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The Summer 2009 issue of Grow magazine will soon be arriving in mailboxes. It is now available online. Please take a look and add your comments to the online forum.

Among the highlights in this issue:

• Invisible hands: Foreign workers hold nearly half of Wisconsin’s dairy jobs. What does this mean for the industry and the state?
• The drugs start here: Scientists have launched a new effort to develop the next generation of antibiotics.
• Who’ll stop the rain: The arboretum is drowning under a sea of stormwater, and CALS researchers and students are helping stem the tide
• The Grow Dozen: CALS alums are making a difference around the globe in the study of wildlife

If you have an event to publicize, there are two good reasons to add it to the UW-Madison Events Calendar at www.today.wisc.edu. First, it’s a good way to get the info out to a campus-wide audience. Second, in the near future,  the CALS communication program will begin using the UW calendar to generate a calendar of CALS-related events to display on the CALS home page. We’ll also be using it as a tool for announcing events in eCALS. (more…)

During the past year we have built an incredible online database that shows how your work and that of your colleagues provides great benefits to the state and helps to increase valuable partnerships in the tradition of the Wisconsin Idea. The Wisconsin Idea in Action database documents some 900 examples of how your teaching, research, clinical and public service activities benefit the people of Wisconsin in an easy-to-use and searchable format. (more…)

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Communicators from land grant universities, Cooperative Extension, USDA and other public and private research and educational organizations will assemble in Des Moines June 6-9 for the 2009 ACE/NETC conference. This biannual event brings together the National Extension Technology Conference, which focuses on video, new media and other topics related to information technology and distance education, and the Association for Communication Excellence, an international association of communicators and information techologists. It’s a great way to meet and swap ideas with talented people who share similar communication challenges. (more…)

A March 28 article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Bioscience, genetics, ecology revolutionizing ‘Ag Ed’ class, features Craig Kohn, a 2008 CALS grad (BS ‘08 , biological systems engineering and ag education).

Attention CALS communicators: Please mark your calendars for the next CALS communicators meeting, which is set for Tuesday, April 28 from 9–10:30 a.m. in room 6201 MSB.

For this meeting, we’re simply going to pick up where we left off last time… talking about useful and affordable tools for producing video. This time, it’ll be more of a how-to tutorial, covering which types of video cameras will work, the basics of shooting good video, how to choose and use video editing software, and, finally, how to post video to YouTube and your department’s website. (more…)

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Participants at last week’s CALS communicators meeting learned about several useful web resources for finding and managing photos, sharing and managing documents and enhancing productivity. Links to those resources are posted at the communication program’s website at www.cals.wisc.edu/media/tools.html.