Category: Highlights
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Posted on October 15, 2012
Sustainably produced, or “greenwashed?” New project will help producers document their use of sustainable practices
CALS researchers are leading a new $2.1 million, USDA-funded project designed to help vegetable producers and processors get rewarded in the marketplace for producing their […]
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CALS provides guidelines for Educational Innovation proposals
Guidelines are now in place for CALS educators who want to reconfigure curricula as part of the campuswide Educational Innovation initiative. That effort was established […]
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Posted on October 8, 2012
After 21,000 cheese sandwiches, CALS students know the drill—and the grill
The seriously long lines at World Dairy Expo are not made up of people waiting to see the million-dollar cows, the robot milkers or the […]
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“Most beautiful chimney” gets a facelift
We don’t know who votes, but apparently the smokestack affixed to the Ag Bulletin Building, located between Hiram Smith Hall and the soils building, is “the […]
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Ag Hall gets a new crop of rural art
Leave yourself a little extra time the next time you have business in or near Ag Hall so you can take in the new installation […]
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Posted on October 1, 2012
What makes science beautiful (and entertaining)? See this video.
What makes science beautiful? Find out by watching this video of the same name. It’s entertaining, and by viewing it, y0u’re enhancing the video’s success […]
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Veggies get picked at one end of campus and passed out at the other
Food doesn’t get more local than this—not on campus anyway. This past Friday, Girard Gorelick, Axel Adams and other members of F.H. King Students for […]
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Organic Valley stops at CALS to connect with “Generation O”
Organic Valley’s “Whose Your Farmer” tour made a stop on campus Monday. The tour is part of campaign “designed to nurture future generations of organic […]
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Posted on September 24, 2012
Center for Dairy Research gets federal innovation grant to commercialize research ideas
The Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research has been awarded one of seven $1 million i6 Challenge grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce to support […]
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Let’s do lunch on Wednesday at the Slow Food Cafe
Get delicious weekly lunches made from locally grown foods by Slow Food UW-Madison, the campus branch of the international Slow Food movement, which seeks to […]