The new department’s greater size and disciplinary breadth will better position it to address many of today’s natural resource challenges, says forestry professor Ray Guries, who serves as chairman of the new department.

CALS strives to foster the highest scholarly and ethical standards among its students, faculty, and staff. Though extremely rare, we realize there are times when misconduct may occur in our midst and that it is our responsibility to take steps to rectify it.

The Department of Wildlife Ecology and the Department of Forestry Ecology and Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences are […]

MADISON – A consortium of universities, government laboratories and businesses led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison to explore the vast potential of bioenergy was awarded […]

Vegetation plays a lesser role than other factors in how well rain gardens trap storm water runoff.

Members of the Dietetics and Nutrition Club help kids make edible jewelry from food purchased at the Dane County Farmers Market.

Students in Rick Chenoweth’s Human Behavior and Environmental Problems course this semester teamed up with the Lake Ripley Management District to create a plan centered on community-based social marketing, an approach to promoting social behaviors that draws heavily on social psychology. CBSM has shown promise in medical campaigns, but its use in advancing environmental goals has outreach professionals around the state taking notice.

On May 14 Governor Jim Doyle gave a $1 million boost to a UW-Madison spin-off company during a visit to the campus lab of Gabriela Cezar, an assistant professor of animal sciences whose research on embryonic stem cells spawned the company.

Over the past 15 years, Jo Handelsman, a UW-Madison professor of plant pathology, has been involved in various initiatives to improve the campus climate for women. She was recently elected president of the newly-founded Rosalind Franklin Society, an organization named in honor of the woman who played a critical role in determining the structure of DNA. The goal of the society is to advance the role of women in science nationally and internationally.

On June 10th, a couple of dozen intrepid bicyclists will pump up their tires and roll out of the driveway of a farm northwest of Antigo to begin the 4th annual Ride to Farm. They have two objectives. One is to ride the 200-mile ride to Madison in time for a June 12 appearance at the state FFA convention. The other goal – the real purpose of the trip – is to raise endowment funds and awareness for the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers.