INTERN PROFILES
Matt Payne: New Perspectives in Hong Kong – August 30, 2011
Matt Payne, a UW–Madison student Rochester, Minnesota, who majored in Chinese and economics, spent the summer of 2011 writing editorials and op-ed articles for The Wall Street Journal Asia editorial page in Hong Kong as a Robert Bartley Fellow.
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Dan Lawler: More than Just Working- July 29,2011
Dan Lawler is a mechanical engineering student who did a summer internship in Penang, Malaysia for the Plexus Corp. Click here to read entries from his personal travel blog.
Vlad Ionescu: Business Abroad- June 2, 2011
Originally born in Romania, Vlad Ionescu moved to Chicago at a young age and came to Madison to study finance and real estate in the School of Business. He spent the summer 2011 semester abroad working as a finance intern for an international company called Abbott located in Zwolle.
Dhina Susanti: An International Engineer- June 2, 2011
Dhina Susanti majored in electrical engineering. Originally from Semarang, Indonesia, Dhina first came to Madison in 2007 through a scholarship from the Freedom Institute. She went to Beijing, China to take part in an international internship with Bucyrus International.
View Dhina’s self produced video on her experience – August 22, 2011
Lief Brottem: From Madison to Montpellier: Science in Social Perspective- February 2, 2010
A Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, Leif Brottem spent a semester abroad studying in Montpellier as part of the Montpellier-Madison Graduate Exchange.
Mandy Chan: Chinese Student Shares Benefits of Studying at UW–Madison- September 23, 2010
Mandy [Sioman] Chan grew up in Macau, China. She came to UW-Madison in 2008 to study computer engineering. Mandy worked in UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies’ communications office for one year. In summer 2010, she traveled back to China to intern at Companhia de Electricidade in her hometown of Macau.
Benedicte Coude:From Montpellier to Madison: Science in Social Perpective- February 2, 2010
Benedicte Coude was a Master’s student at Montpellier’s Sup Agro school of Agronomy. She studied Dairy Science in Madison as part of the Montpellier-Madison graduate exchange program.
Lorie Grushka:Europe and the US- A Certificate Student’s View- February 23, 2010
Through my majors in Political Science, International Studies, and French and my certificates in European Studies and Global Cultures, I have had the chance to take classes which tackle the study of the European-American relationship from different angles.
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John Krippinger:Selamat Datang ke Malaysia
This is an archive of former blogger John Krippinger’s posts from his personal travel blog.
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Jenny Parker:Professional French Master’s Student’s Year in Senegal-April 22, 2010
Jenny Parker was a student in the Professional French Masters Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As part of the program she was 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.
Follow Up - November 18, 2010
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.
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Bridget Roby: After Three Months in Kenya, She Found New Career Interests and a Home Away From Home- March 30, 2010
Bridget Roby, from St. Paul, Minnesota, graduated with degrees in international studies and journalism, as well as a certificate in African Studies. She studied abroad during the spring of her junior year (2009) in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya through the Minnesota Studies in International Development program (MSID) which is co-sponsored by UW–Madison.
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Jeff Schacherl: Mechanical Design Engineering Internship in Malaysia-July 20, 2009
UW-Madison engineering student Jeff Schacherl spent his 2009 summer interning at Plexus Corporation in Penang, Malaysia.
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Sarah Zink: Watch Out, I’m Getting All Sentimental- December 15, 2009
And now for the dreaded blog post, fated to come since the day I bought that RETURN ticket. That’s right folks, tomorrow I get on a plane back to Chicago.


















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