Category: Featured Articles
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Posted on February 7, 2024
Ewe are what your grandparents ate?
“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard this old adage before. But during pregnancy, maternal nutrition can have a large impact on a baby, […]
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Posted on January 10, 2024
The road to rural broadband: Paving the way to greater internet access for underserved parts of Wisconsin
The South Shore of northern Wisconsin — where Bayfield County meets Lake Superior — is known for its natural beauty. Summer used to be the […]
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Posted on November 13, 2023
Representative science: Judith Simcox looks to diversify researchers to address health care disparities
Judith Simcox can trace the course of her research career all the way back to high school. Her class was given an assignment to explore a […]
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Posted on October 12, 2023
Viral copy machine revealed: Researchers use cryo-EM to render 3D blueprint of complex genome replication apparatus
RNA viruses, such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, jump into a life-and-death race the moment they infect a cell. These viruses have only minutes […]
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Posted on September 12, 2023
Can farms pull carbon from sky to soil?
A CALS agronomy group is partnering with farmers on a 10-year study to find out if improved agricultural practices can really sequester carbon and help […]
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Posted on June 30, 2023
From hardship to hope: Team from CALS and Extension cultivates communities that can contend with farm stress together
Leon Statz used to get stressed about almost everything on his Sauk County farm. He worried about the weather, the bills, the crops. And when […]
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Posted on May 1, 2023
Pathways to immunity: To better fight disease, Jing Fan is pushing the boundaries of immunometabolism
Jing Fan recalls the first science experiment she ever performed. She was a kindergartener in Beijing, China, and her class made glue out of flower petals. […]
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Posted on April 3, 2023
The Babcock Hall Dairy Plant and the Center for Dairy Research get major updates in form and function
When it was first constructed in 1951, Babcock Hall — UW’s beloved producer of ice cream, cheese, and other famous dairy goods — was a […]
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Posted on February 28, 2023
A new tactic in the superbug battle
During a 2015 trip to Egypt, Tom Patterson suffered a gallstone attack and soon fell terribly ill. But that’s not what nearly killed him. Patterson […]
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Posted on January 20, 2023
Once and future wildfires: Jed Meunier, CALS alum and great-grandson of Aldo Leopold, is changing perceptions of infernos
On a blustery spring day, Jed Meunier MS’05 and his team are climbing Wisconsin’s Castle Rock bluff, searching for treasure. From the outside, the gnarled […]