Category: Highlights
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Posted on May 29, 2015
Hook’s 20-year cheddar helps fund the future of cheese research
Some things are worth the wait. This seems to hold true for Hook’s Cheese Company’s 20-year cheddar, which was released to much fanfare last week. Even […]
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$1M gift establishes professorship in biological systems engineering
The biological systems engineering department recently announced the establishment of its first endowed professorship. Emeritus professor and former BSE Department Chair Patrick Walsh and his wife, Noreen Warren, […]
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Aurelie Rakotondrafara: Assistant professor turns the tables on plant viruses
Aurelie Rakotondrafara had packed for the tropics. So when a clerk at the Fulbright fellowship office asked if she was ready for winter, her face […]
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Posted on May 26, 2015
AAE alumnus establishes $1M Henry C. Taylor Professorship
Agricultural & Applied Economics alum Dr. Robert H. Miller of Alexandria, Virginia (MS ’59, PhD ’67) visited Madison for the inaugural AAE Scholars & Sponsors Lunch […]
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P.J. Liesch: New federal pollinator plan seeks to aid monarch butterflies
In a recent post on his What’s Crawling in the Lab blog, CALS/UW-Extension entomologist P.J. Liesch described some of the challenges facing North America’s monarch butterflies, […]
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Wildlife ecology student basks in nature observation assignment
This University Communications-produced video highlights how Hannah DePorter, a sophomore studying wildlife ecology, went above and beyond expectations in Environmental Studies 400, a new Nelson […]
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Posted on May 18, 2015
All-College Meeting on May 19 will focus on budget issues
Please join Dean VandenBosch for a CALS All-College Meeting on May 19 from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Ebling Symposium Center of the Microbial Sciences Building. […]
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Researchers from LSC helping to attract Kickapoo Valley tourists
The Kickapoo Valley is a picturesque area of western Wisconsin that attracts many visitors during the summer. But to improve economic development throughout this rural […]
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Latest Blue Sky Science video features Brian Hudelson
The Blue Sky Science video series is a collaboration of the Wisconsin State Journal and the Morgridge Institute for Research. They take questions posed by […]
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Posted on May 8, 2015
Celebrate spring graduates at these CALS commencement events
Faculty and staff are invited to help celebrate CALS’ spring graduates at these two commencement-related activities on Saturday, May 16: As in years past, CALS is hosting […]