Category: 3 – Issue
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Posted on July 15, 2025
The Poultry Professor
Undergrads, take heed: That career seminar your advisor recommended just might lead you to your actual career. Aaron Bodie PhD’22 is case in point. […]
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Friday’s Philanthropy
Charitable giving is a thread that runs through most of Fritz Friday’s life. As a young food science major at CALS in 1954, Friday […]
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Posted on March 5, 2025
In Pursuit of Mudpuppies
The first time Mason Polencheck BSx’25 met a mudpuppy, he was nine years old, on a fishing trip in the waters of Lake Superior. […]
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Pristine Waterways: How to Put a Price on the Priceless
Americans are demanding cleaner lakes, beaches, and rivers. In survey after survey, people rank water quality as the environmental issue that worries them the […]
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‘Honorary Degrees’ and Deep Connections
It’s like the ultimate sleepover with the grandparents: ice cream for breakfast, a behind-the-scenes tour of Camp Randall Stadium, and then an afternoon of […]
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How We RISE to the Challenges of the World
In February 2024, UW Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin announced the launch of the Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence Initiative (RISE). Broadly, the goal […]
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AI, Data Science, and the Transformation of Scientific Research: A Primer
Artificial intelligence (AI) and data science are two closely related yet distinct fields that are driving research and innovation in the agricultural and life […]
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And the Squeak Goes on
When thinking about what makes different foods pleasurable to eat, taste and texture will always come to mind. But the noise a morsel makes […]
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The Sovereign Right to Renewable Resources
The quality of land on Native American reservations is often considered poor. These regions, where the U.S. government relocated tribes in the mid- to […]
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From Biomass to BPA Replacement
We’ve all heard the warning: Don’t microwave your food in plastic containers. It’s one recommendation aimed at reducing exposure to bisphenol A, more commonly […]
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The Side Effects of Self-Defense
Since the early 2000s, spongy moth caterpillars, invaders from Europe, have flexed their gustatory muscle in Wisconsin by stripping entire stands of trees of […]