Few people have a better firsthand take on the value of university-industry collaboration than Molly Jahn, UW–Madison’s new dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, writes Brian Mattmiller in a profile of Dean Jahn in the UW Business News Wire. “As a plant genetics researcher developing hardier vegetable varieties, that collaboration transformed a few small bags of experimental seed from her lab into thousands of acres of commercial crops, growing on every continent but Antarctica.” The article is available at www.buswire.ocr.wisc.edu/leadstory/200702.php