HILLDALE UNDERGRADUATE/FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND HOLSTROM ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARSHIPS provide support for collaborative research between undergraduate students and faculty or research/instructional academic staff members. Each provides a grant of $3,000 to the student and $500 to the faculty/staff mentor to help offset research costs. At time of application mentors can ask for up to an additional …
Blizzards are bad. Hurricanes are worse. But when it comes to killing power, no weather packs the punch of a heat wave, according to the numbers that Richard Keller has crunched. Read more.
Wisconsin faculty, students, and alumni participated in “Changing Course,” symposium on October 12, 2012, jointly hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison African Studies Program, the Department of African Languages and Literature, and the Language Institute. Organizers were pleased to welcome experts from around the country, including John Mugane, Professor of the Practice of African Languages …
The Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has put together a helpful resource for students looking for summer African language programs. One document includes a list of overseas African language programs that FLAS students have attended in the past, and the other includes Summer 2013 domestic and international programs. Prospective FLAS …
The competition for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships and awards at UW–Madison is now open. The African Studies Program encourages students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2013 and Academic Year 2013-2014 fellowships and awards. Application deadline is February 15, 2013. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education …
The African Languages Initiative (AFLI) offers Boren Fellowship applicants the opportunity to study African languages and cultures by participating in domestic and overseas language programs. The African Languages Initiative funding is available for Boren Scholars and Fellows to study one of the following languages at the University of Florida’s summer 2013 program prior to commencing …
The unthinkable is Scott Straus’ stock-in-trade. The barbarity and righteous conceit that spawns genocide is his research focus, and Straus, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is using his expertise to help agencies throughout the U.S. government better understand the causes of genocide and ways to prevent atrocity around the globe. Read …
From the Division of International Studies Fatima Sadiqi, who founded a women’s NGO working on family law reforms and women’s rights in her native Morocco, will speak on “North African Women’s Rights in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring” as this year’s J. Jobe Soffa and Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Distinguished International Visitor. Sadiqi, a professor …
Each semester hundreds of students enroll in the course, Africa: An Introductory Survey which is cross-listed in African Languages and Literature, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology. Graduate students with teach experience are encouraged to apply for two open TA positions in Spring 2013. Instructor: Michael Schatzberg, Political Science Eligibility: Applicants must …
The applications for the 2013-2014 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available. Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations. Is …