The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s profound impact on Wisconsin’s economy, one that totals $12.4 billion annually, is detailed in a new report that underscores the importance of the university to the state’s economic well being.
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural cohort, a second group of elite Chinese student-athletes will arrive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, March 31, as part of the Chinese Champions Program.
Sixteen accomplished Chinese student-athletes, including one coach, will spend nearly nine months living and studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With a few quick, deft movements of mouse and keyboard, Jim Beaudoin reorganized voting in Columbia County.
Due to changing and uncertain conditions in Japan, International Academic Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has suspended its study abroad programs through spring semester in that troubled island nation. As Japan faces a variety of daunting challenges from an earthquake, tsunami and damaged nuclear reactors, UW-Madison officials on Thursday advised students to leave Japan …
Michael Corradini, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of engineering physics, is an expert on nuclear power and nuclear safety. He can discuss aspects of nuclear power and reactor safety as they relate to the events at the Fukushima power plant in Japan.
In the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami, UW-Madison has confirmed the safety of all of its students studying in Japan.
Hundreds are confirmed dead and thousands without shelter or power after an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude, and resulting tsunami, near the Japanese island of Honshu. These University of Wisconsin-Madison experts can provide context and analysis for interested media. Harold Tobin, a marine geophysicist at UW-Madison, is an expert on large underwater earthquake processes and the …
Confronting the world’s urgent challenges — in some of today’s most forbidding regions — will be explored by a United Nations deputy chief in a series of campus presentations Thursday, Feb. 24. Balasubramaniam Murali is a 15-year veteran of the U.N., helping lead the South and West Asia Division of the Development Programme and serving …
As events in Egypt continue to make headlines around the world, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is organizing to bring the discussion to campus. The Division of International Studies, the African Studies Program and the Middle East Studies Program will host a roundtable discussion on the mass protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his government.
StoryCorps, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison from March 24-26 as part of “Peace Corps and Africa: 50 Years,” an event honoring and assessing a half-century of volunteer service.
State secrets, information freedom, and technology’s contentious role in democracy will be probed by three UW-Madison professors Thursday, Feb. 10 at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
For the 11th year in a row, UW-Madison has placed in the top tier of the Peace Corps’ nationwide list of large schools producing Peace Corps volunteers.
If ever there were a novel approach to a global health issue, Caitilyn Allen may have found it in a radio drama produced by the Ugandan agricultural extension.
Note: As of 5:30 p.m. CST today, Monday, Jan. 31, the students in Alexandria had left the airport and were en route to Prague on their way back to the United States. In light of escalating political unrest, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has indefinitely suspended its study abroad programs in Egypt. Six UW-Madison students had …
UW-Madison has faculty familiar with Egypt who can discuss its people and the current unrest in the country: Dustin Carell Cowell, professor and chair of the Department of African Languages and Literature, has lived and worked in Cairo. Contact: dccowell@wisc.edu, 608-335-4894 (cell). Adel Talaat, associate professor of pathobiological sciences in the School of Veterinary …
A new television feature show produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison will showcase the success of the Chinese Champions Program for a Big Ten Network audience.
Thirteen students from around the world have converged at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to be part of a one-of-a-kind experience as the inaugural class of the Wisconsin Real Estate Program’s Global Real Estate Master’s program (GREM).
Things couldn’t have gone better for Wisconsin corn and soybean producers in 2010. For milk producers, they went a lot better than they did a year ago, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists in their 2011 Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report.