TABLE OF CONTENTS

• EMPLOYMENT
  • June 30:  Applications must be postmarked for "Associate Outreach Specialist" Sought by CIE
• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • June 25:  Applications due for scholarships:  2004 Global Studies Summer Institute, July 26-28
  • New York Times:  Summer Free Program
  • July 2:  Registration due for Pre-Columbian World Teacher Workshop
  • Register now for IGS Best Practices Conference
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • Apply now for Fulbright Scholar Program
  • September 15:  Proposals due for Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence
  • September 15:  Applications due for Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • Centre for Economic Performance
  • Nobel e-Museum: Conflict Map
  • UN Multimedia
  • Mughal India
  • The Sociable Media Group

"Associate Outreach Specialist" Sought by CIE
The Center for International Education seeks a full-time (100% FTE) Advisor (Associate Outreach Specialist) to coordinate a variety of internationally focused academic program activities in conjunction with its office of Academic & Outreach Programs (AOP).

Applications must be postmarked June 30.  For more information on this recruitment, please see the CIE web site:  http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/
To download the position description.

• Fosters curriculum development
• Gives teachers time to reflect on important issues.
• Develops a state-wide network of international educators
• Updates educators on important issues in the headlines
• Fosters stimulating exchanges between master teachers and leading university professionals
• Gives teachers criteria for evaluation and presenting controversial, contemporary, and difficult issues in the classroom in a balanced manner

A registration form can be downloaded at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/gssi04.pdf

Applications for GSSI scholarships are due June 25, 2004.

Please contact Yvonne M. Reyes with any questions or concerns at yvonne@uwm.edu or 414-229-3312.

To sign up, contact Paul L. Wilson, Education Manager, at the numbers below, or e-mail Paul at wilsop@nytimes.com.

612-721-5316  Office
612-721-6051  Fax
612-801-6735  Cell

The workshop description and the application, due July 2, 2004, are available at:  http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/workshops.html

Recognizing the multifaceted nature of global education, the conference will highlight innovative initiatives in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:

• Campus-wide strategic planning for internationalization
• General education curriculum
• Professional schools
• World languages
• International students and scholars
• Study abroad
• Faculty development
• Technology and international collaborations

• Conference Agenda:  http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/draft_agenda.pdf
• Registration Form:  http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/registration_form.pdf

Faculty and administrators from two-year, four-year and graduate institutions are invited to apply. Retired and adjunct faculty frequently receive grants as well.

Traditional Fulbright awards vary from two months to an academic year or longer. While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most lecturing assignments are in English.

Application deadlines for 2005-2006 grants for which applications are still being sought:

• August 1, 2004 – Fulbright lecturing and research grants worldwide
• November 1, 2004 – spring/summer seminars in Germany, Korea and Japan for international education and academic administrators as well as for the summer German Studies Seminar

Under the Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) Program, interested institutions submit proposals to invite scholars to teach one or more courses and to be in residence for a semester or an academic year.  Proposals are welcome from individual institutions, as well as from consortia of two or more institutions.  Institutions can propose to invite specific scholars or, through CIES, request that Fulbright Commissions abroad recommend scholars in the particular fields they would like to develop.  Detailed information and proposal guidelines are available on the CIES website (http://www.cies.org) under the non-U.S. scholar programs.

The program application booklet mentions that proposals should be received at CIES on or before September 15, 2004.  It also mentions that for 2005/2006 extra funds will be available under the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program to support scholars from Muslim-majority countries in the field of Islamic history, culture, and society, broadly defined.

Contact persons at CIES are:

• Karen Watts, Senior Program Officer -- kwatts@cies.iie.org
• Rimma Karlin, Senior Program Coordinator -- rkarlin@cies.iie.org
• Contact person at the Fulbright Commission in Egypt, Rania Atef, Assistant Project Specialist -- ratef@bfce.eun.eg

The Best Research Fellowships offer stipends of $375 per week for periods up to 4 weeks, and will be awarded to support residencies for the purpose of conducting research which makes direct use of the Library. The Fellowships will be tenable from January 3 to December 31, 2005. The AGS Library, the former research library and map collection of the American Geographical Society of New York, has strengths in geography, cartography and related historical topics.

Applications must be postmarked by September 15, 2004.

