If it weren’t for Judy Peterson, an advisor in the College’s bacteriology department, Lodi native Marc Rott may have never earned his bachelor’s or doctorate in bacteriology years after he had dropped out of college. As a professor of microbiology at UW-La Crosse, Rott now shares his technical knowledge with students and tells them:

Nine years after earning her bachelor’s degree in dietetics from the College, Tracey Ryan has risen to one of the top positions in her field, chief clinical dietitian at the renowned Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee.

As a student in the UW-Madison?s bacteriology department, Scott Hunter wasn?t afraid to ask a lot of

Wildlife ecologist Nancy Mathews admits she had a few anxious moments last November. As part of a chronic wasting disease study, Mathews had dozens of deer traps set in two areas of the CWD

John Suttie, emeritus professor of biochemistry at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has received the 22nd annual Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research.

Michelle Soltero will receive the 2003 Sigrid Leirmo Memorial Award in Biochemistry.

With so many people using over- the-counter herbal supplements as a means to promote health, one UW-Madison researcher is wondering why we don”t hunt for health-promoting properties among the ordinary plants we grow for food.

Health insurance is almost always expensive for the self-employed, because they do not have access to large-pool group insurance and its associated lower premiums. However, among the self-employed, farmers are especially hard-hit.

The stories appear all too often. E. coli-contaminated beef causes sickness across a multistate region. Cryptosporidium in water sickens thousands in Milwaukee.

We may never know how chronic wasting disease got into Wisconsin’s wild deer herd, but we’re going to get a better idea of how the disease could move across the state’s farm and forest landscapes.