University of Wisconsin-Madison
The competitions for the 2018 IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award and Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship are open! These awards are for graduate students @ UW–Madison (in any department) planning on conducting research outside the United States during the summer 2018 field season (you can apply for fieldwork outside the summer months too). The deadline to …
by Felecia Lucht, Director, WISLI Each summer, around 200 undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, and other non-traditional students from across the country come to Madison to study a language at the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI). WISLI offers high-quality language courses in 29 less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) through five institutes: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Language Immersion …
by Omar Dumdum, IRIS Project Assistant A top official from one of the world’s largest multilateral development banks visited UW–Madison on January 25 and gave a lecture on the changing landscape for development in the Asia-Pacific region. Bart Édes, who sits as representative of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) North American Office, said that while …