Author: caschneider3
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Posted on January 12, 2018
UW–Madison professor led fight to ban pesticide DDT 45 years ago
Forty-five years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release. “The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in […]
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Posted on January 11, 2018
REDA program alumni elected to Association of Energy Service Professionals board
Two alumni of the UW-Madison’s Resource and Energy Demand Analysis (REDA) master’s program have been elected to the board of the Wisconsin Chapter of the […]
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Posted on January 5, 2018
2017 dairy year in review – Audio
/RSS FeedMark Stephenson, Extension Dairy Policy Analyst Center for Dairy Profitability Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences mwstephenson@wisc.edu (608) […]
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Posted on January 2, 2018
Beyond antibiotics: How slumping performance is spurring treatment innovations
Since the beginning of their widespread adoption in the 1940s, antibiotics — the antimicrobial drugs we use to treat bacterial infections — have saved millions […]
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Saving an American icon in England
On a mild spring day in 1980, a handful of men gathered on the sprawling lawn of England’s Windsor Castle, there to do a little […]
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Posted on December 28, 2017
2017: CALS Year in Review
The end of the year is a great time to look back and reflect on the accomplishments of the CALS community. Here are some of […]
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Posted on December 27, 2017
New hope for stopping an understudied heart disease in its tracks
The diminutive size of our aortic valve — just shy of a quarter — belies its essential role in pushing oxygen-rich blood from the heart […]
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Posted on December 18, 2017
2017 winter commencement: A day of selfies, victory laps and avoiding ‘hollow bunnies’
One takeaway from UW–Madison’s winter commencement Sunday: When the leader of a university asks a small favor, people tend to comply. UW–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank […]
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Cracking the code of coenzyme Q biosynthesis
Coenzyme Q (CoQ) is a vital cog in the body’s energy-producing machinery, a kind of chemical gateway in the conversion of food into cellular fuel. […]
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Scheufele on panel to probe a bedrock principle of science
University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor of Life Sciences Communication Dietram Scheufele has been appointed to a panel investigating reproducibility in science by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. […]