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  • A wolf in a forest
    Posted on October 23, 2024

      Opportunities to study carnivores before and after wolves are reintroduced to their ranges are rare. So researchers from CALS thanked their lucky stars when […]

  • A line of young students in a classroom
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      If your childhood surname started with a letter toward the end of the alphabet, you might remember long wait times when teachers organized activities […]

  • birds eye view of a table with dioramas. There are students on either side of the table discussing science.
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      As public discourse surrounding climate change, gene editing, and other pressing issues gains momentum, expectations for scientists to engage with the public are expanding. […]

  • A large pasture with cows in the background
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      In Can Farms Pull Carbon from Sky to Soil? (Grow, summer 2023), Hal Conick highlighted the early stages of an ongoing long-term study by […]

  • Leaves falling with a ruler labelled 5 centimeters
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      Each fall, property owners are faced with a choice: remove leaves from the lawn, let them be, or mulch them in the turf. Opinions […]

  • Emily Bick standing in a field of tall grass holding her insect sensor
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      Emily Bick is an entomologist with three degrees in the field. She’s also something of a spy. Using a novel detector, Bick can listen […]

  • Amanda McMillian Lequieu smiling in front of bright flowers.
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      In her recently published book, Who We Are Is Where We Are (Columbia University Press, 2024), Amanda McMillan Lequieu MS’13, PhD’19 takes readers on […]

  • One woman holds up a lamb while another women uses a syringe to vaccinate the animal
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      Undergraduate Brooke Stibbe and alum Tom Schmidknecht BS’71 came to CALS with similar backgrounds. Both grew up in small rural Wisconsin towns, so both […]

  • Slices of Swiss cheese, white with holes in them, arranged on a table with a red icon of a magnifying glass containing a plus sign overlaid on top of them.
  • Illustration shows a small seated figure looking through an oversized pair of eyeglasses at the screens of several digital devices, all displaying science imagery, such as a microscope, syringe, and petri dish.
    Posted on July 1, 2024

      In the 1980s, the steps involved in a high school research paper assignment looked much different than today. Given a hot-button health topic of […]

  • Aerial view of rectangular agricultural plots surrounded by snow.
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      When hydrology engineer Anita Thompson was growing up in Minnesota, she knew what to expect from winter. The temperatures would drop below freezing around […]

  • Two hands in black gloves are shown holding two petri dishes containing yellow and orange streaks of organic material.
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      We often look to the smallest life-forms for help solving the biggest problems: Microbes can make foods and beverages, cure diseases, treat waste, and […]