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• Shiza Shahid, Co-Founder of the Malala Fund, is Keynote Speaker for Go Big Read

  Posted on June 17, 2014

  Shiza Shahid, Co-Founder of the Malala Fund, is Keynote Speaker for Go Big Read   In 2014, 57 million children are not […]

• 2011-2012 Go Big Read Author Interviewed on Influx of Children Immigrants

  Posted on June 13, 2014

  NBC News reported that 47,000 children crossed the US border alone in 2013, but that number has already been surpassed in 2014 […]

• Malala Yousafzai: “Girls in Nigeria are my sisters”

  Posted on May 9, 2014

  By now, most of us have heard the story of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram in mid-April. […]

• Go Big Read selects “I Am Malala” for 2014-15

  Posted on May 8, 2014

  The Taliban thought bullets would silence Malala Yousafzai. But instead they made her voice stronger, and today the teenager from Pakistan is […]

• UW-Madison and the Peace Corps

  Posted on February 17, 2014

  Did you know that UW-Madison has a long, proud history with the Peace Corps? Last week, our campus was again named the […]

• Ghosts of the Tsunami

  Posted on January 30, 2014

  Much has been said of the impact of the March, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, as well as the consequent […]

• Go Big Read seeks titles focused on service for 2014-15 program

  Posted on January 13, 2014

  Have you read any great books lately? Think something you’ve read would make a great Go Big Read selection? Let us know! […]

• Using the book in the spring?

  Posted on December 12, 2013

  Instructors! Are you planning to use A Tale for the Time Being in your spring courses? Do you want your students to […]

• Goodreads Interview with Ruth Ozeki

  Posted on December 11, 2013

  In case you haven’t gotten enough Ruth Ozeki yet, check out this awesome interview with our Go Big Read author! Goodreads readers […]

• Guest Post: Reflections on the Nov. 14 talk by Professor Gene Phillips

  Posted on December 2, 2013

  It was enlightening to see the concept of Zen Buddhism depicted in images at the talk by Professor Gene Phillips (Professor in […]