Category: Economic and Community Development
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Posted on April 29, 2021
From Malawi to UW and back: Student commencement speaker Lusayo Mwakatika advances agriculture in his homeland
Lusayo Mwakatika grew his first garden at the age of 14. He harvested his own vegetables, sold them to friends and neighbors, and used the […]
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Posted on April 21, 2021
Center for Dairy Research partners with entrepreneur on innovative, milk permeate-based sports drink
GoodSport, a new sports drink developed in part at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Dairy Research, has the potential to turn the sports hydration […]
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Posted on April 7, 2021
UW–Madison course offers a taste of many cultures
How does the American ideal of healthy eating exclude other cultures? That was the question posed to students by University of Wisconsin–Madison instructor Erika Anna […]
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Posted on March 23, 2021
Summer Term course helps students understand, navigate science communication challenges
Last summer, Kunlung Wang landed an undergraduate research position in a UW–Madison biochemistry lab. Wang, a biochemistry and computer sciences double major, found himself passionate […]
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Farm and Industry Short Course de UW-Madison anuncia una garantía de matrícula para estudiantes con ingresos familiares por debajo de $60,000
La capacitación de los granjeros del futuro en las técnicas más recientes del manejo y producción basadas en la ciencia es el fundamento de la […]
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Posted on March 16, 2021
Wild potatoes tapped for late blight guard duty
Distant cousins of cultivated potato may hold the key to unlocking new sources of resistance to the tuber crop’s most devastating disease, late blight. That’s […]
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Posted on March 2, 2021
Conservation takes a village
Teri Allendorf applied for the Peace Corps in the early 1990s with an eye toward East Africa, where she was hoping to use her knowledge of […]
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Posted on January 21, 2021
Hemp stakeholder survey helps identify crop research priorities
After a decades-long hiatus due to the crop’s legal status, growers are now producing industrial hemp across the United States. Despite significant developments in the […]
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Posted on January 19, 2021
Project to create anti-racism education wins Mellon grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $5 million to fund an interdisciplinary, multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, […]
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Posted on January 13, 2021
Research projects advance sustainable agriculture and food in Wisconsin
Three UW–Madison graduate students are getting a unique opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary, hands-on research that will advance sustainable agriculture and food in Wisconsin and […]