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Weekend events celebrate Aldo Leopold
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Weekend events celebrate Aldo Leopold

Two events this weekend celebrate the work and life of Aldo Leopold: Saturday Science Program, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 10 am to noon, First Saturdays […]

Feb
25th
UW-made video and factsheet kick off regional series on making biofuel from perennial grasses
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UW-made video and factsheet kick off regional series on making biofuel from perennial grasses

A new factsheet and video created by BSE professor Kevin Shinners and Pam Porter, outreach specialist in the Environmental Resources Center, are the first in a series […]

Feb
25th
Happy 50th to the Lancaster ag research station
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Happy 50th to the Lancaster ag research station

The CALS Lancaster Agricultural Research Station reaches the half-century mark this year. It was established on Jan. 3, 1963 on two farms totaling 525 acres […]

Feb
25th
Welcome home to Wisconsin guard’s 82nd agribusiness team
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Welcome home to Wisconsin guard’s 82nd agribusiness team

Welcome home to the Wisconsin National Guard’s 82nd Agribusiness Development Team. This is the team that trained at CALS in the summer of 2011. The final 13 members […]

Feb
25th
Academic staff scholarships available for the Big Learning Event
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Academic staff scholarships available for the Big Learning Event

The Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff, in collaboration with the Academic Staff Executive Committee, is pleased to announce the availability of twenty […]

Feb
25th
March 7 forum: Engaging Change: Our Food, Our Energy, Our World. Register now.
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March 7 forum: Engaging Change: Our Food, Our Energy, Our World. Register now.

Engaging Change: Our Food, Our Energy, Our World — A UW-Madison Office of Sustainability Forum. Exciting presentations and discussions from UW-Madison Office of Sustainability Advisory Board members, Sire […]

Feb
25th
John Ralph to receive Anselme Payen Award
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John Ralph to receive Anselme Payen Award

Biochemistry professor John Ralph has been named the 2013 recipient of the Anselme Payen Award by the American Chemical Society‘s Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division. The award […]

Feb
25th
The food industry and obesity: NYT story begins with a CALS grad
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The food industry and obesity: NYT story begins with a CALS grad

Sunday’s New York Times Magazine cover story on the food industry and obesity begins with CALS alumnus James Behnke (MS 68, PhD 72). Behnke, a […]

Feb
25th
South of the Colorful Clouds
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South of the Colorful Clouds

CALS grad students are having amazing adventures and doing good work in China’s Yunnan province, home to some of the world’s most remote and distinctive ecological […]

Feb
25th
CALS in the News for the Week of Feb. 16-22
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CALS in the News for the Week of Feb. 16-22

In the News Here’s the scoop: Researchers at UW-Madison study ice cream Medill Reports Chicago 2/19/2013 Quoted: Rich Hartel, Food Science Quoted: Maya Warren, Food […]

Feb
22nd