This year, Academic Planning Council members are being elected in the Animal Sciences Division, Basic Sciences Division, and Plant Sciences Division. These newly elected members will serve on the Academic Planning Council for three years beginning in the fall of 2011.
All CALS faculty may vote in the Animal Sciences, Basic Sciences and Plant Sciences Divisions. Each faculty member may vote for one candidate in each division.
The candidates by division are:
| Animal Sciences | Basic Sciences | Plant Sciences |
|---|---|---|
Professor Crenshaw joined the faculty of Animal Sciences in 1980. Since joining the faculty, Professor Crenshaw has been the instructor of three nutrition courses in the department, one course in Farm and Industry Short Course, and two graduate student courses in the Interdepartmental Graduate Nutritional Sciences Program (IGPM) on UW-Madison’s campus. In addition, Professor Crenshaw teaches a nutrition section to veterinary students in the SVM. Professor Crenshaw is the faculty director of the Swine Research Center in Arlington and oversaw its design and construction. He has served as faculty advisor for Alpha Gamma Rho and CALS Student Council, and has served on the CALS Scholastic Policies and Action Committee, CALS Animal Care Committee, and Graduate Admissions Committee for IGPN. Professor Crenshaw also serves on state and national committees associated with swine and companion animal nutrition and research. Professor Crenshaw is internationally known for his studies involving bone development and mineral metabolism.
Karen Wassarman joined the faculty of the Department of Bacteriology in 2001 where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her interests and training are diverse and cross-disciplinary, spanning basic research in biochemistry, genetics and microbiology. She received a BA in Chemistry and Biology from Williams College and a PhD from Yale University in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry studying RNA-directed processes in eukaryotes. Her postdoctoral work began with the study of embryogenesis and brain development in mice at UCSF, continued with the control of maternal mRNA expression in xenopus at NIH, and finished with the study of small RNA regulation in bacteria at NIH. She has continued with mechanistic and functional studies of small RNAs and their role in regulation of transcription in stationary phase in her laboratory at UW-Madison. This work has received ongoing support from NIH RO1 grants, and her achievements were recognized with a Shaw Scientist Award in 2004. She is an active member in the Genetics Graduate program, CMB graduate program, the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program (for which she currently serves as Vice-Director), and the Bacteriology Masters program, and she is one of the organizers of the inter-departmental RNA interest group, RNA Maxigroup. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Bacteriology and was an editor of DNA and Cell Biology. In addition to these research and basic science interests, she also has been very active in the undergraduate mission of the Department by advising many undergraduate majors, teaching core major classes (Micro526: Microbial Physiology and Micro370/470: Microbial Genetics), and providing training for undergraduate researchers in her lab.
Jed Colquhoun is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Horticulture, and Director of Agricultural Systems Programming in the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences. Jed’s research program focuses on integrated pest management solutions for fruit and vegetable crops that are environmentally responsible and economically solvent. He also serves as the Director of a recently reinvigorated Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (WISA) that now involves over 50 faculty, staff and students, as well as hundreds of stakeholders, in place-based sustainability research and outreach. In the past decade, Jed has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over 75 grants and has delivered about 250 invited presentations.
Jed is strongly committed to University and other public service roles. He is the co-Director of the Integrated Pest Management program and is the leader of the multi-disciplinary cranberry pest management project. He serves on the Provost’s Sustainability Task Force, the ANRE Extension Administration Consultative Team, and numerous departmental committees, including the Chair’s Advisory Committee. In the past four years, he has served on four search committees (chairing two) and four faculty mentoring committees (chairing one). He also serves in various leadership roles for state and national producer-oriented advisory groups and committees.
Dr. Conley has served on the 2010 Cooperative Extension Conference Steering Committee and on the Faculty Consultative group for Dr. John M. Shutske, Associate Dean and Program Director Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension& Outreach College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. He has also served on the Wisconsin Soybean Association Board (08 to present), as Co-Chair Crop Management Conference (09 to present), Wisconsin crop production association (WCPA) liaison (November 2009 – present), Wisconsin Crop Management Board (09 to present), IPM steering committee member (09/09 to present), alternate to faculty senate (09 to present), Crop Science Society of America K-12 Committee (C591) (1/01/10 to present), and American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) Soybean Program Planning Committee (January 1, 2009 to present).
Professor Ann MacGuidwin earned her PhD in Entomology (Nematology) from Michigan State University, and joined the UW-Madison Plant Pathology faculty in 1984. Research interests are population biology, physiological ecology, and management of nematode pests of Wisconsin; and soil ecology of agricultural production systems. Prof. MacGuidwin has extensive experience teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Although she has no official extension appointment, she has an active outreach program and works closely with soybean and potato growers. In the past 10 years she has served as Associate Chair of Plant Pathology and on the following CALS committees: Greenhouse, Scholastic Policies and Actions; and Curriculum. Nationally, she has served on Regional Technical Committees NC-215, NC-206, and NC-235 and as President of the Society of Nematologists.