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Newsweek, January 26, 2009 By Jeffrey Bartholet and Daniel Stone The fact that Valerie Jarrett spent her early childhood in Iran made it easier to bond with Barack Obama. The subject came up the first time the two met, at a restaurant in the Loop area of downtown Chicago in 1991. Obama had grown up …
UW–Madison News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: January 15, 2009 CONTACT: Cindy Haq, 608-263-6546, clhaq@wisc.edu MADISON – Last September, 40 or so students, faculty, and staff gathered in a small conference room of the Health Sciences Learning Center for what Cindy Haq, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Global Health, called “a very …
By Deborah Zif for the Wisconsin State Journal University officials say there are no UW–Madison students studying in Gaza as Israeli air strikes rain down on the area. But Jennifer Loewenstein, associate director of UW–Madison’s Middle East Studies Program, said she was supposed to be there. After living in Gaza for six months in 2002, …
By Lynn F. Jacobs, Jeremy S. Hyman U.S. News & World Report Thinking you might want to study abroad? For some, it’ll prove to be one of the most rewarding, life-enhancing experiences of their college careers. For others—well, they’ll enjoy the fish and chips, but that’s about all. This week, visiting blogger Sara Dumont , director …
By Graham Spanier for The Chronicle of Higher Education The humorist Dave Barry once observed, “Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.” Here’s another take on travel …
By Valerie Figlmiller, for Madison Commons Students have recently begun to blog about their time while studying abroad to give others perspective and to emphasize the “Wisconsin Experience.” UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies publicly launched Badgers Abroad Blog recently to commemorate International Education Week, Nov. 17 – 21. The blog gives students planning to study …
By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Isobel Oliphant felt she was making an offbeat choice when she graduated from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, N.Y., and enrolled at the ancient university in this quiet coastal town of stone ruins and verdant golf courses. “I thought I was being original,” …
By Tamar Lewin, New York Times “I thought I was being original,” said Ms. Oliphant, now in her third year at the University of St. Andrews. “But my high school class president came here, too. And when I got here, it was all ‘Hi, I’m from Massachusetts,’ ‘Hi, I’m from New York.’ ” St. Andrews has …
By: Cassie Holman /The Daily Cardinal – November 24, 2008 Although the economy is declining, many UW students still find it beneficial to study abroad. Mounting the Acropolis and gazing out over the sprawling city of Athens is etched in UW–Madison senior Mike Osberg’s memory. So is combing the beaches of Normandy, basking in the sun …
By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY More U.S. students are studying abroad than ever before, and they’re choosing an increasingly diverse array of destinations, a new report says. A record 241,791 U.S. students went abroad for academic credit in 2006-07, up 8% from the previous year, and nearly 150% more than a decade earlier, the …