University of Wisconsin–Madison
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: Friday, September 9, 2005 Contact: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu UGANDAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER TO DELIVER SOFFA LECTURE Madison, WI – Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, a human rights leader, peace activist and director of Isis-Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange (Isis -WICCE), will be this year’s J. …
Speaking at the Rotary Club of Madison on August 10, 2005, UW–Madison history professor Jeremi Suri, who is affiliated with the International Institute, marked the 60th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with observations on the bombings and nuclear proliferation. For more, see the link to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal. …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 9, 2005 CONTACT: Elizabeth Covington, Associate Director, European Union Center of Excellence, eecovington@wisc.edu EUROPEAN UNION CENTER AT UW-MADISON WINS MAJOR GRANT TO BECOME CENTER OF EXCELLENCE Madison, WI – UW–Madison’s European Union Center has successfully vied for a renewal grant from the European Commission, an award of 300,000 euros (approx. $365,000) …
Madison, WI – A distinguished UW–Madison alumnus who until recently was secretary-general of the World Federation of United Nations Associations will be on campus at the end of September to meet with faculty and students, and give a public talk on international law. James Baker Sitrick, chairman of the executive committee of the international law …
UW–Madison’s Global Studies program has awarded seven Scott Kloeck-Jenson Pre-Dissertation Travel Awards and three Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Internship Awards to outstanding graduate students whose work is expected to foster international understanding and serve social justice concerns around the globe. The grants are awarded in memory of the UW–Madison graduate student who died in South Africa …
Nursing professor Linda Baumann, whose interests range from sailing to nurses’ training in developing countries to her neighborhood’s exercise group, says she has learned to “do what you love to do until the end of your life.” Baumann has been training nurses in developing countries for more than 20 years while also putting her interests …
Through a unique partnership, UW–Madison has helped South Africa build and fund SALT, the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest telescope in the hemisphere. The partnership is featured in WisBusiness.com http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=41914
Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountain top near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronmers released the first images captured by SALT.
Following the success of last year’s World Music Festival, this year’s festival will be held on campus from Thursday, Sept. 15-Saturday, Sept. 17. http://www.union.wisc.edu/worldmusicfest/
Clearing — or perhaps roiling — the murky and often contentious waters of Mesoamerican archeology, a study of 3,000-year-old pottery provides new evidence that the Olmec may not have been the mother culture after all. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists led by UW–Madison archeologist James Stoltman …