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By Tera Montgomery Contributed to PDPW Dairy’s Bottom Line and reprinted with permission As we look to the future of the dairy community in Wisconsin and beyond, there is no greater excitement than the impact the Dairy Innovation Hub can have on the next generation of students. When I talk with current and prospective students,…

By Heather White, Faculty Director, Dairy Innovation Hub The Dairy Innovation Hub is now well into its second year and is already having impacts across the three participating campuses. Of the $7.8M in annual funding, 52 percent goes to UW-Madison and 24 percent each to UW-Platteville and UW-River Falls to build research capacity, recruit top…

In 2020, The Dairy Innovation Hub committed nearly $1 million for equipment to build research capacity at the three participating campuses. Cutting-edge research requires big ideas from the best and brightest minds, but those difference-making research questions can’t come to fruition without equipment and data collection tools to increase research capacity. The Dairy Innovation Hub,…

The Dairy Innovation Hub Student Challenge competition was the brainchild of Heidi Zoerb, CALS Associate Dean for External Relations and Advancement. This unique program was one of seven short-term, high impact research projects funded this past summer at UW-Madison. While the Challenge was always intended to include students from all three Hub campuses, the unexpected…

By Dale Gallenberg Contributed to PDPW Dairy’s Bottom Line and reprinted with permission The Dairy Innovation Hub brings many exciting opportunities to the three University of Wisconsin campuses working together in the initiative – Madison, Platteville and River Falls. The phrase “working together” articulates one of those opportunities – that of further developing the joint…

Collaboration, communication and innovation are three words that best describe the Dairy Innovation Hub. As we complete year one of this new venture it has been remarkable to witness the speed at which the Hub has gone from a concept to conducting cutting-edge research for the dairy community.  This has all happened at a time…