Author: caschneider3
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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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Bacteria with a taste for an inflammatory compound could help protect against heart disease
Some microbes in the guts of humans and mice may help control the buildup of plaque in arteries, the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, by […]
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Posted on June 21, 2023
UW–Madison Agricultural Research Station field days for 2023 season
Summer is field day season at the UW–Madison CALS Agricultural Research Stations. Over the course of the growing season, the stations will host more than […]
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Posted on June 12, 2023
Death cap mushroom’s invasion success may be linked to newly documented variability of toxin genes
It’s a cold, wet day in 2015 and Anne Pringle is scouring the understory of a Northern California forest for the unassuming organism that has […]
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Posted on June 8, 2023
Clearer picture of watershed quality helps people put dollar values on improvements
It may be easy to argue that cleaning up a river is inherently good, but it’s far harder to put a monetary value on the […]
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Posted on May 30, 2023
Landmark yeast study provides framework for understanding biodiversity, applications
Commonly known as brewer’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae tends to get credit for bread, beer, wine, ethanol and just about any other product of fermentation. In fact, for […]
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Posted on May 17, 2023
Horticulture department serves up a satiating course on Indigenous foodways
On a frigid February afternoon, around 60 UW students gather near Dejope Residence Hall on the west end of campus. Their modern gear protects them […]
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Posted on May 10, 2023
Five counterintuitive facts for the conscientious lawn owner
Doug Soldat is a professor and extension specialist in the Department of Soil Science. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in soil science from CALS […]
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Troy Runge sees bioenergy hub as model for doing ‘big research’
Troy Runge grew up around silos. As the new director of agricultural and life science research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he’s hoping to tear […]
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Posted on May 9, 2023
Biochemistry’s Judith Simcox named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
If you walk into the office of biochemistry Professor Judith Simcox — named today to the first cohort of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski […]