This year, Academic Planning Council members are being elected in the Academic Staff Division, Extension Division, and Food and Nutrition Division. These newly elected members will serve on the Academic Planning Council for three years beginning in the fall of 2009.
All CALS faculty may vote in the Extension, and Food and Nutrition Divisions. Each faculty member may vote for one candidate in each division.
All CALS academic staff may vote in the Academic Staff Division.
The candidates by division are:
| Academic Staff | Extension | Food and Nutrition |
|---|---|---|
James Berkelman has been a Faculty Associate in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology (Wildlife Ecology before the merger) since fall of 1998 (11 years). He teaches or co-teaches 6 Wildlife Ecology courses, including a large (~200 students) introductory course, a senior capstone course, and a 2-week January intersession course in Mexico. He is the point person for undergraduates inquiring about the Wildlife Ecology major, and has advised between 25 and 50 Wildlife Ecology undergraduates each semester since he has been here. He currently serves on the CALS Scholastic Policies and Actions Committee and has served on the CALS Career Services and CALS Scholarship Committees in the past. He is also the chair of the Wildlife Ecology Scholarships and Awards Committee and serves on the department’s curriculum committee. He has a PhD in Wildlife Service (Virginia Tech, 1997); an MSc in Raptor Biology (Boise State, 1993) and a BS in Biology (Cornell University 1986).
B.S., Virginia Tech, 2001
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 2008
Wes has experience working in a number of research settings including industrial labs, smaller (< 5 people) academic groups, large (>60 people) academic groups and multi-investigator research centers. He has a strong interest in working to maintain CALS’ commitment to support promising basic research and to provide a modern and relevant education to its graduates.
Monica Theis is a senior lecturer in the Department of Food Science. She is a registered dietitian and specializes in Food and Nutrition Management. Monica began her career as an administrative dietitian at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and spent three years as director of food and nutrition services for a 120-bed long-term care facility before joining the faculty and staff in the Department of Food Science in 1990.
Monica’s primary responsibility is to teach all Food and Nutrition management courses as required for the Dietetics major. This includes Foodservice Operations, a culinary lab and Management of Food and Nutrition Services. Monica also supports courses for the Food Science major including Food Law and the Department’s new “gateway” course to food science and technology. In addition to management, Monica specializes in Farm-to School programs and works with a number of local schools and healthcare organizations to identify means to “go green” within available resources. In addition, Monica is involved in a number of initiatives on the UW-Madison campus to support concepts of sustainability in food systems. Monica is co-author of Introduction to Foodservice. The 11th edition was released in January 2008.
Monica has served as chair of the CALS Council on Teaching and Learning and routinely acts as informal but invaluable advisor to many students in Food Science, Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics.
Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, and Community Development Specialist within the CNRED program area. Permanent appointment 85% E and 15%R and on the CALS faculty since 1992. Deller served on the UW Cooperative Extension Strategic Planning Steering Committee from June 2006 to December 2008 and is currently serving on the CES Strategic Planning Implementation Committee. The Steering Committee’s charge was to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to steer the future of Cooperative Extension in Wisconsin over the next several years. From September 2005 to August 2008 he served on the Social Studies Divisional Committee. He is also serving on the UW-Madison Honorary Degrees Committee and the UW-Madison Fiscal Emergency Committee.
His research, teaching and extension education focuses on regional economic structure and change and policies that can affect that change. Current research is examining the role of amenities and quality of life in rural economic growth and development and the impact of tax and expenditure limitations on regional economic growth and the fiscal policies of Wisconsin counties. His most recent book is entitled, “Targeting Regional Economic Development” with Goetz (Penn St) and Harris (Nevada) (Routledge 2009) and just completed a nine-year term as co-editor of the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy”. He is also starting his ninth year on the North American Regional Science Association International Council.
Dan Undersander joined the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1988 after receiving his PhD at Purdue University and having worked on the Texas A&M faculty for 10 years. Dan has been co-leader of statewide extension Team Forages involving specialists and county agents from across the state and responsible for developing programming directions, efforts, website and tools needed for forages extension. Dr. Undersander led the development and implementation of the Milk per Acre spreadsheet which has become the most widely accepted approach across North America, by both public institutions and industry, for combining forage yield and quality into a single term to compare forage varieties. He led the team to develop “A Guide to Pasture Condition Scoring” which is now a principle tool in identifying compliance for payment of CSP programs by the NRCS. He has written 104 extension publications and fact sheets (one of which has sold over 300,000 copies and been translated into three foreign languages), has made over 100 radio tapes per year (including weekly tapes for two networks) and has co-developed a fee-based web course on pasture management for horse owners. He is a frequent contributor to 3 farm magazines and consultant to 4 industry magazines. He has been a member of the Extension Technology Committee, Extension Dean’s Advisory Committee and the Extension Publications Strategy Committee.
In Dr. Undersander’s 15% research appointment he has focused on determining factors affecting alfalfa plant health and survival and best management of mixed grass-legume swards. He has also developed Near Infrared Reflectance spectroscopy equations for release to commercial forage testing laboratories. This research has resulted in 74 referred journal articles, 220 conference proceedings, 140 abstracts and 10 book chapters.
Dan has also been actively involved in professional societies having been section chair, board representative and editor of the Crop Science Society Forage and Grazinglands electronic journal.
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., 1983, University of California at Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
B.S. (honors), 1977, Purdue University, Chemical Engineering
EMPLOYMENT
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 4/89 to present
Professor, Department of Food Science, Department of Chemical Engineering (by courtesy), Department of Biological Systems Engineering (by courtesy), Center for Dairy Research (by courtesy)
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
Past Member, CALS Scholastic Policies and Actions Committee
Chair, Food Science Laboratory Instruction Committee
Past Chair, Food Science Curriculum Committee
Co-Chair, Food and Bioprocess Engineering Program Committee
Member, Faculty Senate
Roger Sunde is a professor of Nutritional Sciences. He earned a B.S. from UW (Biochemistry) in 1972, a Ph.D. from UW (Biochemistry) in 1980, was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rowett Research Institute (Scotland) from 1981-83, and assistant and associate professor at the University of Arizona, 1983-89. From 1990-2003, he was at the University of Missouri where he was Food for the 21st Century Nutrition Cluster Leader, Professor and Chair of Nutritional Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry. He was chair of UW Nutritional Sciences from 2004-2008. His national responsibilities have included serving as a member of the NIH Nutrition Study Section (Chair 1999-2000), the USDA NRI Human Nutrient Requirements panel (Chair 1991), and the FASEB Board and FASEB Science Policy Committee. He was organizer and chair of the 2006 8th International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine. His research is focused on selenium nutrition, nutrient regulation of gene expression and molecular markers for assessing human and animal nutritional status. He was a member of the University of Missouri Strategic Planning Committee from 1997-2002, and is a member of the UW Campus Planning Committee (2005-present).