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Dairy state to bring beer, cheese to college classroom University of Wisconsin to introduce new certificate program with focus on fermentation to match state’s growing food, beverage industries by Alex Arriaga News Editor
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University of Wisconsin students will soon be able to bring their passions for beer, wine and cheese to the classroom, with a new certificate program in food sciences. The certificate aims to teach students the processes of making beer, wine, yogurt, cheese and many other foods and beverages that involve fermentation, according to a UW statement. The program will allow
both degree-seeking students and members of the general public to pursue training and take courses in a field that has been gaining speed in the last ten years, Barry Cameron, a geology professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee who has helped bring the program to the UW system, said. “[This program] means a great deal to craft brewers in Wisconsin because it’s a very vibrant and growing industry right now and the need for well-trained and knowledgeable employees is very essential to continuing that growth,” Mark Garthwaite, the Wisconsin
Brewers Guild Executive Director, said. The program also includes classes in wine-making, an industry which has been growing in the Midwest over these past few years. According to a 2011 report from the University of Minnesota, Wisconsin wine and grape growing industries have greater than $119 million impact on the state economy. Keeping this recent winery boom in mind, Cameron said that wine would be a major focus of the certificate program. “I think there are positive things going on and huge
growths in the wine industry that we want to focus on, and I think it is true in a lot of wine regions that there’s often been a strong connection between growing wine and the region’s university,” Cameron said. Tom Bryan, a graduate student who got his undergraduate degree from UW in microbiology, taught a fermentation seminar for two spring semesters for residents of the Aldo Leopold dormitory’s Greenhouse Learning Community. Bryan said the fermentation program at UW would be an especially good fit because of the fermented
food industry in Wisconsin. As a state that is known for its beer and cheese, Byran said, not having a fermented food system is almost embarrassing. The program is long overdue, he said. Bryan said he took a fermentation course offered through the Food Science department, taught by Professor James Steele, who played a big role in bringing the fermentation program to UW. Bryan said the class was 120 people from all different disciplines, a sign of how many students are interested in fermentation. “Jim Steele gave the best
Doe case may impact elections
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Possible illegal campaign finance in Walker camp turns attention to independant voters by Dan Kindermanreporter
After oral arguments were heard at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday, attention has again been placed on the John Doe investigation into possible illegal coordination between the Walker campaign, other Republican state Senate campaigns and Wisconsin Club for Growth around the time of the 2012 recall election. The investigation, which has contributed to the partisan trend in the state of Wisconsin, may be major factor in the upcoming gubernatorial election, University of Wisconsin journalism professor Mike Wagner said.
“I think that from the public’s point of view, the effects of the investigation are partisan in that strong supporters on each side see this kind of investigation as a rallying cry for why they want their side to win,” Wagner said. Barry Burden, UW political science professor, agreed with Wagner ’s “rallying cry theory,” adding there are many voters in the state who are very tied to one party or the other and will probably not be persuaded to change their votes. However, in a state split on party lines with already-high levels of political polarization, public opinion of the slim number of independent
voters on the Doe case could make or break the hopes of Walker ’s reelection campaign, Burden said. “There is this very small share of the electorate that seems not to be tied to either side, despite the polarization that has happened,” Burden said. “They’re really attuned to current events and how the state is faring […] so the economic numbers around jobs and the budget and the John Doe investigation will be factors that I think will affect them, and they could be decisive if both partisan sides are dug in and it’s that group that ends up making the difference.” However, according to Wagner, due to the nature
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of the investigation, public opinion on the case may not necessarily be as important as some members of the media may think. The problem, Wagner said, is that the John Doe case is too confusing to sway even the independent voters’ opinion. “I think the strongest supporters on both sides are following this [investigation], but most folks find these investigations a bit too confusing and muddled to understand what kind of conclusion they should draw from it,” Wagner said. Burden said he sees the investigation as a
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example of a fermented food that people eat all the time but no one knows its fermented,” Bryan said. “Pizza. The bread has yeast, the cheese is fermented, the pepperoni is a fermented sausage. Shit, we’re all eating fermented products all the damn time.” Future fermentation students are advised to keep their eyes peeled in the coming months, as the program is expected to be approved this fall, Cameron said. Both UW and UW Milwaukee hope to offer courses being beginning in the 2015 spring semester.
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