On June 15, 2022, Dr. Elise Ahn, IPO Director, along with Nathaniel Liedl, International Internships Program (IIP) Program Manager, represented the International Division at the Wisconsin Alumni Association Korea chapter’s annual meeting in Seoul, Korea. …
IPO News
IPO Staff Updates: Farewell to Gina Barbosa
IPO’s amazing Business Operations Manager of just over 4.5 years, Gina Barbosa, will be leaving IPO to a newly created administrative manager role with UW Extension on July 5, 2022. Gina has been with IPO …
IPO Staff Updates: Farewell to Kruthika Kamath
Kruthika Kamath is a Mass Communication Ph.D. student in the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Along with providing communications and editing assistance at IPO, Kruthika’s Ph.D. research features the study of the social …
UW-NU Partnership Updates
As travel began opening up, the UW-NU partnership team took the opportunity to reconnect through a delegation visit to UW (November 2021), as well as a visit to NU (May 2022).
Visit from the Embassy of Botswana for Earth Day
In partnership with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, IPO hosted a delegation from the Embassy of Botswana to the US the week of April 18, 2022. Ambassador Onkokame Kitso Mokaila participated on a panel, …
Welcome OSF CSLA Fellows!
In fall 2021, UW welcomed a second cohort of CSLA fellows to campus after having deferred a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CSLA is a scholarship for students from 17 countries across Africa, Eurasia, …
Nauryz 2022
The team @uw_ipo wishes our colleagues, friends and partners who celebrate a happy Nauryz 2022! Поздравляем с праздником Наурыз! Наурыз мейрамы құтты болсын! Navruz Muborak!
Bringing the Wisconsin Idea to Yemen
Representatives from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Engineers Without Borders International (EWB), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) held a webinar on June 23 with attendees from around the world to discuss their recent cooperation in Yemen to fight the …
Discussing the Global Impact of UW–Madison
From April 15–17, the Wisconsin Alumni Association organized the 50-year anniversary of the UW Class of 1970 and invited members of the International Division to participate in a panel discussing UW’s global impact. The virtual …
Uzbekistan Education Roundtable 2021
On April 7, 2021, Dr. Elise Ahn, Director, IPO, participated in a roundtable hosted by the U.S. Department of Commerce in partnership with the Uzbekistan Ministry of Higher and Secondary-Specialized Education to discuss UW–Madison’s current …