Graduate Student International Field Research Awards

An Initiative of the Division of International Studies The Division of International Studies is pleased to announce a competition for graduate student international field research awards. These awards would enable Ph.D. students to conduct exploratory research abroad in order to develop their dissertation topics and be more competitive for extramural fellowships. A two-step application procedure …

UW-Business News Wire: Global Talent

UW–Madison’s growing International Academic Internship program places students in businesses across the globe. By Masarah Van Eyck, UW–Madison Division of International Studies Featured on UW-Business News Wire Prairie du Chien native Megan Bender learned about more than water distribution while serving as an intern with Abbott Fund in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania last summer. The …

The Wall Street Journal: American Brain Drain

From The Wall Street Journal, 11/30/2007 One myth dogging the immigration debate is that employers are fibbing (or grossly exaggerating) when they claim that hiring foreign professionals is unavoidable because U.S.-born Ph.D.s are hard to come by. But a new report on doctorates from U.S. universities shows they’re telling the truth, and then some. Foreign-born …

Kuwaitis Tour UW For Ideas

From WMTV News 11/28/2007. Click here to watch the video. Madison: The UW campus is being used as a model for a new university in the middle east. Officials from Kuwait University were on campus Wednesday. The University of Wisconsin is one of only six American colleges being looked at as a model of what …

Ethical crisis of climate change

By Anita Clar, Wisconsin State Journal Dr. Jonathan Patz is an international authority on global warming, and it’s more than an academic study for him. At home in Madison, he has installed solar panels on his house and grocery baskets on his bicycle. He drives a Prius hybrid but bicycles to work. For Patz, who …

World Beyond Our Borders faculty reading: Jeremi Suri

Join Jeremi Suri as he reads from his recently published book, Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2007). 7 pm, Thursday, December 6 Borders Books West, 3750 University Avenue, Madison. This is an event of the Division of International Studies’ World Beyond Our Borders reading series. In Henry Kissinger and the American …

Center for Global Health Educational Travel Fellowships Awarded

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Global Health (CGH) is pleased to announce the awarding of six educational travel fellowships to UW faculty and staff members.  These grants are awarded to CGH affiliates to support international travel related to educational activities, including development for global health courses, initiation of field experiences and field research, and …

Senator Feingold’s remarks in support of international education and exchange

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SENATE PAGE S14277 Nov. 13, 2007 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK Mr. FEINGOLD.  Mr. President, in honor of the eighth annual International Education Week, which runs Monday, November 12 to 16, 2007, I would like to emphasize the importance of international education and exchange programs and the key role they play in strengthening our own …

Recent sightings: Thanksgiving tradition

From UW–Madison Communications During a Madison Friends of International Students (MFIS) Thanksgiving dinner, hosts Eng and Bill Braun (left), along with their son Paul (far left), talk with their guests, Shoji Shimomura and his wife, Manami (center); Muhamad Hafizul (far right); and Sun-Hyeh Kung (foreground right). From UW–Madison Communications During a Madison Friends of International …

Program brings students to Washington, D.C., for global experiences

by Kristin Czubkowski, UW–Madison Communications Published in Wisconsin Week. The phrase “once a Badger, always a Badger” often applies to alumni’s continued support of University of Wisconsin–Madison athletics after graduation, but in the case of at least one academic program, the Washington, D.C., Undergraduate Semester in International Affairs in the Division of International Studies, it …