Category: Around CALS
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Posted on February 29, 2016
No-till conquers heavy soils
When Jason Cavadini, assistant superintendent of the CALS-based Marshfield Agricultural Research Station, first started working at the station in spring 2013, he was told that […]
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Posted on February 22, 2016
Gunasekaran named faculty director of CALS International Programs
Dean Kate VandenBosch has named Sundaram “Guna” Gunasekaran to the position of faculty director of CALS International Programs. He will assume those duties on March […]
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Posted on February 14, 2016
Bill Tracy named nation’s first endowed chair for organic plant breeding
Bill Tracy, agronomy professor and sweet-corn breeder, was named the recipient of the nation’s first endowed chair focused on plant breeding for organic crops. The […]
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Posted on February 8, 2016
CALS researchers seek farmers to “ground truth” new remote-sensing maps
A multi-disciplinary group of CALS researchers has begun reaching out to farmers, asking them to become citizen scientists by sharing field-level crop yield data with the research […]
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Posted on February 1, 2016
Tim Donohue, the power of microbes and the pull of Rockaway Beach
Long before Tim Donohue became a CALS bacteriology professor and the director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), he was a teenage beach […]
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Posted on January 22, 2016
Bolstering the Bees: UW Scientists Contribute to State’s Pollinator Protection Plan effort
Wisconsin’s honey bees help support an $88 billion agricultural enterprise and play an important role in ecosystems throughout the state. But our bees face challenges. […]
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Posted on January 18, 2016
CALS to host campus-wide microbiome symposium on April 20
Please mark your calendars for Exploring Microbiome Opportunities in Agricultural and Life Sciences, a CALS-led symposium dedicated to exploring the role of the microbiome in biological […]
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Posted on January 10, 2016
Campus canid update, including new way to report sightings
The following is an update on our UW campus foxes and coyotes submitted in late December by Marcus Mueller, a wildlife ecology graduate student involved in the Urban Canid […]
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Posted on January 1, 2016
CIAS leading effort to improve food transportation systems
Moving food from rural areas to large metropolitan regions is an expensive proposition. People across the supply chain, from regional shippers and distributors to planners […]
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Posted on December 20, 2015
Genetics student helps found new UW undergrad research journal
CALS student Eddie Ruiz, a junior majoring in genetics, is one of the co-founders of The Journal of Undergraduate Science and Technology (JUST), a new journal […]