This year, Academic Planning Council members are being elected in the Academic Staff Division, the Extension Division, and the Food and Nutrition Division. These newly elected members will serve on the Academic Planning Council for three years beginning in the fall of 2012.
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 |
|---|---|---|
Robin’s primary job duties are related to coordinating and teaching a variety of lab and lecture courses, including Microbiology 101, 102, 304, 330, 527, and/or 551, depending on the semester. She is just ending her second 6-year appointment as Director of the REU-Microbiology program. Robin has received three separate CALS awards (one each for excellence in Teaching, Leadership and Service). In addition to her Microbiology advising load, she has a significant number of Biology advisees. Robin has a significant amount of leadership and service experience within our department, our college (CALS), and for the entire campus.
Robin is a dedicated, reliable, hard-working committee member and is always an excellent addition to a work group. I recommend Robin without reservation to serve on the Academic Planning Council for the 2012-15 term.
Anne Reynolds is a Faculty Associate. She serves as Assistant Director of the UW Center for Cooperatives, and she teaches Agricultural and Applied Economics 323 on cooperative business and management. Anne Reynolds is a District Representative for the Academic Staff Assembly (District 203). She has a bachelors and masters degree and has been at UW for 16 years.
A major part of Anne’s responsibility is developing and maintaining external relationships. She regularly collaborates with important CALS constituents to write grants, create educational programs, and identify research needs. She serves as the primary liaison to the UWCC’s Advisory Committee (primarily industry representatives), and leads the planning and implementation of the successful annual Farmer Cooperatives Conference. This annual forum attracts a strong Wisconsin, MidWest and national audience.
Anne successfully seeks funding through revenue-generating programs, donations and grants. She participates actively in strategic planning for the UWCC, and has led the development of several new programs, including a partnership with the UW Business School to offer an executive education program for cooperative leaders.
Anne has a commitment to developing international relationships that will benefit both students and our industry partners. UWCC regularly host international visitors, and Anne is currently working with a group of Costa Rican cooperatives to develop a learning experience for UW students, and future industry exchanges.
Anne is active in professional organizations, and serves as a board member of two foundations.
Erin Silva is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Agronomy. In addition to her research, teaching and advising responsibilities, she has served in numerous leadership roles in the college, including:
Because of this leadership experience and her excellent relationships with academic staff and faculty across the college, I believe that Erin would do an excellent job of representing academic staff on the Academic Planning Council.
Dr. Paul Fricke received a B.S. degree in Animal Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1988 and went on to complete a M.S. degree in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree in 1996 in Reproductive Physiology from the Department of Animal Sciences at North Dakota State University. In 1996, Paul accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he then joined the faculty in the Department of Dairy Science on July 1, 1998. Paul was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004 and to Full Professor in 2009. His position includes 70% extension and 30% research appointments in dairy cattle reproduction. Dr. Fricke has authored or co-authored 54 peer-reviewed scientific journal publications, 77 scientific abstracts, and 2 book chapters, and has spoken to over 400 audiences in Wisconsin, 125 invited talks at conferences in 33 U.S. states, and has been an invited speaker in 20 foreign countries spanning 5 continents around the world. Based on his experience and achievements at the departmental, college and national levels, I fully support Paul’s nomination for the CALS Academic Planning Council.
David has been a state extension specialist since 1985. He is currently a member of the Dairy Team and co chair of the dairy modernization work group in Cooperative Extension. He develops educational programs and works with the county agricultural agents in the entire state of Wisconsin on dairy modernization and adoption of technology in production agricultural systems focusing on livestock housing and facility design and management. He served on the Upham Woods Advisory committee from 1985- 2004. He served on the NCR 9 committee known as Midwest Plan Service from 1985- 2003 and was chair in 1996. He was named Director of the Center for Dairy Profitability in 2004 and served as Director until 2010. He is on the Farm and Industry Short Course Committee and has served on several task force committees for FISC and several Research Station 5-year reviews. He also teaches a FISC course in Livestock Housing.
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Recipient of the Pound Extension Award, CALS, 2011
Dr. Laboski’s Extension program assists producers in making wise nutrient management decisions, for profitability, productivity, and environmental stewardship. She also works closely with staff members at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP), as they work to fulfill their mandates related to nutrient management and quality assurance of soil and plant analysis in the state. She is the principal liaison from our department for the UW Ex Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory. She is a member of the Soil Science Administrative Committee and Co-Director of the Integrated Nutrient and Crop Management Program.
As a faculty member with an Extension affiliation, Randy Stoecker’s work has focused on facilitating community-university partnerships and supporting community organizing and development. He has managed grant-funded projects to engage students in providing community-based research and service-learning support for groups such as Community Shares of Wisconsin, The Natural Step Monona, and the SouthWest Madison Community Organizers. He also maintains ongoing involvement with the UW-Extension Waukesha County office to support neighborhood development in Waukesha and additionally has experience facilitating strategic planning exercises. His scholarly writing focuses on the process of community-based research and service-learning, including the books The Unheard Voices (with Elizabeth Tryon, Temple University Press, 2009) and Research Methods for Community Change (2nd edition, Sage Publications, 2013). He advises graduate students in the Sociology, Development Studies, and Environment and Resources PhD Programs. His past committee involvement includes the UW-Extension Scholarship Action Team, the Social and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board, and numerous programmatic and departmental committees.
Professor Damodaran is a highly regarded researcher, instructor and campus citizen. His organizational and administrative experiences include key roles with numerous campus and professional organizations as well as service as Chair of the Food Science department. Professor Damodaran’s administrative approach has yielded numerous positive outcomes within the Food Science department based on his strategic, visionary leadership and administrative ability. In addition, Professor Damodaran has generated over a hundred peer-reviewed papers in the leading journals of the Food Science and Chemistry disciplines and has sustained a remarkable level of federal funding. Professor Damodaran maintains a high level of instructional productivity at the undergraduate and graduate levels while shouldering a substantial advising load. Based on his visionary leadership, impactful instruction, and exemplary scholarship, I hold Professor Damodaran in extremely high regard as an asset to providing APC with the perspectives needed to navigate these critical years ahead.
David Eide received his BS in Microbiology from U. Minnesota, his PhD in Molecular Biology from UW (Genetics), and postdoced at MIT and U. Utah, before becoming an Asst. Prof. at U. Minn-Duluth. He was recruited to U. Missouri in 1996 as an Assoc. Prof. and then to UW-Madison in 2004 as Prof. of Nutritional Sciences. Thus he has wide experience in a number of strong institutions. He teaches ~50% of NS 510, Biochemical Principles of Human and Animal Nutrition, each semester. His lab studies the molecular responses to eukaryotic organisms to nutritional stress, focused primarily on zinc using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and on mammalian cells as our model systems. He has organized national meeting in the area of molecular nutrition, has served on NIH study sections, and currently serves as a member of the J. of Biological Sciences Editorial Board. At UW, he has been a member and chair of the UW Biosciences Fellowship Committee, a member and chair of the CALS Research Advisory Committee, and on various departmental meetings.