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Congratulations to Abby on completing her MS degree. Well done! We are looking forward to seeing what you achieve during your PhD.

Congratulations to Barbara Dittrich for completing her MS degree. Other fun including hosting Ivie, a STEM-Catalyst student, and presentations at the Dairy Innovation Hub Dairy Symposium, as well as the ADSA and ASAS conferences.

Sophia Green adn Kylie Konyn both received graduate student scholarships from the Association of Women in Agriculture this year! Congrats to Sophia and Kylie, we are beyond proud to call you both alumnae of UW–Madison, CALS, AWA, and the White Lab! Read more in the AWA post.

Great job to Abby Bowers of the White Lab and Daniel Cavalli of the Ferraretto Lab for two very well done seminars!

After a morning at the farm and in the lab, ice cream at Bascom for employee appreciate day hit the spot!

Sophia Green, a recent alumna of UW–Madison and the White Lab, is pursuing her veterinary degree this Fall at UW–Madison’s Vet School and will be assisting with research in the White Lab over the summer. In the Fall, Sophia will also assist with the feed efficiency and methane emissions effort occurring in the White and …

Mariana Paiva Rodrigues has joined the White Lab in March 2024 and will be doing cell culture studies to determine nutrient partitioning and utilization in dairy cattle with a special focus on the transition period and feed efficiency. See more about Mariana in the “Members” tab. We are excited to do some great research with …

Rika Fukumori, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Rakuno Gakuen University in Japan and has joined Dr. Heather White’s lab for her sabbatical. Rika plans to further her research by investigating the secretion and role of metabolic hormones and gut peptides in dairy cows, and her research will contribute to knowledge of how endocrine signals …