Category: Featured Articles
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Posted on May 4, 2017
New book gives personal account of pioneering Yellowstone research
Tom Brock views his career as a series of three ventures. Sitting inside a cabin warmed by a wood-fed stove at his third venture, the […]
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Posted on April 11, 2017
The science farm: A decades-long project offers insights into agriculture
On a still and warm summer morning, as scientists drive along the dirt roads that crisscross the Arlington Agricultural Research Station, the fields sweep in […]
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Posted on February 28, 2017
Helping women farm in Mali
Women in many industrialized countries are all too familiar with the “second shift”—the domestic duties they still perform disproportionately (compared with their husbands) once their […]
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Posted on January 23, 2017
A place to belong: CALS student organizations offer personal growth, professional development and community
They sell holiday roasts and turkeys, fix lawn mowers and snowblowers for the public, grow and give away fruits and vegetables and volunteer in school […]
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Posted on December 27, 2016
The mysteries of mitochondria: Functions, behavior and implications for human health
Imagine having your car towed to the shop for unknown repairs, and watching a trusted local mechanic pop the hood and take a ponderous look […]
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Posted on November 29, 2016
Green therapy: CALS expertise helps redesign landscapes to heal body and soul
The teens in the rehab program can’t have drugs, so they use the waterfall instead. That’s how Lily Mank BSLA’15 explains the fact that when […]
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Posted on October 31, 2016
To market, to market: Discovery to Product program helps researchers become entrepreneurs
If you’re familiar with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), you no doubt know all about Stephen Babcock and his test that more […]
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Posted on October 18, 2016
Beyond genes: Protein atlas scores nitrogen fixing duet
Of the many elusive grails of agricultural biotechnology, the ability to confer nitrogen fixation into non-leguminous plants such as cereals ranks near the very top. […]
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Posted on October 5, 2016
Enormous rodents on Gough Island may hold key to solving genetic mystery
Two thousand miles east of the coast of Argentina, Gough Island rises out of the Atlantic Ocean in an awesome display of ancient volcanic activity. […]
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Posted on September 19, 2016
Breeding for flavor: A new collaboration brings scientists, chefs and farmers together
On a sticky weekday morning in August, a new restaurant called Estrellón (“big star” in Spanish) is humming with advanced prep and wine deliveries. All wood […]