UW-Madison among leaders in recruiting Peace Corps volunteers
With 69 Badger alumni currently serving in 34 countries, the University of Wisconsin–Madison continues its tradition as one of the nation’s top producers of Peace Corps volunteers.
With 69 Badger alumni currently serving in 34 countries, the University of Wisconsin–Madison continues its tradition as one of the nation’s top producers of Peace Corps volunteers.
The Center for Climatic Research in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies hosts the UW-Madison Climate Change Symposium March 5 and 6 in the Genetics-Biotech Auditorium. Steve Long, director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation RIPE Project, presents keynote lectures at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5, and 1:35 p.m. Friday, March 6. He is …
DEADLINE EXTENDED for Abstracts for Global Health Symposium 2015. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SUBMITTING FORMS AVAILABLE.
Dr. Hannah Kirking, who earned her bachelor’s and medical degrees at the UW-Madison, is an epidemic intelligence service officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She works on the front lines of public health, conducting epidemiological investigations, research and public health surveillance across the world. She is in the International Research …
3 p.m. Workshop, Multicultural Student Center Classroom Participants will write under-told, boundary-pushing, life saving stories from their bodies’ fierce wisdom and resilience, to create the deeply necessary stories we need to share the truths of how we’re keeping on living and the amazing lives we’re making. Space is limited! Secure your spot at msc.wisc.edu.register 7 p.m. Performance & Talk-Back, Multicultural Student Center …
Global health at home: Albanian born med student creates a free health clinic in Milwaukee to bridge language gap.
Andrew Foster, director of the Brown University Population Studies and Training Center, discusses a 40-year panel data set in Matlab, Bangladesh. He will look at the implications of living arrangement fluidity for evaluating health policy and programs. The event is free and open to all. Brown is an empirical micro economist with interests in areas …
Chancellor Blank highlights the 4W Initiative during her budget presentation to the UW regents.
The Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health is among the success stories for the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates.
Professor Alta Charo talks to Wisconsin Public Radio about how people seem to have forgotten how dangerous measles can be.