Author: caschneider3
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Posted on September 8, 2017
Farm to Flavor dinner showcases vegetables bred for flavor
For these vegetables, flavor is king. No bland carrots or tasteless tomatoes allowed. Only deep, earthy beets, rich sweet corn and bright kale were fit […]
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National Farm Safety and Health Week – Audio
/RSS FeedJohn Shutske, Director, UW Center for Agricultural Safety and Health Extension Safety Engineering & Agricultural Health Specialist UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 608-890-2949 […]
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Posted on September 7, 2017
Campus museums recreate ‘cabinet of natural history’ digitally
In 1849, the Board of Regents of the new University of Wisconsin directed the curation of the state’s plants, animals and minerals in a “cabinet […]
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Posted on September 5, 2017
Arboretum conference offers native gardeners guidance, ideas Sept. 17
As fall approaches and the sun gets lower in the sky, mark the end of one growing season by planning for the next at the […]
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Posted on August 28, 2017
Microbes compete for nutrients, affect metabolism, development in mice
“Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do,” says Federico Rey, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Then […]
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Popular science
Can Bill Nye, the famed Science Guy of the ’90s, really save the world? UW researchers posed that question in jest in an online column […]
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Posted on August 23, 2017
Protecting the future of oak
A video produced in collaboration between UW-Madison, UW-Extension and the Department of Natural Resources encourages Wisconsin woodland owners to adopt land management practices that encourage […]
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UW biochemists decipher final pieces of vitamin D regulatory pathway
Biochemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have deciphered the molecular mechanisms that underpin how the synthesis of the active form of vitamin D is regulated […]
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Posted on August 21, 2017
Shaping the future of farming: The Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center to serve as an incubator for agricultural improvement
Thirty-five years ago, when CALS bacteriologist Winston Brill and his colleagues set out to exploit science’s newfound ability to manipulate genes to confer new traits […]
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Posted on August 17, 2017
Reflective art installation displays beauty, intrigue of genetics
Typically, the images generated in the course of scientific research are seen only by a select few: the scientists who consume the studies published in […]