College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
LSC undergraduate student Taylor Fritsch is interning at the National Swine Registry this summer in West Lafayette, Indiana. Fristch has been busy helping to prepare the Registry’s pig shows and assignments for its magazine, Seedstock EDGE. He was kind enough to share some of his experiences so far this summer with us back at Hiram Smith Hall via email. …
LSC senior Marcus Hasheider is interning this summer with Filament Marketing LLC as a marketing and communications intern. He was recently interviewed by Progressive Dairyman for its 2012 Agricultural Intern section. Here’s Hasheider on why he wants to work in the agricultural industry: “The industry needs passionate and hardworking people who can communicate and educate the general public and …
Graduating LSC senior Kevin King will speak at the department’s scholarship reception on Monday, April 30, 2012, at Union South. A double major in Life Sciences Communication and Neurobiology, with a Certificate in Leadership, King has distinguished himself during his time on campus as a member of the UW MadHatters, the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board and educating primary …
Last week 14 CALS students presented their marketing plan for the product “Easy AI” at the National Agri-Marketing Association’s (NAMA) Student Marketing Competition held at the national conference in Kansas City. Twenty-nine teams from across the country competed – six were named as finalists. Our very own UW–Madison NAMA team achieved fourth place honors! Iowa state walked away …
WSUM 91.7 FM Madison Student Radio took home 13 Student Awards for Excellence from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, announced at the association’s annual student seminar on Saturday, March 3, 2012. WSUM producers won first and second place student awards for Long-Form Production, first for Radio Newscast, first and third for Sports Story, second and third for Sports …
LSC senior Signe Brewster was awarded a fellowship from the National Association of Science Writers(NASW) to cover the 2012 AAAS meeting, which took place from February 16 to 20th in Vancouver, Canada. She authored an article, “Talking dictionaries give endangered languages a global audience,” on the use of online talking dictionaries to preserve and promote endangered languages. …
For the second time in two years, the Wisconsin Badgers are headed back to the Rose Bowl and WSUM Madison Student Radio’s Sports Department will broadcast the game live from Pasadena. It’s the 98th Rose Bowl Game, which pits No. 10 Wisconsin vs. No. 5 Oregon. Coverage will start at 3 p.m. CST (1 p.m. …
The Big Ten Conference has named LSC senior Michele Dalton 2011 Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year. Dalton finished the season with the highest dave percentage (.871) in the conference. She also had the second-highest goals-against average, save percentage, saves and saves-per game ranking in the conference. Dalton is majoring in Life Sciences Communication. She hopes to play professional …