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• UW-Madison has Egypt experts available for media Jan. 28, 2011
• Chinese Champions to be featured on Big Ten Network Jan. 21, 2011 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.
• UW-Madison business school welcomes international real estate students Jan. 19, 2011 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).
• Recent sightings: Board of Regents meeting Dec. 10, 2010
• Chancellor Martin's outreach to China: Why there and why now? Dec. 10, 2010
• Chinese athletes prepare to depart after successful semester Dec. 8, 2010 The 2010 Chinese Champions program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is winding up a highly successful inaugural session amid news that the innovative exchange has been extended for three additional years.
• High school students of Arabic visit UW-Madison Dec. 6, 2010 A campus visit on Wednesday, Dec. 8, by 30 high school students of Arabic will unite a U.S. Department of State program and several language and culture initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• TIP/Anthony Shadid lecture Nov. 30, 2010 11/30/10
  TO: Media representatives
  FROM: Stacy Forster, University Communications, (608) 262-0930
  RE: TIP/ANTHONY SHADID LECTURE
• UW-Madison in top 10 in national study-abroad ranking Nov. 16, 2010 Record numbers of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are earning some of their academic credit abroad, an increase that exceeds the national average. What's more, they are choosing to study in previously non-traditional destinations such as China and India.
• Chancellor Martin reflects on November Asia trip Nov. 15, 2010 Chancellor Biddy Martin recently returned from a 12-day trip to Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei and reports that the university’s presence and visibility in East Asia is continuing to grow stronger.
• International Education Week underscores importance of language, culture study Nov. 12, 2010 Coming on the heels of University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin's return from East Asia, International Education Week from Nov. 15-19 offers students, faculty and staff an opportunity to reflect on how best to prepare for careers in a fast changing, interconnected world.
• World Languages Day inspires high school students to explore Nov. 11, 2010 Since World Languages Day began in 2002, renowned professor Harold Scheub has roused the crowd with his tales of crossing the African continent in search of stories and folk tales.
• UW-Madison students aim to sustain work on island in Uganda Nov. 10, 2010 Aphids have long been a nuisance for farmers on an island in Uganda's Lake Victoria, and the harsh chemicals used to keep the bugs away usually mean a crop of small, wilted plants.
• Trove of Taiwanese classic films donated to UW-Madison Nov. 10, 2010 New 35mm prints of 30 of some of the most celebrated Chinese-language feature films have been donated to the University of Wisconsin-Madison by various film studios in Taiwan with the help of the Taiwanese government.
• Chancellor conducts TelePresence meeting from China Nov. 5, 2010 As part of her trip to China and Taiwan, Chancellor Biddy Martin helped to inaugurate a cutting-edge videoconferencing device now available to the greater UW-Madison campus community.
• UW-Madison chancellor returning to Greater China Nov. 1, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is leading a delegation of UW-Madison faculty and staff to Greater China, with stops in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei.
• Law School teams with Asian universities to award executive master’s degrees Oct. 28, 2010 The East China University of Political Science and Law and the University of Wisconsin Law School are working together to offer a program to award executive master's degrees in law.
• Nazi fighter, alumna honored in exhibit, lecture Oct. 13, 2010 Mildred Fish-Harnack, a famous University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna who was the only American executed in Nazi Germany as an underground conspirator on orders of Adolf Hitler, is being honored in an exhibit opening today (Oct. 13) and a lecture Friday, Oct. 15.
• New York Times columnist to deliver talk on Afghan war Oct. 6, 2010 New York Times columnist Bob Herbert will deliver the University of Wisconsin Law School's annual Robert W. Kastenmeier Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 21.
• 19 students receive Fulbright awards for research overseas Sept. 27, 2010 The Fulbright U.S. Student program, the country's flagship program for international exchange, has awarded fellowships to 14 University of Wisconsin-Madison students. Additionally, five students have received funding from the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program.