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CALS Student Association

The CALS Student Association shall be an organized, unified voice for all students interested in agricultural and life sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The purpose of the CALSSA shall be to develop student leaders and promote agriculture, the life sciences, and the Wisconsin Idea in academia and the community.

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Gluten-free waffle sends UW food team to the finals

UW-Madison to host global soil carbon conference June 3-6

CALS experts offer help to former prison farm that feeds the needy

CALS experts offer help to former prison farm that feeds the needy

Ruark: soils key to reducing greenhouse gases - Audio

Two CALS scientists awarded Morgridge grants for engaged scholarship efforts

Johanna Oosterwyk

Nelson: UW cradle of discovery of vitamins - Audio

Nelson: Cradle of discovery of vitamins - Audio (6-minutes)

CALS leads new project to help dairy farms be greener and more resilient

CALS leads new project to help dairy farms be greener and more resilient

CALS leads new project to help dairy farms be greener and more resilient

Decline in snow cover spells trouble for many plants, animals

Decline in snow cover spells trouble for many plants, animals

Skjolaas: slow down, stay safe this spring - Audio

Family Gardening Day May 11 at Allen Gardens and D.C. Smith Greenhouses

Ride to Farm on June 1: Ride or pledge to help CALS coach beginning farmers

Beetle-dwelling yeast holds promise for biofuel production

New science poised to bring back lost species

Blooms are behind in late spring at the Arboretum

Wisconsin Farm to School programs: Challenges and rewards

Beetle-dwelling yeast holds promise for biofuel production

New living, learning community to welcome biology students

Nack: Birdathon kicks off in May - Audio

New ‘green’ method to help upgrade biomass waste into valuable chemicals

Susan Paskewitz

Classes In The Park Unite Middle Schoolers With College Students, Nature

CALS seeks new Farm and Industry Short Course director

Tips for going to college - Audio

Around state, Lyme disease risk is rising

A CALS-trained teacher brings bioenergy research into high school classrooms

U.S. Department of Energy renews GLBRC funding

Restaurant flips for UW students' burger

CALS seeks nominations for honorary recognition, alumni and service awards

Wisconsin farmland value trends up - Audio

The Anti-Cancer Properties of Onions

Climate Campaigners Try Flooding the (Comment) Zone

CALS students develop new burger patty for Gilly’s Frozen Custard

CALS community invited to participate in CALS Week 2013

CALS forest ecologist will direct UW's new biology-focused residential learning community

UW Day at the State Capitol

UW Day at the Capitol showcases research, innovation

Bioenergy research hub in Madison renewed, awarded $125 million over five years

UW's Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center gets 5-year extension

Deer ticks: not just for Lyme disease anymore - Audio

UW-Madison campus projects clear first hurdle

Meat Industry Hall of Fame inducts three May 2

Heart disease gene uncovered - Audio

Badger study sheds light on Wisconsin's elusive state animal

Governor Scott Walker statement on capital budget

Lauer: the protective value of transgenic corn hybrids - Audio

Large crowds attend Dairy Cattle Center opening

Dave Nelson: Researcher, teacher and collector

The quest to make locally crafted meats as renowned as the state's artisan cheese

Public tours refurbished Dairy Cattle Center

Potato late blight likely in 2013 - Audio

The 'nasty effect': How comments color comprehension

"Brown gold”: Project turns dairy farm into cellulosic bio-refinery

18th Annual Breakfast on the Farm on campus – Sunday, April 14

Small differences in how a technology is defined can make a big difference in how the public feels about it

New life for campus dairy facility - Audio

UW-Madison dairy facilities improving: Wisconsin Dairy News

This story stinks

How Wisconsin's climate is changing

New tomato varities boost late blight resistance - Audio

Here’s the scoop: Researchers at UW-Madison study ice cream

Double doesn't have to meant trouble: UW research aims to make twin calves a route to more efficient beef business

UW–Madison, UW–Extension and UW Colleges Day comes to the Capitol

Optimizing harvest of perennial grasses for biofuel

UW-Madison team's factsheet and video kick off new series on producing switchgrass for biofuel

4-H youth leadership found in Ag Truths Not Tales program - Audio

Cropp: State dairy farmers may see higher milk prices

Science + art exhibit focuses on the beauty of a cure

Welcome the cows back to campus at March 9 dedication

Trolls are ruining science journalism

More water for the desert—and beyond

More water for the desert—and beyond

Do GMO Crops Really Have Higher Yields?

