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Update and submit syllabi for CALS courses by Feb. 2
To fulfill the expectations of federal compliance on how we communicate to students, we ask all instructors to include specific information on their syllabus for […]
CALS In the News for the week of Jan. 6 – Jan. 12
Dairy Farm Decline Wisconsin sees decline in number of dairy farms New York Times, 1/08/2018 Quoted: Steven Deller, Agricultural and Applied Economics Wisconsin sees decline in […]
Dan Schaefer named director of new meat science facility
If you’ve been on Linden Drive in the vicinity of the Dairy Cattle Center, it’s impossible to miss the construction going on at the site […]
Valuable potato specimens transferred to Wisconsin State Herbarium
When David Spooner’s elementary school teacher assigned the class to collect leaves, she didn’t tell the students the names of the trees. That didn’t sit well with […]
UW–Madison professor led fight to ban pesticide DDT 45 years ago
Forty-five years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release. “The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in […]
Blue Sky Science video: Why do chickens lay different-colored eggs?
When a Madison elementary school student posed the question “Why do chickens lay different-colored eggs?,” the Blue Sky Science team turned to CALS animal science’s and […]
New System policies relating to segregated fees and mileage reimbursement rates
This is a quick update on 3 recently approved policy revisions. UW System Administrative Policy 820, Segregated Fees The revised version of the policy has now […]
Zoerb returns to associate dean role in CALS
Heidi Zoerb, who had been serving as the interim associate dean and director at Cooperative Extension since Dec. 2016, returned to her role as CALS […]
Register Now – Feb. 6 EI Brown Bag: Creating and Sustaining Revenue-Generating (131) Programs
The following is a message from Steve Cramer, UW–Madison Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, and Jeff Russell, Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning and Dean of […]
Reminder: Call for Proposals for the Teaching and Learning Symposium due Jan. 29
The 2018 UW-Madison Teaching & Learning Symposium is set for May 17. The theme of this year’s event is “Connecting to Our Students.” UW–Madison has a […]