Category: Around CALS
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Posted on May 15, 2015
Meet Jessica Cederquist, CALS’ new dairy herd manager
CALS has a new dairy herd manager. Jessica Cederquist, who joined the Department of Dairy Science in March, is the administrator in charge of the college’s 750+ […]
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Posted on May 8, 2015
Landscape architecture student develops idea for interactive Ho-Chunk park trail
Inspired by the prairie-lined boundaries of a Dane County park, a UW student had the vision to create an interactive trail focusing on the local history […]
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Posted on May 3, 2015
For CALS senior, a small idea becomes the Wisconsin Idea
The power of the Wisconsin Idea lies not in the solitary action of a single person, but in the collective action of many. Kayla Sippl […]
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Posted on April 27, 2015
CALS hosts inaugural World Food Prize – Wisconsin Youth Institute event for teens
This past Friday, 10 high school students from across the state and Chicago spent the day on the CALS campus discussing issues of global hunger and poverty […]
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Posted on April 20, 2015
Citizen scientists wanted: SquirrelMapper project seeks Wisconsin contributors
SquirrelMapper, a citizen science project to gather information about the distribution of black vs. grey squirrels that originated in New York, is now active in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin portion of […]
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Posted on April 10, 2015
CALS labs field three Cool Science Image Contest winners
From among a record setting number of entries, three winners of the 2015 Cool Science Image Contest came from CALS laboratories. For information about the 11 winning images, […]
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Posted on April 2, 2015
The kits are back: Baby foxes seen emerging from campus den
It’s official: Adorable little kits have been spotted venturing from a campus fox den. The UW Urban Canid Project has been documenting this activity and sharing some […]
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Posted on March 27, 2015
Exploring bugs and bioenergy: Gina Lewin’s path to the Currie Lab
For many college students, summer provides a chance to test-drive future career paths. When Gina Lewin took advantage of such an opportunity, her test drive […]
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Posted on March 23, 2015
Unpuzzling diabetes: Alan Attie tracks the internal mechanisms behind a fast-growing disease
The body makes it seem so simple. You take a bite of supper, and the black-box machinery of metabolism hums into life, transforming food into fuel […]
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Posted on March 16, 2015
Chris Hittinger names newly discovered yeast for Bucky Badger
When you discover a new organism, you get to name it — but not for yourself. There are rules to the naming business in biology. […]