University of Wisconsin–Madison
Would you like to develop or enhance your skills in the area of global health? The UW–Madison Center for Global Health invites graduate and health professions students and mid-career professionals to consider applying for the Certificate in Global Health, a collaborative offering of UW faculty from the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Nursing, Pharmacy, …
Wisconsin State Journal (March 20, 2010) — When Suzanne Dove graduated from West High School in 1987, she vowed never to come back to Madison to live. The daughter of respected UW–Madison McArdle Laboratory cancer researchers William Dove and Alexandra Shedlovsky Dove, Suzanne went off to see the rest of the world. For nearly 20 …
UW–MADISON NEWS (March 22, 2010) — The University of Wisconsin–Madison will continue to be a national leader in language learning with the recent award of nearly $1 million from the National Security Education Program to establish an undergraduate Russian Flagship Center. The three-year grant will establish an innovative program to promote advanced language learning, giving …
The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) at UW–Madison encourages you to apply for the International Collaboration Travel Awards for 2010-2011. The deadline is April 18, 2010. All UW–Madison faculty, academic staff, and graduate students are invited to apply for grants designed to facilitate international research collaboration. These grants will support travel to meet with a WUN …
To celebrate National Peace Corps Week, the University of Wisconsin–Madison held a series of activities during the first week of March to honor the work of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) and to learn more about the Peace Corps program at UW–Madison. The week was also intended to support new volunteers and provide information for …
The Global Legal Studies Center is pleased to announce an outreach workshop for attorneys, policy makers, state agencies, civil society groups, and other interested groups on: Beyond Copenhagen: Climate Change and Wisconsin Monday, March 22, 2010, 2:45-5:45 p.m. Lubar Commons, 7200 Law, UW Law School *CLE Credit for Wisconsin Attorneys Pending Registration is free. Speakers : …
Earlier this month, a delegation of leaders from China’s Anhui Province traveled to Wisconsin and met with UW–Madison faculty and Division of International Studies‘ staff to discuss a future partnership. Through a close business colleague living in Milwaukee, the delegation connected with the Wisconsin Department of Commerce and arranged a visit to the state to …
The Division of International Studies has hired Maj Fischer to serve as the first managing director of the International Internship Program (IIP) at UW–Madison. IIP is a campus-wide, centralized international internship office funded by the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates (MIU) and was proposed jointly by the Division and the Office of Corporate Relations. The International …
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Gilson Global Impact Series Presents: From Haiti to Rwanda: Engineering Innovations for Revolutionizing Third World Housing and Infrastructure — Tuesday, March 23, 2010 On January 12, 2010, an earthquake in Haiti showed the world how devastation by a natural disaster is magnified by poorly constructed housing and unplanned infrastructure. Today, innovative …
UW–Madison News – A group of University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have organized a teach-in on Afghanistan and Pakistan to be held on campus next weekend, March 19 and 20. “During the Vietnam War, teach-ins added needed critical information to the public discourse,” says Joseph Elder, a UW–Madison professor of sociology and languages and cultures of …