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CALS faculty, staff, and students collaborate with partners around the world. The programs often include joint research and teaching, exchange of personnel, and technology transfer. Study abroad programs are not listed below but may be found by clicking here.

 


AFRICA
BURKINA FASO and GHANA


Subject:
Vitamin A assessment
  Partner(s): International Atomic Energy Agency
  Contact(s):

Sherry A Tanumihardjo: sherry@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

MOROCCO, ISRAEL Subject:

Improvement of local seed potato
production in the Middle East

  Partner(s): Hebrew University, Tel Aviv, Israel;
Ministry of Agriculture, Agadir, & Ibn Zohr, Morroco
  Contact(s):

Amy Charkowski:
amyc@plantpath.wisc.edu
Plant Pathology

SOUTH AFRICA Subject: Aflatoxin control in peanuts
  Partner(s): Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  Contact(s): Nancy Keller: npk@plantpath.wisc.edu
Plant Pathology
SOUTH AFRICA Subject:

Income distribution
dynamics
  Contact(s):

Michael Carter: mcarter@wisc.edu
Agricultural & Applied Economics
SOUTH AFRICA Subject: Correlates of pediatric obesity
  Partner(s): Loyola University, IL, USA; National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico; University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

TUNISIA Subject: Plant germplasm
  Partner(s): Institut des Regions Arides (IRA),Medenine, Tunisia
  Contact(s): Philipp Simon: psimon@wisc.edu
Horticulture
UGANDA Subject:

Nutrition education policy

  Partner(s): Makerere University
  Contact(s): John Ferrick: jferrick@cals.wisc.edu
CALS International Programs
UGANDA Subject: Diabetes
  Partner(s): Makerere University
  Contact(s):

James Ntambi:
ntambi@biochem.wisc.edu
Biochemistry
UGANDA Subject: Molecular basis of Protein Energy Malnutrition
  Partner(s): Makerere University
  Contact(s): James Ntambi:
ntambi@biochem.wisc.edu
Biochemistry
UGANDA Subject: Nutrition distance education
  Partner(s): Makerere University
  Contact(s):

Susan Nitzke: nitke@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences


THE AMERICAS
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ARGENTINA Subject: Diversity in Argentine Solanum and Daucus
  Partner(s): Instituto Nacional de Technologia Agropecuaria (INTA)
  Contact(s): Philipp Simon: psimon@wisc.edu
Horticulture
Web Site:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/mwa/madison/vcru
ARGENTINA Subject: Potato and tomato taxonomy
  Partner(s): University of Cuyo
  Contact(s):

David M. Spooner: dspooner@wisc.edu
Horticulture
Web Site:
http://www.horticulture.wisc.edu/faculty/faculty_pages/
Spooner/spooner.php

ARGENTINA Subject: Physiological ecology and ecotoxicology of vertebrates
  Partner(s): University of San Luis
  Contact(s):

William Karasov: wkarasov@wisc.edu
Forest & Wildlife Ecology
ARGENTINA Subject: Vitamin B12 biosynthesis in Lactobacillus
  Partner(s): CERELA-CONICET, Tucuman
  Contact(s): Jorge Escalante: escalante@bact.wisc.edu
Bacteriology
ARGENTINA Subject: Importance of dust as paleoclimate indicator in the Southern Hemisphere
  Partner(s): University of Southern Patagonia (UNPA); CONICET/CADIC, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego
  Contact(s):

J.G. Bockheim
bockheim@facstaff.wisc.edu
Soil Science

ARGENTINA Subject: Vegetable genetics and breeding
  Partner(s): Balcarce University, Mar del Plata, Argentina
  Contact(s): Philipp Simon: psimon@wisc.edu
Horticulture
BRAZIL Subject: Metagenomics in soil
  Partner(s): Universidade Catolica de Brasilia
  Contact(s):

Jo Handelsman
joh@plantpath.wisc.edu
Plant Pathology
Bacteriology

BRAZIL Subject: Selection of superior open-pollinated populations and hybrids of onion for Brazil
  Partner(s): EMBRAPA / Clima Temperado, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
  Contact(s): Michael Havey: mjhavey@wisc.edu
Horticulture
BRAZIL Subject: Vegetable genetics and breeding
  Partner(s): CNPH (Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Horticolas), EMBRAPA, Brasilia, Brazil
  Contact(s): Philipp Simon: psimon@wisc.edu
Horticulture
BRAZIL, CHILE, CENTRAL AMERICA, PANAMA, GUATEMALA, INDIA, NEW ZEALAND Subject: Energy requirements for the elderly
  Partner(s): International Atomic Energy Commission
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Institute of Population Health & Clinical Research, India
Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
University of Chile, Chile
Institutional Nutrition, Central America & Panama
Guatemala
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR and PERU, VENEZUELA Subject: Sustainable agriculture and environmental protection
  Partner(s): CONDESAN (Consorcio para el desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregion Andian)
  Contact(s):

Joshua Posner: jlposner@wisc.edu
Agronomy

CANADA Subject: Dairy management, reproduction, and nutrition
  Partner(s): University of New England, Laval University, Wageningen University
  Contact(s):

Michel Wattiaux: wattiaux@wisc.edu
Kent Weigel: kweigel@wisc.edu
Louis Armentano: learment@wisc.edu
Dairy Science

CANADA Subject: Plant cell wall chemistry, biochemistry, metabolomics
  Partner(s): University of British Columbia
  Contact(s): John Ralph: jralph@wisc.edu
Forest & Wildlife Ecology
Web site: http://ars.usda.gov/main/
CANADA Subject: Tree Defense Chemistry
  Partner(s): University of British Columbia
  Contact(s): Kenneth Raffa: raffa@entomology.wisc.edu
Entomology
CANADA Subject: Bark Beetle Population Dynamics
  Partner(s): Canadian Forest Service
  Contact(s): Kenneth Raffa: raffa@entomology.wisc.edu
Entomology
CANADA Subject: Landscape Ecology
  Partner(s): University of Northern
British Columbia
  Contact(s): Kenneth Raffa: raffa@entomology.wisc.edu
Entomology
CANADA Subject: Aboriginal Research Council
  Partner(s): University of Winnipeg
  Contact(s): Theresa Schenck: schenck@wisc.edu
Life Science Communications
CANADA Subject: Translocality, Identity and British (Canada)-USA Borderlands
  Partner(s): University of Western Ontario
  Contact(s): Theresa Schenck: schenck@wisc.edu
Life Science Communications
CANADA Subject: Overcoming barriers of ignorance, intolerance and misunderstanding, and to educating aboriginal and other students, maintaining language and heritage, deepening understandings and extending aboriginal perspectives to all facets of the study of Hudson's Bay watershed
  Partner(s): Aboriginal Research Council at the University of Winnipeg
  Contact(s): Theresa Schenck: schenck@wisc.edu
Life Science Communications
CANADA Subject: Translocality, Identity, and British (Canada) - USA Borderlands (1763-1848)
  Partner(s): University of Calgary
  Contact(s): Theresa Schenck: schenck@wisc.edu
Life Science Communications
CENTRAL AMERICA Subject: Land market programs
  Partner(s): USAID, the World Bank
  Contact(s):

Bradford Barham:
barham@mailplus.wisc.edu
Agricultural & Applied Economics
CENTRAL AMERICA Subject: The impact of liberalization on the welfare of the rural poor in Central America
  Contact(s):

Michael Carter: mrcarter@wisc.edu
Agricultural & Applied Economics

CENTRAL AMERICA,
CHILE, GUATEMALA, INDIA, PANAMA, BRAZIL, NEW ZEALAND

Subject: Energy requirements for the elderly
  Partner(s): International Atomic Energy Commission
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Institute of Population Health & Clinical Research, India
Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
University of Chile, Chile
Institutional Nutrition, Central America & Panama
Guatemala
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

CHILE, GUATEMALA, INDIA, PANAMA, BRAZIL, CENTRAL AMERICA, NEW ZEALAND

Subject: Energy requirements for the elderly
  Partner(s): International Atomic Energy Commission
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Institute of Population Health & Clinical Research, India
Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
University of Chile, Chile
Institutional Nutrition, Central America & Panama
Guatemala
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

