Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship A select number of Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships are available to support summer 2026 intensive foreign language study. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. …
2026 International Division Graduate Summer Fieldwork Awards
International Division Graduate Summer Fieldwork Awards The International Division is pleased to offer awards of $4,000 to support 6 or more weeks of summer fieldwork conducted outside of the U.S. Any continuing UW-Madison graduate student …
Cat Carroll’s Work Featured in Pulitzer Center’s Stories of the Year
IRIS NRC wants to extend our sincere congratulations to Cat Carroll, UW Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow and IRIS NRC FLAS awardee, whose piece, “Far From Home, Carried by Community: In Austria, a Quiet Network Sustains Filipino Nurses“ was just selected …
UW Students Explore National Security Careers with DIA Senior Advisor Dr. Eric Miller
On December 2, more than 70 UW–Madison students participated in a National Security Career Forum with Dr. Eric Miller, Senior Advisor for Open Source Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The forum provided students …
2026 WIPCS Annual Conference – Call for Student Proposals
2026 Annual Student-Faculty Conference on Peace and Conflict Studies: “From DEFENSE to WAR: New Challenges to Global Peacebuilding” Edgewood University and the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies invite students, academics, and activists to submit proposals …
S & S Scholarship
The International Division is proud to announce the S & S Scholarship! Through the generous gift of donors, the S & S Scholarship was established to assist undergraduate and graduate students who face financial challenges …
From the Ground Up: Filipino Community Helps Fill Gaps in Austria’s Health Care
Cat Carroll (B.A. Journalism, International Studies, and German, ’25) has published a new project with the Pulitzer Center, From the Ground Up: Filipino Community Helps Fill Gaps in Austria’s Health Care. A Wolff Fellow and …
IRIS Assistant Directors receive Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant
Cross-posted from the Center for South Asia. Andrea Fowler (Assistant Director, CSA), Essie Lenchner (Assistant Director, IRIS NRC), and Nola Walker (IAS Outreach Librarian, UW–Madison Libraries) have been awarded a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant. This …
Meet 2025 South Asia Book Award Winners for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
The South Asia Book Award is delighted to announce our honors list for 2025! We received more than 100 submissions this year. Congratulations to all the amazing authors and illustrators listed below! Award Winners …
Children’s International Story Hour
In an expansion of the African Story Hour experience, Madison Public Library has partnered with The Institute for Regional and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in collaboration with Wisconsin Public Libraries to bring …