Do GMO Crops Really Have Higher Yields?

Tedeschi: Farm to School program grows - Audio

Trolls win: rude blog comments dim the allure of science online

Value of modified corn is more in reducing losses than boosting yields

CALS bacteriologist elected president of American Society for Microbiology

Five things everyone should know about Wisconsin's tension zone

New Research Concludes Pasture Cheeses are "Quantifiably Different"

Strong 2012 helps Wisconsin keep title as top cheese producer

Tracking a twinning gene - Audio

Dominique Brossard

"Red barns" go green: a new option for sustainable farm buildings

Preserving science news in an online world

Contemplating a world without birdsong

Wisconsin vegetable crops show strength, growth - Audio

Students seek opportunity, employers looking to hire

UW School for Beginning Apple Growers offered in March

For Wisconsin farmers dealing with wild swings in weather, adaptation is the key

Experts say food production will need to double by 2050

Surveying tick populations with Susan Paskewitz

Surveying tick populations with Susan Paskewitz

Beef prices could see big increase

Jones: Wisconsin farm costs look stable for 2013 - Audio

Rainfall holds key to Wis. agricultural outlook

Despite drought, heat and higher costs, state farm income was second highest ever

CALS biochemist among UW scientists honored for records of invention

WI Center for Dairy Research goes state of the art

Spring flowers blooming much earlier, based on Leopold, Thoreau records

Stephenson: dairy prices firm for 2013, fluid milk sales continue slide

In the eastern U.S., spring flowers keep pace with warming climate

Mark Stephenson

With Golden Guernsey's Bankruptcy, Is Wisconsin Losing Its Dairy Dominance?

A successful campaign for Babcock

Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research reaches $16 million fundraising goal

Jesse: more crop income, less livestock income - Audio

The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck

Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum takes place on Jan. 23 on UW-Madison campus

Online comments hurt science understanding, study finds

Researchers: Online science news needs careful study

Jesse: farm income solid in '12, weather sets stage for '13 - Audio

Sign up now for the Jan. 23 Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum

'Dairy cliff'? Milk prices poised to spike unless Congress acts

Bucky's Butchery teaches how to bring home the bacon

A warmer world favors bark beetles over trees

Farm and Industry Short Course celebrates 128th anniversary at Jan. 26 reunion

Stephenson: rumors of $8 a gallon supermarket milk prices? Not likely

Campus open for essential functions only; no in-person final exams Thursday

Finding safer organic and natural meat preservatives - Audio

Campus inclement weather guidelines

Sarah Pfatteicher named CALS associate dean for academic affairs

Deadly fungus outlives bats, Wisconsin study finds

Bad news for bats: deadly fungus can persist in caves

Bad news for bats: deadly fungus can persist in caves

Gould: Wisconsin dairy business climate beats California - Audio

What have we learned about the true benefits of vitamin D and its promise?

Low rain/snow totals could make for worse drought in 2013

Writer Apps brings ghosts, factory farm to Ames County

Student experience: learning agriculture - Audio

UW-Madison offers school for beginning market growers in January

Bacteria found in cow rumens could be harnessed to process biofuel

Bacteria found in cow rumens could be harnessed to process biofuel

Joe Lauer

Van Deelen: wolf and deer hunting seasons intertwined, complicated - Audio

Van Deelen: wolf and deer hunting seasons intertwined, complicated - Audio

CALS professors Paul Ahlquist and Dietram Scheufele named AAAS fellows

CALS professors Paul Ahlquist and Dietram Scheufele named AAAS fellows

Ruegg: Mastitis bacteria changing? Yes. Increasing resistence? Not so much - Audio

Ruegg: Mastitis bacteria changing? Yes. Increasing resistence? Not so much - 7 minute audio

Milk prices soften for dairy farmers, Wisconsin bucks national trends

Talk examines American Indian agriculture and food systems

Curiosities: Is there something in turkey that makes a person sleepy?

