Category: Around CALS
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Posted on May 27, 2014
How to tame the wild milk market
At 4:30 p.m. on the last business Friday of each month, dairy farmers across the country have 27 hours to decide whether to insure their […]
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Posted on May 19, 2014
Ask the meat man: Top tips for great grilling
With due respect to the solstice, the true first day of summer is the day you drag your grill out of the garage and hunt […]
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Posted on May 12, 2014
The aww factor: New video shows Van Hise foxes frolicking on the lawn
Soil science’s Rick Wayne recently captured some great footage of campus’ baby foxes frolicking near their den at Van Hise. Watch it on the Van […]
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Posted on May 5, 2014
Capitol ideas: Landscape Architecture students design statehouse flowerbeds
Flowerbeds designed by CALS landscape architecture students will grace the state capitol grounds this year. One will be an ode to polka, while the other hearkens […]
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Posted on April 23, 2014
Happy Cranniversary! Babcock rolls out a tart and tasty ice cream in honor of CALS’ 125th
Two of Wisconsin’s favorite farm products met this week in Babock Hall and they’re getting along very well. The UW-Madison’s dairy plant churned its first batch […]
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Posted on April 21, 2014
Drugs from bugs: Can microbes living on insects’ bodies yield new, effective antibiotics?
Facing an imminent global public health crisis, a UW-Madison research team has been awarded up to $16 million from the National Institutes of Health to […]
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Posted on April 13, 2014
Congratulations to these 2014 CALS staff and faculty award winners
Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2014 CALS staff and faculty awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday May 7th at 3 […]
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Posted on April 6, 2014
Bucky’s Butchery v. 2.0: Students brainstorm ideas for new campus meat shop
A few years from now, when patrons drop by campus’ new retail meat shop to buy some bacon or brats, they may no longer need […]
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Posted on March 28, 2014
Searching for coyotes and foxes amongst the Badgers
When most students talk about the wild life at the UW-Madison, they talk about State St., Camp Randall and the Badgers. When Holly Hovanec talks […]
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Posted on March 24, 2014
Climate change puts spotlight on Antarctica’s peculiar soils
Among his other accomplishments, UW-Madison soil scientist Jim Bockheim helped convince his colleagues that Antarctic “soil” really was soil—no quotation marks required. Soils specialists had […]