The University of Wisconsin–Madison takes great pride in its strong ties to Singapore. Students, alumni, expert faculty, research, programming—there are many points to celebrate. Take a deeper look into the relationship between Singapore and UW–Madison.
Deng explores Southeast Asia, nonprofit management
The opportunity to combine nonprofit management with Southeast Asian studies brought Mengwei “Weiwei” Deng to the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
She started thinking about nongovernmental organizations as a career path during her senior year at the University of Oregon, from which she graduated in 2010. For her public relations major’s capstone course, she and her team crafted a campaign for their client FOOD for Lane County, a regional food bank. Read more.
Partnership with Singapore
NSF launches GROW to accelerate international research collaborations
On December 5, 2012, NSF Director Subra Suresh announced Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW), a new and coordinated effort that will expand and enhance international collaborative research opportunities for NSF Graduate Research Fellows, with initial agreements with science agencies in eight countries.
“Today’s graduate students being trained as scientists and engineers in the U.S. will collaborate and compete with their peers from around the globe throughout their career,” said Suresh.
UW-Madison Engineering Student Picked for Entrepreneurs’ Program
Steven Skroch, a University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student in biomedical engineering, is one of five students nationwide chosen to help inaugurate an international program in entrepreneurship by the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation.
Skroch was chosen from among 160 applicants nationwide and will participate in a five-month program in Singapore to learn about the Asian market and build a business on the basis of his graduate research.
UW-Madison Develops Career-Information Systems for Singapore
The Singapore Ministry of Education has awarded a four-year, $3.5 million contract to the Center on Education and Work (CEW) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Education for localizing CEW’s WISCareers and CareerLocker online career-information systems for use in Singapore schools.
The Singapore Ministry of Education became interested in the WISCareers and CareerLocker systems after conducting a global review of related systems around the world.