Category: Highlights
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Posted on July 31, 2017
Mark your calendar: UW-Madison microbiome colloquium begins Sept. 19
Members of the CALS community are invited to participate in “Microbiomes: People and the Planet,” a fall 2017 colloquium that features speakers from UW-Madison and […]
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Summit findings showcase best practices for sustaining public plant breeding
How can public plant breeding programs reap royalties and research investments while keeping their cultivars in the public domain? This is one of the challenges […]
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Posted on July 24, 2017
DOE selects Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center for next-phase funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) for an additional five years of funding to develop sustainable alternatives to […]
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PodCALS tackles late blight of potatoes and tomatoes
You may have heard about late blight of potatoes and tomatoes without even realizing it – it was the disease that caused the Irish potato […]
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Blue Sky Science video: Why (and for how long) do butterflies stay in a cocoon?
When a Madison elementary school student posed the question “Why (and for how long) do butterflies stay in a cocoon?,” the Blue Sky Science team turned […]
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Posted on July 17, 2017
West Madison ARS to host horticultural field day, open house
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station (ARS) will be hosting a field day for the general public on Saturday, Aug. 12. The […]
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Safer Native foods
At the edge of a remote Alaskan peninsula, 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle, lies the city of Kotzebue. Snow-covered in winter and starless […]
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Some veggies best preserved by freezing, not canning
Many spring and early summer vegetables harvested from the home garden are best preserved by freezing, not canning, according to University of Wisconsin-Extension food science […]
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Posted on July 10, 2017
UW’s new dairy youth specialist aims to serve kids from both farm and nonfarm backgrounds
When Kalyanna Williams says that there are opportunities for non-farm youth in the dairy industry, she speaks from experience. Williams, who recently took the job […]
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WN@tL this week: Dave Nelson to discuss the centennials of two major CALS discoveries
Two 100-year-old biochemistry discoveries will be the focus of this week’s Wednesday Night @ the Lab talk. Dave Nelson, emeritus professor in the Department of […]