UWINTERNATIONAL - Wisconsin Alumni Association

More documents

Recommendations

Info

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 2 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.
Global Health continued from page 1. The center promotes interdisciplinary education, research and partnerships for global health. Through these efforts the center will enhance the capacity of health professionals to address issues that transcend national boundaries and to better serve the increasingly diverse populations of Wisconsin. Recognizing the need to take education beyond the classroom, the Center for Global Health promotes innovative field-based courses, such as Language, Culture and Community Health in Ecuador, in which students go to rural Ecuador for six weeks to learn Spanish, anthropology and principles of traditional and western medicine, or Health and Disease in Uganda, in which students study the impact of such problems as infectious disease, AIDS and malnutrition in the setting in which they occur. Students and faculty return profoundly moved by these experiences. Currently, the development of courses in Thailand, Mexico and other sites is under way. Further, the center has developed a Global Health Certificate program that will be offered at UW- Madison beginning in the fall of 2006. The program offers an academic core, mentorship and a global health field experience. It will be open to graduate students and mid-career professionals in health-related fields. News from UW-Madison (Above left) Dr. Cindy Haq (left), Director of the UW-Madison Center for Global Health, spent a semester advising and teaching in Uganda in spring of 2005. (Above right) Professor Chris Olsen of the School of Veterinary Medicine is part of the interdisciplinary team that teaches a course on culture and community health in Ecuador. Opportunities for Alumni Involvement There are many opportunities for alumni to get involved in the work of the center. Those with global health expertise are encouraged to contact the center about opportunities to collaborate in field activities and provide mentorship to UW students, while those wishing to develop expertise can participate in the Capstone Certificate in Global Health. Alumni can also register as Global Health Affiliates. Affiliates receive notification about seminars of interest and the annual global health symposium, and they strengthen the growing UW global health network through their participation. For more information, visit pophealth.wisc.edu/gh. 3
Page 1: UW INTERNATIONAL Alumni For the UW
Page 5 and 6: Student Perspective Fourth Place: J
Page 7 and 8: I-Exchange: An E-mail Conversation

UWINTERNATIONAL - Wisconsin Alumni Association

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?