New Wisconsin Institute for Discovery director sees a `hunger` for change at UW

Jo Handelsman describes herself as a "changemaker." Judging from her dossier, the incoming director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is not wrong.

Handelsman, currently the associate director for science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, previously served as a plant pathology scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the 1990s, she concocted a new science called metagenomics — the study of genetic materials retrieved from the environment....

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Ken Notes: This is a great acquisition for Wisconsin. Keep reading we may have a great opportunity for her in the science of manure. Welcome back to Wisconsin we need you!