Category: Around CALS
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Posted on March 9, 2015
Top beer from student competition to be sold at Terrace this spring
Spring is on the way, and so is a new UW-Madison student-designed beer that will be sold at the Memorial Union Terrace. The beer—a red […]
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Posted on March 2, 2015
UW-Madison helps train aspiring farmers enrolled in ‘the MBA of dairy’
Considering the average age of a Wisconsin farmer is upwards of 56 years old and the state has been losing around 500 dairy farms per year in recent […]
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Posted on February 23, 2015
Spring lambing season at Arlington ARS
UW-Madison is home to two distinct flocks of sheep, both of which are used to enhance the research, teaching and outreach missions of the college. […]
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Posted on February 16, 2015
Dave Nelson helps found—and fill—the new Madison Science Museum
Generally it’s a bad thing to be called a “hoarder.” In Dave Nelson’s case, however, his pack rat tendencies are for a good cause—and will soon […]
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Posted on February 9, 2015
Tim Donohue on President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative
On Jan. 30, CALS bacteriology professor Tim Donohue attended the launch of President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative at the invitation of Jo Handelsman, associate director […]
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Posted on February 2, 2015
Learning lessons by following Madison’s foxes and coyotes
Photos and accompanying slideshow by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison. Last year, a family of foxes — complete with roly-poly kits — took up residence on the University […]
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Posted on January 26, 2015
To the ends of the earth
In April 2011, James Bockheim led a small team of researchers to a rocky spit of land called Cierva Point, a habitat protected by the […]
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Posted on January 20, 2015
Muddy forests, shorter winters present challenges for loggers
While many of us welcomed this recent warm spell, it’s also a reminder about a long-term weather trend that’s causing problems for Wisconsin’s loggers. As described […]
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Posted on January 11, 2015
New CALS-PEOPLE program video highlights food systems diversity
This fall leaders in CALS, the PEOPLE program and the Community and Regional Food Systems project partnered to produce a video highlighting the diversity of careers—and the […]
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Posted on January 5, 2015
Clearing the fog about the impacts of emissions trading
In March 2010, southern Wisconsin had the worst particulate air pollution in the nation, and many counties in the southern part of the state routinely […]