Category: Featured Articles
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Posted on May 8, 2019
To live and learn together: Residential learning communities immerse CALS students in unique, focused academic experience
The summer vegetables sag in the wake of the first frosts. But the low October sun still warms the fields of the Eagle Heights Community Garden as Devon […]
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Posted on April 2, 2019
A different beet: CALS’ Irwin Goldman is pushing this loved and loathed vegetable in new directions
Last fall, when the “Gastropod” podcast came to UW–Madison to participate in the 2018 Wisconsin Science Festival, hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley asked Irwin Goldman PhD’91 to be a guest […]
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Posted on February 27, 2019
Climate change in microcosm: Research in a state wildlife area reveals how animals struggle with and adapt to an environment in flux
Jon Pauli is perched in the passenger seat of a mud-spattered Ford F-250. His ceramic mug brims with coffee as graduate student Evan Wilson guides the truck, loaded […]
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Posted on January 28, 2019
Controlled burn: Thea Whitman digs into questions of soil, carbon and biochar that could determine the trajectory of climate change
In a small utility room in UW–Madison’s Animal Science Building, the world’s smallest and most precise forest fire is burning. The fuel today: 100 grams […]
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Posted on December 17, 2018
Craft cider’s comeback: Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems partners with local makers to support the state’s burgeoning cider industry
A lot of cider apple trees — the kind that produce fruit for hard apple cider — aren’t easy to come by. Most of them […]
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Posted on October 15, 2018
Forgotten molecules: The fruits of an emeritus professor’s 40-year career in biochemistry are contributing to the modern search for new medications
On a rainy day last fall, chemist Scott Wildman left his office on the UW– Madison campus and drove to a retirement community on the city’s west […]
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Posted on August 30, 2018
Drones, joysticks, and data-driven farming: The use of drone-assisted remote sensing is ushering in an era of ‘precision agriculture’
Brian Luck grew up on an 800-acre corn and soybean farm in western Kentucky, so he knows well the look of a planted field from the […]
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Posted on July 25, 2018
Vector vigilance: A new CDC-funded center looks to stay a step ahead the Upper Midwest’s ticks and mosquitos — and the disease they carry
When you visit the UW Arboretum, you go to take a stroll through the woodlands, prairies, and flowering trees. You go to navigate the boardwalks that […]
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Posted on June 12, 2018
A precise hope: CALS scientists are developing a model for “precision medicine” for patients living with the rare disease called NF1
Mason Konsitzke is 7. He loves food (especially when he can share it with others) and anything military (both of his grandfathers served). He likes to […]
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Posted on April 24, 2018
The method maker: Gerry Weiss recounts a lifetime of innovation and collaboration with CALS and UW Cooperative Extension
Gerry Weiss BS’67 admits he knew nothing about the steep-valleyed fields of southwestern Wisconsin when, back in 1975, he bought 350 acres in Grant County and […]