Category: Highlights
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Posted on May 22, 2020
DC Smith Greenhouse distributes plants once destined for Family Gardening Day via Goodman, Badger Rock community centers
Featuring activities in and around Allen Centennial Garden, UW Family Gardening Day is a banner springtime community event at UW–Madison. Typically, families can enjoy learning […]
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Posted on May 18, 2020
May 19 virtual town hall: “Supporting Our Pan-Asian Communities in This Time of Crisis”
A partnership of community, education and government organizations will host a virtual town hall on May 19 in response to xenophobic and hateful attacks directed […]
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Extension offers crop update webinars throughout growing season
Agronomists, crop consultants and farmers can get timely crop updates from University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension experts by joining bi-weekly Badger Crop Connect webinars beginning May […]
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Posted on May 17, 2020
Door County dairy farm operated by CALS alumni continues relationship-driven business despite supply chain challenges
Lauren Brey, along with her husband Jacob, his brother Tony, and sister-in-law Moriah, own and manage Brey Cycle Farm — a 600-cow farm in Sturgeon […]
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Posted on May 11, 2020
Class of 2020 celebrates virtual commencement
The CALS Class of 2020 celebrated their commencement virtually on Saturday. While it wasn’t how anyone expected to celebrate, graduates found ways to have memorable […]
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Posted on May 8, 2020
Five CALS-affiliated research initiatives receive UW2020 awards
Five research proposals with CALS faculty as principal investigators, co-PIs, or co-investigators are among the 12 recipients recently selected for Round 6 of UW2020: WARF Discovery […]
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Combining mouse and human data uncovers new gene regulating cholesterol
Precision medicine has the potential to tailor treatments to a patient’s unique genetic sequence. But achieving this precision — or developing new drugs — requires […]
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Posted on May 4, 2020
VandenBosch: Furlough information for CALS employees
This e-mail was sent to all CALS faculty, staff and graduate students on 4/29/20. Following Chancellor’s Blank’s message earlier today about furlough, work-share programs, reassignments […]
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Researchers create hybrids of six yeast species to combine useful traits
Researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a method to combine traits from up to six different […]
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APL debuts COVID Crush virus transmission simulation game
The Applied Population Lab recently debuted a “toy model” of disease transmission that serves as an educational game. COVID Crush, developed by Caitlin Bourbeau and […]