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  • Posted on March 5, 2025
    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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    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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    The Seeds of Innovation Germinate

      In The Seeds of Innovation (Grow, spring 2024), professor and extension specialist Julie Dawson gave readers a primer on intellectual property (IP) in the seed […]

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    Agriculture’s Economic Impact in Wisconsin

      Wisconsin’s agricultural production and food processing sectors contributed $116.3 billion in industrial revenues in 2022, according to a UW study. That’s more than 14% […]

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    The Badger State’s Hmong Community, by the Numbers

      Wisconsin’s Hmong population reached 62,331 in 2020, according to a recent report from the UW Applied Population Laboratory. It’s a 25% increase over the […]

  • Posted on October 23, 2024
    The Landfill Lady, Hungry Microbes, and Leaping the Valley of Death

      Erica L-W Majumder might be an alchemist. Her goal? Turn trash into environmental gold. This assistant professor of bacteriology believes landfills like the one […]

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    What’s In a Name? Maybe Your College Major Choice

      If your childhood surname started with a letter toward the end of the alphabet, you might remember long wait times when teachers organized activities […]

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    Stimulus for Sharing Science

      As public discourse surrounding climate change, gene editing, and other pressing issues gains momentum, expectations for scientists to engage with the public are expanding. […]

  • Posted on July 1, 2024
    Science Through a Glass Darkly

      In the 1980s, the steps involved in a high school research paper assignment looked much different than today. Given a hot-button health topic of […]

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    Horse Sense

      When Natalie Sander BS’24 graduated in May with a degree in agricultural business management, she left behind an impressive legacy: a strong and successful […]

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    This App Hits the Tar Spot

      Tar spot, a disease of corn plants caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis, has been causing problems in Mexico since the 1910s, but it […]

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    Lasting Delight

      There’s nothing quite like ice cream to cool you off on a hot summer day. It also puts you in a race to finish […]