This past weekend, a startup company co-founded by CALS biochemist Ron Raines won top prize–and $100,000 in prize money–at the second annual Clean Energy Challenge, […]

Sales of organic food continue to rise despite the economic downturn, and that bodes well for Wisconsin, which has experienced dramatic growth in that sector […]

A new study reveals a dazzling degree of biological diversity in an unexpected place — a single neural connection in the body wall of flies. […]

With all the demands for better STEM education (science-technology-engineering-mathematics), you’d think that getting more science into elementary schools would be a top priority. But you’d […]

On Tim Baye’s list of Wisconsin biomass-based products, lipstick looms larger than ethanol. “One of the most attractive markets this year is a paraffin derivative […]

The future of disease diagnosis may lie in a “breathalyzer”-like technology currently under development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. New research published online in February […]

As a new year begins and my time as interim dean comes to a close, I have our future students on my mind. Today one […]

After proving he could increase the yields of some of Peru’s most popular potato varieties, Jiwan Palta still had a tough panel of critics to […]

In just nine weeks this past summer, senior Katie Kennedy tackled an important food safety research project, one that may change the way some large […]

While last month’s meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt […]