eCALS for Students

Current CALS students are invited to apply for scholarships offered through the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The single application is good for all of the scholarships that the college offers, and is also used to award departmental scholarships as well.

To read more about the scholarships the college offers, please visit the new University of Wisconsin scholarship website: http://scholarships.wisc.edu/Scholarships/

To link directly to the CALS Continuing Student Scholarship Application visit: http://www.cals.wisc.edu/students/financing/ContinuingApp/

Keeping Current with the Literature <http://library.wisc.edu/workshops/workshop-topic.html#personal>
Wednesday November 11, 4:00-5:15pm
Room 105 <http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/floor-plans/index.html>, Steenbock Library <http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/location.html>*

Feeling overwhelmed? Learn about several tools that can help you minimize your time and maximize your efficiency for staying up-to-date in your field of research. Learn how to create a custom list of library databases to be always at your finger tips. Have table of contents of the most recent journals sent directly to your email. Be alerted to the most recent articles on a topic. Monitor Web sites, blogs, and other important resources with ease. Keep track of citations and make bibliographies quickly. There will be plenty of hands-on time for you to explore the resources on your own.

Managing Your Citations with EndNote <http://library.wisc.edu/workshops/workshop-topic.html#endnote>
Tuesday November 17, 3:00-4:30pm
Room 105 <http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/floor-plans/index.html>, Steenbock Library <http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/location.html>*

Covers the basic features of using Endnote, including organization of databases and records, searching and sorting records, importing records electronically from MadCat and journal article databases, and instant formatting of bibliographies. Also covers EndNote Web (Free to campus users courtesy of UW-Madison Libraries). Learn how to set up your EndNote database initially to avoid later style formatting hassles. For more information about EndNote: http://www.library.wisc.edu/endnote/

CALS and the Wisconsin School of Business for many years have had an agreement whereby CALS undergraduates whose degrees or majors require a business course will get an earlier registration window than the general campus.

The School of Business provides an automatic preferential window to any student with the program code of ABM (Ag Business Management), ADI (Dietetics), and ASB (B.S. Ag Sciences, Business option) for the seven courses currently covered in the agreement; AcctIS 211 & 301, GenBus 300 & 301, Finance 300, Marketing 300, and MHR 300 & 305. This preferential window will open on Tuesday, November 18 at 12:00 Noon. Students who are part of the Business Certificate will have their own preferential window.

Students will still need to register for the classes they wish to take, and our agreement does not guarantee a seat in the class. Students still must wait for their enrollment appointment time to attempt to enroll for the course or courses they desire. These courses do not open to general campus until after all enrollment appointment times have been released on Tuesday, November 24 at 9:00 am.

Please remember that the School of Business will hold students to any and all prerequisites for classes. As always, any student may attempt to enroll in a business course on or after Tuesday, November 24.

“Consumer Medicines Information: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”
a lecture by Theo Raynor, Ph.D.

Sponsored by the Sonderegger Research Center and the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Noon -1:00 p.m.
Rm. 1128, Rennebohm Hall

Theo Raynor is a leading international researcher on how medicines are used in primary care, notably the effective provision of consumer medicines information– the written and spoken information people receive with their medication. Raynor is particularly interested in the communication of benefits and risk of medicines. He works at the policy, practice and research level in the U.K., U.S., and Australia. Raynor spent 20 years in hospital pharmacy, combining practice with research and teaching, before moving into academia in 1996. He became the inaugural professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Leeds in 2000, where he leads a highly active practice research program. This work is complemented by the University spin out company, Luto Research Ltd, which he co-founded in 2004.

Thinking about applying to The Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (rural medicine program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health)? It is not too late to do so!

WARM has extended its deadline for fall 2010.  The AMCAS submission and WARM application deadlines have both been extended to December 31, 2009. The secondary deadline has been extended to January 31, 2010.

Please refer to www.med.wisc.edu/warm

Martin Luther King Jr. Day     Jan 18 (M)
Instruction begins     Jan 19 (T)
Spring recess     Mar 27-Apr 4 (S-N)
Passover***     Mar 30 (T) (during spring recess)
Good Friday***     Apr 2 (F) (during spring recess)
Classes resume     Apr 5 (M)
Last class day     May 7 (F)
Study day     May 8 (S)
Exams begin     May 9 (N)
Commencement weekend     May 14-16 (F-N)
Exams end     May 15 (S)
Official graduation date     May 16 (N)
Shavuot***     May 19-20 (W-R)*
Last day grades in     May 21 (F)

*Observances of Jewish holidays begin at sunset on the day preceding that which is listed as the holiday.

***RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES POLICY
In accordance with regent and faculty policy, faculty are asked not to schedule mandatory exercises on days when religious observances may cause substantial numbers of students to be absent from the university. Some religions mark observances over multiple days, which may begin at sunset on the day preceding the posted date(s) of the holiday. Conflicts may occur for religious observances other than those identified in the calendar. A listing, though not exhaustive, of religious holidays is available at www.interfaithcalendar.org <http://www.interfaithcalendar.org>. Any student with a conflict between an academic requirement and any religious observance must be given an alternative means of meeting the academic requirement. A student’s claim of a religious conflict, which may include travel time, should be accepted at face value.

The UW-Madison CALS Chapter of the Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS) Student Organization was awarded the Region V Chapter of the Year at the Regional Meeting held November 6-8 at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. Chapters were judged according to displays of hard work and dedication to MANRRS through service, professionalism, and academic excellence. We congratulate the students in MANRRS CALS on this wonderful accomplishment, and invite students to join the organization. For more information, visit the National web site at www.manrrs.org.

Congratulations also are in order for Senior Biology major Erica Plybeah. Erica is the Region V Undergraduate Vice-President for MANRRS, and has done an outstanding job in providing leadership and communication for the region and in helping put together a successful regional conference. We encourage CALS students to pursue leadership opportunities, and Erica has taken advantage of this on a national level, and is making UW-Madison and CALS very proud to have her.

For the seventh consecutive year, International Academic Programs is offering a 4-week, 4-credit study abroad program in China with lectures on site at Peking University. Students will learn about the differences between Western Arts, Design, Cultural Studies and Chinese Culture and Feng Shui. See firsthand examples of Feng Shui in the gardens, temples and palaces of Beijing, Suzhou, and Shanghai. For the 2010 program, students will also get to tour the World Expo in Shanghai, where China hopes to build a powerful and lasting example of sustainable and harmonious urban living.

Application Deadline: December 11, 2009
For more information or to apply: www.studyabroad.wisc.edu
Faculty leader: Professor Wei Dong, Human Ecology

This program will fill up quickly! Application deadline: December 11, 2009. Please visit www.studyabroad.wisc.edu for more information and to apply!

Purpose:

The Office of Equity and Diversity (OED) Student SEED seeks to create a respectful environment for students to engage in conversations about the impact of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability and other defining aspects of identity on their personal lives, on their communities and in society as a whole. Unlike most UW classes, SEED students are expected to share their own personal stories and feelings regarding these aspects of identity in order to learn from each other and learn about themselves. We will also use readings, videos, reflective writing, and group dialogue to further students’ learning and understanding.

Structure:

This 3-credit, semester-long seminar meets every Tuesday, 5:30pm – 8:00pm, with dinner provided. Approximately 20-25 students are in OED SEED each semester and taught by a team of facilitators.

Engaged participation:

One of the central goals of the seminar is to provide opportunities in which participants are open to being vulnerable with each other in order to have critical, open, and honest dialogues around issues of identity and social justice. As a result, we ask students to share their thoughts and experiences surrounding these issues in class while being open to the perspectives and stories of others.

Journals:

Each week, the students turn in a 2-page journal entry to their assigned facilitator. The journal is a place for the students to reflect on the readings, classroom discussions, activities and their everyday life in relation to some aspect of the on-going discussion. Journals help students process the difficult feelings they deal with in the course and helps facilitators gauge if/how students are understanding and connecting with the dialogue.

Readings:

There are required readings that students will be able to access through Learn@UW that are to be read before class each week.

Final Reflection Project/Paper:

The final project is a synthesis of a student’s journey and learning process throughout the course. This is a place for students to reflect on where they were at the beginning of the semester, how and what impacted them throughout, where they are now and where they hope to be in the future. It is critical for students to share what they have learned from participating in Student SEED in their final reflection project/paper.

Attached is an application for the OED SEED Seminar. Answers should be typed and limited to a total of one page. If you wish to enroll, please return the completed application via email to

Mariko Lin at marikolin@wisc.edu

The DEADLINE is Friday November 20, 2009 and applicants will be notified by Tuesday December 1, 2009. Given you might be enrolling in classes next semester before being notified about SEED, it is suggested that you enroll in classes as you would without this course and then “swap” this class in your Student Center if accepted to enroll.

Application Form Here

This contest is open to all who have an interest in rural health, it is not just open to pre-med students.

The Hermes Monato, Jr. Prize of $2,000 is awarded annually for the best rural health paper. It is open to all students of the University of Wisconsin (any campus). Students are encouraged to write on a rural health topic for a regular class and then to submit a copy to the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative as an entry by April 15. Previous award winners as well as judging criteria and submission information are available at _http://www.rwhc.com/Awards/MonatoPrize.aspx_.