Category: Milestones
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Posted on June 21, 2019
Noelle Thompson joins the CALS Academic Affairs Career services unit
Please join the CALS Office of Academic Affairs in welcoming Noelle Thompson to the college. Thompson joined the office in early June and will provide […]
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Posted on June 20, 2019
Shelby Ellison is new point person for UW–Madison’s industrial hemp research and education
Shelby Ellison will be the new point person for industrial hemp research and education at UW–Madison. She joined the Department of Horticulture as a faculty […]
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Posted on May 31, 2019
Sandy Fowler named assistant dean of Business Services
Sandy Fowler was recently promoted to assistant dean of CALS Business Services. In her new role, she will work closely with Angela Seitler, associate dean of […]
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Posted on May 13, 2019
Joao Dorea joins UW–Madison dairy science department as precision agriculture expert
The same technology that alerts a self-driving car that there’s a pedestrian in the crosswalk could also warn a dairy farmer that a calf is […]
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Posted on May 10, 2019
New faculty profile: Sarah Hart specializes in forestry and disturbance ecology
Sarah Hart joined the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology as an assistant professor in August 2018. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado–Boulder […]
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Posted on April 25, 2019
New faculty profile: Zhou Zhang focuses on artificial intelligence to support sustainable agriculture
Zhou Zhang joined the Department of Biological Systems Engineering as an assistant professor in March 2019. What is your educational/professional background? I grew up in Tianjin […]
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Posted on April 8, 2019
Recent retirements
Best wishes to colleagues who retired from CALS in the first quarter of 2019: Carolyn Betz, Soil Science Margaret Clagett Dame, Biochemistry Dennis Frank, Marshfield […]
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Posted on March 22, 2019
Megan Ackerman Yost joins CALS Office of Academic Affairs
Please join the CALS Office of Academic Affairs in welcoming Megan Ackerman Yost to our staff. On Feb. 25, Megan assumed a newly-created Academic Planner […]
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Posted on March 1, 2019
New faculty profile: Simcox joins biochemistry department to study lipid signaling, cold exposure
In high school, Judith Simcox pored over scientific literature to try to understand the link between her sister’s Down Syndrome and type 1 diabetes. It was […]
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Posted on February 22, 2019
New faculty profile: Nathaniel Sharp explores process of genetic mutation
Nathaniel Sharp joined the faculty in the Department of Genetics as an assistant professor in January 2019. What is your background? I was born and […]