COLOMBIA Subject: Communication and democracy
  Partner(s): Universidad Externado de Columbia
  Contact(s): Hernando Rojas
hrojas@wisc.edu
Life Sciences Communication
COSTA RICA Subject: Tropical agriculture study abroad for UW students; advising and lecturing for ITCR
  Partner(s): Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica
  Contact(s): Jim Nienhuis: nienhuis@wisc.edu
Horticulture
COSTA RICA Subject: Study Abroad field trip with approximately 22 students each winter break
  Partner(s): Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica, San Carlos and Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica
  Contact(s): Jim Nienhuis: nienhuis@wisc.edu
Horticulture
COSTA RICA Subject: Microbes associated with the acidic crator lake of Poas volcano
  Partner(s): Universidad Nacional Costa Rica
  Contact(s): Charles Kaspar: cwkaspar@wisc.edu
Bacteriology
ECUADOR Subject: Summer student internship - we invite a student to work with us on vegetable research
  Partner(s):  
  Contact(s): Jim Nienhuis: nienhuis@wisc.edu
Horticulture
GUATEMALA Subject: Developing disease-resistant tomatoes and disease-free ornamental production for export
  Partner(s): University of San Carlos
  Contact(s):

Caitilyn Allen: cza@planthpath.wisc.edu
Plant Pathology
Web Site:
http://www.plantpath.wisc.edu/fac/cza.htm

GUATEMALA Subject: Educational attainment of children from poor families
  Partner(s): Common Hope
  Contact(s): Bradford Barham: barham@aae.wisc.edu
Agricultural & Applied Economics
GUATEMALA Subject: Virus resistance in tomato and related plants
  Partner(s): University of San Carlos, Guatemala City
  Contact(s): Michael Havey: mjhavey@wisc.edu
Horticulture

GUATEMALA, INDIA, PANAMA, BRAZIL, CENTRAL AMERICA, CHILE, NEW ZEALAND

Subject: Energy requirements for the elderly
  Partner(s): International Atomic Energy Commission
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Institute of Population Health & Clinical Research, India
Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
University of Chile, Chile
Institutional Nutrition, Central America & Panama
Guatemala
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

MEXICO Subject: Dairy development
  Partner(s): Instituto Tecnologico y Monterrey-Campus Queretaro
  Contact(s):

Sharon Baumgartner:
sbaumgartner@cals.wisc.edu
CALS International Programs

MEXICO Subject: Comparative analysis of dairy production systems
  Partner(s): Instituto Tecnologico y Monterrey-Campus Queretaro
  Contact(s):

Michel Wattiaux: wattiaux@wisc.edu
Dairy Science

MEXICO Subject: Student Training, Internships, Exchanges and Scholarship
  Partner(s): Universidad de Guadalajara
  Contact(s):

Robert Ray: rray@cals.wisc.edu
Undergraduate Programs & Services

MEXICO Subject: Correlates of pediatric obesity
  Partner(s): Loyola University, IL, USA; National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico; University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

PANAMA, BRAZIL, CENTRAL AMERICA, CHILE, GUATEMALA, INDIA, NEW ZEALAND

Subject: Energy requirements for the elderly
  Partner(s): International Atomic Energy Commission
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Institute of Population Health & Clinical Research, India
Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
University of Chile, Chile
Institutional Nutrition, Central America & Panama
Guatemala
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

PARAGUAY Subject: Trust and informal insurance networks between farmers
  Partner(s): Desarrollo-Instituto de Capacitacion y Estudios
  Contact(s): Laura Schechter: lschechter@wisc.edu
Agricultural & Applied Economics
PERU Subject: Resource use patterns of peasants in biodiverse regions of the Peruvian Amazon
  Contact(s):

Bradford Barham:
barham@mailplus.wisc.edu
Agricultural & Applied Economics
PERU Subject: Potato taxonomy
  Partner(s): International Potato Center
  Contact(s):

David M. Spooner: dspooner@wisc.edu
Horticulture
Web Site:
http://www.horticulture.wisc.edu/faculty/faculty_pages
/Spooner/spooner.php
TRINIDAD Subject: Avian ecology
  Partner(s): University of the West Indies
  Contact(s):

Stanley Temple: satemple@wisc.edu
Forest & Wildlife Ecology

TRINIDAD Subject: Communications
  Partner(s): University of the West Indies
  Contact(s): Larry Meiller: meiller@wisc.edu
Life Science Communications

