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Class Act: Timothy Guthrie and Making strides with stem cells
Posted on February 20, 2017Making strides with stem cells
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Daughters of Demeter Celebrate 100
Posted onIn Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over the fertility of the earth. And in that spirit, members of […]
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Students on the Cutting Edge
Posted onResearch positions and internships allow undergraduates to make substantive contributions to knowledge—and give them a competitive advantage when they enter the job market
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The Science Farm
Posted onA decades-long CALS field project offers key insights into different approaches to agriculture
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Peru: Undergrad helps teach orphans about hydroponic farming
Posted onThere are capstones, and there are capstones. For his capstone—a discipline-spanning research project required of all students graduating from CALS—soil science student Jacob Kruse BS’16 […]
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Thailand: Adventures in Global Health
Posted onWhen it comes to study abroad experiences, an elephant ride in Thailand is pretty hard to beat. “The entire time we were around the elephants, […]
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Gut Reactions
Posted onGarret Suen’s study of microorganisms involved in herbivore digestion holds promise
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It’s time to reinvest in UW
Posted onBy the time you get this magazine, early spring will be in the air. Time again to think about growing – about tending to and […]
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Inspiring Young Farmers, Then and Now
Posted onCelebrating 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
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Catch up with . . . Jacquelynn Arbuckle BS’91 Genetics
Posted on February 13, 2017Dr. 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, […]
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Five things everyone should know about… Sloths
Posted on February 8, 20171) 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 […]
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A New Weapon Against Bacterial Disease
Posted on February 6, 2017Meet the “designer phage,” a potential assist or alternative to antibiotics