Category: 2 – Departments-Sections
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Posted on March 23, 2010
Fixing Our Food: Start a New Green Revolution
We don’t just need to grow more food. We need to grow it better.
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Fixing Our Food
Safe food. Healthy food. Enough food. Can we secure the bounty we take for granted for future generations? A team of CALS experts say that we can meet the world’s food challenges––and here are their best ideas for how to do it.
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Posted on November 4, 2009
Root Lessons
In the classroom, Bruce Allison delivers the tools of the trade—and a message about our connection with trees.
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A Chance Worth Taking
Dean speaks on personal opportunities, next step
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The Evolution is On
A beetle’s newfound abilities remind us that life is always adapting to overcome our best strategies. How the eternal struggle for survival changes the way we farm.
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Posted on October 23, 2009
Vintage Wisconsin
Wine is booming in the land of beer and cheese. Growers are hoping that CALS research on Wisconsin-friendly grapes can help uncork the industry’s potential.
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Posted on October 21, 2009
No Leaf Unturned
They are farmers, doctors and amazingly adept traffic engineers. The tropical ants that Cameron Currie studies have been practicing the good life for millions of years. What do they know that we don’t?
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Posted on October 7, 2009
Final Exam – Fall 2009
Do you know what foodborne pathogen(s) is/are estimated to be responsible for the highest percentage of foodborne illnesses in the United States, according to the […]
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Posted on July 14, 2009
Final Exam – Summer 2009
The largest concentration of farming-dependent counties is in which region of the United States?
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Posted on July 13, 2009
The Drugs Start Here
With the world’s supply of antibiotics growing old and ineffective, academic researchers are leading the way in developing the next generation of microbe fighters.
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Posted on July 8, 2009
Invisible Hands
In rural Wisconsin, Latino immigrants are the unseen labor that keeps the dairy industry running. Researchers and farmers are coming together to pull the veil off this vital, but fragile, workforce.
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Posted on July 7, 2009
My Own Miracle Drug
Personal experiences remind us of the critical need for new antibiotic research.