Julie Mitchell, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and the Department of Mathematics, is one of several UW-Madison faculty members featured in a video […]

More than 99 percent of all modern potato varieties planted today are the direct descendants of varieties that once grew in the lowlands of south-central Chile. How Chilean germplasm came to dominate the modern potato-which spread worldwide from Europe-has been the subject of a long, contentious debate among scientists.

You need meat, and fast. But where around campus can you find good, fresh steaks? Here’s an option that may surprise you: the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory.

Denizens of oceans, lakes and even wet soil, diatoms are unicellular algae that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells. Curiously, these tiny phytoplankton could be harboring the next big breakthrough in computer chips.

This fall, 29 freshmen enrolled in the Department of Dairy Science, more than triple its entering class from just three years ago.

Zahi K. Atallah has developed a test that will enable farmers to better separate potatoes fit for long-term storage from those that are not

CALS forest ecologists are studying how environmental factors such as forest fires and climate influence carbon levels in the northern hemisphere’s conifer-dominated boreal forests. Their most recent findings, reported in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Nature, offer insight into the balance of carbon uptake and release that contribute to atmospheric carbon dioxide levels worldwide.

Three members of the CALS faculty were among five UW-Madison faculty and staff members who were selected as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In anticipation of the candy season – those sugar-packed months stretching from Halloween through Easter, marked by a succession of candy corn, chocolate turkeys, ribbon candy, candy hearts and chocolate eggs – UW-Madison food scientist Rich Hartel answers some questions about candy and the candy business.

Patty Loew, a veteran television journalist and an associate professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has long wondered what motivated men such as DeNomie, who also happens to be her grandfather, to fight for a country that considered them outsiders. Now, she has produced