Category: Highlights
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Posted on April 3, 2015
Opening reception for artwork created in CALS genetics lab – April 10
If you were to attend one of Ahna Skop’s lab meetings, you’d likely hear about a genetics research project being conducted by a lab member. But it’s also possible […]
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Posted on March 30, 2015
Study shows climate change is hurting soybean yields
Even during good years, our nation’s soybean farmers are, in essence, taking a loss. That’s because changes in weather patterns have been eating into their […]
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‘Who Gets Kissed?’ sweet corn is a media darling
A new variety of sweet corn co-developed by agronomy professor and chair Bill Tracy has received some fairly extensive media coverage since its release was […]
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CDR’s Dean Sommer on being a U.S. Championship Cheese Contest judge
For the first time this year Dean Sommer, a cheese and food technologist with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, was among the group of […]
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Posted on March 23, 2015
What to eat, or not to eat: Monica Theis on newly proposed federal dietary recommendations
Americans will soon have some new nutritional advice to follow. In February, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee proposed a new set of recommendations, which will […]
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Amazing plans for ‘Amazing Race’ winner
You may know Maya Warren for her $1 million victory, shared with fellow food science grad student Amy DeJong, in the latest edition of the […]
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Photos: A visit to the Walnut Street Greenhouses
CALS photographer Sevie Kenyon stopped by the Walnut Street Greenhouses last week to take some photos. Deena Patterson, horticultural technician, was kind enough to give […]
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Posted on March 16, 2015
Living walls bring fresh flora to Steenbock’s BioCommons space
Need a break from your desk or lab bench? Itching to get out and enjoy the spring weather? We have a proposed destination for you: […]
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This weekend: Science Expeditions opens doors to campus research
Science Expeditions, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 13th annual science open house, will open the doors of dozens of campus attractions — and the expertise of […]
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Daniel Amador-Noguez engineers better bacteria for biofuels
In high school,” Daniel Amador-Noguez recalls, “I took a science class where one of the lectures was all about the future – where the research […]