Category: Basic Science
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Posted on October 18, 2022
A New Tactic in the Superbug Battle
During a 2015 trip to Egypt, Tom Patterson suffered a gallstone attack and soon fell terribly ill. But that’s not what nearly killed him. […]
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An Introduction
Greetings, readers of Grow — my fellow lovers of the agricultural and life sciences! Welcome to the fall 2022 issue. It’s my honor and […]
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Run, Research, Repeat — Until There’s Food for All
Elias Kemna BSx’23 is on track in his college career, and in more ways than one. First, he’s a member of the Wisconsin Track […]
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Eco-Friendly Pest Control
Wisconsin has a long history of vegetable production. It’s a leading producer of the nation’s processing vegetables, such as snap beans, sweet corn, carrots, […]
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Posted on August 2, 2022
How to Time Travel Without Fear
Betül Kaçar is a self-described gözü kara. The Turkish term refers to people from the Black Sea region of the country, but it has […]
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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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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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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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Posted on April 29, 2022
Good Ideas, Grown and Shared
They are unconventional laboratories, classrooms, and proving grounds — places to connect with the land and with nature. UW’s Agricultural Research Stations are the […]
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Virus Research Recast
It was a quiet evening in 2012, and Robert Kirchdoerfer BS’06 was missing yet another dramatic sunset over the Pacific Ocean. But it didn’t […]
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Season of Learning
Summer courses are an abiding tradition at UW. They’ve long been the boon of undergrads looking to stay on track to graduation, lighten their […]
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The Quest for Self-Fertilizing Crops
In the fall 2020 issue of Grow, Eric Hamilton highlighted a team of CALS scientists and their search for alternatives to synthetic crop fertilizers. […]