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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,…
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Hub-funded program engages students across three campuses
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…
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Collaboration key to progress
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…