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• High school teachers leave for Rwanda on UW-Madison Fulbright grant June 30, 2009 This week, the University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies Program is taking 15 high school social studies teachers and curriculum planners from across the United States to Rwanda for 30 days.
• Projected food, energy demands seen to outpace production June 25, 2009 With the caloric needs of the planet expected to soar by 50 percent in the next 40 years, planning and investment in global agriculture will become critically important, according a new report released today (June 25).
• UW-Madison recommends against nonessential travel to Mexico April 29, 2009 Chancellor Biddy Martin has endorsed recommendations of the campus International Emergency Response Committee (IERC), advising against all university travel to Mexico until further notice. This is in alignment with the travel warning issued on April 27 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• UW-Madison announces Brazil Initiative April 20, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Brazil Initiative will bring faculty and alumni together with private foundations, Wisconsin businesses and state agencies to help the state better understand and engage with this emerging global economy.
• UW-Madison to sign historic agreement with Iraqi university March 27, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is preparing to sign a historic agreement with one of the foremost institutions of higher education in Iraq.
• Israel Film Festival presented at UW-Madison Feb. 26, 2009 Cinematic visions of Tel Aviv will be the focus of the 2009 Israel Film Festival, which kicks off at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Sunday, March 1.
• IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole Feb. 25, 2009 As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011.
• Japanese public TV films Innovation Day inventors at UW-Madison Feb. 24, 2009 A film crew representing a Japanese public broadcast station will be on the College of Engineering campus on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26-27, to interview participants from Innovation Day, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's annual invention competition.
• New history course on U.S. ‘grand strategy’ reaches out to modern military leaders Feb. 24, 2009 If ignorance of history makes one more likely to repeat it, as the saying goes, then the stakes of historical knowledge are at their highest when involving military strategy and war.
• Lawyer to share experiences representing Guantánamo detainees Feb. 24, 2009 Jeff Colman, a 1970 history graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will visit campus Monday, March 9, and give a free public talk about his experience representing prisoners held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
• UW-Madison develops career-information systems for Singapore Feb. 23, 2009 The Singapore Ministry of Education has awarded a four-year $3.5 million contract to the Center on Education and Work (CEW) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Education for localizing CEW's WISCareers and CareerLocker online career-information systems for use in Singapore schools.
• Project explores mechanics of major earthquake faults Feb. 15, 2009 CHICAGO - Deep-sea drilling into one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet is providing the first direct look at the geophysical fault properties underlying some of the world's largest earthquakes and tsunamis. The Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) is the first geologic study of the underwater subduction zone faults that give rise to the massive earthquakes known to seismologists as mega-thrust earthquakes.
• Recent sightings: ‘World Runway’ Feb. 12, 2009
• UW-Madison explores partnerships with Iraqi university Feb. 11, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is taking the first steps toward a formal partnership with a university in Iraq.
• UW-Madison: Russell Athletic relationship will end Feb. 5, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison will end its business relationship with Russell Athletic at the expiration of its current licensing agreement in March.
• Research uncovers surprising lion stronghold in war-torn central Africa Jan. 29, 2009 Times are tough for wildlife living at the frontier between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Armies are reportedly encamped in a national park and wildlife preserve on the Congolese side, while displaced herders and their cattle have settled in an adjoining Ugandan park.
• Predicting the future spread of infectious-disease vectors Jan. 27, 2009 As global warming raises concerns about potential spread of infectious diseases, a team of researchers has demonstrated a way to predict the expanding range of human disease vectors in a changing world.
• The Wisconsin Experience in Motion: Physical Therapy in Belize Jan. 18, 2009 As part of her semester break, Dean of Students Lori Berquam has accompanied three UW-Madison faculty members and four students on a two-week service-learning trip to Punta Gorda, Belize.
• Global Health Certificate program celebrates first graduates, welcomes new students Jan. 15, 2009 Last September, 40 or so students, faculty, and staff gathered in a small conference room of the Health Sciences Learning Center for what Cindy Haq, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Global Health, called "a very special occasion."
• Student’s vision comes to life in Honduras Dec. 29, 2008 One of the failings of university learning is that the work of students is often left on the shelf. Assignments, though faithfully completed, rarely make it out of the theoretical.