Category: Highlights
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Posted on March 3, 2014
Workshop on Friday morning: CALS Changing Climate priority theme
A discussion about the CALS Changing Climate priority theme takes place this Friday, March 7 from 10 a.m.–noon in room 103 Taylor Hall (the Taylor […]
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The Weather Channel comes to call
The Weather Channel paid a visit to the college and the Arlington Agricultural Research Station in pursuit of a story about how weather can affect […]
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Posted on February 24, 2014
Strategic planning workshops this week: Food Systems and Economic & Community Development
Two more workshops on next steps to address CALS priority themes will be held this week. Food Systems Workshop co-chairs: Monica White, Irwin Goldman, and Monica Theis […]
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Brian Holmes named interim associate dean for extension and outreach
Brian Holmes, who retired last year after a long career as professor and Extension specialist in biological systems engineering, has been named interim CALS associate dean […]
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Posted on February 21, 2014
Got questions? Creating tools to help milk producers decide.
Victor Cabrera isn’t an expert in cattle genomics or reproduction. He hasn’t spent a day in a lab running tests on the nutritional content of feed. In fact, […]
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Posted on February 17, 2014
Share your ideas at CALS priority theme workshops: Three more scheduled, three TBA soon
Discussions focused on CALS priority themes are under way. One was held last week, dates are set for three more and the other three will […]
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Posted on February 14, 2014
Science writing is a real blast
I kneeled over a small blue box covered in dials, hand poised over a detonator button. I yelled “fire in the hole,” three times (the […]
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Images of campus, then and now
We’ve all seen images of campus from past eras, and (if we pay attention) we have ample opportunity to see campus as it is today. […]
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Posted on February 10, 2014
Communicating science in a digital age
Two months after retiring from the Madison-based Wisconsin State Journal, where for 34 years he’d reported primarily on science and the environment, Ron Seely splays […]
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Students’ idea for sustaining dams can help developing countries capture water
Unpredictable flooding and droughts, intensifed by climate change, elevate the importance of dams for managing and storing water, even in places that normally receive adequate […]