Category: Extension and Outreach
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Posted on March 4, 2013
Unleash curiousity. Call for proposals: Wisconsin Science Festival
Planning is underway for the third annual Wisconsin Science Festival (WSF), to be held September 26–29 in Madison, around the state and perhaps in your […]
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Connect your alumni: March 2013 CALS alumni e-newsletter is online
We’ve pressed the Send button on the latest issue of CALS Connections, the college’s alumni e-newsletter. Make sure your former students are on the list. […]
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Posted on March 1, 2013
CALS in the News for the Week of Feb. 23 – Mar. 1
In the News Advancing Science in India Science Careers (Science) 2/22/2013 Quoted: Aseem Ansari, Biochemistry How Wisconsin’s climate is changing WKOW News 2/20/2013 Quoted: Chris […]
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Posted on February 25, 2013
Weekend events celebrate Aldo Leopold
Two events this weekend celebrate the work and life of Aldo Leopold: Saturday Science Program, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 10 am to noon, First Saturdays […]
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UW-made video and factsheet kick off regional series on making biofuel from perennial grasses
A new factsheet and video created by BSE professor Kevin Shinners and Pam Porter, outreach specialist in the Environmental Resources Center, are the first in a series […]
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Welcome home to Wisconsin guard’s 82nd agribusiness team
Welcome home to the Wisconsin National Guard’s 82nd Agribusiness Development Team. This is the team that trained at CALS in the summer of 2011. The final 13 members […]
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Posted on February 22, 2013
CALS in the News for the Week of Feb. 16-22
In the News Here’s the scoop: Researchers at UW-Madison study ice cream Medill Reports Chicago 2/19/2013 Quoted: Rich Hartel, Food Science Quoted: Maya Warren, Food […]
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Posted on February 15, 2013
Video looks at CALS’ growing enrollment
Why are more undergrads than ever choosing CALS? Dean VandenBosch and undergrad Cheyenne Lentz talk about that in this recent 90-second video. The clip was […]
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Biggest value of GMO corn is cutting risk, not boosting yields, CALS research shows
By analyzing two decades worth of corn yield data from Wisconsin, a team of CALS researchers has quantified the impact that various popular transgenes have […]
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Posted on February 11, 2013
Position on nutrition: Focus on overall diet, not “good” and “bad” foods
CALS professor emerita Susan Nitzke is a co-author on a new position paper released this month by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Titled “Total […]