More than $18,000 was raised for scholarships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the annual WALSAA Football Fireup and Auction Sept. 11.

Three University of Wisconsin-Madison rural sociologists were honored by the Rural Sociological Society at its 1999 annual meeting in Chicago in August.

University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor Gene Summers received the Distinguished Rural Sociologist award from the Rural Sociological Society at its 1999 annual meeting in Chicago this August.

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.