UWINTERNATIONAL - Wisconsin Alumni Association

What’s Up
Dear Badger Alumni,
The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is an international
alliance of world-class universities designed to foster
collaborative research and teaching in interdisciplinary areas
of global significance. In 2006, UW-Madison is engaged in
more than a dozen multiple-site projects on topics that range
from bench science to field science to social science to the
humanities. It is my pleasure to inform you that Chancellor
John Wiley MS’65, PhD’68 will be in the United Kingdom in late May to not
only attend the annual board meeting of WUN but also to meet with UW-
Madison alumni in the area. Alumni are invited to gather with the chancellor,
his wife Georgia, Dean of International Studies Gilles Bousquet, Vice President
Karen Crossley of the UW Foundation, other friends and myself at a reception
in London, on Friday, May 26, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, see
uwalumni.com/international. It will be my great pleasure to see you there!
Kind regards,
Paula Bonner MS’78
President/CEO
Wisconsin Alumni Association
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Chancellor Visit to the United Kingdom
In late May, Chancellor John Wiley, his
wife Georgia, and Dean of International
Studies Gilles Bousquet will visit the
University of Leeds, the University
of Manchester and the University
of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
They are all enthusiastic partners with
UW-Madison in international research
and teaching. The occasion for these
visits is the annual board meeting of
the Worldwide Universities Network
(WUN), a group of 16 institutions in
Europe, China and the USA. Wiley is a
member of the board.
On May 26, the heads of the WUN
universities will gather in London to
discuss issues such as expansion of
the membership to Africa, strategies
for collaborating internationally on
research and teaching, and best
practices for internationalizing
education on each campus. At Leeds,
Wiley will meet leaders of an emerging
international network of researchers on
colonial and post-colonial migrations,
in which eight Madison faculty are
active. At Manchester, he will review
the UW’s research partnership in East
Asian studies and human geography,
and at Sheffield he will tour the Center
for Stem Cell Biology and the new
Humanities Research Institute. The
week will culminate with a reception
on May 26, when Chancellor Wiley
will share his experiences at an alumni
reception.