CALS in the News
News stories from the past two weeks that feature (or will interest) CALS faculty and staff:
UW flu researcher, local firm honored, The Capital Times (mentioned: Laura Kiessling and Ron Raines, Biochemistry)
Minorities need aid to stay in science, The Capital Times (quoted: Assoc. Dean Bob Ray)
UW System must remove barriers to innovation Wisconsin Technology Network
Winter wheat doubles in Wisconsin since 2000, even as it declines in rest of U.S. , Associated Press (quoted: John Gaska, Agronomy)
Stronger produce policing sought, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Q&A with Mark Johnson, On Wisconsin – Click on Dispatches PDF (features Mark Johnson, Ctr. for Dairy Research)
Seeds of a Growing Partnership, On Wisconsin – Click on Research PDF (featured: Bill Tracy, Agronomy)
Hot Pictures, On Wisconsin – click on Arts & Culture PDF (quoted: David Mladenoff, Forest Ecol. & Mgmt.)
Dear Mrs. Hazard, On Wisconsin (historical feature on roots of College’s radio program)
Better yeast might help boost biofuel production, Wisconsin State Journal – second article in Discoveries (quoted: Thomas Jeffries, Tim Donohue, Bacteriology)
Dunn residents, board oppose possible disease lab, Wisconsin State Journal (quoted: Vice Dean Irwin Goldman)
Local execs Molly Jahn and Enrique Gandara have far-reaching goals, InBusiness
Gene Sequencing Advance To Help Biomass-to-Biofuel Conversion, CarbonFree (quoted: Tom Jeffries, Bacteriology)
A Nicer Way to Patent, ScienceNOW (quoted: Carl Gulbrandsen, WARF)
U.S. and Brazil Seek to Promote Ethanol in West, from New York Times