Category: Around CALS
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Posted on April 16, 2018
Checking the gas: From barn to field, researcher follows dairy cows’ greenhouse gas footprints
Sometimes dairy scientist Michel Wattiaux approaches his research like a cop at a traffic stop. He uses a breath analyzer to check for problematic products […]
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Posted on April 9, 2018
CALS students learn sustainable forestry in Northwoods
As some UW–Madison students flew south for spring break, 10 forest and wildlife ecology students drove north. It’s rare that a distance learning course offers […]
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Posted on April 2, 2018
A precise hope
With gene editing — and pigs — CALS scientists are developing a model for “precision medicine,” the possibility of highly individualized treatments for patients living […]
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Posted on March 26, 2018
GreenHouse program coordinator blends sustainability, student life
Teaching about agriculture and sustainability during semesters filled with classes and tests is hard enough. It’s even harder when most students are gone for the […]
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Posted on March 19, 2018
The method maker
Gerry Weiss, a Grant County farmer, scientist, and permaculturist, recounts a lifetime of innovation and collaboration with CALS and UW Cooperative Extension.
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Posted on March 12, 2018
Can perennial bioenergy crops help sequester carbon?
In an article published last summer in Science, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) reported on ten years of work assessing the potential climate benefit […]
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Posted on March 5, 2018
VandenBosch: Why now is the time for a redesign
When I accepted the deanship, many of our academic departments had recently celebrated centennials and the college as a whole was on the verge of […]
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Posted on February 26, 2018
Badger Meat Science Club teaches basic pork butchering at Whole Hog Break Down
A competitive barbecuer, a structural engineer, and an oncology researcher walked into a meat lab. As they struggled back to their cars with dozens of […]
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Posted on February 19, 2018
Urban foxes and coyotes learn to set aside their differences and coexist
Diverging from centuries of established behavioral norms, red fox and coyote have gone against their wild instincts and learned to coexist in the urban environment […]
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Posted on February 12, 2018
Scouting the eagles: Evidence that protecting nests aids reproduction
Reproduction among bald eagles in a remote national park in Minnesota was aided when their nests were protected from human disturbance, according to a recent […]