Learn about "sensitive plants"

Future foresters learn among the trees

From farm fields to bluebirds: Heeding nature's climate clues

Ron Kean: why turkey is called turkey - Audio

Cross-campus center for bioscience students being developed

Lowest corn yeild in years seen in drought fallout

Deer, wolf and hunting: Professor shines spotlight of data on a durable debate

UW contingent among Kavli Frontiers of Science fellows

Land O'Lakes Foundation Donates $200,000 to University of Wisconsin

New leadership for Farm and Industry Short Course

China cues up dairy business with Wisconsin - Audio

UW student awarded one of nation's first organic plant breeding fellowships

Survey offers a new look at Wisconsin logging

Hunting for beginners: Program aims to stem an alarming drop in hunters

Having "local" on the label is good business for Wisconsin winemakers

Soybean yields nematode resistance clue - Audio

Soybean yields nematode resistance clue - Audio

Michael Boettcher

How birds find their way

Farm and Industry Short Course Preview Days Nov. 28 & 29

Beyond the chainsaw: A new look at Wisconsin's loggers

Beyond the chainsaw: A new look at Wisconsin's loggers

State logging more intense, increasingly mechanized - Audio

CDR helps fuel the Badgers with an all-Wisconsin recovery drink

Licensing agreement between startup Hyrax and WARF to accelerate commercial development

U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce to visit the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research

UW-Madison and UW-Extension Day in Marinette

October dairy report: Fewer cows, less milk per cow across nation, but not in Wisconsin

Helping women help themselves in India

Adrienne Shelton: A new phase for organic seed - Audio

New farm-to-school project aims to make it easier for public schools to serve WI vegetables

Feed cost will cut into milk output

GLBRC helps bring bioprospecting lab to high schoolers

Questions abound before Wisconsin's wolf hunt

UW Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmer school offers classes and mentoring at sites across the state

Wisconsin Coverts Project teaches people how to manage state's woods

UW-River Falls joins dairy partnership with Chinese university

Carrie Laboski: The Drought, The Soil Nitrogen, The Potentials - Audio

UW leads effort to help growers and processors demonstrate sustainability

Unusual genetic structure confers major disease resistance trait in soybean

Networks like split-screens in debates, even if the candidates don’t

Energy from Wisconsin cow manure could replace a coal plant

The Badger Dairy Club cheesestand

“Class-grass” concerts celebrate the culture of agriculture

Chris Rickert: Focus funds on manure, not milk

Wisconsin whey muscles its way to global food importance

Amy Stanton: what makes a happy cow - Audio

Fall foliage puts on brilliant fireworks display of color

Company at Dairy Expo helps farmers turn manure into cash cow

Studies point to rising role for women scientists at UW-Madison

Amin Fadl

Five things everyone should know about... quinoa

Barb Ingham: Drying tomatoes tasty switch - Audio

National Guard troops take farm techniques to Afghanistan

"Citizen scientists" are tracking wolves, monitoring streams, banding birds and more

Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison wins federal innovation grant

Vince Davis: Caution if taking a cover crop to feed cattle - Audio

High schoolers can 'test-drive' CALS at visit days beginning Oct. 19

Documentary filmmaker Fritz Albert dies at age 90

CALS to honor Robert and Carol Black, Roger Cliff, Karl Klessig, Martin Burkhardt and Ken Shapiro

