The Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association board of directors recently elected Jennifer Vincent as president and Steven J. Thomas as vice president of WALSAA. Both are graduates of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In recognition of outstanding achievements in dairy extension work, Randy Shaver, professor and extension dairy nutritionist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Dairy Science, has received the DeLaval Dairy Extension Award from the American Dairy Science Association. Shaver received the award, which cited his valuable and noteworthy contributions to the dairy industry through proactive extension programming in dairy cattle nutrition, at the 2005 ADSA annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Roger W. Palmer, an associate professor of dairy science and dairy systems management extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of cancer Monday, Oct. 24, 2005, at his home. He was 62 years old.

Undergrads in scientific disciplines often it challenging to study abroad because of their rigorous academic schedules. A unique international program run by the UW-Madison’s bacteriology department offers a partial solution to this problem.

Bangkok may be half a world away from Madison, but there are many important connections between Wisconsin and Thailand.

Second-year student Jenna Klink says that she also values her research experience. Klink, a biology and women”s studies major from Slinger, Wis., conducted a survey […]

While developing a new agricultural industry for the dairy state, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher is working to address a major nutrition issue in the developing world: the scarcity of milk.

When it comes to energy metabolism, hummingbirds are the heavyweight champions of vertebrates. Pound for pound, the thumb-sized birds have higher energy demands than elephants.

When wildlife researchers and students from around the world converged on Madison in September, several of them made a point to stop by campus to take a look at some of the Aldo Leopold memorabilia on display in the library of the Department of Wildlife Ecology.

One of the isomers of conjugated linoleic acid, a group of fatty acids found in milk, is a natural regulator of the COX-2 protein, which plays a significant role in cancer and inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, according to a study published recently by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.