Hovanec, a senior majoring in forest and wildlife ecology, is conducting a capstone research project looking at the home range, activity patterns, and general health […]

Capitalizing on the ability of an organism to evolve in response to punishment from a hostile environment, scientists have coaxed the model bacterium Escherichia coli […]

The Bad River Ojibwe have a test called seven generations. When tribal elders need to make an important decision, they ask what that decision will […]

Stanley A. Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in forest and wildlife ecology at CALS and a former chair of the conservation biology […]

You know who really bugs the UW? Daniel Young bugs the UW. And he’s been bugging the UW for years, largely with his own bugs. Young is […]

1. It’s a booming industry.  The American hemp industry generates sales of $450 million a year, according to the Hemp Industries Association—about a quarter from food […]

Victor Cabrera isn’t an expert in cattle genomics or reproduction. He hasn’t spent a day in a lab running tests on the nutritional content of feed.  In fact, […]

Unpredictable flooding and droughts, which scientists predict will intensify with climate change, elevate the importance of dams for managing and storing water, even in places […]

Wisconsin farmers didn’t have their best year ever in 2013, but they didn’t miss it by much. “They earned about $3.75 billion in total net […]

By the time doctors diagnose septic shock, patients often are on a knife’s edge. At that point, for every hour that treatment is delayed, a […]