DON’T FORGET!
• Students, faculty and staff urged to attend Jan. 26 CALS budget forum
• CALS morning break, Jan. 13
• CALS Ag Outlook Forum on Jan. 16
• Review announcements with deadlines

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Of eggheads and cheeseheads
• Pandemic influenza information
• CALS Spring Career Fair — Feb. 19
• Equity workshops for new graduate assistants

CONGRATULATIONS
• CALS student team wins national video contest
• Nature includes Sean Carroll’s research in list of “evolutionary gems”
• Two articles by Andrew Bent’s team make journal’s most-cited list
• Brent McCown to be honored by state’s cranberry growers

EVENTS
• Fourth Annual Darwin Day is Feb. 7
• Green Tier conference on sustainable business practices — March 3-4
• Grad School posts schedules for spring seminars and workshops

COMMUNICATIONS
• CALS scientists earned plenty of media attention in 2008
• CALS in the News: Dec. 22-Jan. 2 and Jan. 5-9
• Got video? We’d like to see it.

INTERNATIONAL
• Apply for Foreign Language and Area Studies grad fellowships by Feb. 15

RESEARCH
• Hands-on training for effort coordinators
• Research Admin 101
• American Heart Association application guidelines
• Federal and non-federal funding opportunities
• Multistate proposals inviting participation

TEACHING AND ADVISING
• Encourage students to apply for EPA fellowships by Feb. 2
• Assistance for students completing internships
• Scholarships for returning students and single parents – March 1 deadline
• CALS Short Course dorm house fellow applications due Jan. 20

BUSINESS SERVICES
• New forms, rates for calculating withholding tax for non-resident aliens
• Please use new W-4 withholding forms

HUMAN RESOURCES
• Templates for academic staff rate and title change letters
• Pam Arnold joined CALS human resources staff

CALLS TO NOMINATE
• Nominate for CALS faculty and staff awards by Feb. 6
• Nominate students for 2009 Outstanding Senior Awards by Jan. 15
• Nominate for UW-Madison Classified Employee Awards by Feb. 13
• Nominate for American Society for Plant Biologists awards by Feb. 27