Category: Highlights
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Posted on July 30, 2008
A milk toast celebrates the new UW-Madison Integrated Dairy Facility
Leaders from the state’s dairy industry, state government and the college toasted the opening of the college’s new 500-cow dairy research facility at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station
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Posted on July 21, 2008
New exchange program builds bridges between UW and India
A group of 14 undergraduate students from India are preparing to share the results of being placed in various labs across the UW-Madison campus, where they have spent the summer conducting research.
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Posted on July 1, 2008
Ice Creamier
University of Wisconsin-Madison food science professor Srinivasan Damodaran has discovered an edible antifreeze that can preserve ice cream’s smooth, silky texture.
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Posted on June 30, 2008
Breaking down the barriers to biomass energy
UW-Madison is betting that John Ralph’s intricate knowledge of plant cell walls will expose new ways of engineering plants that are easier to convert into ethanol.
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Posted on June 26, 2008
2008 Public events at at UW-Madison research stations
Following is a list of events currently scheduled at the UW-Madison
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Posted on June 17, 2008
Information sources for flood articles
Information Sources for Wisconsin Flooding Articles What is the impact on crops? Joe Lauer (608-263-7438, jglauer@wisc.edu) is a professor of agronomy and an expert on […]
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Posted on June 9, 2008
Scientific information largely ignored when forming opinions about stem cell research
When forming attitudes about embryonic stem cell research, people are influenced by a number of things. But understanding science plays a negligible role for many people.
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Posted on June 2, 2008
A Nobelist comes home
In a presentation that included copies of pages from his 50-year-old lab journals, a former UW-Madison geneticist told the story of the work that earned him the world’s most famous prize.
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Carroll, Kiessling named Fellows of Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
Evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll and biochemist Laura Kiessling have been named as 2008 Fellows of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
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Posted on May 27, 2008
Pulling all-nighters
Members of the Badger Pullers aren’t getting much sleep as they get ready for the annual International Quarter Scale Tractor Pulling Competition (an event dreamed up in 1998 by a couple of UW-Madison grad students).