Category: Features
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Virus Research Recast
It was a quiet evening in 2012, and Robert Kirchdoerfer BS’06 was missing yet another dramatic sunset over the Pacific Ocean. But it didn’t […]
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Coronavirus Education in Classrooms and Communities
After a long but valuable diversion, researchers in the Department of Biochemistry are just now getting back to studies they were working on before […]
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Season of Learning
Summer courses are an abiding tradition at UW. They’ve long been the boon of undergrads looking to stay on track to graduation, lighten their […]
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Posted on November 8, 2021
Organically Grown at UW
Multimedia storyteller Anders Gurda is a graduate of the agroecology program, co-founder of the Organic Grain Resource and Information Network, former director of the […]