Xuehua Zhong receives Romnes Faculty Fellowship – eCALS wisc.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wisc.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
May 27, 2021 |
CALS’ Xuehua Zhong is among fourteen UW–Madison faculty selected to received H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships, which recognize faculty within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.
Xuehua Zhong, associate professor of genetics and an affiliate with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, studies epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation. By understanding how plants reprogram epigenetic landscapes to meet growth and survival needs, she is developing innovative tools to edit and engineer epigenomes for biomass production and agricultural improvement. Zhong teaches epigenetics and advanced genetics.
Faculty receive WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes Awards wisc.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wisc.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Developing an Excellent Education Plan for your CAREER Proposal
Wednesday, May 26, 9:00-11:30 a.m. (online using Zoom)
Are you, or someone you know, planning to submit an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program proposal? If so, this upcoming workshop is designed to help you or your colleagues find ways to impact broader audiences through integration of research and education.
During this workshop you will discuss strategies for writing a successful education plan, hear insights from past grant recipients, and start drafting your own proposal. Come learn ways to leverage UW-Madison’s institutional resources to help you reach wider audiences with your work.
Tom Brock, who discovered world-changing extremophiles, dies at 94 For news media
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As an ecologist, when Tom Brock first visited Yellowstone National Park in the mid 1960’s, he saw the colorful hot springs in a different way than most. He was stunned by the microbes present there that no one seemed to know anything about. His research that followed uncovered a previously unknown characteristic of life the ability for bacteria to live in near-boiling water. The existence of these organisms would later lead to groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of microbiology and genetics. 2017 video by Craig Wild/University Communications