Category: Milestones
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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 […]
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Posted on February 11, 2019
Michel Wattiaux named interim director of CIAS
Michel Wattiaux, professor of dairy science, has been named interim director of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), effective March 1, 2019. In this role, […]
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Posted on February 8, 2019
New faculty profile: Kerri Coon studies insect-microbe interactions
Kerri Coon joined the faculty in the Department of Entomology as an assistant professor in January 2019. What is your background? I grew up in […]
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Posted on January 7, 2019
Recent retirements
Best wishes to colleagues who retired from CALS in the fourth quarter of 2018: Peter Crump, CALS Computer Lab Walter Goodman, Entomology William Hickey, Soil […]
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Posted on November 21, 2018
Jennifer Kushner joins CALS Global as assistant director
Jennifer Kushner will join CALS Global as assistant director on Dec. 1. She comes to CALS from UW-Extension, Cooperative Extension where she has been providing […]