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  • A Different Beet

    Posted on February 25, 2019

    Last fall, when the “Gastropod” podcast came to UW–Madison to partici­pate in the 2018 Wisconsin Science Festival, hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley asked Irwin […]

  • Plant Breeding: ‘The Slowest of the Performing Arts’

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    The table beet is a biennial plant. That means, left to its own devices, a beet plant takes a full two growing seasons to complete […]

  • Two students standing in an outdoor garden looking at the plants

    To Live and Learn Together

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    The summer vegetables sag in the wake of the first frosts. But the low October sun still warms the fields of the Eagle Heights Community […]

  • An illustration of the state of Wisconsin. The northwest part of the state is covered with an "I voted" sticker. The northeast side of the state has a person receiving a vaccine and the southern piece of the state has a school bus on it.

    Knowledge Applied

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    Should a school district close an elementary school with shrinking enrollment, or will student numbers rebound in the coming years? What’s the outlook for a […]

  • Cooperative Extension Comes Home

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    By now the news has probably reached you that Cooperative Extension has returned to UW–Madison, and I would like to discuss why this is a […]

  • An animated photo of a loaf od bread being sliced on a cutting board with a knife. In the center of the loaf of bread is a skull and crossbones.

    Five Things Everyone Should Know about … Mycotoxins

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    Mycotoxins are small, poisonous molecules, produced by certain species of molds, that can cause disease or death in animals and humans. Mycotoxin-producing fungi can invade […]

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    Hold the Fertilizer

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    The term is “nitrogen fixation.” No, it doesn’t refer to an unhealthy obsession with one of the most common chemical elements on Earth. Rather, it’s […]

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    Engineers of Ingenuities

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    A bioreactor that removes phosphorus from lakes, an easy-to-use harness system designed to prevent falls from dangerous heights, and an early detection sensor for toxic […]

  • An illustration of smart phones getting twitter notifications. The phones are also bouncing a beach ball with the phrase "GMOs" on it, between each other.

    Controversy to Consensus to Civility

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    Somewhere in the discouraging maze of fake news and widespread disinformation campaigns aimed at confusing and polarizing public discourse, there lies a road map for […]

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    Minty Fresh

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    As you approach a basic steel structure at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station, your nose informs you before your eyes do that you’ve found […]

  • Class Act | Chloe Green

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    Chloe Green BSx’19 came to UW–Madison from Culver City, California, with a desire to study sports nutrition. She was motivated by her high school involvement […]

  • A young woman writing on a clipboard on the end of a long building that's lined with stalls holding many cows

    What Would a Cow Prefer?

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    As a psychology student at Harvard University, Jennifer Van Os studied people with Alzheimer’s disease. Animals and agriculture were far from her mind. But she […]

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