Gut Reactions

Garret Suen’s study of microorganisms involved in herbivore digestion holds promise
for human health and our environment

It’s time to reinvest in UW

By the time you get this magazine, early spring will be in the air. Time again to think about growing – about tending to and […]

Inspiring Young Farmers, Then and Now

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Hughes Act—and remembering the CALS ag educator who soon after its passage wrote an inspiring creed for farmers

Catch up with . . . Jacquelynn Arbuckle BS’91 Genetics

Dr. Jacquelynn Arbuckle’s exposure to the medical field began when her younger brother Adrian was born with cystic fibrosis. Arbuckle, only six at the time, […]

Five things everyone should know about… Sloths

1) A sloth is not a sloth. There are two types of tree sloths that diverged roughly 20 million years ago—two-toed and three-toed sloths, so […]

A New Weapon Against Bacterial Disease

Meet the “designer phage,” a potential assist or alternative to antibiotics

Final Exam

In the Field: Alumni making a difference through Agroecology

Katelin Holm Anderson MS’09 Katelin Anderson serves as the water quality specialist/information and education coordinator for Polk County’s Land and Water Resources Department. Much of […]

Upping Our Global Game

CALS faculty and staff already conduct important research around the world—but our new
director of International Programs, Sundaram Gunasekaran, wants the college to aim higher

Antibiotics Off the Beaten Path

CALS’ Cameron Currie and his team are looking at microbes associated with insects, plants and
marine life as potential sources for new drugs

Mali: Helping women farm

Women in many industrialized countries are all too familiar with the “second shift”—the domestic duties they still perform disproportionately (compared with their husbands) once their […]

Class Act: Growing Veggies with City Kids

Natalie Hogan, a sophomore majoring in dietetics and Spanish, hopes to practice nutrition education in schools, teaching kids about healthy foods. This past summer she […]