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The Landfill Lady, Hungry Microbes, and Leaping the Valley of Death
Posted on October 23, 2024Erica L-W Majumder might be an alchemist. Her goal? Turn trash into environmental gold. This assistant professor of bacteriology believes landfills like the one […]
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How Wet is America’s Soil? Nobody Really Knows, But AI Can Help
Posted onFrom sudden floods to weeks of scorching heat, increasingly unstable weather is a headache for U.S. farmers. Known as “weather whiplash,” these disorienting swings […]
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A Prolific Partnership Enters a New Era
Posted onThe day promises to be witheringly hot. Guolong Liang BS’19, MS’22 arrives at Isherwood Farm around 8 a.m. to get an early start. As […]
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Student Centered
Posted onWe entered the fall 2024 semester with positive news about our undergraduate enrollment. At orientation and registration this summer, our academic affairs staff advised […]
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Five Fascinating Facets of the Indigenous ‘Three Sisters’ Cropping Method
Posted onThe Three Sisters is a method of planting corn, beans, and squash in close proximity. The method was developed by Indigenous peoples in North […]
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The Wide Way to Community
Posted onRutuja Gupte BSx’26 is an explorer by nature. She grew up near Mumbai, India, but she made the adventuresome decision to come to UW […]
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Feed Fish, Grow Plants — on Water
Posted onBack on April 22 — Earth Day 2024 — a small crowd gathered in UW’s D.C. Smith Greenhouse to celebrate and learn. Attendees sampled […]
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Wolf Rewilding Leads to Unforeseen Species Interactions
Posted onOpportunities to study carnivores before and after wolves are reintroduced to their ranges are rare. So researchers from CALS thanked their lucky stars when […]
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What’s In a Name? Maybe Your College Major Choice
Posted onIf your childhood surname started with a letter toward the end of the alphabet, you might remember long wait times when teachers organized activities […]
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Stimulus for Sharing Science
Posted onAs public discourse surrounding climate change, gene editing, and other pressing issues gains momentum, expectations for scientists to engage with the public are expanding. […]
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Carbon Capture via Pasture
Posted onIn Can Farms Pull Carbon from Sky to Soil? (Grow, summer 2023), Hal Conick highlighted the early stages of an ongoing long-term study by […]
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To Mulch or Not to Mulch? (And How Much?)
Posted onEach fall, property owners are faced with a choice: remove leaves from the lawn, let them be, or mulch them in the turf. Opinions […]