Month: July 2016
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Posted on July 18, 2016
Lunch and Learn on July 25: Healthful tips to keep you cool and hydrated
Don’t sacrifice your health in hot weather! Learn how to stay cool – and stay on track with your health goals – at the next […]
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Announcing NAS Prize in Food & Ag Sciences established by Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Beginning in 2017, the new $100,000 prize will recognize one annual recipient for an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a […]
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USDA-NIFA & NIH joint funding announcement: Dual Purpose with Dual Benefit: Research in Biomedicine and Agriculture Using Agriculturally Important Domestic Animal Species
USDA-NIFA and NIH announce the renewal of the interagency “Dual Purpose with Dual Benefit: Research in Biomedicine and Agriculture Using Agriculturally Important Domestic Animal Species […]
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Blue Sky Science video: Joe Lauer answers boy’s GMO question
When a youngster posed the question “How long does it take a GMO product to grow?,” the Blue Sky Science team turned to CALS agronomy […]
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Call for proposals to develop cultivars or other plant germplasm
This funding opportunity is for faculty in the departments of agronomy, horticulture and plant pathology: The 2016 call for proposals to develop cultivars or other plant […]
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Posted on July 15, 2016
CALS In the News for the Week of July 8 – July 15
News about cheese making Mastering the art of making cheese at Sartori Green Bay Press-Gazette, 7/12 Mentioned: UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research Mastering the art of […]
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Wolfgang Hoffmann, long-time filmmaker and photographer for CALS, dies at 68
Wolfgang Hoffmann, who chronicled CALS on film for 45 years, passed away in his home on Tuesday, July 12, 2016. He was 68 years old. […]
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Posted on July 13, 2016
Teen workshop participants turn their camera on northern Wisconsin flooding
Life sciences communication professor Patty Loew and instructor Don Stanley went into this summer’s Tribal Youth Media Workshop at the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation with […]
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Posted on July 12, 2016
New biochemistry faculty members to focus on microbes, proteins
A car mechanic would have a hard time building a car if he or she didn’t know anything about the car’s parts. The same holds […]
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New UW-Madison policy on minimum qualifications for instructors
This spring, the University Academic Planning Council approved a new Policy on Minimum Qualifications for Instructional Staff that will become effective Fall 2016. The policy […]