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Connecting Landscapes: Long-term collaboration
The University of Wisconsin and University of Guadalajara (UdeG) system campuses have a long, rich history of collaboration. In the past year, a multidisciplinary team of UW scholars were fortunate enough to have had the support of an IRIS-funded grant, titled “Connecting Landscapes,” to do some targeted work with UdeG colleagues to build an even stronger platform for…
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Free Film Festival: Tales from Planet Earth
Standing Rock. Idle No More. The Landless Worker’s Movement. Across the globe, new alliances and collective actions are rising up in the struggle for the rights and sovereignty of local peoples to determine their own futures. Our 2017 festival showcases stories that inform, challenge, and inspire us to rethink relationships to land in an era…
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Connecting Landscapes: Adriana Olivares
The University of Wisconsin and University of Guadalajara (UdeG) system campuses have a long, rich history of collaboration. In the past year, a multidisciplinary team of UW scholars were fortunate enough to have had the support of an IRIS-funded grant, titled “Connecting Landscapes,” to do some targeted work with UdeG colleagues to build an even stronger platform for…
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Wisconsin Science Festival
The four-day Wisconsin Science Festival is a statewide celebration with events across Wisconsin for people of all ages. 285+ events include hands-on science exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, tours, pub nights, workshops and more. The Wisconsin Science Festival received the Key of Excellence Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 2014 for “blending science with both the arts and humanities…
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Undergraduate Global Health Field Course Fair
Interested in learning about how to improve the health of people, all life and the environment without necessarily practicing medicine? Would you like to know what makes people healthy in different communities—and learn from different cultures and experts around the world about the determinants of health? Are you wondering how to complete the field course…