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CALS in the News for the week of June 17-23

Unsolved: Can DNA help solve the case of a Milwaukee girl missing since 2002?
USA Today, 6/17/2023
Quoted: Michael Cox, Biochemistry

Inaugural Art of Cheese Festival Announces Event Lineup
AP via PRNewswire, 6/22/2023
Mentioned: Center for Dairy Research

Stuck for years without funding, Wisconsin’s state climatology office is now ‘open for business’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/23/2023
Mentioned: Wisconsin Mesonet
Mentioned: Rural Partnerships program

How the dry weather could start impacting Wisconsin farmers
NBC15, 6/19/2023
Quoted: Joe Lauer, Agronomy

UW-Madison’s paid parental leave package? There isn’t one
The Cap Times, 6/21/2023
Quoted: Nina Denne, Student, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Quoted: Erin Conley, Student, Microbiology
Quoted: Adena Rissman, Forest and Wildlife Ecology

‘It is kind of a very rigorous job’: Applications now closed for UW professional cheese taster
Channel3000, 6/21/2023
Quoted: Brandon Prochaska, Center for Dairy Research
Quoted: Kristin Panzica, Center for Dairy Research
Mentioned: Center for Dairy Research

UW System DEI leaders fear for their jobs, and can’t talk about it
Blueprint365, 6/22/23
Quoted: Louis Macias, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Growers say they’re more often turning to irrigation to avoid stress on fruit and vegetable crops
WPR, 6/20/2023
Quoted: Amaya Atucha, Horticulture

How California Floods affect Madison’s shelves
Daily Cardinal, 6/20/2023
Quoted: Andrew Stevens, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Meetings held to discuss living without flood control dams
SWNews4u, 6/8/2023
Quoted: Randy Jackson, Agronomy
Mentioned: Claudio Gratton, Entomology
Mentioned: Eric Booth, Agronomy
Mentioned: Grassland 2.0

Of interest:

Republicans vote to cut UW System budget by $32 million in attempt to defund diversity offices
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/22/2023

GOP-controlled budget committee approves cutting UW System’s budget over DEI
Wisconsin State Journal, 6/23/2023

UWRF ‘Meats’ A Need By Training Processors
Mid-West Farm Report, 6/19/2023