Category: Highlights
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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 […]
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Hunger and poverty in Wisconsin, county by county
County-by-county poverty and food security trends are available in a new series of reports prepared by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Extension and University of […]
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How the pie slices: A quick look at the UW budget
Where does the UW-Madison’s money come from? How is it spent. The questions seem simple, but the answers are pretty complicated. A new report, BUDGET in […]
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Posted on October 20, 2014
Survey of UW faculty finds that 49% use social media to communicate science
How do UW-Madison scientists use and perceive social media? A recent article in The Scientist, authored by current faculty and former students from CALS’ life sciences communication department, says […]
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Posted on October 16, 2014
New one-of-a-kind master’s program focuses on high-tech energy conservation
Last year when Google paid $3.2 billion for Nest, a startup that makes smart thermostats, the press joked that the internet giant would soon be […]
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Time to order your Thanksgiving turkey from the UW Poultry Science Club
The UW Poultry Science Club once again is offering fresh Thanksgiving turkeys for sale. The annual sale, a tradition that dates back more than half a century, […]
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Posted on October 10, 2014
In progress: Faculty vote on CALS governance structure
During the fall of 2013, the CALS Academic Planning Council (APC) undertook a self-study review, issuing a report in spring of 2014. As part of this review, it […]
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This weekend: CALS experts weigh in on climate change, GMOs and the Science of Supper Clubs
Food and agricultural scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) will have a big and tasty presence at this […]
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Posted on October 6, 2014
CALS played a key role in campus rollout of electronic lab notebooks
The recent announcement that the UW-Madison is partnering with LabArchives to provide researchers with electronic lab notebook (ELN) software did not come as a surprise […]