White cabbage butterflies may soon be soaring through space as well as fluttering across your garden. The butterflies and special fast-growing plants will be the focus of a NASA-sponsored workshop for biology teachers in late July on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

As trees leafed out this spring, an international group of researchers headed to northern Wisconsin. There a unique, long-term study is revealing how air pollution […]

A milk pasteurization and process control certification course will be held Aug. 20-21 at the Babcock Dairy Plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, working with an Illinois city and a Milwaukee County Zoo curator, hope to surgically scale down an urban deer herd that has outgrown its welcome. Sterilizing does should eventually, and non-lethally, pare deer numbers in the Highland Park herd, according to Nancy Mathews, a wildlife ecologist at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Registration is now open for a four-day fishing course designed for people who want to gain a greater appreciation of aquatic resources around them, and improve their ability to catch fish.

People who care about wildlife and the environment will have a new way to act on their concern in 2002. They can buy “Healthy Grown” potatoes.

Interim Farm and Industry Short Courses will be offered the weeks of Jan. 7-11 and Jan. 14-18 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The application deadline is Dec. 15. Course fees include registration and instructional materials. For registration forms or information on parking and lodging, call CALS Outreach Services, (608) 263-1672. For more information on course content, call Rick Daluge, (608) 262-3127.

Scott A. Rankin has joined the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as assistant professor of food science and extension food processing specialist. He will develop and provide outreach programs to the dairy processing industry, especially in the area of fluid milk, ice cream, and cultured products. He will also provide support to the farmstead milk processing industry.

A short stroll along Linden Drive and down Henry Mall takes visitors past the sites of some of the biggest scientific achievements of the past century. Those locations are no longer anonymous, thanks to a series of 19 plaques that highlights accomplishments at the UW-Madison”s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

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.