Four L&S faculty receive development grants

Four L&S faculty have been awarded development grants from the Provost's office. 

Congratulations to the recipients!

• Profsesor Mara Loveman (Sociology) who will use demographic methods on approaches to modeling racial and ethnic population changes
  
• Profsesor Basil Tikoff (Geoscience) who will develop syllabi for new courses designed for general science introduction for pre-service teachers
  
• Professor Gillermina De Farrari (Spanish and Portuguese) develop two new course on Caribbean literature, theory and visual culture 
• Professor Stephen Kantrowitz (History) will retrain in Native American History in order to develop an undergrad research seminar
  

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New year brings in awards, accolades

Here's a round-up of all of the recent awards and honors to faculty, staff and students in L&S:

• Four L&S faculty receive development grants
• Bement wins Kellet Mid-Career Award
  
• Anderson receives National Ground Water Association Award
• Five classified staff members receive Excellence Awards 
• Four from Hebrew Department receive Teaching Awards
• Schatzberg, Nyhart win scholarly publication awards
• Severn wins 2010 Presidential Honorary Membership for work with DARE
• Hall, von Schneidemessner named Fellows of Dictionary Society 
  

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LACIS builds partnerships abroad with "Brazil Initiative"

LACIS Director & Spanish Professor Ksenija Bilbija (aqua sweater) and Portuguese Professor Severino Albuquerque (striped shirt) have lunch for the LASA Conference in Brazil.

Ksenija Bilbija, a professor and Director of the Latin American, Carribbean and Iberian Studies Program, attended the LASA Conference in Brazil last month.

Bilbija convened a reception with UW-Madison alumni living and working Brazil for the "Brazil Initiative."

The initaitive - an interdisciplinary program with the International Institute - aims to produce collaborative research, teaching and outreach projects focused on Brazil. 

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