Category: Economic and Community Development
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]