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  • Posted on July 15, 2025
    Leopold’s ‘Magic’ Words Enchant a Wider Audience

      It’s a rare opportunity for the public to glimpse the original, handwritten notes and journals of an influential environmentalist, let alone one as renowned […]

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    A Century of Research Partnerships

      Hector DeLuca left his mark on the UW–Madison campus — literally. The professor emerit and former chair of biochemistry has three buildings that bear […]

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    Whither the Children?

      When you search Google for “family farms,” the dominant images served up show parents and their young children in bucolic agricultural settings, often walking […]

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    Federally Funded Research Drives America’s Dairyland

      In the mid-1800s — a time when a relatively young country was marked by intense polarization that led to a civil war — American […]

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    When Weeds Refuse to Die

      Synthetic herbicides were introduced to agriculture shortly after World War II. Affordable, reliable, and effective, they rapidly became the mainstay for weed management. Today, […]

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    A Food Fight with Stress

      Kate Sun BSx’26 has long been interested in matters of the mind, and she has a sense of purpose to go with it. As […]

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    The Water Bear Solution

      Water bears are an ancient group of microscopic animals known for their pudgy, ursine appearance and their uncanny ability to survive under extreme conditions. […]

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    A MosAIC of Microbiomes

      Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases and cause more than 700,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. […]

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    The Motives Behind the Medleys

      Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute […]

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    What Is the Worth of Clean Water?

      The village of Walton, New York, faced a daunting task in 1972: It had to build a $5.8 million wastewater treatment plant with an […]

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    A Step Ahead of the Next Pandemic

      In Virus Research Recast, (Grow, spring 2022), Catherine Steffel described how, in the wake of a global pandemic, CALS scientists had pivoted their research […]

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    255 Inventions

      The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), which is based at UW–Madison and is a hub for many CALS faculty, is one of four […]