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CALS in the News for the Week of October 10-14
In the News UW-Madison to lead national effort to improve quality of processed potatoes UW News 10/14/2011 Quoted: Paul Bethke, Horticulture Quoted: A.J. Bussan, Horticulture […]
NIH-Extramural LRP Application Deadline is November 15
NIH Loan Repayment Programs — Apply Now for Up to $35,000 of Annual Educational Debt Repayment The NIH is accepting applications for its extramural Loan […]
Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
American Association for Cancer Research Pancreatic Cancer-Career Development Awards https://cals.wisc.edu/research/funding/DisplayOpp.php?OppID=832 Pancreatic Cancer-Fellowship https://cals.wisc.edu/research/funding/DisplayOpp.php?OppID=834 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gates Vaccine Innovation Award https://cals.wisc.edu/research/funding/DisplayOpp.php?OppID=968 Burroughs Wellcome […]
Current Multistate Proposals Inviting Participation
NC_TEMP1038-“Methods to Increase Reproductive Efficiency in Cattle (NC1038)” NC_TEMP1041-“Enteric Diseases of Food Animals: Enhanced Prevention, Control and Food Safety” NCERA_TEMP184-“Management of Small Grain Diseases” NC_TEMP1039-“N-3 […]
November Drop-In Classes on NIH Public Access Policy
On two consecutive Mondays, November 14th and 21st, Rhonda Sager and Julie Schneider will present a class entitled “PMCIDs, my Bibliography, and the NIH Policy”. […]
Ag economist Paul Mitchell shares in national IPM award
Paul Mitchell, Associate Professor Of Agricultural And Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin Madison, is part of a multi-state research group to receive the […]
Pumpkin regatta video: “It’s a pumpkin inner-tube raft thing…”
Good thing last Saturday was so balmy, especially for the CALS Horticulture students who could not keep their “sleek sailing squash” upright in the 2011 […]
Berres’ app allows phone-it-in bird identification
Would-be birders are often stymied in their attempts to identify a particular species. As in, you can hear the bird but not see it, and […]
UW State Fair Day brought 5,000 visitors and 55 bags of school supplies
The UW-Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair on August 10 turned out an estimated 5,000 additional fairgoers for the day and generated a substantial […]
CALS alumna Florence Chenoweth is the 2011 Africa Prize Laureate
CALS alumna Florence Chenoweth is the 2011 Africa Prize Laureate, awarded by The Hunger Project. Cheoweth, currently the Liberian Minister of Agriculture, earned her masters […]