Category: Featured Articles
- Posted on March 20, 2018
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Posted on February 12, 2018
Hands on with food and farming: How UW’s PEOPLE program is planting the seeds of careers in agricultural science
It’s a bright summer afternoon in 2016, and UW–Madison undergraduate Donale Richards accompanies a small group of high schoolers on a visit to the UW Dairy Cattle […]
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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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Posted on December 7, 2017
Decades-past logging still threatens spotted owls in national forests
Logging of the largest trees in the Sierra Nevada’s national forests ended in the early 1990s after agreements were struck to protect species’ habitat. But […]
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Posted on November 20, 2017
Wading through Mendota’s mysteries: Trina McMahon and her team explore the lake’s microbial dark matter
It was a silly question, so Trina McMahon laughed. What’s more important: a lab coat or a Twitter handle? “Twitter handle, for sure. We don’t do anything […]
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Posted on September 26, 2017
A tale of two cheeses: How the Center for Dairy Research helped Wisconsin makers of vastly different cheeses improve production and quality
Many of the world’s greatest cheeses are made in Wisconsin. It’s a fact that begs the question: How do those cheeses get to be great? […]
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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 16, 2017
Students on the cutting edge: Undergrads contribute to knowledge and get an advantage in the job market
CALS undergrads are an impressive bunch, eager to get the most out of their time at college. As they tackle the challenging coursework required for […]
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Posted on August 10, 2017
Candid camera: A trail camera project called Snapshot Wisconsin engages state residents in citizen science
At first there is nothing—windblown leaves maybe, or the quicksilver skitter of a squirrel. I can’t identify the source of the movement, and settle back expectantly […]
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Posted on June 8, 2017
Lactation sensation: Laura Hernandez works to improve milk production, for the benefit of both cows and humans
When the city girl decides to study lactation, she must first learn to milk a cow. Laura Hernandez, an assistant professor of dairy science at CALS, […]