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The correct answers are: Recently featured as an “instructional highlight,” associate professor Valentín Picasso Risso is a member of which CALS department? Agronomy How many donors supported CALS QuickStart during Day of the Badger? >100 Which biochemistry professor was awarded an Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant from the National Institutes of Health? Ophelia Venturelli

Posted on Through Zoom, agronomy professor brings farmers from around the world to his students In teaching students about crops and farming in other parts of the world, Valentín Picasso Risso often incorporates field trips closer to home — area greenhouses that grow tropical plants or Wisconsin farms operated by recent immigrants. Those opportunities, of course, had to be temporarily halted due to the pandemic. In their place, Picasso Risso has been using technology to give his studen...