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CALS in the News for the Week of August 13-17
In the News Potato gene bank stores world’s varieties Los Angeles Times 8/15/2012 Quoted: Shelley Jansky & David Spooner, Horticulture Drought creates danger of toxic […]
2013 Summer Internship Opportunities at Agricultural Research Stations
Applications for the Agricultural Research Stations’ Summer Internship Program are now being accepted and are due December 14, 2012. A summary of this opportunity is […]
Calls for proposals (Revised): FY14 Hatch and McIntire-Stennis – due Sept. 14
UPDATE 8/10/2012: In addition to the RFP language change noted below, the required budget worksheet has been updated to reflect new fringe benefit rates which […]
Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
American Association for Cancer Research International Award for Cancer Research (Nomination due Sept 12) https://cals.wisc.edu/Research/funding/DisplayOpp.php?OppID=273 American Diabetes Association Microbiome and Metabolic Changes in Diabetes and […]
Federal Funding Opportunities
DOD Traumatic Brain Injury Research Award http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=191293 Minerva Research Initiative http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=191893 NSF Advances in Biological Informatics http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5444&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click Research Experiences for Undergraduates http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click Geography and Spatial […]
Transitional Advising Service: New resource for students
As you may know, the CALS Undergraduate Programs & Services (UP&S) Office has successfully acquired MIU funding for two Student Services Coordinators. Both positions are […]
Free bus pass distribution begins this Friday
Faculty, academic staff, classified employees, LTEs, emeriti, and UW Health Employees are encouraged to pick up their 2012-2013 bus pass. This commuter solution is subsidized […]
Two big ag research milestones in Marshfield this week
An August 16 “Rededication” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Marshfield Agricultural Research Station will celebrate two milestones: the station’s 100th anniversary and the startup of […]
Avoid Linden Dr. this week
Asphalt repairs began on the corner of Observatory Drive and Charter St. last Friday. Bus lines were redirected off Observatory and back onto Linden Drive, which temporarily became two-way again. But […]
Sowing the seeds for a new generation of organic plant breeders
Plant breeders who develop new vegetable varieties for organic farming systems are far and few between. The same goes for graduate students who want to […]