Category: Around CALS
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Posted on September 9, 2019
The protein professor: Food science’s Srinivasan Damodaran innovates food and nonfood products alike
Srinivasan Damodaran came to the United States in 1976 from South India, where the green revolution was fueling an explosion of wheat and rice production — […]
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Posted on September 3, 2019
Effort to boost tomato’s resistance to plant pathogens seeks to curb foodborne illnesses
At some point in your life, you’ve probably gone to class knowing you left an assignment unfinished. The knot in your stomach grew as homework […]
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Posted on August 26, 2019
UW–Madison dairy science internships help Tuskegee students weigh career choices
Tuskegee University student Naomi Waldon spent the summer in an internship in a University of Wisconsin–Madison dairy science lab and decided that research was right […]
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Posted on August 19, 2019
Freshman seminar helps put CALS students on path to success
During his guest lectures for Inter Ag 155 about the challenges of global food production and distribution, Alfred Hartemink likes to poll the students. Hartemink, […]
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Posted on August 12, 2019
A look at Hancock Agricultural Research Station
Additional photographs available at CALS Flickr The Hancock Agricultural Research Station was established in 1916. It is a 412-acre vegetable research farm and has 9,000 […]
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Posted on August 5, 2019
Study shows time spent in nature correlates with academic performance in science courses
If you excelled in your college science classes, chances are you spent much of your youth outside the city limits or exploring nature with grass […]
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Posted on July 29, 2019
Wood products mitigate less than 1 percent of global carbon emissions
The world’s wood products — all the paper, lumber, furniture and more — offset less than 1 percent of annual global carbon emissions by locking […]
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Posted on July 22, 2019
‘App’-riculture: CALS experts develop mobile apps to bring science to farmers anytime, anywhere
Mike Cerny has been farming long enough to have a reliable intuition when it comes to decisions about applying chemical protection to his crops. So it […]
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Posted on July 15, 2019
Relieving two headaches with one process
With a new method to synthesize a popular pain-relieving medication from plants rather than fossil fuels, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have […]
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Posted on July 1, 2019
Organic-grain field day offers ‘tremendous opportunity’ to farmers
A field day and series of talks in a restored rural schoolhouse near Oconomowoc offered expert advice and encouragement for organic farmers and those who […]