AAE Alumnus Elzie Higginbottom (B.A. ’65) was recently honored by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) with a Distinguished Alumni Award. He is the owner of East Lake Management & Development Corp., which …
Alumni Spotlight
Catching Up With Muneera Khambaty
When Muneera Khambaty was selecting a major on her UW application, she wanted to major in Economics. In what turned out to be a happy accident, she clicked the Agricultural and Applied Economics major instead. …
Helping farmers success on the business side
Growing up on a family farm in Arena, Wisconsin, Luke Drachenberg loved three things: agriculture, business, and Badger football. So, it only makes sense that when it came time for him to go to college, he ended up as an Agricultural and Applied Economics major at UW-Madison. The seed was planted when and he had…
AAE PhD Returns to Campus after 50 Years
Although he completed all the requirements for a PhD in 1967, Mexico native Luciano Barraza never got the opportunity to walk across the stage and receive his diploma. Instead it was mailed to him, as …
Spotlight on Katie Burgess
Growing up on a dairy farm, Katie (Behnke) Burgess (B.S. ’08, M.S. ’10) had an interest in animals, but also learned that farming is about business as much as anything. As an incoming freshman at …