by Emma Nelson, LACIS’ Communications Assistant With the generous support of LACIS, Pablo Moreno-Yaeger attended the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic under funding from the Neale Silva Scholarship July 6th through the 11th of 2025. …
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Partners in Giving 2025: Ghost Walk
On October 30th, just hours before Halloween, staff from the International Division, including Dean Frances Vavrus, joined KJ, a tour guide from Mad City Ghost Walks, for a chilly and fun October afternoon. The group, …
LACIS Publishes its 2nd Annual “Impact Report”
2024-2025 was an extremely busy and transformative year for LACIS. A few primary highlights: LACIS’ longtime Associate Director, Dr. Alberto Vargas, retired. Dr. Adriana Angel joined LACIS as our new Associate Director. We organized or …
Fall 2025 Welcome from LACIS’ Faculty Director
Dear LACIS Community, Welcome to the beginning of the 2025-2026 Academic year! We hope you had a lovely summer that included time for adventure and relaxation. We are excited to see you at one of …
LACIS celebrates the career of Associate Director, Alberto Vargas
by Jacob Sorrells, LACIS M.A. student On Wednesday night, March 19th, LACIS came together with students and faculty from all corners of university life to celebrate the remarkable career of our beloved Associate Director, Alberto …
Reflections on the 2024 Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition (IAMoot) in Washington D.C.
by Valeria Martinez, J.D., Immigrant Justice Clinic, Law School, UW-Madison How should the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) interpret the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) given our increasingly digital world? Does a country …
LACIS Faculty Director Fall 2024 Message
Dear LACIS Community, Welcome to the beginning of the 2024-2025 Academic year! It was an exciting first year as your faculty director and I look forward to what this coming year will bring. Hopefully you …
14 UW–Madison students win Fulbright awards
FLAS Recipient, Rosalie Powell’s, UW–Madison Adventure – WISc, NASA, and Beyond!
LACIS Honorary Fellow, Dr. Federico Subervi, Receives Continuation Award for Research on Risk Communication in Puerto Rico
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Federico Subervi, an Honorary Fellow at the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), has been awarded a $10,000 Continuation Award for his collaborative research on risk …