Category: Students
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Posted on February 4, 2019
2019 Tropical Horticultural Systems International Field Study in Costa Rica
For the first two weeks in January, a group of seventeen students from UW-Madison lead by Claudia Calderón, had the opportunity to study the wonders […]
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Posted on August 22, 2018
The Corner Table podcast: Farm to Flavor
Sometimes, what farmers want and what chefs want lines up perfectly. A sweet pepper with rounded shoulders, like a Carmen Italian frying pepper, is easier […]
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Posted on August 9, 2018
Building the perfect beet: Seed to Kitchen brings chefs, farmers and plant breeders to the table
Solveig Hanson wants to make a flavor wheel for beets. As she described it on Wednesday morning to a group of 10 local chefs, the […]
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Posted on July 27, 2018
Ancient Method Helps Feed Present-Day Communities
In remote villages and rural towns from Guatemala to Costa Rica, horticulture professor James Nienhuis and his former grad student Erick Gutiérrez MS’17 are improving […]
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Posted on November 7, 2017
2018 Study Abroad Program in Guatemala
UW Community-Based Learning and Sustainable Food Systems in Guatemala offers academics in the areas of Horticulture, Sociology, Environmental Studies, and more. Gain an in-depth understanding […]
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Posted on September 19, 2017
Hort Department Graduate Develops Edible Campus Garden Program
A note from Jessica Kemper, 2014 grad I wanted to reach out and share a new event happening at the University of Utah! I graduated […]
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Posted on June 19, 2017
Campus Food Sheds Stocked With Research Excess
When Hannah DePorter’s plant breeding and genetics lab at UW-Madison grows beets, only a fraction of what the students harvest winds up being used for […]
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Posted on August 23, 2016
Boys Scouts earn Plant Sciences merit badges
Reported in eCALS on 8/22/2016 by Caroline Schneider, CALS Office of External Relations Last Saturday, Aug. 20, Kevin Cope, a graduate student in Jean-Michel Ané’s lab, […]
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Posted on June 29, 2016
Horticulture Grad Student Wins Writing Contest
This past spring, CALS agroecology graduate student Kitt Healy won second place in the Water Sustainability and Climate Project’s Our Waters, Our Future writing contest, […]
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Posted on May 24, 2016
Greenhouse Wins Rural Development Initiative Award
The Flambeau River Community Growing Center in Park Falls, Wisconsin, which was founded with the help of CALS horticulturalists, (Mike Geiger and Dr. Sara Patterson) […]