Category: Highlights
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Posted on February 12, 2018
Faculty and staff invited to indicate interest in serving on CALS committees
Each year, the CALS Dean’s Office is charged with finding candidates to serve on college committees. Committees span a variety of topics including research, instruction, […]
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Posted on February 5, 2018
CALS Redesign data available on project website
Data reviewed by the CALS redesign committee, along with feedback they gathered from faculty and staff, is available on the CALS redesign website. Information includes: […]
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Addressing hostile and intimidating behavior in the workplace
As co-chairs of the college’s Equity and Diversity Committee, we want all members of our community to know about a resource recently launched within our […]
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Enter your amazing science images in the 2018 Cool Science Image Contest
Science is a visual enterprise. Scientific imagery created with microscopes, telescopes, cameras and scanners makes even parts of the world that our eyes can’t perceive […]
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Posted on January 29, 2018
As Wisconsin tries to lure young adults, how do certain communities succeed?
As a new ad campaign from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation tries to attract young adults to Wisconsin, a study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers […]
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Biochemistry’s state-of-the-art imaging facilities benefit campus researchers and students
The phrase seeing is believing doesn’t just apply to supernatural phenomenon; biochemists often say the same thing when imaging proteins or other molecules for the […]
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Wisconsin’s entrepreneurial culture flying high
Wisconsin’s entrepreneur culture is starting to take off, and many of those new businesses are generated from UW–Madison. A new Wisconsin Public Television show, Start Up […]
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Posted on January 22, 2018
CALS responds to USDA Civil Rights Review
In March of 2017 a team from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) conducted an Equal Employment Opportunity/Civil Rights […]
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Lake Michigan waterfowl botulism deaths linked to warm waters, algae
Since the 1960s, tens of thousands of birds living on the Great Lakes have died during periodic outbreaks of botulism. The outbreaks have only become […]
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Back to farming basics in Guatemala
When Claudia Calderón touched down in the fertile highlands of western Guatemala, she was stepping into a sociological experiment already afoot. What brought her to the verdant […]