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Good Ideas, Grown and Shared
Posted on April 29, 2022They are unconventional laboratories, classrooms, and proving grounds — places to connect with the land and with nature. UW’s Agricultural Research Stations are the […]
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Virus Research Recast
Posted onIt was a quiet evening in 2012, and Robert Kirchdoerfer BS’06 was missing yet another dramatic sunset over the Pacific Ocean. But it didn’t […]
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Coronavirus Education in Classrooms and Communities
Posted onAfter a long but valuable diversion, researchers in the Department of Biochemistry are just now getting back to studies they were working on before […]
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Season of Learning
Posted onSummer courses are an abiding tradition at UW. They’ve long been the boon of undergrads looking to stay on track to graduation, lighten their […]
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A Final Tally for All Ways Forward…and a Thank You
Posted onIn A Look Back on a Campaign for the Future (Grow, Fall 2021), managing editor Nik Hawkins offered a glimpse of what CALS has […]
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Six Key Facts about Lab-Grown Meat
Posted onPlant-based protein and “meat-alternative” products have streamed into the marketplace in recent years. This trend has been driven in part by world population growth […]
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Fertilizer’s Fungal Effects
Posted onWhen excess fertilizer leaches out from croplands and urban lawns, nitrogen and other elements pollute the environment. Extensive research shows the damage that nitrogen […]
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Innovative Tech Captures Carbon — and a Big Prize
Posted onCut greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the harmful effects of climate change. It’s one of the most important challenges we face today. And […]
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Was ‘Flatten the Curve’ Effective?
Posted onEarly in the COVID-19 pandemic, one message became ubiquitous: “Flatten the curve.” Tied to a simple yet compelling chart of infections over time, with […]
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Adaptable Aspens
Posted onWatching paint dry has nothing on watching a forest grow. That achingly long wait has always made it challenging to study how forests adapt […]
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A Round-Up of CALS Research for Spring 2022
Posted onHealthier Prisoners, Safer Community The presence of a state prison in a county was associated with 11% more COVID-19 cases during the spring and […]
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The Quest for Self-Fertilizing Crops
Posted onIn the fall 2020 issue of Grow, Eric Hamilton highlighted a team of CALS scientists and their search for alternatives to synthetic crop fertilizers. […]