PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: Demeter has had a wonderful start to the Fall 2023 season! We had excellent attendance at the Corn Roast with the most CALS Department Chairs and Early-Stage Faculty in attendance in a long while. Sharon Brantmeier and Lynn Grooms organized the Corn Roast wonderfully, and it was exciting to see so many new…
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE I am looking forward to a wonderful year serving as your President! I’d like to start by thanking the Executive Team for all their support and guidance so far. This year our goal is to increase recruitment of new members to Demeter and to develop an online system for registration and donations on…
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE It is with great pleasure that I introduce Demeter’s new annual special edition newsletter dedicated to our contributions to CALS undergraduate student scholarships, internships and grants to student organizations! We heard members’ wishes to know more about the student support made possible by your generous donations. The Education Committee under the leadership of…
BADGER LANDS TOUR In August a most interesting Demeter tour of the 7,350 acre Badger Lands area, south of Devil’s Lake, began with an introduction by Verlyn Mueller in the Badger Army Ammunition Museum. Then during a bus ride, retired DNR ecologist Mike Mossman, a member of the Badger History group, gave a history of…
WHAT IS the USDFRC? In March via Zoom we heard from Dr. Alison Duff, a Research Ecologist and a member of the dairy systems research team at the US Dairy Forage Research Center (USDFRC). The DFRC has labs on the UW campus and a 400 cow dairy herd, 1300 acres of cropland and 900 acres…
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE This is a big year for Demeter with $48,000 planned in student support toward 25 student awards among which three new awards will be offered for the first time! The steady growth of the eight UW Foundation endowment funds that benefit our organization and its program of student support are a tribute to…