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CALS Awards Faculty For Research, Teaching

May 19, 1997

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has announced college-wide awards for excellence in research and teaching for 1996-97. Winners are:

  • Peter Arcese, Outstanding Advisor Award. Starting with 15 students when he joined the faculty in 1992, Arcese, an assistant professor of wildlife ecology, has seen the number of students he advises increase to 63 this year. He also teaches the department’s general survey course and developed its first capstone course In 1994.
  • Marion Brown, Jung Teaching Award. During his tenure at CALS, Brown, a professor of agricultural journalism, has taught nearly every course in the department. He teaches the recently revamped Introduction to Communication: Inquiry and Exposition, taken by many nonmajors as a writing-course requirement, and supervises the course’s five teaching assistants.
  • Scott Craven, Spitzer Teaching Award. Craven teaches Wildlife Ecology 301, Natural History and Ecology of Terrestrial Vertebrates, a hands-on course that showcases his innovative methods. His all-day field trips into the lower Wisconsin Riverway are famous among students. He also has lectured for the Farm and Industry Short Course since 1981, and has guest-lectured in nearly 20 other courses.
  • Brian Fox, Pound Research Award. Fox, an assistant professor of biochemistry, studies a family of enzymes that metabolize compounds. His research receives major support from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation and has won him two prestigious junior faculty awards — the Searle Scholarship and the Shaw Scientist Award.
  • Teryl Roper, Pound Extension Award. Roper, an associate professor and fruit-crop extension specialist, has worked closely with the state’s cranberry industry to help make Wisconsin a leader in cranberry production. Before coming to UW–Madison in 1988, he worked on air pollution in grapes as a research associate at the University of California. He also has worked closely with Wisconsin growers of apples and cherries.
  • Ron Russell, J.S. Donald Excellence in Teaching Award. Russell has led the Meat Animal Evaluation, Products and Marketing class for the past 12 years, as well as teaching three other classes and advising 10 students. He also coaches the Meat-Animal Evaluation Team, which traditionally fares well locally and nationally in judging competitions.
  • Stan Temple, Spitze Land Grant Award. During his 21 years of teaching, research and outreach in CALS, Temple, the Beers-Bascom Professor in Conservation in the Department of Wildlife Ecology, has devoted his work to the preservation of biological diversity. He has taught eight different courses in wildlife ecology and is a past recipient of CALS and UW teaching awards.
  • Amy Wong, Pound Research Award. Wong, an associate professor of food microbiology and toxicology, studies the sources of food poisoning. Her work has showed that cheesemakers need to steam-clean their equipment to kill the agents that cause food poisoning.