Category: 3 – Issue
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Posted on August 2, 2022
Stepping Down, Staying On
As I mentioned in the fall 2021 issue, I am stepping down as dean of CALS this summer. This will be my last column […]
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Six Hard Truths about Vertical Farming
The promise of vertical farming — grow crops anytime, anywhere — is fantastic. Promoters speak of a world where wheat cultivated in a repurposed […]
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Community, Humanity, and Openness
For much of her life, Natalia Betancourt Rodriguez BSx’24 never imagined leaving Colombia. She felt that the change she could bring to the beautiful, […]
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Just Like a Trip to Japan
In a span of 20 minutes, a dozen UW students visited a Japanese pastry shop and a high-tech sushi restaurant, and then they got […]
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Lessons in the Garden
Plants and humans have always been connected. They evolved together. Yet many people fail to realize how fundamental plants are to their daily lives […]
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Where, Exactly, Are the Warblers?
As humans continue to drastically alter landscapes across the country, birds suffer the consequences. By at least one estimate, the population of North American […]
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A Round-Up of CALS Research for Summer 2022
A Molecular Understanding of Antibiotics Antibiotics are good at killing pathogens, but they also eliminate beneficial gut bacteria. This makes patients more prone to […]
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Citizen Science ‘App’-roach Has Successful Year
In “Bee-Spying Mission Seeks Operatives” (Grow, Fall 2021), Jocelyn Cao BS’21 introduced readers to WiBee: The Wisconsin Wild Bee App. It’s part of a […]
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From Plant Hybrids to Human Health
When Krishna Ella PhD’93 arrived at CALS in 1987 to begin a doctoral program in plant pathology, his goal was to probe the mysteries […]
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The Genius of Prairie Strips
Landscape ecologist Lisa Schulte Moore PhD’02 is planting new ideas in Midwestern fields. Thanks to her team’s research, innovative farmers are putting in bands […]
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Alum Helps Sustain ‘Another Level of Molecular Clarity’
Less than a decade ago, UW researchers began to gather and assemble the components of a powerful, advanced imaging technology called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) […]
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