Category: Highlights
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Posted on February 22, 2017
How science should respond to fake news
The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics since the last U.S. election cycle. But fake news is not at all new […]
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University experts help Roelli create champion cheese
If you walk into Roelli Cheese Haus near Shullsburg in southwest Wisconsin, you’ll see plenty of succulent Wisconsin cheeses — but not Little Mountain, the […]
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Posted on February 17, 2017
Please remember: CALS Coffee next Tuesday 2/28
Be sure to stop by and say hello to you colleagues at next week’s CALS Coffee gathering. The event is set for Tuesday, Feb. 28 […]
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Dietram Scheufele contributes to NAS human gene editing report
Life sciences communication professor Dietram Scheufele served on an international committee that recently issued a human genome-editing technology report that lays out principles and recommendations for […]
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Posted on February 16, 2017
UW guidelines for campaign and lobbying activities
With a new presidential administration and Congress in Washington, D.C., and the budget process underway in Madison, employees are reminded to consult campus and UW […]
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Posted on February 9, 2017
‘Magic’ plus UW science equals world-champ cheese
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cLnn4H3I74] Wisconsin cheese is at least as old as the state. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has one of the world’s great institutions of dairy […]
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Posted on February 8, 2017
Celebrating the CALS ag educator who penned the FFA creed
One hundred years ago, two men introduced a piece of legislation to the U.S. Congress that would forever change the future of agricultural education. Senator […]
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Forest ‘islands’ offer refuge to wintering birds
The polar vortex of 2013 and 2014 brought the coldest winter many parts of the Midwest had experienced in decades. In Dane County, Wisconsin, it […]
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Posted on February 6, 2017
CALS Organizational Redesign Committee begins work
Dean VandenBosch charged the CALS Organizational Redesign Committee to: evaluate trends, data and peer institutions (including identifying comparative advantages for CALS at UW-Madison); analyze key […]
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Posted on February 3, 2017
CALS Conference Services debuts improved, comprehensive system
In 2016, CALS Conference Services (CCS) purchased a new registration system software. They didn’t realize at the time that it was much more than a […]