Category State & Global
UW-Madison explores its global scope during International Education Week
Whether through study abroad programs, international teaching and research collaborations, language study opportunities, or the thousands of students from around the world who benefit from our campus every year, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is truly a global university.
WISC-TV to air series on UW–Madison alumnus, Nazi resister
This week, WISC-TV (News 3) will take an in-depth look at Milwaukee native and University of Wisconsin–Madison alumnus Mildred Fish Harnack and her amazing journey into Nazi Germany-a journey that started with a chance meeting on the UW–Madison campus.
Tool-wielding chimps provide a glimpse of early human behavior
Chimpanzees inhabiting a harsh savanna environment and using bark and stick tools to exploit an underground food resource are giving scientists new insights to the behaviors of the earliest hominids who, millions of years ago, left the African forests to range the same kinds of environments and possibly utilize the same foods.
New test can curb losses of potatoes in storage
UW-Madison researcher Zahi K. Atallah has developed a test that helps farmers identify in their fields potato crops that will not store as long as others, resulting in fewer crop losses.
Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis
The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed world, according to a new study.
Speaker to discuss environmental justice in Latino communities
Devon Pena, a scholar-activist who has studied social and environmental issues in Mexican-American communities of the West, will give a free public lecture Monday, Nov. 12, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Panel to highlight global perspectives on education
A group of doctoral students will offer global perspectives on education in "Schooling Around the World: Sights, Sounds, Stories and Travels," a special program sponsored by the Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Wednesday, Nov. 14, to mark International Education Week.
Panel highlights global perspectives on education
A group of doctoral students will offer global perspectives on education in “Schooling Around the World: Sights, Sounds, Stories and Travels,” a program sponsored by the Department of Educational Policy Studies on Wednesday, Nov. 14, to mark International Education Week.
Wildfire drives carbon levels in northern forests
Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests - one of the largest ecosystems on earth - act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels.
Researchers examine world’s potential to produce biodiesel
What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
UW–Madison a top producer of U.S. Fulbright students
University of Wisconsin–Madison students fared well in landing international fellowships with The Fulbright Program, which announced its 2007-2008 fellows list in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education.
Grant from Thai Embassy boosts Thai studies
The Royal Thai Embassy has granted University of Wisconsin–Madison's Center for Southeast Asian Studies nearly $100,000 to support the university's Thai studies program.
Is a strike on Iran inevitable? Iran expert to speak on campus
News reports from Washington, D.C. and Tehran differ on the reasons why the U.S. may seek to attack Iran in the coming months. Neither country disputes the fact, however, that Iran is next on the list of targets in President Bush's "War on Terror."
Iran expert to speak in Madison
UW-Madison will host one of the country’s experts on Iran at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, for the speech “Is a U.S. Military Strike on Iran Inevitable?”
Researchers examine world’s potential to produce biodiesel
What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Festival to showcase environmental films in November
From travelogue-expedition films to the experimental avant-garde and the worlds of Walt Disney and Jacques Cousteau, cinema has been central to how we think about nature and the environment.
Two deans’ reviews begin
Reviews are under way for School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Daryl Buss and Division of International Studies Dean Gilles Bousquet.
Washington Post editor Chandrasekaran to give annual Nafziger lecture
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," the best-selling account of the botched U.S. effort to rebuild Iraq, will deliver the annual Ralph O. and Monona H. Nafziger Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 17.