The Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association recently recognized 10 sophomore students currently enrolled in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences as Outstanding Sophomores. Each student will receive a $750 scholarship for use during the 2001-2002 academic school year. Applicants received the award based on academics, school and community activities, work experience and a personal interview.

A number of faculty and staff members of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences were honored at the Gamma Sigma Delta awards banquet, April 17 at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

To answer producers’ calls for help in dealing with current and coming environmental regulations, Discovery Farms are being recruited to provide on-farm partnerships that will help to determine cost-effective best-management practices.

A student team representing the University of Wisconsin-Madison won first place in the oral presentation category of the 2001 Academic Quadrathlon. The competition was held during the joint Midwest section annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association, March 19-21 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Four people will be inducted into the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame at a ceremony Thursday, May 3, at the Best Western Inn Towner in Madison. The Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame was initiated in 1993 to recognize people who have contributed to the meat industry of Wisconsin.

Scholarships worth nearly $60,000 will be awarded to students attending the Farm and Industry Short Course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences this year.

Recent findings are leading to new insights into how best to improve the nutritional value of forage grasses and which approaches aren’t likely to pay off for producers.

Ag Source/CRI has been named the Friend of Short Course for 2001 by the Farm and Industry Short Course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The award was presented to Ag source representatives Jan. 27 at the Short Course reunion in Madison.

A major research award will help a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist uncover the rules that govern the complicated metabolic interactions common to all living cells.

Glen Curtis Pulver, emeritus professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died unexpectedly Monday, Dec. 4 at University Hospital in Madison. He was 71 years old.