Imagine strolling down a grocery aisle, seeing a food product and knowing you played a role in its development. It’s a satisfying feeling for Nicole Williams, a research scientist with Kraft Foods, in Glenview, Ill., who earned a master’s degree in food science from the UW-Madison.

With childhood obesity on the rise, parents are paying more attention to what their children eat at school. The Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch project is working […]

If you have livestock, you inevitably have dead stock – a reality of animal agriculture. With the rising costs of rendering services and increased concern for biosecurity on farms, producers need to consider all their options for disposing of their dead livestock.

Cooperatives have consistently identified improved understanding of co-operative basics, particularly among young people and younger members, as a critical need. Addressing this need, the University of Wisconsin?s Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) has launched a website for high school students and young adults. This one-of-a-kind site offers learning modules on a number of relevant cooperative issues as well as resources on scholarships for young cooperators. Adding to this repository of information are links to games and other co-op websites.

She’s only been out of school for a couple of years, but Elizabeth Borgwardt is making a lot of bread.

Stacy Norin came to the UW-Madison with the idea of becoming an English teacher or a lawyer.

Dan Truttmann was a good student at New Glarus High School, but he didn’t really want to go on to college.

Many people dream of spending their retirement on a golf course. Michael Lee wanted to spend a career there.

Ron Amos’s career advice to undergraduates is to get the most out of their classes and work experiences. That?s what Amos, who earned both his bachelor?s and master?s degrees in horticulture at the UW-Madison, did. Today, the Madison native is the new owner of Evergreen Nursery, Inc., in Sturgeon Bay. Evergreen supplies other nurseries in 37 states and Canada with woody ornamental seedlings and plugs.

When Andrea Engebretson graduated from Beloit Memorial High School in 1992, she was interested in environmental science or psychology, but was unaware of the types of jobs available in these fields. After attending an advising meeting at the UW-Madison, soil science piqued her interest. Further conversations at a College picnic with Jerry Tyler and Jaya Iyer, professors in the soil science department, convinced her to pursue a major in soil science.