Category: Highlights
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Posted on July 27, 2015
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, […]
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Posted on July 9, 2015
Gratton Lab blog provides info about pollinator health
Claudio Gratton’s lab in the entomology department has a great website and blog with updates on their research as well as information about lab news, […]
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Path of recent AAE grad shaped by international experiences
Recent CALS graduate Patricia Paskov wasted no time discovering UW’s vast array of undergraduate opportunities when she started college in 2011. Seven months into her […]
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Posted on July 6, 2015
Ride to Farm cyclists raise $14,000 to support beginning farmer education
On Saturday, June 6, 54 cyclists converged on Botham Vineyards for the 12th annual Ride to Farm. This event is a fundraiser for the Wisconsin […]
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Five things everyone should know about unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) in agriculture
1. Agriculture is poised to become the biggest market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Up to 80 percent of the commercial market for UAVs will […]