More than 20 plant breeders from UW-Madison, other universities, seed companies, non-profits and independent farms have contributed numerous varieties of 12 different crops to the project. Trials are conducted at UW-West Madison Agricultural Research Station and UW-Spooner Agricultural Research Station to compare crops for flavor, productivity, disease resistance and earliness.
The research of Amaya Atucha, an assistant professor and Gottschalk Chair for cranberry research in the university’s horticulture department, focuses on how cranberry plants are able to withstand subfreezing temperatures during winter, as well as strategies to reduce the impact of frost and winter stress in cranberry plants.
To the layperson, weather is largely a mysterious force of nature. It is an immutable reality that can, at best, be prepared for. But meteorologists know well that weather is a turbulent combination of many factors, from the energy of the sun falling on the planet to humanity’s chemical output and our constructs of steel, concrete, glass and asphalt. As air heats and cools and gathers moisture at one point and expels it at another, the whole of the world, natural and manmade, comes to bear.
They are, of course, super connected. But on their terms. Which is why college-bound iGens (Gen Zers, if you prefer) present a challenge to the grown-ups on campus eager to reach and teach them.
President Trump will nominate a University of Oklahoma meteorologist and administrator as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Fans from Central Wisconsin even made the trek to see their favorite Badgers.
Noted: Eleanor Powell, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science associate professor, said that if it weren’t for the help of one particular GOP donor, Nicholson might still be a political unknown.
Noted: Experts like UW-Extension Horticulture Educator Vijai Pandian said Japanese Beetles are going to be horrendous this year, with a bigger population than years past.
Noted: Yodelers such as Johnson, who sing the country western warble made popular in the 1930s and ’40s, are aging out of performing. “It is uncommon to hear it in Minnesota,” said former folklore professor James Leary, who wrote a book on yodeling and Swiss music in Wisconsin.
Noted: The industry was barely starting to recover when the tariffs came, Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin, told Xinhua. “So farms are now looking at another period of time with low prices,” he said.
Quoted: “At a minimum, you want to have open communication,” advises Dr. Luke Funk, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before beginning a weight-loss program or having surgery, couples should discuss why the overweight partner wants to lose weight, what lifestyle changes will be needed and how they both will benefit from new habits.
Quoted: “I once heard a senior number theorist, who I will not name, say that Scholze had kind of ruined his to-do list for the next 20 years,” said Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin.
