Month: March 2024

By Kent A. Weigel, Department Chair Greetings alumni, stakeholders, and friends! I hope you are all doing well. We have an exciting newsletter for you, packed with features about student…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer For as long as she can remember, Ella Gonzales has always had a love for animals. Whether it was dogs, cats, hamsters, or even a…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer When Isaiah Hoffman came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from his home state of Pennsylvania, he basically had no interest in returning to his family’s…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer Aaron Bodie wasn’t sure what to do when he got the word that Steve Ricke, his mentor and dissertation adviser at the University of Arkansas,…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer Sara Gragg was settling into a career as an associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at Kansas State University in Manhattan,…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer The first few weeks of life can be critical to the development of an animal’s immune defenses for a lifetime, according to a new faculty…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer In one of the larger collaborative projects in recent memory at the UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Francisco Peñagaricano and his research collaborators…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer Guilherme Rosa didn’t really know the magnitude of the award he was receiving when he was told he was being honored with a Vilas Distinguished…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer From the time that the discussions began about creating a collaborative dairy research program between UW–Madison, UW–Platteville and UW–River Falls, Heather White could see the…

By Jim Massey, Freelance writer  Jimena Laporta first came to Madison in 2010 as part of a study abroad program while she was a master student in her home country…