University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Undergraduate Students

Diya Abbas Awarded Artivism Student Action Program (ASAP) Funding

CSA Undergraduate FLAS Fellow, Diya Abbas, has been awarded Artivism Student Action Program (ASAP) Funding for Spring 2023 by the UW-Madison Division of the Arts! Founded in 2021 and available to UW–Madison students in any year or major of study, ASAP supports projects or collective actions that use the arts as a force for social …

2021 Undergraduate Paper Award Winners

The Center for South Asia is delighted to announce this year’s winners for our Undergraduate Paper Awards! Each year, participating IRIS centers award up to $1000 for the best undergraduate student writing in respective world areas. This year, our two CSA Undergraduate Paper Award winners are: “Investigating the 2002 Ethnic Conflict in Ahmedabad” by Amita …

Spring 2021 Graduate Feature: Mahima Bhattar

Her campus legacy? The first South Asian a cappella singing group As a freshman, Mahima Bhattar noticed there was no a cappella singing team among the South Asian performing arts student organizations. She soon rectified that, founding Wisconsin Waale (Vaa-lay) as a sophomore. The name means “Wisconsin people” in Hindi. “We wanted to make sure …