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The kits are back: Baby foxes seen emerging from campus den
It’s official: Adorable little kits have been spotted venturing from a campus fox den. The UW Urban Canid Project has been documenting this activity and sharing some […]
John Panuska receives Technology Transfer Award for innovative exhibit
John Panuska, distinguished faculty associate in biological systems engineering and Extension specialist, has been honored with the Donald R. Peterson Technology Transfer Award. The award is […]
Agave plant blooming at D.C. Smith Greenhouse
The D.C. Smith Greenhouse is currently home to a flowering Agave victoriae-reginae, a plant native to the Southwest United States and Mexico. The flower stalk […]
Dan Vergano, Science Writer in Residence, to give public talk April 7
Dan Vergano, the Spring 2015 Science Writer in Residence, will give a public talk on Tuesday, April 7 at 4:00 p.m. in the Memorial Union. […]
Sweet Scientists to speak at WN@tL on April 8
Maya Warren and Amy DeJong, food science graduate students and winners of The Amazing Race, will be speaking at Wednesday Night at the Lab this […]
Warning: Federal Actions Regarding UW Transport or Shipping of Hazardous Materials
Recently, a UW-Madison researcher packed commonly-used research materials (ethanol and epoxy resin/hardener) in checked baggage for a plane trip to another institution. Neither the researcher […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
CALS faculty to advise three Wisconsin Idea Fellowship undergrad projects
Among the six 2015-2016 Wisconsin Idea Fellowships awarded to UW-Madison undergraduate students, three will be overseen by CALS faculty mentors. The fellowship program, now in its […]