Food Supply and Production – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Adam Borger

jnweaver — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:44:39 +0000

Adam Borger has worked in the food industry for 14 years as a microbiologist before joining the UW-Madison Food Research Institute. His area of expertise is food microbiology and food safety, focusing on both consumers and food manufacturers. He now works closely with industry, government, academia and the general public to provide education on prevention of food borne illness and frequently gives public talks, seminars and also teach undergraduates.

Chuck Czuprynski

jbedermann — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:45:34 +0000

Chuck Czuprynski, is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, and Past Director of the Food Research Institute. His research focuses on the pathogenesis of bacterial pathogens, with an emphases on the innate immune response to bovine respiratory pathogens and on zoonotic agents that cause foodborne disease (i.e. Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella enterica). His lab also has investigated novel strategies to combat wound infections and the adverse effects of environmental toxins on the immune system.

Jennifer Gaddis

mreinfeldt — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:53:53 +0000

Jennifer Gaddis is an associate professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools(University of California Press, 2019), which won book awards from the National Women’s Studies Association and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She is the co-editor with Sarah A. Robert of Transforming School Food Politics Around the World. Gaddis is an advisory board member of the National Farm to School Network and has written op-eds on school food politics for popular media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, and Teen Vogue. She and her students regularly partner with school districts, labor unions, and social movement organizations on community-based research and advocacy projects related to food justice in K-12 schools. Dr. Gaddis is an active member of the Healthy School Meals for All Wisconsin coalition and a regular partner of the Madison Metropolitan School District.

Kristin Krokowski

mreinfeldt — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:11:59 +0000

Kristin has been working in the areas of small scale vegetable production on diversified farms, direct marketing, and produce safety for more than 20 years. She also serves as the Director of the Wisconsin Farmers Market Association. She also works with her husband on their 40 acre fresh market vegetable farm selling at farmers markets and their farm stands in Southeast Wisconsin.

A speaker fee applies to Prof. Krokowski’s talk.

Alfonso Morales

jnweaver — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:29:28 +0000

Alfonso Morales, PhD (Northwestern), is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning (College of Letters and Sciences) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is originally from rural New Mexico with roots in family farming there and in West Texas. He has established a nationally and internationally recognized and policy-relevant program of research on street vendors and marketplaces that has described the organization and consequences of marketplace processes historically and across populations. He has extensive experience with students in community-based outreach and research.

Chuck Nicholson

mreinfeldt — Fri, 12 May 2023 16:31:59 +0000

I am an agricultural economist who contributes core economic perspectives on food system issues relevant to society, often working closely with other disciplines and using integrative systems approaches. My research program focuses on the economics of three thematic areas under the umbrella of food systems analysis: 1) Production, marketing and supply chain systems for dairy in US and low-income country settings;2) Economic and environmental analysis of supply chains for controlled environment agriculture (CEA;e.g., greenhouses, vertical farms), and 3) Analysis of the determinants of food security outcomes in low- and middle-income country settings.

Alex O’Brien

mreinfeldt — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:40:39 +0000

As CDR’s Dairy Safety & Quality Coordinator, Alex O’Brien assists dairy plants with food safety plans, quality issues, and performs third party audits. Alex has worked in the food industry for the past 10 years, serving as a quality assurance supervisor and quality assurance manager. He has worked at Kerry Ingredients and Maple Leaf Cheese Company. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 with a Food Science degree. Alex is a Wisconsin native with long family ties to the dairy industry. His grandparents and parents previously dairy farmed in east-central Wisconsin and his in-laws are dairy farmers.

For food safety and quality resources, articles, services, and short courses visit: Center for Dairy Research – Safety and Quality

A speaker fee applies for Mr. O’Brien’s talks.

Katherine (Kate) Phelps

mreinfeldt — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:39:49 +0000

Dr. Kate Phelps is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They have a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Their teaching and research interests and areas of expertise include body politics, body liberation, fat studies, Health at Every Size, bodies and capitalism, weight stigma, size inclusive care, girlhoods, social media, feminisms, and arts-based therapies. They are also a member of the Leadership Circle for the UW-Madison 4W Initiative. They lead body mapping workshops and give talks for a variety of campus and community organizations.

Keith Poulsen

fpuleo — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 03:20:47 +0000

Keith Poulsen is a practicing large animal veterinarian at the Morrie Waud Large Animal Hospital at the School of Veterinary Medicine and is the Section Head of Client Services at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. He specializes in infectious diseases of large animals, especially food borne and zoonotic disease. He also has interests in Wisconsin Agriculture and looks at public and animal well-being with a One Health perspective.

Michel Wattiaux

mreinfeldt — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:56:53 +0000

I grew up on a dairy farm and was a first-generation college student in Belgium. I came to the U.S. in 1985 and completed a PhD in ruminant nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After 10 years of international dairy extension work, I took a faculty position in the Department of Dairy Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My disciplinary research focuses on the environmental effects of dairy farms and in particular the carbon and nitrogen losses to the environment associated with feeding strategies.

I am very interested in assessment of sustainability and how the sustainable development goals (SDG) can serve as a guide help us make sound sustainability-related decisions.

I have a passion for teaching and have received multiple teaching awards. I have gained an international reputation as an educator because of this dedication and passion to empower students through critical thinking. I have taken students for a two-week program in Mexico annually for almost 20 years. It is very demanding but also one of the most rewarding professional activities for me!

Presentations can also be offered in Spanish or French.