University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scott Straus, Professor of Political Science and International Studies at UW–Madison, was appointed as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by President Barack Obama at the end of December. The Council, which established and serves as the Board of Trustees for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, plays an important role in …
The Center for South Asia and the South Asia Summer Language Institute is pleased to announce that our project was selected for a UW–Madison Educational Innovations grant of $10,000! This support will supplement costs associated with designing an Elementary Hindi blended course in Canvas and PressBooks. The development of these blended course materials, led by …
On December 5, 2016 in Keshena, WI, members of the UW academic community and the Menominee Nation came together for the final meeting of a sustainable development and indigeneity seminar that ran last fall. The seminar was presented by the College of Menominee Nation (CMN) and the Sustainable Development Institute in collaboration with the University …
During the Fall 2016 semester, the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosted noted journalist and author Thierry Cruvellier as a visiting lecturer. Mr. Cruvellier has spent much of his career covering war crimes trials and has attended all of the international tribunals of the post-Cold War era. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2003-04, and …