At this time of year, most people are aware that some holiday plants, such as mistletoe and poinsettia, can be toxic. In addition, wintertime is the season for poisonings from a variety of toxins, especially in rural settings, says Donna Lotzer, poison education coordinator at the UW Hospital Poison Prevention and Education Center.

With childhood obesity on the rise, parents are paying more attention to what their children eat at school.

As a freshman at Madison East High School, Lynette Brennan Childs knew that genetics was for her. Today, Childs is a research associate for Infigen, Inc. in DeForest. Formed in 1997, Infigen is a biotechnology company commercializing cloning services in the fields of human health and animal agriculture.

The 1984-1985 famine in Ethiopia has had a lasting impact on Noelle Johnson. After reading about the famine, she was determined to go to Africa to help. Today, she works with Catholic Relief Services to improve food security and sustainable agriculture in Africa. There, she applies what she learned earning a bachelor?s degree in nutritional sciences from the UW-Madison and a master?s in international agricultural development from the University of California-Davis.

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.