For further information, write, call or e-mail the AGS Library, P.O. Box 399, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0399, Tel.  (414) 229-6282, E-mail agsl@uwm.edu.  Web site: http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/best.html

Centre for Economic Performance
    http://cep.lse.ac.uk/
Established by the Economic and Social Research Council in 1990, the Centre for Economic Performance CEP at the London School of Economics and Political Science is one of the most prominent and established economic research groups in Europe. By focusing on the major links between globalization, technology and institutions, the CEP studies the determinants of economic performance at the level of the company, the nation, and the global economy. Broadly, CEP's research programs are divided into five groups that include research into labor markets, technology and growth, and education and skills. From the prodigious site, visitors can read about CEP In the News, learn about the various staff members' research areas of expertise, and browse their related publications (including occasional papers, working papers, and the like) back to 1990. Overall, this site will merit more than one visit, as it will be of substantial interest to persons interested in the intersections between economics, education, and globalization, to name but a few of the topical areas covered under the remit of the CEP.

Nobel e-Museum: Conflict Map
    http://www.nobel.se/peace/educational/conflictmap/
Visualizing the nature of various conflicts across the world over the course of history is quite a challenge, and the Nobel e-Museum offers this rather compelling way to think about the past century or so of such engagements. Utilizing the Shockwave application, this interactive map provides answers to such question as Where did these wars take place?, Have some regions experienced more wars than others?, and Who were the main protagonists in these conflicts? A tall order to be sure, but the map succeeds nobly, and accomplishes its educational task by organizing each conflict into one of three categories (represented on the map by a small conflagration), and offering a brief explanation about each conflict as well. Additionally, the map also provides statistical information on the geographical distribution of Peace Prize laureates and nominees from the period 1901 to 2001, along with providing aggregate numbers of the total nominations, divided into seven geographical regions.

UN Multimedia
    http://www.un.org/av/
The United Nations has its own news and media service that reports on numerous topics that fall within its broad global remit, including the HIV epidemic in Africa, military conflicts in the Middle East, and economic development. On this website, visitors can learn about the UN's array of multimedia programs, including its radio programs, videos, and photographic archives. The UN News Centre will be of great interest to visitors, as they may read about the various activities of the UN, and read newsbriefs by region or various statements and briefings released by the spokesman for the Secretary General. Another section of interest is the United Nations Radio News, which allows visitors to listen to a short radio news program (approximately 15 minutes in length) produced five days a week. Visitors may also listen to previous news reports dating back to January 2004. The photo section is quite nice as well, as it contains selections from the almost 240,000 photographs taken to document the UN's activities since its creation close to sixty years ago. Visitors may browse through thematic collections (such as those dedicated to topics like East Timor and landmines) or peruse a pictorial history of the UN, which includes photographs of such important leaders as Dag Hammarskjold.

Mughal India
    http://www.mughalindia.co.uk/room.html
As you enter a large room filled with various items, including a well-worn globe, a medium-sized file cabinet, and a wall of books, you wonder to yourself, Where am I?. It turns out that you have stumbled across the British Museum's fine interactive website on Mughal India. Designed for young people, the site is set up as an office where visitors may click on various items (such as a globe or a model of the Taj Mahal) in order to entire Flash-enabled learning environments that address various aspects of this most grand and productive period in India's history. While visitors will want to spend a good deal of time exploring the site, one particular representative area of the site is the coin cabinet. Clicking on the coin cabinet opens up a small chest that holds various pieces of currencies from the Mughal Empire. Visiting the different drawers in the chest allows users to learn what each type of coin can tell contemporary observers about the Empire's religious traditions, emperors, and politics. Thoroughly engaging and dynamic in its layout and content, this is a site that is worth a close look.

The Sociable Media Group
    http://smg.media.mit.edu/
Located at MIT, the Sociable Media Group is interested in questions concerning society and identity in the networked world. Some of the group's research questions include: How do we perceive other people on-line?, What does a virtual world look like?, and How do social conventions develop in the networked world? Visitors can learn about the most recent research projects, along with taking a look at the thought provoking blog. As with most research institutes or think-tanks, the Sociable Media group has seen fit to put a number of its working papers on the site for general consideration. The papers include such titles as, "Scale, Form, and Time: Creating Connected Sociable Spaces" and "A Semantic Approach to Visualizing Online Conversations."