SKJ & Graduate Summer Fieldwork Award information session on W 2/8 @ 3pm

There will be an information session for students interested in applying for the IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award and/or the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship for Summer 2017 on Wednesday, February 8 @ 3pm in 206 Ingraham Hall. If you’re a continuing graduate student at UW–Madison planning on conducting fieldwork abroad during the summer field season …

IRIS Summer Fieldwork Award & Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship competitions accepting applications for Summer 2017

We have opened the online application for the 2017 competitions for both the IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award and the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship. These awards are for graduate students (in any department) planning on conducting research outside the United States during the summer 2017 field season. The deadline to submit applications is March 3, …

Fulbright-Hays DDRA 2017 competition is open

The 2017 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) competition is open. The deadline for submission of a complete application, including all supporting documents, is 9:00 am, Monday, March 13, 2017. The campus deadline is the final deadline for student applicants. Go to https://iris.wisc.edu/funding/students/ddra/ for information on the application process & campus documents. The Fulbright-Hays DDRA …

Center for South Asia Receives Educational Innovations Grant

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 …

College of Menominee Nation Partnership

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 …

International Research and Training Grants for Incoming Graduate Students competition open to campus units

The purpose of the International Research and Training Grants for Incoming Graduate Students is to assist campus units recruit strong incoming internationally- or area-studies-oriented graduate students in all fields. Grants of $5k are offered to prospective graduate students as an inducement to study at Wisconsin. Any UW–Madison unit that admits graduate students may nominate prospective students that …

2017 Incubator Grant competition now open

The UW–Madison’s International Division, working through its Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), announces a competition for small grants designed to facilitate interdisciplinary research in international or regional studies by UW–Madison faculty members across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Awards will be $10-50k & all UW–Madison faculty & academic staff with permanent PI …

Meet Visiting Professor Thierry Cruvellier

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 …