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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…
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Iris International Film Series
Please join the UW IRIS for the first annual Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) international film series! As part of this year’s International Education Week programming, IRIS along with its regional centers and the International Division, will be showing a series of international films. Several of the selected films have a UW-Madison connection (faculty, students…
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Global Health Tuesday: Quality Improvement
Lori DiPrete Brown, GHI associate director for Education and Engagement, has spent decades collaborating to bring the principles of quality improvement to underserved communities and organizations to improve health and well-being for all. She advocates for a culture of quality and documentable progress. She is director of the annual GHI Quality Improvement Leadership Institute, and…