Award recipients (left to right) Robert and Carol Black, Roger Cliff, Karl Klessig, Martin Burkhardt and Ken Shapiro
CALS is excited to honor these six extraordinary individuals at the annual Honorary Recognition Banquet on October 18.
Honorary Recognition Award: Robert and Carol Black, Spring Rim Farm and Ewesful Gifts Roger Cliff, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation Karl Klessig, Saxon Homestead Farm and Creamery
Distinguished Alumni Award: Martin Burkhardt, CALS volunteer and supporter
Distinguished Service Award:
Kenneth Shapiro, emeritus professor and associate dean, Agricultural and Applied Economics, International Programs
Please join your CALS colleagues on Wednesday, October 3 for the annual CALS reception, an event that brings together the college's alumni, industry stakeholders, researchers and other members of the CALS community.
The reception takes place 4-6 p.m. in the Monona Room of the Alliant Energy Center's Exhibition Hall. Refreshments and appetizers will be provided. For a free admission ticket (faculty, staff and emeriti) or for more information, please contact Maria McGinnis at 608-262-3460, mmcginnis@cals.wisc.edu.
Share the Wonderful, Play a Game, Give to CALS
The University of Wisconsin-Madison launched its first multimedia fundraising campaign, which runs through October. The goal? To encourage more alumni to celebrate everything that is wonderful about the UW by making a gift.
You can "Share the Wonderful" by giving to the CALS Annual Fund, which supports financial aid for students, innovative student programs, faculty and research, as well as important research facility renovations such as the meat and muscle lab and the Babcock dairy plant.
Visit Share the Wonderful for interactive media--see how high you can score in "Bucky's Wonderful Adventures"--and to make a gift.
Listen: What Did Aldo Leopold Hear in 1940?
"Aldo Leopold recognized that you can get a pretty good sense of land health by listening to the soundscape," says Stan Temple, a CALS emeritus professor of forest and wildlife ecology and a senior fellow of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.
Temple and graduate student Christopher Bocast recently recreated a "soundscape" from detailed field notes Leopold took 70 years ago. Listen to Leopold's world or read more.
Watch: Students Sing and Dance in "YouTube Your Entomology"
A team of CALS entomology students take a break from their research in faraway Iceland to show their enthusiasm for science and have a little fun. Click here to watch a video they entered in the Entomological Society of America's 2012 YouTube Your Entomology Contest.
The team in Iceland, working under professor Claudio Gratton, is taking a close look at how insects export nutrients out of aquatic systems and affect the terrestrial food web. You can read more about the research on a blog called Smidge of Midge.
WALSAA Fire-Up Success
Hundreds of CALS alumni helped celebrate WALSAA's 40th anniversary and the important contributions of its members to Wisconsin agriculture at the WALSAA Football Fire-Up on September 15.
Attendees enjoyed great food and entertainment--including a lovely giant cake--while honoring the "40 in 40 Impact Award" recipients (pictured) for their tremendous contributions to Wisconsin's agriculture, economy and communities. For more images from the event, visit the WALSAA Facebook page.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison launched its first multimedia fundraising campaign, which runs through October. The goal? To encourage more alumni to celebrate everything that is wonderful about the UW by making a gift.
"Aldo Leopold recognized that you can get a pretty good sense of land health by listening to the soundscape," says Stan Temple, a CALS emeritus professor of forest and wildlife ecology and a senior fellow of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.
A team of CALS entomology students take a break from their research in faraway 
Hundreds of CALS alumni helped celebrate WALSAA's 40th anniversary and the important contributions of its members to Wisconsin agriculture at the WALSAA Football Fire-Up on September 15.