Over three weeks this summer, a building made of straw bales and stucco will rise from the wind-swept Montana plains–an undertaking that is equally an exercise in green construction, an opportunity to assist with a much-needed early childhood learning center on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, and cultural partnership and immersion experience for undergraduate students.

As part of a capstone experience for her undergraduate degree, Katie Selin created a plan for environmentally friendly student housing and community space at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College.

A delegation of ten education officials from Thailand will visit Wisconsin from May 23 to June 3, with the goal of laying the groundwork for a long-term partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to improve science education in Thailand.

The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives will host the CooperationWorks! national training program for developers of new cooperative businesses May 16-20, 2005 at the J.F. Friedrick Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Graduate students spend years pursuing advanced degrees, and many follow up their Ph. D.s with post-doctoral fellowships. But after that, there’s a world of career opportunities available beyond academia–which is something that not all graduate students understand.

Baby boomers have been dubbed the

Are you wondering how you will get the nine daily servings of fruit and vegetables recently recommended by the US Department of Agriculture? The 2005 Farm Fresh Atlas makes healthy eating easy by placing information about locally grown produce, meat, eggs, cheese and other food at your fingertips.

Place names throughout the United States such as Montezuma, Aztec, Anahuac, Tula and others have traditionally been attributed to the romanticism of 19th-century U.S. archaeologists. But an ongoing, collaborative research effort that includes exploring cartographic, linguistic, agricultural, and cultural connections between the peoples of North and South America has challenged that view.

Scholarships worth $70,000 will be awarded this year to students attending the Farm and Industry Short Course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Prospective dairy farmers have until April 1 to apply for an innovative program, now entering its 11th year, to help them establish their own grass-based dairy farms in Wisconsin.