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The White Lab was well represented at ADSA 2024 by past and present members, and came home with some hardware! Dr. Usman Arshad received the National Milk Producers Federation: Richard M. Hoyt award for his work during his PhD program (below, left). His current advisor, Dr. Heather White, was able to celebrate his success at …
The White Lab’s very own Dr. Usman Arshad received the UW–Madison Postdoc Excellence Award! Usman received this award due to his excellence in mentoring graduate students in the Animal & Dairy Sciences Department and was nominated by Dr. Heather White, with support from many other faculty. Congratulations Usman!
The White Lab is proud to congratulate Kylie Konyn and Sophia Green on being awarded the WALSAA Outstanding Sophmore Award!! These two young ladies have been working in the laboratory for nearly 2 years, and both are working on independent projects with the help of various laboratory members. We are excited to see where their …
April 10-12, 2023 was the annual Tri-State Dairy Conference in which undergraduate students Sara Johnson and Sophia Green accompanied Dr. Heather White to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sophia Green presented her research on “Variation in the Feed Bin: Impact of TMR sorting during the feed day” during the Undergraduate Student Competition and received 3rd place for …
One of the White Lab’s own undergraduate researchers was awarded the Sophmore Research Fellowship for her proposed Summer 2022 project! Sophia will be going to dairies and will be analyzing metabolites from blood taken from transition cows. Congratulations Sophia on the award! We can’t wait to see what you will find out this summer!
The 2021 annual American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) meeting took place virtually last week and the White Lab was well represented! Multiple abstracts were presented, and awards were received by two current lab members and an alumnus! Gaelan Combs is an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Heather White’s lab. Gaelan competed in the undergraduate abstract presentation …
The Dairy Science Showcase was a huge success and highlighted research across the Department. Tawny presented her MS research and Rob Fugate received a scholarship! http://dysci.wisc.edu/2014/10/13/uw-madison-dairy-science-showcase-on-nov-6/
Ryan Pralle, Undergraduate Research Student in the White Lab, was just honored as a 2014 Distinguished Junior Member (DJM) in Dubuque Iowa on June 28th. This award is the highest honor a Junior Holstein Association member can receive. Congratulations Ryan, we are proud of you! For more information see: http://www.holsteinusa.com/news/press_release2014.jsp?decorator=juniors&confirm=true#pr2014_11