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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 […]
Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
Selected opportunities from CALS’ listing of non-federal funding opportunities in agriculture, life sciences and related fields. View and search the entire list (updated weekly!). Education […]
Federal Funding Opportunities
Federal funding opportunities from the week of June 9th – June 13th DOD Direct On-chip Digital Optical Synthesizer (DODOS) Modification 3 Transport Injured, Ill, and […]
CALS in the News for the week of June 9 – 13
News Kenosha County barn dance to celebrate 125th anniversary of CALS Country Today 6/9/2014 Mentioned: UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Mentioned: Farm and […]
Biochemist Aaron Hoskins receives Shaw Award
Aaron Hoskins, a CALS assistant professor of biochemistry, was one of two UW-Madison researchers selected to receive a $200,000 grant through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s […]