Saudi Arabia will send 25 scholars to Wisconsin this month to be trained by University of Wisconsin-Whitewater experts in faculty mentoring. The program involves two-weeks of training in Milwaukee for personnel of King Abdulaziz University, who will come to the United States to further their skills in helping young Saudi faculty members become more effective in their jobs. The university, located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has 40,000 students and about 2,300 staff members...
A University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor has accepted a top job with the Food and Drug Administration. R. Alta Charo will work as a senior adviser in the Office of the Commissioner starting Aug. 30. Charo is a national expert on bioethics, including the ethics of embryonic stem cell research...
About 60 young people and their families were honored Tuesday at the Eagles Nest Supper Club in Green Bay, as Upward Bound held its end-of-summer student banquet. The event marked the close of an annual six-week, rigorous academic program that gives the high school-aged participants a taste of college life. Karen Lincoln Michel of the Green Bay Press-Gazette caught up with Michael Casbourne, director of TRIO and Precollege Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, to learn more about what Upward Bound does year-round for students...
The number of Hmong students at local colleges has more than tripled in the past 16 years as schools have reached out to minorities and traditions within the Asian community have evolved. About 9 percent, or 126 of the University of Wisconsin Marathon County's students last year, were Hmong, a dramatic change from 1993, when just eight Hmong students were enrolled at UWMC...