Campus cows will not skip their spring semester classes

New traffic law changes how you pass slow vehicles - Audio

Ron Kean is the go-to guy for backyard chicken questions

Dairy innovation center to shut down

USDA honors project led by UW-Madison professor

Barb Ingham: Safe tomato canning - Audio

Tour of honeybee observation hive

Research on hive microbes may lead to better understanding of honeybee disease

UW scientists probe, attack late blight in potatoes

Amanda Gevens:Tomato late blight hits state crop - Audio

Looking back to see ahead: How a CALS demographer predicts the state's 30-year population trends

UW building plans luring big donors from dairy, meat industries

Stem cells: A culture war gone quiet

UW-Madison plans to build new labs and classrooms to support innovation by dairy, meat and poultry processors

Quest for low fat low sodium cheese - Audio

37 years as a farm vet make a great background for teaching students about dairy cattle management

Two CALS faculty members among eight named to WARF professorships

Cropp: Milk prices likely to rise in face of drought and uncertainly

Retired professors band together to teach and preserve CALS history

The culture of ag: CALS' unique legacy of celebrating the arts and humanities in agriculture

Agronomy and soils field day scheduled for Aug. 29 at Arlington Ag Research Station

Shawn Conley: Wheat a bright spot in state crop mix - Audio

OSA attends student symposium on organic plant breeding

Educational innovation at CALS: An Inside UW interview with Brad Barham

Sowing the seeds for a new generation of organic plant breeders

AhR Pharma and WARF sign exclusive license for cancer-fighting hormone

Experts say stress is causing trees to show their colors ahead of schedule

Finding greener pastures - Audio

Million-dollar Keck Foundation grant funds UW-Madison genome research

Asked to get slim, cheese resists

Spud bank stores world's varieties

Joe Lauer: State corn crop still has a chance - Audio

CALS offers new course focused on managed grazing systems

Why do grilled foods taste so good?

Undersander: the alfalfa crop in dry weather - Audio

Undersander: Dealing with alfalfa in a drought - Audio

August 16 "rededication" will celebrate Marshfield Ag Research Station's centennial and USDA Dairy Center's startup

Growing a green lawn means finding grasses that need less water, says UW turf specialist

Why is cheese yellow when milk is white?

Award-winning instructor teaches UW Short course students how to manage wildlife on the farm

Mud-slinging enters eebate over ethanol’s impact on gasoline prices

Heat, drought make for potent peppers

Madison prepares for 'inevitable' emerald ash borer invasion

UW System protests cuts to minority scholarship program

Time to toot the 'high tech' horn

CALS welcomes a new National Guard team for Ag 101 training

Soybeans respond to drought - Audio

Drought expected to drive up cost of milk, cheese

Lawn experts advise picking a watering plan during drought

Grass roots: Keep off the grass to save your drought-damaged lawn

Report says crops in poor condition

CALS turfgrass researchers are coming up with water-saving practices for lawn care

UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee award inter-institutional research grants

Protecting Your Tree from the Emerald Ash Borer

Area's corn crop could be total loss

Undersander: Managing dry pastures in 2012 - Audio

Down on the cacao farm: Sloths thrive at chocolate source

A smidge of midge

Bill Bland

Mission: Delicious — What makes Babcock ice cream so good to eat

Wild parsnip gaining ground

Corporate open house - July 12

Nancy Esser named superintendent of UW Marshfield Ag Research Station

New meat biology lab to bolster Wisconsin business - Audio

Groups advocate fair trade in dairy industry, ask consumers to pay more for milk to save farms

Drought takes hold in Southern Wisconsin

UW-Madison gets $3 million grant to train new scientists to collaborate on complex conservation challenges

Crops, people wilt in intense heat across southern WI

Taste of victory: UW food scientists' recipes win big

War-related climate change would substantially reduce crop yields

Food science teams find winning recipe for national food competitions

How to beat the heat? Officials urge finding ways to cool off in sizzling temps

Rural proverty in Wisconsin likely to increase - Audio

Crop expert offers irrigation management advice for the hot weather

Cropp: Milk prices to firm on hot weather concerns

What is an enzyme?

