Category: Students
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Posted on September 16, 2019
UW students develop skills, networks at wildlife summer camp
At the end of a dock on a placid lake, Abby Haydin taps “play” on her phone, sending tunes to a wireless speaker. She is far […]
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Posted on August 27, 2019
Summer ‘QuickStart’ program helps CALS freshmen connect to college early, save on time and tuition
On a typical morning at Doorco Holsteins in Brussels, Wisconsin, Austin Vandertie BSx’22 would be helping his parents milk the 40-cow herd, feed calves, spread manure, or […]
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Posted on July 24, 2019
UW–Madison food science students earn silver in national food development contest with innovative dessert
Delicious desserts may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of chickpeas, but a team of UW–Madison food science students […]
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Posted on July 5, 2019
Plant Breeding: ‘The Slowest of the Performing Arts’
The table beet is a biennial plant. That means, left to its own devices, a beet plant takes a full two growing seasons to complete […]
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Posted on June 6, 2019
UW–Madison students gain wildlife ecology experience during summer field course in Northwoods
Additional photographs available at CALS Flickr For two weeks in late May, Kemp Natural Resources Station was home and headquarters to 24 UW–Madison students gaining […]
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Posted on May 10, 2019
Microbiology capstone course plumbs life’s mysteries in the deep ocean
As one of April’s last snowstorms swirls outside, obscuring the view of west campus, the students’ thoughts inside turn to warmer climes. Much warmer. Some […]
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Posted on May 8, 2019
To live and learn together: Residential learning communities immerse CALS students in unique, focused academic experience
The summer vegetables sag in the wake of the first frosts. But the low October sun still warms the fields of the Eagle Heights Community Garden as Devon […]
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Posted on May 7, 2019
Commencement 2019: A look at some of this spring’s notable graduates
Launching a scholarship — even before graduating Abagail Catania, an agricultural business management major, took the unusual step of creating a scholarship for other undergraduates while […]
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Posted on April 25, 2019
CALS students take top honors in UW–Madison Student Employee of the Year competition
University of Wisconsin–Madison dairy science student Morgan Larson helps take care of the campus Meat Lab and the students who work there. Auna Kaufmann-Schwartz, a […]
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Posted on April 24, 2019
NSF awards 40 fellowships to UW–Madison students
The National Science Foundation has awarded 40 UW–Madison students with Graduate Research Fellowships. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding, early-career graduate students […]