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Dairy Innovation Hub seeking proposals for postdoctoral research fellows at UW–Madison CALS
The UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is accepting proposals for postdoctoral research fellows to work on innovative and impactful dairy-related research that will fit within at least one of the four priority areas of the Hub: Enrich Human Health and Nutrition Ensure Animal health and Welfare Grow Farm Businesses and Communities Steward Land…
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Winter outreach, virtual conferences and presentations
To convey project outcomes from researchers at UW-Madison, UW-Platteville and UW-River Falls to the public, the Dairy Innovation Hub contributes regularly to publications, podcasts, radio shows and other communication channels – both in agriculture and consumer media. The Hub has also been featured at several prominent winter conferences in 2021 in a virtual format. Check…
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UW-River Falls hires faculty members funded by the state’s Dairy Innovation Hub
Kate Creutzinger, Grace Lewis and Luis Peña-Lévano have been hired as faculty members by the UW-River Falls, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, representing the campus’ first tenure-track faculty positions funded by the Dairy Innovation Hub. These positions are 60% research and outreach and 40% teaching. The Dairy Innovation Hub, which launched in 2019,…
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Students, communities impacted by Hub
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,…
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Faculty director’s winter message
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…
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New equipment builds research capacity, collaboration
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,…