Help celebrate 2021 CALS Awards honorees on May 5
The CALS community is invited to the virtual 2021 CALS Awards to help celebrate the college’s staff and faculty honorees, including 2021 CALS faculty and staff CALS Awards winners and 2020 recipients of college and department professorships and other college awards. The virtual ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 3 p.m. Please register at https://go.wisc.edu/calsawards.
Academic Staff Excellence Awards
Christian G. Krueger • Animal and Dairy Sciences
Michael Petersen • Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center
Plia Xiong • CALS Academic Affairs
Arthur J. and Ellen A. Maurer Extra Mile Award
Theodore J. Halbach • Animal and Dairy Sciences
CALS Equity and Diversity Award
Claudia Irene Calderón • Horticulture
Excellence in International Activities Award
Alfred E. Hartemink • Soil Science
Louise Hemstead Leadership Award
Julie Dawson • Horticulture
Pound Extension Award
Erin Silva • Plant Pathology
Pound Research Award
Laura Hernandez • Animal and Dairy Sciences
Robert G. F. and Hazel T. Spitze Land Grant Faculty Award for Excellence
Judith S. Bartfeld • School of Human Ecology
Robert R. Spitzer Teaching Excellence Award
Katie Vermillion Kalmon • Genetics
University Staff Recognition Awards
Jason Ball • Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center
Debra Schneider • CALS Human Resources & Animal and Dairy Sciences
WALSAA Outstanding Advisor Award
Katie Butzen • Nutritional Sciences
Additional college awards given during the past year:
Elton D. and Carrie R. Aberle Faculty Fellow Award
Paul Castañeda Dower • Agricultural and Applied Economics
Alfred Toepfer Faculty Fellow Award
Yi Wang • Horticulture
Rodrigo Werle • Agronomy
College and department professorships named during the past year:
Ira L. Baldwin Professorship in Bacteriology
Timothy Donohue • Bacteriology
Beers-Bascom Professorship in Conservation
Anna Michle Pidgeon • Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Buttel-Sewell Professorship
Nan Enstad • Community and Environmental Sociology
E. B. Fred Professorship in Bacteriology
Katrina T. Forest • Bacteriology
Gottschalk Family Chair for Cranberry Research
Amaya Atucha • Horticulture
Patrick Walsh and Noreen Warren Professorship
Troy M. Runge • Biological Systems Engineering