Category: Highlights
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Posted on August 3, 2015
Candy school: Sweet media coverage for a sweet short course
Last week, food science professor Rich Hartel had quite a few special guests drop by for a visit during the 53th annual Resident Course in Confectionery Technology, […]
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Posted on July 31, 2015
UW study shows how a kernel got naked and corn became king
Ten thousand years ago, a golden grain got naked, brought people together and grew to become one of the top agricultural commodities on the planet. […]
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Posted on July 30, 2015
CALS seeks Thanksgiving-themed art made of bacteria
Do you have access to safe, colorful bacteria in your lab? Do you and your lab mates like to get creative? Then consider putting together a […]
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Posted on July 27, 2015
CALS Ice Cream Social this Thursday
Don’t forget! The annual summer CALS Ice Cream Social is this week. The event, which is designed to bring together CALS community for a fun […]
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Ron Raines’ lab exploring “gene therapy without the genes”
Many human diseases—including cancer—are caused by protein malfunctions. Those malfunctions, in turn, are caused by damaged DNA that gets translated into the damaged proteins. While […]
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Full Supper Clubs 101 show available on WPT website
Did you miss Wisconsin Public Television’s Supper Clubs 101 show last week? Don’t fret. The full 20-minute video is available online on the WPT website here. The […]
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Posted on July 20, 2015
Street-dance scientist: CALS alumnus Jeff Vinokur brings science to the masses
At the tender age of twenty-four, Jeff Vinokur ’12 has an agent and a publicist. He owns a company. He appears on national and local […]
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Posted on July 17, 2015
CALS hosts workshop for NASA effort on remote sensing and agriculture
While the world was captivated by recent images of Pluto coming in from the New Horizon’s mission, 20 scientists gathered at Memorial Union to use […]
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Village Health Project featured in Big Ten Network segment
Last Wednesday, three UW student organizations were highlighted on a segment on Forward Motion on the Big Ten Network. One of the organizations featured was […]
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Posted on July 10, 2015
New biosensors offer improved indicators of food freshness and safety
Food engineer Sundaram Gunasekaran, a professor of biological systems engineering, works with gold. But you won’t find the shiny yellow stuff in his lab; instead, […]