Anna Pidgeon: Make room for wildlife habitat - Audio

Three UW-Madison student teams to compete in national food competitions June 25-27

Three UW-Madison student teams to compete in national food competitions June 25-27

Foxes, not deer, may hold key to rise in Lyme disease, study says

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center marks first issued patent

Wisconsin Academy announces 2012 fellows

Organic research important in state

Michael Bell: Agroecology program distinctive - Audio

Curiosities: Should corn really be 'knee high by the Fourth of July'?

Pellitteri: Japanese beetles frustrating - 3-minute audio

Pellitteri: the Japanese beetle invasion - Audio

Helping China produce more milk will boost U.S. dairy exports to China

The war on wolves: Wisconsin's tumultuous relationship with gray wolf

Conference explores cooperative businesses

John Lucey

How Bees Make Honey: Producing honey is a strenuous team effort for bees

CALS “candy school” aims to make its 2nd 50 years as sweet as the first

Roche NimbleGen to cut staff, product line

UW-Madison food science students headed to finals

UW "candy school" aims to make its 2nd 50 years as sweet as the first

Deer hunting Texas style? Walker administration says 'no'

New York City looks at banning large sodas

Early spring means early insects - Audio

Garden wisdom earned, and shared

Toxic algae, cows being studied as biofuel sources

New early career awards support biofuels research

Two UW-Madison researchers named Shaw Scientists

Tech Transfer Showcase: Some CALS-based businesses you should know about

Allen Centennial Gardens - a UW Summer Sweet Spot

New composting option on campus

Researchers at UW make oats even healthier

Baby veggies come of age

Two UW-Madison bioenergy researchers win DOE Early Career Awards

Field to Foodbank connecting with farmers to end hunger

Doug Soldat: keys to sustainable turf care - Audio

UW-Madison community-based learning projects awarded $297,769

UW planners have top certification rate

Science communication under the microscope

Experts available for media interviews on National Endangered Species Day

Geranium business hit with bacterial wilt - audio

Walker Dislikes Job Numbers, So He’ll Put Out His Own

Forest ecologist receives distinguished award

Making oats even more heart-healthy

TV Show ‘Girls’ Adds to the Muddle on HPV Testing

Lord of the Flies: A tiny fly leads UW geneticist Barry Ganetzky to fruitful discoveries

These Apps Are Going To The Birds, And People Who Watch Them

Seeds for a time capsule - Audio

Assistant professor Monica White hired to lead environmental justice teaching and outreach

A guide to a greener lawn

Curiosities: How long before hawk chicks leave the nest?

UW turf specialists offer guidelines for organic and reduced-risk lawn care

Gardening Day at UW: Ready, set... grow!

Irwin Goldman: Badger Flame, Sunset, Torch beet varieties released - audio

Babcock rebuilding campaign kicks off with $6 million in early pledges

Biochemistry complex blends old with new

Biochemistry complex blends old with new

Dairy industry raising funds for Babcock Hall upgrade

The art of cheesemaking

Five things everybody should know about hops

Beginning farmer school seeks cyclists, pledges for Ride to Farm fundraiser

Town hall meetings don’t accurately measure community opinion on controversial issues, study finds

Public invited to UW Family Gardening Day on May 12

Experts suggest steps to stop spread of resistant corn rootworms

New trivia game teaches about Wisconsin’s lakes

Concert raises funds for graduate research in sustainable ag and food systems

International commission offers road map to sustainable agriculture

UW wildlife students tweet from the field to let classmates know what they’ve seen

Growing demand creates opportunities, challenges for Wisconsin organic agriculture

Forest and Hawks named 2012 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Fellows

Hunting could hurt genetic diversity of sandhill cranes, UW research suggests

Metabolic “breathalyzer” reveals early signs of disease

Neurons from stem cells could replace mice in botulinum test

UW-Madison career fair uses smart-phone technology

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