Category: Highlights
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Posted on November 17, 2014
WEDNESDAY WAKE-UP CALL: CALS Coffee 8:30 a.m. in the D.C. Smith conservatory
The entire CALS community is invited to a CALS Coffee this Wednesday, November 19 from 8:30–9:30 a.m in the DC Smith Conservatory—that classy piece of glass […]
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Bucky’s Butchery and Babcock Dairy Store offer holiday eats
Our favorite campus outlets for tasty treats have special offers for the holiday season. Who wouldn’t love the gift of cheese? The Babcock Hall Dairy Store […]
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Posted on November 12, 2014
CALS faculty votes to restructure APC representation
Last spring, the CALS Academic Planning Council completed a self-study that recommended the Council be restructured to combine departments/areas deemed to have similar research and […]
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Posted on November 7, 2014
On the new Grow website: Engaging Native American kids in science
In any other classroom, mention of planting “Three Sisters” might cause confusion. But in Becky Nutt’s science class at Oneida Nation High School, located on […]
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Saving babies, a diaper at a time
She woke up in her hospital room feeling nothing short of desperation. Katie Brenner remembered giving birth to a tiny daughter hours earlier but the […]
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Posted on November 6, 2014
Win a piece of the college in this week’s CALS Partners in Giving drawing
You can win a little piece of the college if you turn in your pledge to the CALS Partners in Giving campaign. This week’s […]
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Posted on November 3, 2014
Thanks to a dairy challenge, UW’s #SweetScientists advance to second half of The Amazing Race
A dairy-related challenge helped save UW-Madison food science graduate students Amy DeJong and Maya Warren – a.k.a. the #SweetScientists – from being sent home on last Friday’s […]
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Posted on November 1, 2014
Does daylight saving time actually save energy?
Daylight saving time was originally conceived as an energy-saving idea. In 1784 Benjamin Franklin observed that during summer months, people slept during the daylight hours […]
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Posted on October 31, 2014
Less time for science: Added duties offset researchers’ gains in productivity
Today’s land grant faculty are getting significantly more research done in less time, but they are finding significantly less time to do it. As a […]
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Posted on October 24, 2014
Weekly Partners in Giving prize drawings: Pledge now to put your name in the hat
The first winning name has been drawn and the prize—a gift card to Ian’s Pizza—is on its way to a CALS colleague who had turned in his 2014 Partners in […]