Category: Food Systems
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Posted on June 11, 2020
Corporate Grant Fuels Effort to Reduce Food Insecurity and Waste on Campus
It’s a late fall afternoon on the UW–Madison campus, and seven undergraduates are scooping jasmine rice and a lemongrass tofu-vegetable dish into single-use plastic […]
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Posted on February 25, 2020
These Insects Help Us. How Can We Help Them?
It’s a common late summer sight in south-central Wisconsin: a prairie in bloom, with tall, waving grasses peppered with bursts of yellow, purple, and […]
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Research Early, Research Often — and Reap the Benefits
Critical thinking, sound judgement, mental endurance. Exceptional communication and effective collaboration. These aren’t just human resources buzzwords. They’re authentic skills and abilities that anyone can […]
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19 in ’19
The faculty ranks are growing at CALS, and it’s a positive sign for the future of the college. Some major challenges in the last few […]
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How the Seeds of Heritage Are Sown
Anna Williams is an avid gardener, but when she was gifted corn and bean seeds connected to her Odawa heritage, she felt she needed […]
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Electrospinning Turns Tequila Byproduct into Water Filter
Think of it as an environmental hangover. Tequila production in the Mexican state of Jalisco yields vast quantities of agave bagasse biomass, which poses […]
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The Soil Doctor Is In
For Jingyi Huang, it all started with a pair of orange hula hoops. At least, that’s what they looked like to him when he […]
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In the Field | Alumni Making the Most of Their Background in Biology
Logan Peterman BS’09 At Organic Valley, a Wisconsin-based food brand and organic farmer cooperative, Logan Peterman serves as an organic research director and data scientist. […]
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Dairy Industry Support for Grad Students Pays Off
When it comes to generating useful ideas and solutions for the dairy industry, graduate student researchers are the unsung heroes. “Most of the research that […]
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Posted on October 11, 2019
A Model Solution
When agronomy professor Chris Kucharik and his wife, Amy, moved into a subdivision in the Town of Burke in 2006, they weren’t surprised to learn […]
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Big Data Wranglers
The video clip shows some very colorful calves. It’s an overhead view of five young Holsteins, but none of them is black and white. They […]
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Cookies a la Chickpea
Delicious desserts may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of chickpeas, but a team of food science students have […]