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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]