Category: Around CALS
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Posted on January 20, 2026
UW Badger Pulling Team uses ingenuity, skill, style to make its tractor design stand out
When undergraduate Devin Digman bought a 90s-era Kawasaki motorcycle earlier this year, he didn’t expect its purple and turquoise color scheme to bleed into other […]
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Posted on January 12, 2026
Jake Brunkard, SMPH collaborator team up to engineer crops to help address obesity, diabetes epidemics
In a UW–Madison greenhouse, “super corn” and “super soy” plants reach to the sun, giving hope for a future when baked goods and corn chips […]
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Posted on January 5, 2026
Viruses found in carbon-storing wetlands play an active role in shaping ecosystem health
Viruses in wetland soil play a more important role than previously understood and could even be indicators of ecosystem health, according to a new study […]
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Posted on December 22, 2025
Video: 2025 CALS Year in Review
The end of the year is always the perfect time to reflect on accomplishments and successes. For CALS, 2025 was full of achievements. We had […]
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Posted on December 15, 2025
Smart farming: Wisconet gives Wisconsin growers a powerful tool to reduce costs and improve yields
If you closed your eyes — and maybe if David Bartling wasn’t trying to shout over the roar of harvesting machinery — you might guess […]
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Posted on December 8, 2025
CALS commencement site hosts event info, celebrates winter 2025 grads
On Sunday, December 14, 2025, a new group of UW–Madison students will officially graduate and join the Badger alumni community. Join us to celebrate CALS […]
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Posted on November 30, 2025
Congressional staff see how Wisconsin benefits from UW’s federally-funded research, including CALS projects
UW–Madison welcomed congressional staff for a three-day visit to campus, November 12 – 14, to see firsthand how national investments fuel discovery, improve lives, and […]
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Posted on November 24, 2025
Photos: Great Lakes Intertribal Harvest Gathering invites CALS researchers to share work
The 2025 Great Lakes Intertribal Harvest Gathering was held earlier this fall at Ho-Chunk Nation’s House of Wellness in Wisconsin Dells. The event took place […]
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Posted on November 10, 2025
Jake Brunkard takes aim at the potential power of an ancient cellular process to make plants, people and pets healthier
In Jake Brunkard’s lab in the Genetics-Biotechnology Center, you’ll find plants everywhere. The space is filled with grow carts containing tomatoes and Arabidopsis thaliana, a member of […]
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The barred owl’s westward migration threatens other species and a whole ecosystem, CALS researchers find
A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special conservation status by […]