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  • A tiled Organic Research Area sign in a field.

    Anonymous Gift Grows More Space for Organic Agriculture

    Posted on October 18, 2022

      Wisconsin is among the nation’s top producers of organic agriculture. It ranks second in number of organic farms, according to a recent survey by […]

  • Share Your Thoughts About Grow

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    Let us know your thoughts about Grow through our short online survey, and you can be entered in a drawing for a free gift box […]

  • Take the Fall 2022 Final Exam

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    Ace our Final Exam and you could win a gift box of cheese from the Babcock Hall Dairy Store! Test your CALS knowledge at grow.cals.wisc.edu.

  • How to Time Travel Without Fear

    Posted on August 2, 2022

      Betül Kaçar is a self-described gözü kara. The Turkish term refers to people from the Black Sea region of the country, but it has […]

  • Cellular and molecular biology graduate student Christiana Binkley and Hector Salazar, a lab manager at the UW Alzheimer's Research Center, greet a member of the Science and Medicine Graduate Research Scholars during one of the program's receptions.

    ‘A Home Wherever I Go’

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      “What are you looking for in a graduate school?” That was the question posed to a panel of visiting undergraduates one April afternoon in […]

  • Donale Richards, Leslie Holland, and Manika Clemente participating in a panel.

    Communities Across Campus

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      SciMed GRS is part of a growing network of organizations developed to support underrepresented students on the UW campus. “Many SciMed GRS students are […]

  • Sadegh Ranjbar flying a drone over a field.

    Innovation through Campus Cooperation in America’s Dairyland

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      In 2019, Wisconsin dairy leaders approached state legislators with a long-standing problem and a request for help. The state’s dairy farm numbers were in […]

  • Dean Kate VandenBosch in front of a field.

    Stepping Down, Staying On

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      As I mentioned in the fall 2021 issue, I am stepping down as dean of CALS this summer. This will be my last column […]

  • Illustration of two scientists in two rows of vertical farm plants.

    Six Hard Truths about Vertical Farming

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      The promise of vertical farming — grow crops anytime, anywhere — is fantastic. Promoters speak of a world where wheat cultivated in a repurposed […]

  • Natalia Betancourt Rodriguez leaning against a pillar.

    Community, Humanity, and Openness

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      For much of her life, Natalia Betancourt Rodriguez BSx’24 never imagined leaving Colombia. She felt that the change she could bring to the beautiful, […]

  • A laptop screen showing an aerial drone view of the lands surrounding Yuichi Sato's farm in the town of Shimizu, west of Obihiro, Japan, from an interview and virtual tour recorded in summer 2021.

    Just Like a Trip to Japan

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      In a span of 20 minutes, a dozen UW students visited a Japanese pastry shop and a high-tech sushi restaurant, and then they got […]

  • Students from Nuestro Mundo Community School work with Claudia Calderón, a member of the teaching faculty in the horticulture department, and recent UW graduate Jackie Olson, to place plants in the school’s garden.

    Lessons in the Garden

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      Plants and humans have always been connected. They evolved together. Yet many people fail to realize how fundamental plants are to their daily lives […]

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