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  • Posted on March 9, 2023
    The (New) House That Dairy Built

      When it was first constructed in 1951, Babcock Hall — UW’s beloved producer of ice cream, cheese, and other famous dairy goods — was […]

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    A Tasteful New Babcock Dairy Logo

      To make way for the Babcock Hall remodel, the dairy plant had to shut down production for more than three years. Fortunately, a large […]

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    Pathways to Immunity

      Jing Fan recalls the first science experiment she ever performed. She was a kindergartener in Beijing, China, and her class made glue out of […]

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    From Hardship to Hope

      Leon Statz used to get stressed about almost everything on his Sauk County farm. He worried about the weather, the bills, the crops. And […]

  • Posted on October 18, 2022
    Cold Hard Science in the Heart of Cranberry Country

      In early March of 2017, Nicole Hansen found herself kneeling in a cranberry bed, drilling into the soil to check the amount of frost […]

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    Once and Future Wildfires

      On a blustery spring day, Jed Meunier MS’05 and his team are climbing Wisconsin’s Castle Rock bluff, searching for treasure. From the outside, the […]

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    A New Tactic in the Superbug Battle

      During a 2015 trip to Egypt, Tom Patterson suffered a gallstone attack and soon fell terribly ill. But that’s not what nearly killed him. […]

  • Posted on August 2, 2022
    How to Time Travel Without Fear

      Betül Kaçar is a self-described gözü kara. The Turkish term refers to people from the Black Sea region of the country, but it has […]

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    ‘A Home Wherever I Go’

      “What are you looking for in a graduate school?” That was the question posed to a panel of visiting undergraduates one April afternoon in […]

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    Communities Across Campus

      SciMed GRS is part of a growing network of organizations developed to support underrepresented students on the UW campus. “Many SciMed GRS students are […]

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    Innovation through Campus Cooperation in America’s Dairyland

      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 […]

  • Posted on April 29, 2022
    Good Ideas, Grown and Shared

      They are unconventional laboratories, classrooms, and proving grounds — places to connect with the land and with nature. UW’s Agricultural Research Stations are the […]