Teams of forestry students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University tied for second place in the third annual Upper Midwest Capstone Report Award Competition.

Robert G. Cassens, emeritus professor of meat and animal science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received the Nicholas Appert Award from the Institute of Food Technologists. Cassens received IFT’s highest honor for advancing the field of food science through his research on the use of nitrite as a meat-curing agent, and for his defense of the safety of cured meat. He received the award July 24 at the IFT’s annual meeting in Chicago.

As the air starts to get nippy in September and October, some kinds of insects begin to look around for a nice place to call home for the winter. Unfortunately, they may choose your house.

People often don’t think of late summer as a time for planting, but August is a very good time to seed grasses and legumes, according to Dan Undersander, University of Wisconsin-Extension/Madison forage and grazing specialist.

Alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will hold two scholarship fundraisers in connection with the Badger football game against Ball State University.

Raymond Guries, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of forestry, will receive the Carl Alwin Schenk Award from the Society of American Foresters at its 1999 National Convention in Portland, Ore. on Sept 11. The award, recognizing excellence in forestry education, comes from an organization that represents nearly 18,000 professional foresters and natural resource managers in the United States.

Harvey M. Jacobs has been named the new director of the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jacobs assumed his new post July 1.

The Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association will hold its Farm Progress Days Picnic from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 14. The picnic will be held at the Lancaster Agricultural Research Station, 4 miles south of Lancaster on Wisconsin Highways 35 and 81, just a few miles from the Farm Progress Days site.

Taking inventory of 275 million people may never come easy, but a UW-Madison rural sociologist is being honored for helping make it more efficient.

John Hansen of LaCrosse, founder of the Kwik Trip chain of convenience stores, and his wife, Donna, have donated $350,000 to the UW Foundation to renovate the dairy store in Babcock Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.