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Go Big Read looking for book nominations that focus on global connections
The 2013-13 Go Big Read selection committee is soliciting book nominations that focus on global connections. Read this UW-Madison news release for details. The deadline […]
2013 Teaching and Learning Symposium proposals due Jan. 18
At UW-Madison, 2012-2013 has been named the Year of the Innovation. One of the year’s themes is Educational Innovation (http://edinnovation.wisc.edu) to reinvigorate how we teach […]
What the one-year Farm Bill extension means for land-grant colleges
The Fiscal Cliff bill that President Obama signed into law at the start of this year included a one-year extension of the 2008 Farm Bill. […]
Wisconsin – to some extent – is now part of the Corn Belt
In the most recent CALS podcast, ag economist Ed Jesse describes some interesting long-term trends in Wisconsin farm income. Looking at the time period from […]
Fundraising goal met to rebuild Center for Dairy Research & Babcock Hall Dairy Plant
Last Friday, the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research announced the successful completion of its $16 million private fundraising campaign to renew and rebuild the CDR […]
CALS in the News for the week of Jan. 5 – 11
In the News Why you shouldn’t read the news NewStatesman January 9, 2013 Quoted: Dominique Brossard, Life Sciences Communication Quoted: Dietram A. Scheufele, Life Sciences […]
Multistate Proposals Inviting Participation
NE_TEMP2061 – Commercial Greenhouse Production: Component and System Development NE_TEMP2081- Biological Control of Arthropod Pests and Weeds (from NE-1032) *************************************************** To View Proposals: 1. Go to […]
Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
Selected opportunities from CALS’ extensive listing of non-federal funding opportunities in agriculture, life sciences and related fields. View and search the entire list (updated weekly!) […]
Federal Funding Opportunities
New and revised Federal funding opportunities from the week of Jan. 7-11. DOC NOAA Climate Program Office Grants http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=213994 NIH Small Grants for New Investigators […]
CALS Moodle support and CALS computer labs/classrooms
Many instructors in CALS are aware of various implementations of Moodle, an open-source Learning Management System roughly similar to D2L, around campus for the last […]