Spring rains may make flowers–and crops–grow, but when stormwater runs off fields it can carry topsoil, chemicals and nutrients such as phosphorus into rivers and streams. This spring, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist and his team will begin tests to understand the mechanisms of erosion by tracking sediment movement as well as the flow of water over fields.

Patrick Krysan (Horticulture/Genome Center of Wisconsin) has received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. The award, $700,000 over five years, will fund Krysan’s research efforts.

Edward J. Schantz, biochemist and emeritus professor of food microbiology and toxicology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died April 28, 2005 in Madison. He was 96 years old.

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.

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A newly discovered pathway by which cells protect themselves from a toxic byproduct of photosynthesis may hold important implications for bioenergy sources, human and plant disease, and agricultural yields.

The Wisconsin Cheese Grading Short Course, an intensive two-day course covering the principles and practices involved in grading natural cheeses, will be held June 7-8 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

From tropical tomato viruses to stressed-out pre-med students, about 25 undergraduate research projects from the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will be presented at a symposium on Saturday, April 30, at the J. F. Friedrick Center, 1950 Willow Drive, from 8 until noon.

The food is delicious, organic, and local-and it’s on the dinner menu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The public as well as students are invited to partake in feasts served by the University Housing Dining Service Tuesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 21. Many of the food items featured on the menu will come from Wisconsin farms.

While summer and county fairs are still a few months away, Wisconsin dairy cattle judges need to be thinking about renewing or obtaining their Wisconsin Purebred Dairy Cattle Association judging certification. PDCA has scheduled its annual judges training for Saturday, April 30 at Mapleton Valley Farm in Oconomowoc and Four-Winds Farm in Hartland.