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Posted on March 4, 2016
A Fitting Tribute
How best to honor a towering eminence in one’s field?
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Cows for Kids
Ruth McNair, a senior editor at the CALS-based Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, recently published a charming children’s book titled Which Moo Are You? The […]
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Keeping Us Safe
For 70 years, the Food Research Institute has been illuminating and helping eradicate a host of food-borne illnesses
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Five things everyone should know about … Daylight Saving Time (DST)
1. A Founding Father was an early advocate. In 1784 Benjamin Franklin observed that during summer months, people slept during the daylight hours of morning […]
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Milk, Motherhood and the Dairy Cow
A cost-saving technology allows farmers to better synchronize when cows are in heat
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Catch Up With … Gary Brown BS’84 Landscape Architecture
As director of Campus Planning & Landscape Architecture at UW–Madison, Gary Brown BS’84 is in charge of places that hold cherished memories for just about […]
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Bees and Beyond
CALS researchers Claudio Gratton and Christina Locke are providing science-based information and structure to the process as a broad group of stakeholders and citizens create Wisconsin’s first Pollinator Protection Plan.
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Addressing Our Food Future
In December, I was invited to attend a meeting hosted by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy focused on “Raising the Profile […]
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Posted on November 3, 2015
Middle East: Improving water policy in an arid region
Political conflict in the Middle East is a constant source of media attention, but Samer Alatout, a CALS professor of community and environmental sociology, focuses […]
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Posted on June 9, 2015
The MBA of Dairy
A CALS partner program trains aspiring—and much-needed—farmers
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Stealth Entry
A novel method for replacing defective proteins offers a new way to treat diseases
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For the Love of Plants
Students from all backgrounds are invited to a class that explores, questions and celebrates our connections to the vegetable kingdom.