ASIA and OCEANIA
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AUSTRALIA Subject: Dairy management, reproduction, and nutrition
  Partner(s): Unversity of New England,
Lavel University, Wageningen University
  Contact(s):

Michel Wattiaux: wattiaux@wisc.edu
Kent Weigel: kweigel@wisc.edu
Louis Armentano: learment@wisc.edu
Dairy Science
AUSTRALIA Subject: International collaboration on teaching animal breeding and genetics
  Partner(s): Wageningen Agricultural University
  Contact(s): Michel Wattiaux: wattiaux@wisc.edu
Kent Weigel: kweigel@wisc.edu
Louis Armentano: learment@wisc.edu
Dairy Science
AUSTRALIA Subject: Photosynthesis gene expression and signal transduction
  Partner(s): University of Queensland
  Contact(s): Timothy Donohue: tdonohue@bact.wisc.edu
Bacteriology
AUSTRALIA Subject: Comparative aspects of remote, resource-based communities in Australia and North America
  Partner(s): University of New South Wales
  Contact(s): Arnold Alanen: aralanen@wisc.edu
Landscape Architecture
BANGLADESH Subject: Improvement of dairy cow and bull fertility in artificial insemination
  Partner(s): Bangladesh Agricultural University - Mymensingh
  Contact(s): John Parrish: parrish@ansci.wisc.edu
Animal Science
BANGLADESH Subject: Improvement of garlic and onion
  Partner(s): Bangladesh Agricultural University
  Contact(s): Philipp Simon: psimon@wisc.edu
Horticulture
Web Site:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/mwa/madison/vcru
BANGLADESH Subject: Dairy development and nutrition
  Partner(s): Bangladesh Agricultural University
  Contact(s):

Jess Reed: jdreed@wisc.edu
Dairy Science
CHINA Subject: Biodiversity conservation and sustainable development
  Partner(s): Kunming Institute Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Contact(s):

William Karasov: wkarasov@wisc.edu
Jess Reed: jdreed@wisc.edu
Kenneth Albrecht: kaalbrec@wisc.edu
Joshua Posner: jlposner@wisc.edu
Volker Radeloff: radeloff@wisc.edu
Web site: http://www.swchina.wisc.edu
CHINA Subject:

Nutrient management dairy farms

  Partner(s):

Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China Agriculture University

  Contact(s):

J. Mark Powell: jmpowel2@facstaff.wisc.edu
Soil Science
CHINA Subject: Dairy development and trade promotion
  Partner(s): China Agriculture University
  Contact(s): Karen Nielsen: knielsen@cals.wisc.edu
Babcock Institute
CHINA Subject: Breeding and genomics of melons and cucumbers
  Partner(s): Nanjing Agricultural University, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
  Contact(s):

Jack Staub: jestaub@wisc.edu
Horticulture
CHINA Subject: Safety net features of property right systems
  Partner(s): Peking University
  Contact(s):

Michael Carter: mrcarter@wisc.edu
Agricultural & Applied Economics
CHINA Subject: Structure and epigenetic modifications of rice centromeres
  Partner(s): Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Science
  Contact(s): Jiming Jiang: jjiang1@wisc.edu
Horticulture
CHINA Subject: Chinese demand for U.S. manufactured value added wood products
  Partner(s): Council of Great Lakes Governors, Shared China Trade Office
  Contact(s): Scott Bowe, sbowe@wisc.edu
Forest & Wildlife Ecology
Web Site: http://forest.wisc.edu/
CHINA Subject: Application of techology to cattle breeding and production systems
  Partner(s): Southwest University for Minorities, Chengdu, PRC
  Contact(s): J. J. Rutledge: rutledge@ansci.wisc.edu
Web site: http://www.ansci.wisc.edu/
Animal Sciences
CHINA Subject: Application of techology to cattle breeding and production systems
  Partner(s): Kunming Institute of Zoology
  Contact(s): J. J. Rutledge: rutledge@ansci.wisc.edu
Web site: http://www.ansci.wisc.edu/
Animal Sciences
CHINA Subject: Carrot breeding
  Partner(s): Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
  Contact(s): Philipp Simon: psimon@wisc.edu
Horticulture
INDIA Subject: Improvement of cattle and buffalo fertility
  Partner(s): Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Science University - Nagpur
  Contact(s): John Parrish: parrish@ansci.wisc.edu
Animal Science
INDIA Subject: Development of mitochondrial genetic resources for hybrid development for onion and estimation of genetic distances among Indian onions
  Partner(s): National Research Centre for Onion & Garlic, Rajgurunagar, Pune Dist., Maharashtra, India
  Contact(s): Michael Havey: mjhavey@wisc.edu
Horticulture
INDIA, BRAZIL, CENTRAL AMERICA, CHILE, GUATEMALA, PANAMA, NEW ZEALAND Subject: Energy requirements for the elderly
  Partner(s): International Atomic Energy Commission
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Institute of Population Health & Clinical Research, India
Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
University of Chile, Chile
Institutional Nutrition, Central America & Panama
Guatemala
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

