Category: Around CALS
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Posted on October 2, 2015
A bobbing bounty: Giant Pumpkin Regatta set for Oct. 10 at Memorial Union
There’s a fun, alternative way to enjoy the fall harvest: attending the university’s Giant Pumpkin Regatta. The event, which features students paddling hollowed-out pumpkins grown by […]
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Posted on September 23, 2015
Taking flight: Ento 201 students help release monarch butterflies
If you noticed a monarch butterfly on campus in recent weeks, you may have entomology professor Dave Hogg to thank. As part of a research […]
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Posted on September 18, 2015
Cow feed efficiency project builds on a century of UW-Madison dairy R&D
It’s a cool and dusty morning on the Rosy-Lane farm, located just south of Watertown, Wisconsin. Lloyd Holterman creaks back in his kitchen chair with […]
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Posted on September 9, 2015
Spruce up your space: UW Horticulture Society plant sale runs Sept. 18-20
Want to spice up a corner of your office or home? The Horticulture Society of UW-Madison will have what you need at their annual Fall Plant Sale […]
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Posted on September 3, 2015
The Fox, the Coyote—and We Badgers
Once upon a time during the last few years, a red-haired girl new to the University of Wisconsin–Madison crested Bascom Hill and cast her eyes […]
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Posted on August 27, 2015
Course inspires student to interview professor, dig deeper
And so it begins. The new academic year is upon us, with faculty and staff preparing to give their first lectures of the fall 2015 […]
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Posted on August 20, 2015
CALS researchers deploy insect ‘birth control’ to protect cranberries
It’s no fun being a male moth in one of Shawn Steffan’s cranberry research plots in central Wisconsin. When the time comes to mate, it’s […]
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Posted on August 14, 2015
CALS undergrads embrace summer internship experiences
Undergraduate students in the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) participate in all kinds of “beyond the classroom” experiences during their time in […]
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Posted on August 10, 2015
The new crop: Student organic seed enthusiasts gather in Madison this week
Future plant breeders from around the country are in town this week to talk about developing seeds for organic farming systems. About 32 graduate students have gathered […]
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Posted on August 3, 2015
Eyes on the green: CALS scientists help Whistling Straits golf course get ready for the PGA Championship
Traveling around the windswept golf course called The Straits, with its massive greens of bentgrass and rumpled, horizon-bound fairways of fescue, it’s easy to see […]