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CALS in the News for the Week of January 22 – 28
In the News How to help houseplants survive winter Popular Science, 1/25/22 Quoted: Johanna Oosterwyk, Horticulture Diverse cities, whiter suburbs, dying farms: 5 ways northeast […]
CALS APC agenda for Feb. 1 2022
U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center webinar: Microbial risk assessment for contaminated wells in Kewaunee Co. – Feb. 2
Quantitative microbial risk assessment for contaminated household wells in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin Dr. Tucker Burch Research Agricultural Engineer, USDA-ARS Wednesday, Feb. 2nd at 3 pm […]
Apply for American Family Funding Initiative data science research grants by March 11
The American Family Funding Initiative offers grants up to $100K to stimulate and support cutting-edge, highly innovative and groundbreaking research in the rapidly growing field […]
New faculty profile: Chuck Nicholson focuses on dairy markets and policy, food systems modeling
Chuck Nicholson joined the UW–Madison faculty in January 2022 as an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Funding for this dairy […]
Lunch webinar: Claudia Irene Calderón on respectful use of plant genetic resources – Feb. 3
Genetic resources collected in the fields of Indigenous communities has been the raw material out of which biological scientists have developed the crop varieties that […]
Nelson Institute lecture: How companies, NGOs and scientists are collaborating to help save the Amazon – Feb. 24
We invite you to join us as we discuss a new University of Wisconsin-Madison collaboration that is helping to address deforestation and its links to […]
Shawn Kaeppler elected AAAS Fellow
Thirteen University of Wisconsin–Madison scholars have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This year, 564 scientists, engineers and innovators […]
CALS Wellness Committee tip: How to manage the wintertime eating blues
The bitter, cold weather and short days of a Wisconsin winter often tempt us to eat a little more and exercise a little less. The […]
Dietram Scheufele receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Twelve faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest […]