Category: Highlights
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Posted on June 19, 2015
CALS’ social media community supports the college in a unique way
CALS held a fun 48-hour social media fundraising campaign last week in honor of the birthday of William Arnon Henry, the college’s first dean. The call […]
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Posted on June 12, 2015
New Grow magazine delivery mode for faculty and staff
In order to more efficiently focus resources—and in response to some campus offices receiving multiple copies—the CALS Office of External Relations is now offering different ways […]
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UW metabolism researchers blaze new paths
As a human health issue, most people think about metabolism in the context of calories in/calories out, energy consumption and body weight. But lately, scientists […]
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CALS is now on Instagram
Earlier this spring, CALS expanded its social media portfolio to include Instagram, the online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service. The college plans to […]
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Posted on June 5, 2015
CALS researcher wins Governor’s Business Plan Contest
Katie Brenner, a postdoctoral researcher in the biochemistry department, and her team of co-founders won the 2015 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest last week for an app-based […]
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Babcock Hall Dairy Store wins TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
For the second year in a row, the Babcock Hall Dairy Store has received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. TripAdvisor, which bills itself as the world’s […]
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Posted on June 4, 2015
Calling all CALS musicians
Do you play in a band? Strum a guitar or lose yourself on a keyboard? And do you have recordings of your music that you’re […]
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Posted on June 1, 2015
State budget update
The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) of the Wisconsin Legislature is closer to completing their work on the 2015-2017 biennial budget. UW System released a summary […]
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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, […]