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CALS in the News for the Week of January 14-18
News Warmer Springs Mean Earlier Flowers – And That’s Not A Good Thing International Business Times 1/18/2013 Quoted: Stan Temple, emeritus, Forest and Wildlife Ecology […]
Federal Funding Opportunities
New and revised Federal funding opportunities from the week of Jan. 14-18. DOE Algae Biofuel Yield http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=215833 NIH Leveraging Existing Natural Experiments to Advance the […]
NSF Proposal Submission Requirements – Changes for 2013
NSF has released a new Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG), available online at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/nsf13_1.pdf The new PAPPG implements the following changes – […]
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!) […]
To DeFoliart, insects were both a vector for viruses and a way to feed the world
Eating insects was no joke to Gene DeFoliart. That’s likely why he declined offers to appear on late-night TV talk shows hosted by Johnny Carson, […]
New “Future of Food” seminar series open to CALS community, public
The Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Agriculture is putting on a new seminar series this spring semester called A Growing Dilemma: The Future of Food. While […]
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 […]