Category: Highlights
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Posted on January 13, 2014
Nominate colleagues for CALS faculty/staff awards: 3 weeks to go
You have just over three weeks to nominate your outstanding colleagues for one of the 2014 CALS faculty, academic staff and classified staff awards. Here […]
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Posted on January 8, 2014
Needed: Science exploration tables for MLK Day of Service event
You’re invited to participate in our 4th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Science to Service on January 20, 2014 at the Wisconsin Institutes for […]
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Posted on January 6, 2014
The human microbiome: Scientists work to understand the potential that microbes may hold for human health
Jim Steele used to be one of the skeptics. He’d be at a conference, listening to early research on the health benefits of probiotics. Steele […]
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UW experts help Monroe cheese makers dive into Greek yogurt
Monroe, Wis. has gone Mediterranean. A while back the Klondike Cheese Company—operated for five decades by the Buholzer family—shifted from Swiss, Cheddar and other common […]
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True teamwork: CALS alum hauls logs with horses for restoration project
In case you missed it, the Wisonsin State Journal posted some great photos of draft horses removing trees from Woodland Park in Monona as part […]
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Posted on December 23, 2013
A recap of the All-College Meeting
Over 100 faculty and staff attended the all college meeting on Tuesday, December 17 in Union South. Kate VandenBosch kicked things off with a brief […]
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CALS student crosses Europe by bike to promote sustainable ag
You may have heard the phrase “going the extra mile,” well how about 5,000? This past summer Tom Boyden, a CALS horticulture student involved in […]
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CALS alumnus does conservation research for Microsoft
Lucas Joppa, who received a BS degree in wildlife ecology from CALS in 2004, has a very interesting job. As a part of Microsoft’s Computational […]
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Posted on December 16, 2013
All-College meeting Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Please join your fellow faculty and staff at the CALS All College Meeting, tomorrow, December 17 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Varsity Hall III, Union South […]
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2013: CALS Year in Review
CALS had some big moments in 2013—from completing a major fundraising campaign to developing a better hamburger for Gilly’s Frozen Custard to discovering a promising […]