The Spring 2020 University of Wisconsin–Madison Planetary Health Scholars were brought together to share ideas and inspire change. Scholars were nominated for their outstanding research […]

Coronaviruses come from a large family. It includes four genera and many species that infect a variety of mammals and birds — and sometimes reptiles. There […]

As people gathered Thursday night for a candlelight vigil to honor Bella Sobah, they swayed to the amplified music of Beyoncé. Sobah would have wanted […]

Since the first research project was initiated there in May 1967, the Biotron Laboratory on the west end of campus has been one of a […]

Milk volume and composition; feed costs; market prices and weather; and cow health and genetics are just a few of the data streams swirling around […]

News stories about meat-packing workers succumbing to COVID-19 and meat shortages at grocery stores have caused some consumers to worry that the meat supply chain […]

It’s a common late summer sight in south-central Wisconsin: a prairie in bloom, with tall, waving grasses peppered with bursts of yellow, purple, and white. […]

Think of it as an environmental hangover. Tequila production in the Mexican state of Jalisco yields vast quantities of agave bagasse biomass, which poses serious […]

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which manages intellectual property for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has just been ranked ninth for U.S. utility patents granted in […]

We’re awash in discussion of risks right now. Risks to our health, to our community and to the economy. But how can we think clearly […]