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  • Sadegh Ranjbar flying a drone over a field.

    Innovation through Campus Cooperation in America’s Dairyland

    Posted on August 2, 2022

      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 […]

  • Warbler bird on a tree branch.

    Where, Exactly, Are the Warblers?

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      As humans continue to drastically alter landscapes across the country, birds suffer the consequences. By at least one estimate, the population of North American […]

  • A Round-Up of CALS Research for Summer 2022

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      A Molecular Understanding of Antibiotics Antibiotics are good at killing pathogens, but they also eliminate beneficial gut bacteria. This makes patients more prone to […]

  • Citizen Science ‘App’-roach Has Successful Year

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      In “Bee-Spying Mission Seeks Operatives” (Grow, Fall 2021), Jocelyn Cao BS’21 introduced readers to WiBee: The Wisconsin Wild Bee App. It’s part of a […]

  • From Plant Hybrids to Human Health

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      When Krishna Ella PhD’93 arrived at CALS in 1987 to begin a doctoral program in plant pathology, his goal was to probe the mysteries […]

  • A prairie strip between corn fields.

    The Genius of Prairie Strips

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      Landscape ecologist Lisa Schulte Moore PhD’02 is planting new ideas in Midwestern fields. Thanks to her team’s research, innovative farmers are putting in bands […]

  • 3D view of microtubules and mitochondria.

    Alum Helps Sustain ‘Another Level of Molecular Clarity’

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      Less than a decade ago, UW researchers began to gather and assemble the components of a powerful, advanced imaging technology called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) […]

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