Five people will be inducted into the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame at a ceremony Thursday, May 4 in Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Pesticide Use and Risk Reduction project is awarding grants totaling $151,254 for nine research projects on alternatives to pesticides used on Wisconsin crops.

Scholarships worth $55,000 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.

David Mladenoff, a University of Wisconsin-Madison landscape ecologist, and William Baker, a landscape ecologist at the University of Wyoming, have edited Spatial Modeling of Forest Landscape Change, a new book from Cambridge University Press. The book presents a variety of approaches researchers are taking in applying computer models to studies of large, forested landscapes.

Wisconsin Rep. Alvin Ott of Brillion and East Central Select Sires will be honored for their contributions to the University of Wisconsin Madison Farm and Industry Short Course at its annual alumni reunion in Madison Saturday, Jan. 29. The reunion will be held at Jingles restaurant, 232 E. Olin Ave., across from the Dane County Coliseum.

Ian Coxhead considers himself an environmentalist, but he wasn’t happy with the environmentalists he saw on the news from the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle.

I’ve been trying to think of a logical reason, to jot a few lines for this Holiday Season.

Gather ’round the piano, find the music for Winter Wonderland,

Richard Vilstrup and the late Donald R. Peterson, both of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, were inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame during a ceremony Oct. 16 at San Antonio, Texas.

Unique proteins hidden within whey help prevent ear infections in children, improve iron absorption in infants, boost the nutritional value of foods and bring more money to farmers and whey processors, says a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher.