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Posted on June 9, 2015
Five things everyone should know about . . . Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (aka “Drones”) in Agriculture
1 Agriculture is poised to become the biggest market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Up to 80 percent of the commercial market for UAVs will […]
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For the Love of Plants
Students from all backgrounds are invited to a class that explores, questions and celebrates our connections to the vegetable kingdom.
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Catch Up With … Luxme Hariharan BS’04 Biology
As a pediatric ophthalmologist, clinical researcher and child advocate, Luxme Hariharan has set herself a challenging goal: To prevent childhood blindness globally and help those […]
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Hands-On Fieldwork
Before last summer, Vera Swanson’s only exposure to plant sciences had been through classes in introductory biology. That changed big-time when Swanson, a junior majoring […]
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To Eat It—Or Not
Biosensors being developed for food products offer a vastly improved indicator of freshness and safety
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Plant Prowess
CALS scientists from a wide range of disciplines help forge the future of a growing field
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Forever Rising
We depend on yeasts for products ranging from beer and biofuel to forage and pharmaceuticals. But according to Chris Todd Hittinger and his colleagues at CALS, we’ve only begun to understand and mine the possible uses of these hardworking model microbes
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From Trash to Treasure
The Center for Dairy Research is turning a problematic by-product of Greek yogurt production into new cash streams
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Turning them on
A challenging after-school class keeps middle schoolers interested in science
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New “Bug Guy” on Campus
Are bed bugs getting you down? Is a hard-to-identify pest ravaging your vegetable garden? You can get in touch with PJ Liesch MS’10, manager of […]
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Unpuzzling Diabetes
Biochemist Alan Attie tracks the internal mechanisms behind a fast-growing disease that takes millions of lives each year