Category: Featured Articles
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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 […]
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Posted on December 2, 2022
Cold hard science in the heart of cranberry country
In early March of 2017, Nicole Hansen found herself kneeling in a cranberry bed, drilling into the soil to check the amount of frost in […]
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Posted on October 26, 2022
Innovation through campus cooperation in America’s Dairyland
In 2019, Wisconsin dairy leaders approached state legislators with a long-standing problem and a request for help. The state’s dairy farm numbers were in a […]
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Posted on October 12, 2022
Time travel without fear: Betül Kaçar devised a molecular time machine to understand the origins and evolution of Earth
Betül Kaçar is a self-described gözü kara. The Turkish term refers to people from the Black Sea region of the country, but it has another translation […]
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Posted on September 8, 2022
A home wherever I go: For grad students of color, this campus community offers the support and feel of a family
“What are you looking for in a graduate school?” That was the question posed to a panel of visiting undergraduates one April afternoon in UW’s […]