Irwin Goldman has spent much of his career de-beeting the beet.
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the city and three community partner organizations $429,746 to create an enhanced air quality monitoring program with a focus on low-income, minority and other underserved neighborhoods where air tends to be dirtier and people are often more vulnerable.
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Irwin Goldman displays the flower of a beet plant.
UW-Madison horticulture professor Irwin Goldman cuts into a Badger Spark Beet, a precursor of the Badger Flame Beet, which he created in a greenhouse on campus. Featuring a unique red/yellow marbling pattern, the beets were bred to keep the vegetal goodness of the plant without the earthy flavor.
Irwin Goldman displays a Badger Flame Beet, which is growing in a greenhouse on the UW-Madison campus.
Beets are stored in a root cellar on the UW-Madison campus as part of ongoing research efforts by School of Horticulture professor Irwin Goldman and his students.
Fave 5: Reporter Kimberly Wethal shares her favorite stories of 2022
In the weeks before I joined the Wisconsin State Journal in September, I was told this: Remember that a higher education institution is like their own city. It has its own character and struggles, defined by the students who learn there and the faculty who teach them.
I have seen this over and over again, and it was particularly clear when I visited UW-Platteville at Richland a week after the University of Wisconsin System ordered degree-fulfilling classes to cease because of low enrollment. During my visit, I found many of the devastated students to be emotionally invested in their campus community — and committed to saving it.
After budget cuts and consolidations, the campus' enrollment is down 90% from 2014, and UW-Platteville was ordered to shutter the campus.
With record enrollment contributing to the housing crunch, UW-Madison lured students out of dorms by offering incentives to live elsewhere.
Management companies are seeing some of their housing in prime areas sell out three to four weeks faster than previous years.
A new Early Learning Center that opened in 2021 at MATC's Truax campus doubled capacity, and a facility at the Goodman South campus could be next.
UW-Madison doctorate student Kirstan Gimse found the courage to go back to school a decade ago from a chemistry professor she would wait on.
