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Of Mutant Wranglers and Slime Whisperers
Posted on October 1, 2020In 1909, the German chemist Fritz Haber sparked an agricultural revolution. Using enormous pressures and high temperatures, he had learned how to efficiently transform […]
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Let Food Be Your Medicine
Posted onMedical student Alice Huang was dutifully taking notes during a lecture at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine when she snapped to attention. […]
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The Hype, the Hope, and the Reality of Hemp
Posted onIn late 2018, Ralph and Beth Aschenbrenner started hearing a lot of good things about growing industrial hemp. Hemp is an incredibly versatile plant, […]
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Toward a Truly Anti-Racist Place
Posted onThis spring and summer delivered difficulties unlike any we have ever seen. But take a moment. Take a breath. And take solace in the fact […]
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Five things everyone should know about . . . The Economic Impacts of COVID-19
Posted on1. In a single month, the COVID-19 pandemic erased more than a decade’s-worth of new jobs. During the Great Recession (2007-09), Wisconsin’s employment level […]
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As Milkweed Goes, So Goes the Monarch
Posted onIt’s a sweltering August day in 2019. The sun gilds the flowering prairies of southern Wisconsin. Entomology graduate student Skye Harnsberger and her research […]
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Class Act | A Voice for Students and the Marginalized on the County Board
Posted onWhen Elena Haasl BSx’22 came to UW–Madison in fall 2018, she never thought she would end up running her own political campaign. But she […]
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The Age of Ecological Forecasting
Posted onWhen El Niño approaches, driven by warm Pacific Ocean waters, we’ve come to expect both drenching seasonal rains in the southern United States and […]
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Conservation Takes a Village
Posted onTeri Allendorf applied for the Peace Corps in the early 1990s with an eye toward East Africa, where she was hoping to use her […]
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The Genetic Leanings of Autism
Posted onWhen Donna Werling was growing up, she often babysat her younger cousin. He was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder when Werling was in […]
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In the Field | At the Center of the COVID-19 Response
Posted onWhile most of us have been doing our best to avoid contact with the novel coronavirus, Christina Carlson MS’08, PhD’13 has been in the […]
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Meat Science Program, Vita Plus Partner to Feed Those in Need
Posted onWhen the coronavirus pandemic started disrupting the nation’s meat supply chains in spring, UW–Madison’s swine program soon found itself among the affected operations. With […]