Author: caschneider3
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Posted on May 7, 2019
Commencement 2019: A look at some of this spring’s notable graduates
Launching a scholarship — even before graduating Abagail Catania, an agricultural business management major, took the unusual step of creating a scholarship for other undergraduates while […]
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Posted on April 30, 2019
Venturelli, Handelsman Earn Army Research Office Grant to Study Microbial Communication
Two University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have been awarded more than $1 million as part of the multidisciplinary university research initiative from the United States Army […]
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Posted on April 25, 2019
CALS students take top honors in UW–Madison Student Employee of the Year competition
University of Wisconsin–Madison dairy science student Morgan Larson helps take care of the campus Meat Lab and the students who work there. Auna Kaufmann-Schwartz, a […]
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Posted on April 24, 2019
NSF awards 40 fellowships to UW–Madison students
The National Science Foundation has awarded 40 UW–Madison students with Graduate Research Fellowships. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding, early-career graduate students […]
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UW Changes Lives: Advice, research boosts Wisconsin potato growers
Wisconsin has a healthy potato industry, ranking in the top 5 nationally. It’s bolstered by support from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, ranging from supplying seed […]
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Posted on April 23, 2019
Blue Sky Science: Why do chickens lay different-colored eggs?
Why do chickens lay different-colored eggs? In this episode of Blue Sky Science, Ron Kean, a faculty associate in animal sciences, answers that question posed by Rafael […]
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Posted on April 22, 2019
Jo Handelsman elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jo Handelsman, professor of plant pathology, was one of two UW–Madison scholars recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The election recognizes the contributions […]
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UW Changes Lives: Experts advance new crops for long-term profitability
On a field in western Madison, where cornfields sprout houses, Amaya Atucha and three graduate students are giving a buzzcut to some experimental grape vines. […]
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Posted on April 19, 2019
The benefits and challenges of cover crops – Audio
/RSS FeedMatt Ruark, Extension soil scientist Department of Soil Science UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences mdruark@wisc.edu 608-263-2889 3:12 – Total time 0:11 – What […]
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Posted on April 17, 2019
Resistance is not futile: Plant pathologists develop a soybean plant that staves off stem rot and defies drought
If there’s anything that could be called the archenemy of Midwestern soybean producers, it just might be Sclerotinia stem rot. Once thought of as only […]