Haleigh Slack, a UW-Madison senior who is double majoring in elementary and special education, interned as an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher and administrative assistant at Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano in Guayaquil, Ecuador during the summer of 2019. Slack …
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Q&A: Shiloah Coley finds ‘untapped potential’ in bringing the arts to kids
Shiloah Coley was the first student do to the Play Africa-Madison Children’s Museum collaborative internship through IIP in 2018. By Scott Girard Shiloah Coley remembers the first time she saw Madison on a visit to …
Badgers and JR Central Celebrate 20 Years of High-Speed Internships
By Steven Barcus It’s the most competitive, most sought after international internship offered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The JR Central Internship Program, established by Distinguished UW Alum and JR Central Chairman Emeritus Yoshiyuki Kasai, has been offering Badgers …
Using Motorcycles and 55-cent Payments, Uganda Group Maps Route to Health Care in Remote Villages
By David Tenenbaum KAMPALA, Uganda – A nonprofit group in Uganda has issued another loan for a motorcycle-taxi that will also offer free transport for health care workers. Motorcycle taxis are the common form of …
UW Alum Helps Create STEM Internships in Germany
Maria Spletter (BS ’03; Botany and Molecular Biology) is an Independent Group Leader at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Biomedical Center in Munich, Germany. She conducts research on alternative splicing and its role in muscle development. Since 2017, …
JR Central Internship Alumni Among Final Round Winners of ‘Smart Cities-Smart Futures’ Competition
Michael Schlicting led the Badger Rail team to the final round of the Smart Cities-Smart Futures competition sponsored by Foxconn. Badger Rail includes past and future participants in the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) …
UW–Madison student to use prestigious Truman Scholarship to further research on arts education access
Shiloah Coley was a former IIP participant for the International Children’s Museum Internship, a collaborative experience with spring and fall semesters at the Madison Children’s Museum and the summer spent in Johannesburg, South Africa at …
Africa in Our Lives: Bre Begley
By Aberdeen Leary Bre Begley is a senior undergraduate student at UW-Madison. During the summer of 2018, she completed an internship abroad with an organization called Health Access Connect in Uganda. In this AFRICA IN OUR LIVES, …
Carly Stingl receives International Division Early Career Award
IIP advisor & program coordinator, Carly Stingl, was selected as the first recipient of the International Division‘s Early Career Award. This award was created in 2018 to “honor individuals who have been employed at UW-Madison …
IIP alumni win Wisconsin Without Borders Awards
Two groups of students who worked with IIP for summer internships abroad were recognized at the Wisconsin Without Borders award ceremony on April 19, 2018. Rose Lamensdorf, Kayla Hui and Krystal Du interned with Women’s …