Month: June 2023
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Wisconsin FFA recognizes Animal & Dairy Sciences’ Ted Halbach with their distinguished service award
Ted Halbach is a distinguished faculty instructor of dairy management at UW-Madison. Beginning in 1999, Wisconsin FFA has had the privilege of his service as a superintendent of the Dairy…
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Joao Dorea receives USDA-NIFA grant for computer vision system to monitor and control metabolic disorders in dairy cows
Joao Dorea, assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, received $1 million for his project “Development and implementation of an economically viable computer vision system to monitor…
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Guilherme Rosa receives USDA-NIFA funding for precision breeding of resilient beef cattle
Guilherme Rosa, professor in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, received $1 million for his project “Integrating enviromics, genomics, and machine learning for precision breeding of resilient beef cattle”…
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Applications being taken for assistant professor of adaptive dairy cattle nutrition
This newly created position in the Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences is supported by the Dairy Innovation Hub. It is a full time 9-month tenure-track faculty position to build…
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E. Cole Diepersloot is over-all winner and earns “Peoples Choice” award at the 4-State Three-Minute Student Thesis contest
The inaugural edition of the Three-Minute Student Thesis (3MT) contest with a poster component was held in conjunction with the 2023 Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference in Dubuque, Iowa…
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Hasan Khatib receives USDA NIFA grant to explore paternal nutrition’s impact on early embryonic development and offspring fertility
Hasan Khatib, professor in the Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences, received $650,000 for his project “The effects of paternal nutrition on early embryonic development and reproductive performance of offspring,”…
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Kent Weigel receives USDA-NIFA grant to select high-frequency phenotypes for resistance and recovery from stressors
Kent Weigel, professor and chair in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, was awarded $650,000 for his project “The resilient cow: Next-generation selection using high-frequency phenotypes to achieve predictable…
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Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame seeks nominations
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences and the Wisconsin Livestock and Meat Council are seeking nominations for the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame’s 2023 class…
