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WISLI Celebrates Successful Summer with Expanded Scholarships and Student Engagement

This summer, the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) concluded a season of remarkable growth and renewed commitment to language education. Offering high-quality and proficiency-driven language courses, the program welcomed more than 200 students across 19 different languages. Students came from 84 home institutions, a testament to the program’s expanding national reach. Students come to …

UW-Madison Alumni Chandler Zuo makes a difference with establishment of the new Ce-an Zuo & Chao-ming Wang Scholarship

Statistics Ph.D. student Juan Francisco Mandujano Reyes has been awarded the School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences (CDIS) Ce-an Zuo & Chao-ming Wang Scholarship.  Mandujano Reyes is the first student to receive the newly-created award, which funds academic expenses that enable student success. The $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to an international CDIS student …

Recent UW Grad, an Afghan Kurdish Poet, wins $90,000 Scholarship for Immigrants with Exceptional Potential

Through poetry, Hajjar Baban has found her voice and her calling. Her chosen field, she says, allows her to “be honest about my understanding of the world while changing and imagining new ways of being. Baban has been named one of 30 recipients of a 2021 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a …