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Video: A day in the life of a food science student
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Video: A day in the life of a food science student

A team of food science grad students, including Wan Mei Leong, Kendra Hendrickson, Tuba Karaarslan, Emily Daw, and Mustafa Ozturk, assembled this video for student […]

Jul
19th
Juan Zalapa receives national award for efforts to help underrepresented students succeed
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Juan Zalapa receives national award for efforts to help underrepresented students succeed

Juan Zalapa has been selected to receive the Council for Opportunity in Education‘s 2013 National TRIO Achievers award. Zalapa is an assistant professor in the […]

Jul
19th
Non-Federal Funding Opportunities July 15-19
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Non-Federal Funding Opportunities July 15-19

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!) […]

Jul
19th
Genetics department leads the charge on recycling packaging waste
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Genetics department leads the charge on recycling packaging waste

About 30 percent of what goes into our landfills is packaging waste, and as a research university, we’re contributing our share, points out a post […]

Jul
19th
Federal Funding Opportunities July 15-19
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Federal Funding Opportunities July 15-19

DOD DoD Gulf War Illness Clinical Trial Award with Multiple-PI Option Historic Preservation and Architectural Conservation work at MCBCP Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency (DFBA) […]

Jul
19th
Radatz and Cooley to lead Discovery Farms
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Radatz and Cooley to lead Discovery Farms

After 31 years with University of Wisconsin-Extension as a county extension agriculture agent and founder and director of Discovery Farms for the last 13 years, […]

Jul
14th
CALS approves filling two more faculty positions
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CALS approves filling two more faculty positions

Based on recommendations from the CALS Academic Planning Council, the CALS administrative team has given the go-ahead for two additional faculty searches. These are in […]

Jul
14th
Do conservation easements hinder environmental management?
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Do conservation easements hinder environmental management?

Conservation easements have been signed to protect some 18 million acres of privately owned land in the U.S. But a study of easements in Wisconsin […]

Jul
14th
Recent retirements
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Recent retirements

Best wishes to colleagues who retired from CALS in the past three months. They include: Janice Dukelow, Hancock Ag Research Station (April) Nancy Gilberts-Keegan, Hancock […]

Jul
14th
Dairy farms are converging into “cow islands”
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Dairy farms are converging into “cow islands”

The nation’s dairy cows are moving closer together. Cows and milk production have shifted north and west, farther from cities, to converge in what economist […]

Jul
12th