Summer courses for all, student employee awards, Breakfast on the Farm

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April 2019

Summer Term Courses Open to Public

Even though you're no longer a student, even if you live far away from Madison, you can still partake in the 2019 Summer Term. That's because all UW-Madison summer courses, including some online offerings, are open to the general public!

Among your options are several CALS courses, such as Plant Pathology 123, an eight-week online course. Designed to attract non-science majors, the class includes lectures, discussions, and labs. In one lab, for example, students make a fruit "smoothie" and then collect and observe the fruit DNA, all from the comfort of home.

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Dairy Science Senior Named UW Student Employee of the Year

This year, the UW Student Employment team hosted the first annual competition for a campus Student Employee of the Year. And CALS students stole the show.

Morgan Larson BSx'19, a dairy science major who works as the assistant manager at the Meat Lab, came out on top. Auna Kaufmann-Schwartz BSx'19, a forest and wildlife ecology major and assistant ranger at the UW Arboretum, took second place. Read more.

Day of the Badger is Almost Here!

Day of the Badger, an opportunity for alumni to unite in celebration of the UW, begins on Monday, April 8, at 5 p.m. and concludes on Tuesday, April 9, at midnight (for a full, 1,848-minute experience). All alumni are invited to give, show their pride, and stay connected to the university.

In CALS, all gifts made to the CALS Fund that day will support CALS QuickStart, a program designed to help incoming first-year students get a summer start on coursework, reduce their time to graduation, and join a supportive cohort of scholars.

We hope you will post on your own social media channels using the hashtag #DayoftheBadger and include photos of yourself wearing red or stories about what makes CALS special to you.

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AWA Hosts Breakfast on the Farm

Here's your chance to enjoy a delicious farm breakfast made with fresh Wisconsin ingredients and served by members of the Association of Women in Agriculture (AWA)! The 24th Annual Breakfast on the Farm will be held Sunday, April 28, from 8 a.m. to noon in the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion.

The meal includes pancakes, sausage, yogurt, milk, ice cream, and a new scrambled egg bar. And there's plenty to entertain the whole family: music, a petting zoo, a Wisconsin products table, agriculture industry celebrities, the UW Marching Band, and Bucky Badger. All proceeds will support the Rally to Fight Hunger. More details.

Meet Kristin Kohlmann, WAA 'Forward under 40' Honoree

Kristin Kohlmann BS'13 has been pursuing research on child and maternal health, and it could mean a big breakthrough for treating acute malnutrition -- one of the world's leading causes of child death.

Since 2016, the genetics graduate and 2019 recipient of the Wisconsin Alumni Association's Forward under 40 Award has been part of Project Peanut Butter, a nonprofit that serves families suffering from poor nutrition in rural Ghana, Malawi, and Sierra Leone.

"I love being 'on the ground' and working directly with mothers and children," Kohlmann has written. "There is nothing better than seeing the program I developed actually reaching children with acute malnutrition and helping them recover." Read more.

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