CALS faculty members Sean Carroll and Laura Kiessling were elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 1. Election to the NAS is considered […]

Whether you want to stock your pantry or dine out, the 2007 Southern Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas makes it easy to buy and eat locally grown food.

For the growing number of people with diminished immune systems – cancer patients, transplant recipients, those with HIV/AIDS – infection by a ubiquitous mold known as Aspergillus fumigatus can be a death sentence. Now, however, scientists may have found a master switch, an uber gene, that seems to control the mold’s ability to make poison.

Prions, the rogue proteins that cause chronic wasting disease and similar maladies, may be more mobile in soil that is more alkaline, suggests a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

In his weed ecology course, University of Wisconsin-Madison agronomist Ed Luschei assigns his students a project with only one requirement:

It was Sunday morning, prime sleeping-in time, but CALS undergraduate Amy Jacobs was up at 7:30 a.m. and on her way to the kitchen to […]

The UW-Madison’s 109-year-old dairy barn has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is the only barn among the nearly 2,500 sites which have received that designation from the National Park Service.

A food safety hearing held at the College’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station drew national media attention as some critics lambasted new FDA voluntary guidelines for monitoring foodborne pathogens at processing plants.

Public nominations for the 2007 College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honorary Recognition Award are due April 17, 2007. The award honors those individuals who have demonstrated leadership and inspiration to others in agriculture, natural resources and the life sciences.

Current climate models mostly ignore the specific role that soil microbes play in the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Teri Balser hopes to change that. She recently received a career award from the National Science Foundation to help generate the data needed to correctly account for the role of soil microbes in climate change models.