Badgers who wrote for the Badgers Abroad Blog (BAB) this past semester, share their abroad experiences. John Wells John Wells graduated from UW-Madison in December of 1973. He had studied East Asian studies and taken five semesters of Japanese before deciding to start a new life in Japan. He has lived in Japan ever since, [...]
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Jenny Parker first lived and worked in Senegal as part of her Professional French Masters Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After completing her program she decided to return to Senegal. Here is what’s been going on since that time. Could you give us a little summary of how you ended up back in Senegal [...]
Jenny Parker is a student in the Professional French Masters Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As part of the program she is required to do an internship in a francophone country. Because she already spent five years in France she decided to do her internship in Senegal this year. In the following Q&A she [...]
[This article was first published in the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) fall 2009 newsletter.] By Nicole Butkovich Kraus, Department of Sociology Chain-smoking. Glancing around the room. This summer in Moscow I considered picking up these habits after finishing several interviews in which my respondent, seated across from me, spent an [...]
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A French Perspective on Madison: Q&A with Benedicte Coude By Nina Gehan UW-Madison received funds from the French Foreign Ministry’s Franco-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) and the U.S. National Science Foundation International Research Experiences for Students Panel to create and support graduate student exchanges with universities and research centers led by Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique de [...]
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An American Perspective: Q&A with Leif Brottem By Nina Gehan UW-Madison received funds from the French Foreign Ministry’s Franco-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) and the U.S. National Science Foundation International Research Experiences for Students Panel to create and support graduate student exchanges with universities and research centers led by Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique de Montpellier (Sup [...]
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The 2009 Study Abroad Fair hosted by International Academic Programs (IAP) welcomed a record number of visitors–at last count 2,500 students stopped by the tables in Memorial Union’s Great Hall to learn more about opportunities to study and intern abroad. With more than 150 programs to choose from in more than 50 countries, IAP offers [...]
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Matt Landis received a Global Health Certificate while earning is Master of Population Health at UW-Madison. He spent five weeks in Uganda working with the AIDS Support Organization as part of his education. After earning his degree in 2005, Matt worked for two years as a population health fellow in the Wisconsin Department of Health [...]
By Kate O’Connor Educational Policy Studies Master’s program Having spent some time working and living in Ecuador, Guatemala, and Botswana, I could not ignore the disparities in quality of life and resources between my life in Canada and the lives of the people I met and saw during my travels and time abroad. The connections [...]
Kristy Kelly recently returned from 14 months in Vietnam, where she was supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship. Kristy is currently a dissertator in Educational Policy Studies where she specializes in Gender and International Comparative Education. My dissertation looks at the context in which gender trainings are taking place, and the transformative potential [...]
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-By Fulbright student John Pederson August 2008 The tipping point was when a 10th grader asked me who movie star Mel Gibson is and whether he actually is, as the “Cool News” section of her textbook stated, “the most beautiful man in the world.” No joke. The headline actually read: “Mel Gibson: The Most Beautiful [...]
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“Learning, reading, recitation, the ancient books are all corrupt…” (Dharwadker, 2003) This saying, attributed to the 15th century Indian poet-saint named Kabir, would seem to throw a cloud over all academic ventures, not least of the entire research trip I am currently engaged in. But rather than spending all of my time in India in [...]
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It’s New Year’s Eve in Cagayan de Oro, a city of 500,000 people on one of largest of the Philippine archipelago’s 7,107 islands. The pops and bangs of firecrackers join the usual jeepney honks and tricycle engine drones to make for a noisy night. The ubiquitous gun-toting security guard sits outside my hotel smoking a [...]
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by UW-Madison student Catherine Skroch Read more about Catherine’s Adventures in Africa. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I am majoring in Political Science, International Studies, and an individual major in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. I came to Senegal knowing that I wanted to research the little-known conflict in the southern region of Casamance. Frankly, [...]
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