The Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector Borne Disease (MCEVBD) is one of two CDC Centers of Excellence (COEs) in Vector-Borne Diseases to share nearly […]

Plant wildflowers, save the bees — or so the thinking goes. Agricultural authorities around the world promote restoring hedgerows and seeding flower strips between fields […]

If you closed your eyes — and maybe if David Bartling BS’13 wasn’t trying to shout over the roar of harvesting machinery — you might […]

Madison’s serene lakes are home to a deadly, vampire-like hunter. Though sessile, it wields tentacle-like structures that first poison and immobilize prey, then act as […]

Summer is field day season for the agricultural research stations operated by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Over the course […]

When the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center launched in early 2017, there were high hopes the facility would become a nationally recognized facility for plant transformation […]

It’s well-known among scientists that viruses can alter the makeup and function of ecosystems. For example, they promote microbial diversity by infecting and killing select […]

In the King Hall greenhouse on the UW campus, Rebecca Smith stands amid a potted jungle of sorghum, clipping stalk segments into a plastic bin to be […]

Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever really happy to see him. He is, after all, a weed scientist. He specializes in some of the nastiest, […]

For Ojibwe people, wild rice—manoomin—is far more than a food source. It is a sacred relative, central to culture, identity, and community well‑being. Yet over […]