News & Highlights
COSTA RICAN VISITORS
September 15, 2009
A cross-cultural cross pollination of ideas in organic and sustainable vegetable production
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Seven students and professors from Costa Rica were here last month to learn about organic and sustainable vegetable production. Next spring, a UW-Madison group will do the same thing in Costa Rica.
Cross pollination is important in sustainable and organic agriculture. Especially when it comes to knowledge. That’s why seven students and professors from the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica participated came to Wisconsin for an intensive workshop focusing on organic and sustainable vegetable production last month. It’s also why a reciprocal workshop is being organized for spring break 2010 involving students enrolled in LACIS440/Hort 372, Organic Agriculture in the Tropics. They’ll travel to Costa Rica to visit and gain hands-on experience in organic and sustainable fruit and vegetable production farms in Costa Rica.
Last month’s workshop for the Costa Rican visitors was presented in Spanish(Producción y mercadeo de hortalizas orgánicas en climas templadas). The participants visited the Chicago and Olbrich botanic gardens, Wollersheim Winery as well as gaining hands-on experience while visiting several organic vegetable farms in southern Wisconsin, including Vermont Valley Community Farm (Blue Mounds), TiPi Produce (Evansville) and Harmony Valley Farms (Viroqua).
The participants also enjoyed the sights and sounds of urban culture and horticulture at the Dane County Farmers Market and another in downtown Chicago. An ‘International garden’ of 28 different vegetables was planted at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station, and also on the campus of the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica to allow students to compare and contrast the similarities and differences of the growth and developement of different vegetables in contrasting temperate and tropical environments.
The workshop was organized by Jim Nienhuis, Dept of Horticulture and Alberto Vargas, Dept. of Latin America, Caribbean and Iberian Studies.
FLU INFORMATION
September 15, 2009
Feeling down with flu symptoms? Take it easy this weekend
September 12, 2009, 7:09 am
Every team gets a set of pre-game instructions from its coach, and today Badger fans are receiving theirs from a new source.
Officials at University Health Services (UHS) are reminding students to take a break from the festivities of a home football weekend in the event they are experiencing flu-like symptoms such as fever with a sore throat or cough.
However, if you’re feeling healthy, there’s no reason not to enjoy a Badger game day as you normally would.
Since Sept. 1, cases of H1N1 influenza have increased on campus and UHS Director Sarah Van Orman, M.D., says it’s important for students who might be ill, or recuperating, to think of their own health and the health of others this weekend as they make weekend plans. Read more »
HORT PLANT SALE
September 8, 2009
The Hort Club plant sale will be September 11th through the 13th, 2009 in the Stock Pavilion.
PARKING PERMITS
September 1, 2009Starting Tuesday September 1st, make sure to display your new parking permits if you are paring in a UW lot.
NIH RESEARCHERS
September 1, 2009For NIH researchers:
One requirement of the NIH Public Access Policy is that individuals submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PubMed Central (PMC) reference number (PMCID) when citing applicable papers that are authored by the Principal Investigator or that arise from the PI’s NIH-funded research. The NIH Manuscript Submission ID (NIHMSID), which is issued upon submission, is a temporary substitute for a PMCID.
Effective August 21, 2009, an NIHMSID may be used to indicate compliance with the Public Access Policy for up to three (3) months after a paper is published. After that period, a PMCID must be provided in order to indicate compliance. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-136.html
The NIH Public Access Policy requires submission of the final peer-reviewed approved manuscript at the time of acceptance unless the journal is an NIH depositor (e.g. Protein Science) or you request the publisher deposit the manuscript for you (e.g. ACS - Option C).
If you have questions, please contact:
Julie Schneider, jschneider@library.wisc.edu & Emily Wixson, ewixson@library.wisc.edu
