GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Keep the hot dogs hot and the potato salad cool!
• New department chairs announced
• Leanne Tigges named CALS Director of Faculty Development
• CALS will help pilot new campus web content management system
• New Wiscard serves as campus photo ID, debit and meal card, and offers building access
• Class for freshman engineers needs service projects
• Bill Hoyt retires as head gardener of the Allen Centennial Gardens
• UW-Madison Day at the Fair website is online
• Continuity of Operations Planning is geared toward major disruption of activities
• Campus energy facts for water

CONGRATULATIONS
• Doug Weibel named as Searle Scholar
• Dan Gianola travels to Berlin to accept Humboldt Research Award
• Joe Lauer is president-elect of Crop Science Society of America
• Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program to honor Gerry Campbell on July 19
• Article by Srinivasan Damodaran is “most accessed”
• CALS students elected as leaders of state FFA Association

EVENTS
• Arlington dairy facility grand opening — July 30
• CALS Ice Cream Social July 31
• Research stations list public events
• Save Sept. 6 for CALS Football Fireup

INTERNATIONAL
• Submit proposals for Laura W. Bush Traveling Fellowship by Aug. 5
• Call for proposals to use genetic diversity to address environmental challenges
• Apply for Fulbright Scholar grants to support collaborations in South Africa
• Social Science Research Council offers Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

RESEARCH
• Funding Opportunities
• Best Practices: Gift Checks
• Multistate research proposals
• Training opportunities: Research proposals and budgeting

TEACHING AND ADVISING
• Submit Summer Grades before August 1 (no exceptions)
• PEOPLE program seeks CALS volunteers for guest lectures or lab tours

HUMAN RESOURCES
• New I-9 Form effective July 1
• Campus offers two Sponsored Project Administration seminars this summer

IN THE NEWS
• CALS in the News June 23-27 and June 30 – July 3
• State residents’ opinions of UW-Madison are quite favorable, poll suggests
• Editorial underscores technology’s role in Wisconsin’s economic development