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CGES Graduate Student Research Assistant (RA) Competition

The Center for German and European Studies announces two .5 research assistantships (50% appointment including tuition remission and health insurance) to be offered to well-qualified students whose research fits within the six CGES themes for 2017-2018. Descriptions of these themes can be found at: https://daadcenter.wisc.edu/research/. Students who have not demonstrated the relevance of their application …

Erin Hoy, DAAD Young Ambassador

  Erin Hoy is a UW–Madison student studying Neurobiology and German. While studying abroad in Germany she was nominated to be a DAAD Young Ambassador. Young Ambassadors are undergraduate students from North America that recently studied abroad in Germany and promote study in Germany at their home universities with help from the DAAD. Below is a testimonial …

Germany at the Polls

In Memoriam: Sol Bloomenkranz

MIDDLETON, WI – Sol Bloomenkranz, age 93, passed away unexpectedly at home on July 7, 2017. He was born in Chicago, IL to Max and Frieda Bloomenkranz on December 4, 1923. As a teenager, Sol traveled to Poland to visit his relatives which inspired him to study and work internationally. During World War II Sol …