Category: Highlights
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Posted on March 9, 2015
Center for Dairy Research turns yogurt waste into new products
With exploding consumer demand for Greek yogurt, production is up. That’s great for food companies’ bottom lines, but it also leaves them dealing with a […]
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Science engagement experts partner with Morgridge Institute
Intuition tells us that the more factual information one gathers on a controversial topic, the more likely one will reach the “correct” conclusion. But when […]
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UW-Madison partners with communities, nonprofits to address urban food insecurity
In urban areas like Milwaukee, fresh food is still out of reach for a significant percentage of the population, and people shop for meals at […]
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Posted on March 2, 2015
Munching bugs thwart eager trees, reducing the carbon sink
In a high carbon dioxide world, the trees would come out ahead. Except for the munching bugs. A new study published on March 2 in […]
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Cows can now text their farmers. What are they saying?
In this past Friday’s podCALS episode, CALS reporter Sevie Kenyon interviewed Biological Systems Engineering professor Doug Reinemann about a technology showing up on more and […]
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Spring issue of Grow magazine features yeast, diabetes findings and more
The spring issue of Grow magazine up online and will be arriving in mailboxes this week. Feature stories include: * Yeasts help us develop products ranging […]
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Posted on February 23, 2015
Rebecca Larson helps bring anaerobic digester systems to Uganda, Bolivia
As described in this recent Wisconsin Energy Institute story, Rebecca Larson, an assistant professor in the biological systems engineering department, has spent some time designing, installing […]
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ARS student intern inspired by summer of hands-on fieldwork
Before last summer, Vera Swanson’s only exposure to plant sciences had been through classes in introductory biology. That changed big-time when Swanson, a junior majoring […]
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New UWMadScience blog highlights CALS people, projects
Have you heard? Science writers at UW-Madison University Communications created a blog—called UWMadScience—a few months ago and have been populating it with around three posts per week. The blog gives […]
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Posted on February 16, 2015
Dean Kate to CALS alumni: Help forge the best way forward
Dean Kate VandenBosch will share the following communication with CALS alumni in the In Vivo section of the upcoming issue of Grow magazine: Each issue […]