Category: Economic and Community Development
- Posted on February 24, 2011
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Posted on February 18, 2011
Midwest Dairy Challenge draws over 65 students to Menomonie, Wisconsin
The seventh Annual Midwest Dairy Challenge, which ran February 9-11, 2011, attracted 68 students from 16 universities and colleges to the event hosted by the […]
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Five inducted into Meat Hall of Fame
The Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame will induct five new members this spring. They include an African American entrepreneur who built a business based […]
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Posted on February 15, 2011
Babcock’s artisans spread cheese expertise to Ecuador and beyond
Anne Topham has been many places to talk about goat milk and cheese, but San Bernardo, Ecuador was different. The air was cold at 10,000 […]
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Posted on February 9, 2011
Darwin celebration expands to three days
Forget the finches and orchids. The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2011 Darwin Day celebration is all about you, Homo sapiens. This year’s celebration of Charles Darwin’s […]
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Posted on February 7, 2011
Instrument makers give essential support to research enterprise
In engineering and the physical, medical and psychological sciences, equipment is often a critical barrier between a bright hypothesis and a scientific achievement. Science by […]
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Posted on February 2, 2011
Frederick “Fritz” Usinger IV
It’s the Old World recipes, it’s the 70-plus kinds of sausage (including blutwurst), it’s the signature elves. Usinger’s Famous Sausage is a Milwaukee institution, founded […]
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Girl Scouts learn to extract DNA
This past January, 48 middle school-aged Girl Scouts learned how to extract DNA from strawberries during two “Biochemistry in the Kitchen” science outreach events. The […]
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Posted on January 28, 2011
Stan Temple: A life saving threatened species
It is an icy winter Monday, and Stan Temple, for the sake of a shortened semester, must cram two lectures into one for the 300 […]