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Chinese students, scholars set to ring in New Year

January 30, 2006

Legend has it that Buddha invited all the animals to meet him on the first day of the New Year. Only a dozen came. Buddha assigned a year to each of the twelve, and announced that people born in a particular year would assume some of the characteristics of its animal. Read More

UW-Madison ranks as top-producing Peace Corps institution

January 30, 2006

Alumni of UW–Madison and the Peace Corps continue to have a strong historical bond. Since the program's inception in 1961, UW–Madison has produced thousands of volunteers. And today, for the 20th consecutive year, UW–Madison takes the top spot, with 104 volunteers currently serving in the field. Read More

Canada and Canada-U.S. relations will get spotlight Feb. 1-2

January 25, 2006

Canada, the world's second-largest country in total area, and Wisconsin's most important international trading partner, will be the focus of a series of talks and a film on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 1-2, at UW–Madison. Read More

Australian consul-general to visit campus

January 24, 2006

Bob Charles, Australia's consul-general in Chicago, will visit UW–Madison on Jan. 31 and meet with the chancellor, the dean of international studies, as well as students, faculty and staff. Read More

New course explores the ubiquitous vampire legend

January 18, 2006

About 30 undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will get a ... taste ... of how cultures spread through one of the world's most potent and long-lived icons. Read More

New international courses attract wide range of students

January 17, 2006

Several new international studies courses will be offered at UW–Madison in spring 2006, reflecting new faculty scholarship at the university as well as increased student interest in a wide range of international studies courses. Read More

McCoy book chosen as first in ‘Beyond our Borders’ series

January 17, 2006

Alfred McCoy’s “A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror” will lead the next “World Beyond our Borders” series, sponsored by the International Institute and Borders book store. Read More

Hip-hop from Africa performs at Union Theater

January 17, 2006

In Wolof, a language of Senegal, “Daara J” means “school of life.” It also means socially conscious political hip-hop in Senegal, thanks to the efforts of the band Daara J. Madison will be able to hear what hip-hop sounds like in Senegal as the trio performs at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28, in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Read More

Author explores CIA connections to torture tactics

January 9, 2006

A professor of history at the UW–Madison has authored a book available this month that explores evidence of a 50-year legacy of U.S. government-sponsored forms of psychological torture. Read More

A mystery mineral collection finds a way home

January 9, 2006

The old wooden cigar box was left on the museum doorstep. Inside was a small collection of minerals, a piece of petrified wood, a prehistoric stone knife, and some loose antique labels. But the box also harbored a puzzle. Where did the collection come from? To whom did the minerals belong? Read More

As Amazon’s tree line recedes, malaria-wielding mosquitoes buzz in

January 3, 2006

Scientists have long known that chronic deforestation can spawn a jungle of environmental woes. But now, a study confirms that vanishing forests inflict more than environmental damage: they may cause human diseases, too. Read More

Cooperatives providing an economic lifeline

December 28, 2005

Come January, UW–Madison Professor Ann Hoyt will once more head to the nation of Ghana in Sub-Saharan Africa, to continue her work of documenting consumer cooperatives around the globe. Read More

UW-Madison views on the tsunami anniversary

December 20, 2005

A number of faculty, students and alumni of UW–Madison have keen, firsthand perspectives on the anniversary of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, based on recent trips to the region and assistance with relief efforts. Read More

African political cartoons have a subversive edge

December 14, 2005

Teju Olaniyan, professor of English and African languages and literature and a fellow this semester at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, is working on a book about a particular form of subversion: the political cartoon. Read More

UW forges new ties with Indian educators, researchers

December 8, 2005

The president of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, announced today an unprecedented research and education collaboration between the Indian government, several Indian universities, three international corporations and 15 U.S. universities, including UW–Madison. Read More

New maps reveal the human footprint on Earth

December 5, 2005

As global populations swell, farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. As a result, agricultural activity now dominates more than a third of the Earth's landscape and has emerged as one of the central forces of global environmental change, say scientists at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. Read More

Gift to establish project on Judaism and the arts

November 30, 2005

The Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at UW–Madison will be expanding its mandate under a major grant from Marvin and Mildred Conney. Read More

Singapore Film Festival showcases culture through cinema

November 16, 2005

The work of up-and-coming filmmakers from Singapore will be featured at the 2005 Singapore Film Festival. Read More

Latino writers illustrate different styles, cultures in forum

November 16, 2005

A trio of Hispanic writers representing a variety of Latino cultures will bring their distinctive, powerful voices to a reading forum at Madison’s Overture Center for the Arts on Tuesday, Nov. 29. Read More

Third World bears brunt of global warming impacts

November 16, 2005

A team of health and climate scientists at UW–Madison and the World Health Organization report in the journal Nature that the growing health impacts of climate change affect different regions in markedly different ways. Ironically, the places that have contributed the least to warming the Earth are the most vulnerable to the death and disease higher temperatures can bring. Read More