Category: Highlights
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Posted on July 5, 2012
UW-Madison gets $3 million grant to train new scientists to collaborate on complex conservation challenges
A new type of forest is taking root in Puerto Rico’s abandoned sugar cane fields. The new stands are full of invasive trees, but they […]
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Posted on June 19, 2012
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center marks first issued patent
The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is marking the arrival of summer with a milestone: the first patent issued on the center’s technology. The […]
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Posted on June 4, 2012
How Bees Make Honey: Producing honey is a strenuous team effort for bees
We slather it on bread, use it in cooking or stir it into tea without thinking twice, but producing honey is a strenuous team effort […]
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Posted on May 29, 2012
New composting option on campus
Commuters to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus now have a new site to drop off compostable food waste from home or office. The two new […]
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Posted on April 30, 2012
Five things everybody should know about hops
1. Wisconsin was once the nation’s largest producer of hops. The 1860s saw “an unbounded zeal” in Wisconsin hop production, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel […]
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Posted on April 20, 2012
Experts suggest steps to stop spread of resistant corn rootworms
The discovery that more Western corn rootworms are resistant to the toxin contained in widely planted transgenic corn has sparked a warning that farmers must […]
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Posted on April 12, 2012
New trivia game teaches about Wisconsin’s lakes
Can a musky eat a duck? Are jellyfish found in Wisconsin waters? What was the largest fish ever caught on hook and line in the […]
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Posted on March 26, 2012
Kids at work: Can grazing goats help restore Wisconsin’s landscapes?
The slopes in the Yellowstone Wildlife Area are an impenetrable tangle of brambles, prickly ash, dogwood and honeysuckle. They need a thorough de-brushing. But the […]
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Posted on March 19, 2012
CALS alumn partners with Hollywood producer to help children with epilepsy
The special diet she was using on children with epilepsy was changing lives—but Beth Zupec-Kania (BS’81, dietetics) didn’t know it would change her own until […]
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Posted on March 12, 2012
Keep on Farming: Partnership helps growers do their work even after serious injury
Sometimes there’s a moment in life when everything changes. For Arlington farmer Alan Kaltenberg, that moment happened twice. The first was when he lost his […]