Category: Fall 2020
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Posted on June 16, 2021
Thank You to Our Spring 2020 Graduates
We are so proud to call you our alumni. Last spring, we saw first-hand how you take on a challenge. You face it head on. […]
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Posted on October 1, 2020
Of Mutant Wranglers and Slime Whisperers
In 1909, the German chemist Fritz Haber sparked an agricultural revolution. Using enormous pressures and high temperatures, he had learned how to efficiently transform […]
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Let Food Be Your Medicine
Medical student Alice Huang was dutifully taking notes during a lecture at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine when she snapped to attention. […]
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The Hype, the Hope, and the Reality of Hemp
In late 2018, Ralph and Beth Aschenbrenner started hearing a lot of good things about growing industrial hemp. Hemp is an incredibly versatile plant, […]
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Toward a Truly Anti-Racist Place
This spring and summer delivered difficulties unlike any we have ever seen. But take a moment. Take a breath. And take solace in the fact […]
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Five things everyone should know about . . . The Economic Impacts of COVID-19
1. In a single month, the COVID-19 pandemic erased more than a decade’s-worth of new jobs. During the Great Recession (2007-09), Wisconsin’s employment level […]
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As Milkweed Goes, So Goes the Monarch
It’s a sweltering August day in 2019. The sun gilds the flowering prairies of southern Wisconsin. Entomology graduate student Skye Harnsberger and her research […]
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Class Act | A Voice for Students and the Marginalized on the County Board
When Elena Haasl BSx’22 came to UW–Madison in fall 2018, she never thought she would end up running her own political campaign. But she […]
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The Age of Ecological Forecasting
When El Niño approaches, driven by warm Pacific Ocean waters, we’ve come to expect both drenching seasonal rains in the southern United States and […]
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Conservation Takes a Village
Teri Allendorf applied for the Peace Corps in the early 1990s with an eye toward East Africa, where she was hoping to use her […]
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The Genetic Leanings of Autism
When Donna Werling was growing up, she often babysat her younger cousin. He was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder when Werling was in […]
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In the Field | At the Center of the COVID-19 Response
While most of us have been doing our best to avoid contact with the novel coronavirus, Christina Carlson MS’08, PhD’13 has been in the […]