Category: Around CALS
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Posted on August 28, 2023
FISC’s Turfgrass Apprenticeship Program provides “supercharged” training for management roles in golf, turf-related industries
Emerging from the tree line onto The Lido golf course is like walking into a different world. Sand stretches over rolling hills with green grass […]
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Posted on August 21, 2023
Picturing the places wildlands and people meet at a global scale
Researchers led by a team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and […]
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Posted on August 14, 2023
With Wisconsin Rural Partnership funding, UW–Madison launches new projects to support rural and tribal communities
Four projects that aim to support rural communities and tribal nations in Wisconsin have been selected to receive funding through the Wisconsin Rural Partnership initiative […]
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Posted on August 7, 2023
CDR offers cheese making course for Spanish-speakers
The Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosts a lot of cheese making short courses — almost twenty per year. But most […]
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Posted on July 31, 2023
UW–Madison offers new major in animal and veterinary biosciences
The animal and veterinary biosciences major is for students who care about animals’ health, well-being, and their relationships to humans and the environment — from the […]
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Posted on July 24, 2023
Can farms pull enough carbon from sky to soil?
A CALS agronomy group is partnering with farmers on a 10-year study to find out if improved agricultural practices can really sequester carbon and help […]
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Posted on July 17, 2023
Study by LSC’s Nan Li shows integrating art with data visualizations can help bridge the US political divide over climate change
Communicating science to a general audience can be challenging. Successfully conveying research on polarizing topics such as climate change can be even more difficult. But […]
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Posted on July 10, 2023
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center highlights CALS graduate student Daven Khana
Daven Khana is a PhD candidate in the DAN Lab, led by bacteriology associate professor Daniel Amador-Noguez. Khana studies the bacteria Zymomonas mobilis and its […]
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Posted on June 26, 2023
Bacteria with a taste for inflammation could help protect against heart disease
Some microbes in the guts of humans and mice may help control the buildup of plaque in arteries, the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, by […]
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Posted on June 19, 2023
Clearer picture of watershed quality helps people put dollar values on improvements
It may be easy to argue that cleaning up a river is inherently good, but it’s far harder to put a monetary value on the […]