Category State & Global
For plastics knowledge, India looks to UW–Madison engineers
One of the oldest and most respected polymer engineering research and educational programs in the United States is contributing its expertise to a new plastics university in India.
Committee to assess the organization of international studies at UW–Madison
A committee with representatives from across campus is meeting to evaluate the way international studies are governed and organized at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Students encouraged to register to be Badger Volunteers
The semester-long Badger Volunteers program offers UW–Madison students the training and support they need in order to provide meaningful public service to the Madison community.
Researchers outline food security, climate change road map
While last month's meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture's climate footprint, a group of international agriculture experts urges scientists to lay the groundwork for more decisive action on global food security in environmental negotiations in 2012.
Big Ten Network series to air
The Big Ten Network will debut "Impact the World," a powerful new original series that shifts the focus from the playing fields to the world stage, beginning Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8:30 p.m. (CST).
Workshop to prepare teachers to make stronger case for French language
They teach what Bloomberg Rankings has identified as the third-most-important business language in the world, after English and Mandarin. Yet, as budgets for public education continue to tighten, teachers of French are struggling to keep their programs off the chopping block in Wisconsin and across the United States.