Category: Program Features
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Dr. Wei Guo: Tenured & Promoted
Dr. Wei Guo was recently promoted to Associate Professor (Tenured) in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences. His laboratory investigates how post-transcriptional regulation and RNA metabolism shape the structure…
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Doctoral Candidate Spotlight: Jessica Brown
Jessica Brown, a doctoral candidate in Dr. Steven Ricke’s lab, was recently awarded the J. Mac Goepfert Developing Scientists Award. This award is presented by the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), an association focused on…
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Master’s Spotlight: Ashley Tarcin
Ashley Tarcin, a master’s student working in Dr. Steve Ricke’s lab, recently presented two posters at the Arkansas Association of Food Protection conference. This conference encourages improvements in areas of…
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Restarting the Badger Meat Science Club
The Badger Meat Science Club is back at UW-Madison! Jordan Hartley, a Masters student at MSABD and president of the Badger Meat Science Club, spearheaded the club’s reestablishment. Restarting the…
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The History of MSABD: Before the Building
Getting the Meat Science and Animal Biologic Discovery building built here at the UW-Madison campus started merely as a dream with no end goal in sight. Getting enough funding, sponsors,…
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Masters Research: Adam Franzen – Summer 2024 Newsletter Highlight
Research at MSABD is constantly striving to improve the quality of meat products. Masters student Adam Franzen, a member of the lab of Dr. Jim Claus at MSABD, shares this…
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Racing Sausages of the Milwaukee Brewers
Baseball fans across Wisconsin may tell you something unexcepted: they have a favorite type of sausage. Sausage mascot, that is! One popular tradition at Milwaukee Brewers games is the Famous…
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Film Review: Temple Grandin
The Emmy and Golden Globe award winning 2010 HBO film “Temple Grandin” follows the remarkable life-story of Mary Temple Grandin, a woman whose ideas revolutionized animal welfare. Animal welfare, or…
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Not Just Red and White: Why Rainbows Appear on Deli Meats
As UW-Madison commemorates LGBTQ+ Pride Month in June and rainbow flags appear around Madison, a phenomenon known as structural color can also cause iridescent rainbow coloring on sliced deli meats.…
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Gyūdon: A budget-friendly, one-pot dish
Gyūdon (or 牛丼, translating to, “beef bowl,”) is a Japanese donburi (rice bowl) dish that originated in the 1800s. It quickly gained popularity as citizens in Japan began eating more…
