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Federal Funding Opportunities
Federal funding opportunities from the week of June 16th – June 20th DOD DSO Office-Wide DOE Water Power Manufacturing Modification 1 DOI Multi-Scale Program to […]
CALS in the News for the week of June 16 – 20
News Lyme disease an ongoing battle in Wisconsin Appleton Post Cresent 6/17/2014 Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, Entomology PS Seasoning & Spices turning up the heat in […]
2014 UW-Madison Women & Leadership Symposium—July 14
Registration is open for the 2014 UW-Madison Women & Leadership Symposium, which takes place on Thursday, July 10 at the Pyle Center. Please download and post the flyer. Spread […]
Quasquicentennial challenge: 125 gifts in 125 hours. Starts Wednesday.
In honor of our quasquicentennial, we are issuing a challenge to the alumni and friends of the college: 125 gifts to the CALS Annual Fund […]
Jean Petersen retirement reception—June 19, 3:30 p.m.
Please join the Laboratory of Genetics as we celebrate Jean Petersen’s 31 years of service with a retirement reception on Thursday, June 19 at 3:30 […]
Report from Iceland: A “smoke” of midges
It looks like smoke. But the above photo shows the “‘smoke monster’ (for you Lost fans) effect of a massive midge emergence from the central (and probably […]
Celebrate National Pollinators Week with the Wisconsin Wild Bee Guide
Happy National Pollinators Week. It’s well worth celebrating here in Wisconsin, where more than 500 native wild bee species play an essential role in pollinating […]
Highly cited researchers: Richard Amasino, Jiming Jiang, John Ralph and Richard Vierstra
Four CALS researchers were included in a list of most highly cited. Richard Amasino, Jiming Jiang, John Ralph and Richard Vierstra ranked “among the top 1 […]
Allen gardens pond is new and improved (i.e. it has water again)
If you’ve been around the Allen Centennial Gardens recently you’ve likely noticed piles of rocks, machinery noise. And and—if that didn’t deter you from taking a tour, you […]
The right stuff: Phil Townsend shares remote-sensing expertise with NASA astronauts
Forest and wildlife ecology professor Phil Townsend is in Houston this month to train astronaut candidates at the Johnson Space Flight Center. eCALS caught up […]