Category: Around CALS
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Posted on January 14, 2013
Fundraising goal met to rebuild Center for Dairy Research & Babcock Hall Dairy Plant
Last Friday, the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research announced the successful completion of its $16 million private fundraising campaign to renew and rebuild the CDR […]
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Posted on January 7, 2013
Online comments influence how we interpret science news
When people read science news online, the posts they read in the comments section tend to affect how they interpret the information. That’s according to […]
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Posted on January 2, 2013
Data on a changing college: Info from the All-CALS meeting
Well over 100 CALS faculty and staff members attended the All-CALS meeting on Dec. 18. Dean VandenBosch began by presenting a CALS situation and outlook […]
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Posted on December 17, 2012
Changing student demographic draws attention to CALS
The typical undergraduate at CALS has changed quite a bit over the past decade, where undergrad enrollment is at an all time high and growing. […]
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Posted on December 10, 2012
The D.C. Smith Greenhouses’ most sensitive plant
Have you ever seen a plant recoil from your touch? Such “sensitive plants” exist, and we have some right here in our campus greenhouses! Learn […]
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Posted on December 3, 2012
Big-time birth control
Birth control is a big issue to CALS alum Jeff Zuba. Big enough to require a crane, a flatbed truck and a team of as […]
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Posted on November 26, 2012
View Fritz Albert’s CALS history film online
In memory of Agricultural Journalism Professor Emeritus Fritz Albert, who passed away on Sept. 16, the Department of Life Sciences Communication has posted a copy of his […]
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Posted on November 19, 2012
Musings from a first-time hunter
Last week Writer Michelle Wildgen voiced her feelings about hunting for the first time as part of the Wisconsin Public Radio’s Wisconsin Life series. What […]
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Posted on November 8, 2012
CALS student gets one of the nation’s first organic plant breeding fellowships
The story of how Tessa Peters ended up snagging one of the nation’s first graduate fellowships in organic plant breeding begins in an unlikely place: […]
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Posted on November 5, 2012
For under $1, Weibel’s simple test can spare newborns deadly infections
For babies, the trip from the womb to the outside world is a transition from a blank, sterile slate to host for what will eventually […]