For many students, internships provide lessons they don’t learn in classrooms and a bridge to a successful career.

Stan Temple has championed a shift toward a conservation philosophy premised on preserving biological diversity and maintaining ecosystem health.

With 15,000 acres in production, Wisconsin has led the nation in cranberry production for the last two years, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison is becoming the leading source for cranberry information in the nation. Teryl Roper, associate professor and fruit crop extension specialist, has supplied much of that information to the cranberry industry ,while fulfilling his other responsibilities in apples, cherries and berries. For his efforts in research, education and industry relations, Roper has received the 1997 Pound Extension Award.

Kitty turns killer when allowed to roam, and in rural Wisconsin, that spells doom for native songbirds as well as mice and other pest species. Studies have shown that nearly all free-ranging cats even the well-fed ones kill wildlife. A particularly skilled free-ranging house cat may kill more than 1,000 wild animals a year.

A new technique can help farmers artificially inseminate dairy cows at the proper stage in their reproductive cycle without continuous heat detection, say researchers at UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The method can also reduce days open and reduce the number of cull cows, saving farmers about $50 per cow per calving interval.

Richard F. Marsh, a veterinary virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died March 23, 1997 of a squamous cell carcinoma at his home in Middleton, Wis. He was 58.

Nitrogen deficiency is one of the biggest hurdles when adopting no-till corn production in Wisconsin. Most agronomists would say that ammonia lost from surface-applied urea-containing fertilizers (volatilization) and nitrogen tied up with organic matter in residue (immobilization) are the reasons more nitrogen is needed on no-till corn. However, these explanations are not supported by current research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The UW-Madison Academic Quadrathlon team celebrated its 20th anniversary with a win at the National Cattleman’s Beef Association National Beef Bowl competition in Kansas City, Mo. on Jan. 31.

For the past 30 years, poems by Dave Dickson, extension dairyman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have brightened the winter holidays in America’s Dairyland. By popular demand, the complete collection of Dickson’s holiday poems is now available. “Christmas in Dairyland” offers 60 pages of fun and reminiscence about cows, country living and Christmas.

If you register a deer on opening day of this year’s gun deer season, you might notice people going over deer carcasses with a fine-toothed comb. They’ll be collecting deer ticks, but please don’t question their sanity. Survey results will help researchers map the deer tick’s range in Wisconsin, according to Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.