Category: Highlights
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Posted on August 3, 2017
A new weapon against bacterial disease
Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are one of the biggest problems facing public health today. About 800,000 children worldwide die before their fifth birthday […]
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Posted on July 26, 2017
UW–Madison’s Lancaster ag station celebrates half-century study of crop rotation
Shortly after it was established in 1963, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Lancaster Agricultural Research Station embarked on a study of crop rotation, to serve the […]
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Posted on July 18, 2017
A big-city ag high school blossoms: CALS helps leads a rebirth of Vincent Agricultural High School
It’s just after lunch at Milwaukee Vincent, and students are settling into their two-hour Advanced Animal Science class. Using their fingers to write on an […]
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Posted on July 6, 2017
Five things everyone should know about sloths
1) A sloth is not a sloth. There are two types of tree sloths that diverged roughly 20 million years ago—two-toed and three-toed sloths, so named […]
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Posted on June 19, 2017
New program makes vegetables, produce available for free on campus
A line of about 20 students and staff members stretched down the hallway of the Student Activities Center last Friday, waiting for the chance to […]
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Posted on June 13, 2017
Like valium for fish? UW-Madison discovery aims to solve stress in fish farms
A University of Wisconsin–Madison group that discovered a way to improve survival in fish farms has begun to unravel the mechanism behind their unexpected finding. […]
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Posted on May 30, 2017
Adventures in global health
When it comes to study abroad experiences, an elephant ride in Thailand is pretty hard to beat. “The entire time we were around the elephants, […]
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Posted on May 4, 2017
From test tube to plate, UW–Madison program keeps potatoes clean
Years before that french fry landed on your plate, the plant that would eventually give rise to the spud your fry was cut from was […]
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Posted on April 26, 2017
For some plants, winter carries the keys to spring flowering
It’s springtime in Wisconsin again. Home gardeners and farmers are busy tending to their beds and fields, relishing the fresh, green sprouts of flowers, vegetables and […]
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Posted on April 20, 2017
Aldo Leopold’s words once again broadcast to the state
In celebration of Earth Day, Wisconsin audiences will once again hear portions of conservationist and former University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Aldo Leopold’s radio addresses that […]