College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
It is with great excitement that we announce that LSC Professor and Chair Dominique Brossard and Ph.D. Student Mikhaila Calice are among the recipients of a research cluster grant from the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies! It is with great excitement that we announce that LSC Professor and …
Imagine having the ability to rid the world of genetically inherited diseases. Scientists have created a gene-editing tool called CRISPR/Cas-9 that allows scientists to edit heritable and non-heritable genes at a faster rate and lower cost. This could lead to the elimination of diseases such as sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis in the near future. …
LSC doctoral candidate Jill Hopke has received two research travel grants from the European Union Center of Excellence and the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies at UW–Madison. The grants will support Hopke’s fieldwork this summer in Sweden and Belgium on the expansion of hydraulic fracturing into Europe and how civil society …