergraduates from 330 U.S. colleges and universities awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Each Gilman Scholar receives up to $5,000 to apply towards study abroad program costs. …
Brendan Dowling had never studied Chinese—or any other foreign language—when he received a grant to travel to China during his first year as a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After returning to Madison after his semester abroad, Dowling, of Carpentersville, Ill., enrolled in several Chinese courses. In fact, he enjoyed it so much that …
The Russian Flagship Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has received more than $265,000 for student scholarships from the National Security Education Program in the U.S. Department of Defense to support intensive language study in Russia and at UW–Madison during the summer 2014 and the 2014-15 academic year. This is in addition to $160,000 in …
Kaylah Cruz Herrera posed a couple of questions to her young audience at Madison’s Toki Middle School: Where do you want to go to study abroad? What language do you want to learn? Herrera, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, prompted the sixth and seventh graders, one by one, to respond. A few declined, …
Audrey Hanson’s family and friends in the United States didn’t have to wait for her to return from Ghana to learn about her challenging, yet exhilarating six-hour trek straight uphill to Wli Falls, the highest waterfall in West Africa. While studying abroad during the spring of 2013, Hanson kept a blog, Going to Ghana, which …
Seven University of Wisconsin–Madison students are among more than 1,100 undergraduates from 358 colleges and universities across the United States awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, for study abroad during the summer of 2014. Each Gilman Scholar receives up to …
Nine University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduates are receiving David L. Boren Scholarships to fund their study abroad during the 2014-15 academic year. Also, one UW–Madison graduate student is receiving a Boren Fellowship, which supports dissertation research and language study. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are sponsored by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), a federal initiative designed …
Watch for the possibilities. Joe Elder offers that piece of advice to students preparing to embark soon on a variety of international programs, experiences that will take them far from the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The students, along with parents, family and friends, and university staff, packed the Pyle Center’s Alumni Lounge on April 17 …
Being able to share her study abroad experience with other students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison “made it that much more meaningful for me, because I began to feel like what I had to say and what I experienced abroad had value,” says Kiana Murphy. Murphy, a junior majoring in English and creative writing, studied …
As noon approached, the seats in Ingraham Hall, Room 206 – a frequent venue for scholarly lectures on international topics – filled quickly. This audience had come to hear a speaker who easily could deliver a extensive series of academic talks, but, on this day, they had come to celebrate the individual, his distinguished career …