Category: Around CALS
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Posted on March 25, 2013
Dave Nelson’s path to science historian
Last week the Daily Cardinal published a fantastic profile about biochemistry emeritus professor Dave Nelson, giving an overview of his career and explaining how he […]
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Posted on March 18, 2013
Catching up: John Vrieze’s dairy gets greener by growing greens
John Vrieze has been busy since he was featured in the spring 2009 issue of Grow Magazine. That article described how the CALS board of […]
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Posted on March 11, 2013
UW experts help take a fresh approach to fighting hunger
Most of the state’s diversified, fresh-market farms are pretty small and pretty rural. Then there’s The Farm. It’s big and anything but pastoral—it’s on the grounds […]
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Posted on March 4, 2013
A new plan for the biology major
Last week the Provost received a proposal for a plan to relocate the administrative home of the biology major from the Institute for Biology Education […]
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Posted on February 25, 2013
South of the Colorful Clouds
CALS grad students are having amazing adventures and doing good work in China’s Yunnan province, home to some of the world’s most remote and distinctive ecological […]
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Posted on February 15, 2013
New estimate: Sequestration means a $4.4 million hit to CALS, $35 million campus-wide
After President Obama called to attain a “level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race” in the State of […]
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Posted on February 11, 2013
Innovators at work: CALS seniors win two big campus contests
Students in Biological Systems Engineering know how to innovate, especially when it comes to hooks and bullets. Inventive ideas for outdoor products earned BSE seniors the […]
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Posted on February 4, 2013
From A to Z: Help CALS assemble a CALS Photo Alphabet
Do you have a digital camera or a smart phone that takes pictures? That’s all you need to help the CALS Office of External Relations […]
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Posted on January 28, 2013
2013 Wisconsin ag outlook: Watching the sky with fingers crossed
”There is always uncertainty surrounding any forecast, but there may be more of it in 2013.” That caveat punctuated the chapter authored by CALS dairy […]
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Posted on January 17, 2013
To DeFoliart, insects were both a vector for viruses and a way to feed the world
Eating insects was no joke to Gene DeFoliart. That’s likely why he declined offers to appear on late-night TV talk shows hosted by Johnny Carson, […]