Sarah Dance, a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently awarded a Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant to fund research into wild rice in Wisconsin.
When her advisor, Matthew Ginder-Vogel, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW-Madison, discovered the project was awarded $120,000 for two years, he said, “I was over the moon. I’m really happy to have a great combination of student interest and funding all come together at the same time. You always hope it will, so it’s a great feeling when it works out that way.”
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