INDONESIA, THAILAND Subject: Vitamin A assessment
  Partner(s): Mahidol University, Thailand; Nutrition Research and Development Center, Indonesia
  Contact(s): Sherry A Tanumihardjo: sherry@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences
JAPAN Subject: Plant-microbe symbioses
  Partner(s): National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS)
Contact(s): Jean-Michel Ane: jane@wisc.edu
Agronomy
JAPAN Subject: Signal molecules from soil microbial communities
  Partner(s): National Research Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki
Contact(s): Jo Handelsman: joh@plantpath.wisc.edu
Plant Pathology
Bacteriology
JAPAN Subject: High efficiency comparative mapping of onion and relatives
  Partner(s): Yamiguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
  Contact(s): Michael Havey: mjhavey@wisc.edu
Horticulture
KAZAKHSTAN Subject: Vegetable breeding
  Partner(s): Research Center of Potato & Vegetable Farming, Karasai, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  Contact(s): Philipp Simon: psimon@wisc.edu
Horticulture
KYRGYZSTAN and KAZAHKSTAN Subject: Wool marketing and production
  Partner(s): Kyrgyz Sheep Breeders Association
  Contact(s):

Jess Reed: jdreed@wisc.edu
Liba Brent: liba_b@yahoo.com
Animal Science
NEW ZEALAND Subject: Global Forest Sector Modeling
  Partner(s): Forest Research Institute, Rotorua
  Contact(s): Joseph Buongiorno: jbuongio@wisc.edu
Forest & Wildlife Ecology
NEW ZEALAND Subject: Plant cell wall chemistry, biochemistry
  Partner(s): Forest Research; U. Auckland
  Contact(s): John Ralph: jralph@wisc.edu
Forest & Wildlife Ecology
Web site: http://www.dfrc.ars.usda.gov
NEW ZEALAND Subject: Dairy pastures
  Partner(s): AgResearch New Zealand
  Contact(s): Ken Albrecht: kaalbrec@wisc.edu
Agronomy
NEW ZEALAND Subject: Soils of Antarctica
  Partner(s): LandCare, New Zealand
  Contact(s): J.G. Bockheim
bockheim@facstaff.wisc.edu
Soil Science
NEW ZEALAND Subject: Food, Agriculture and the Environment
  Partner(s): Center for the Study of Agriculture, Food and the Environment
  Contact(s): Michael Bell: michaelbell@wisc.edu
Rural Sociology
NEW ZEALAND Subject: Mapping of major health enhancing and flavor attributes of onion
  Partner(s): Crop and Food Research, Christchurch, NZ
  Contact(s): Michael Havey: mjhavey@wisc.edu
Horticulture
NEW ZEALAND, BRAZIL, CHILE, CENTRAL AMERICA, PANAMA, GUATEMALA, INDIA Subject: Energy requirements for the elderly
  Partner(s): International Atomic Energy Commission
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Institute of Population Health & Clinical Research, India
Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
University of Chile, Chile
Institutional Nutrition, Central America & Panama
Guatemala
  Contact(s):

Dale Schoeller: dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Nutritional Sciences

THE PHILIPPINES Subject: Policy lessons from watershed and upland research
  Partner(s): University of the Philippines Los Banos
  Contact(s):

Ian Coxhead: coxhead@wisc.edu
Agricultural & Applied Economics
RUSSIA Subject: Genetic recombination