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.

John and Rita Leahy, Edward C. Sloan, and Ed Traisman will be inducted into the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame at a luncheon Thursday, May 1 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Madison.

The 2003 State FFA Career Development Events were held April 25 on the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences campus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Doug Maxwell, emeritus professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won this year”s Chair”s Award for Scientific Excellence from the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.

Ten students were recognized for outstanding academics or leadership at the Farm and Industry Short Course Graduation.