Xuehua Zhong, an assistant professor of genetics, studies epigenetics, a growing area of research focused on how chemical tags on DNA can change the expression […]

Stuck where they are, plants have to adapt to their environments, responding to stresses like drought or pests by changing how they grow. On a […]

On a still and warm summer morning, as scientists drive along the dirt roads that crisscross the Arlington Agricultural Research Station, the fields sweep in […]

Four members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty will be recognized for their distinguished contributions to teaching, research and service on Monday, April 3. This […]

The polar vortex of 2013 and 2014 brought the coldest winter many parts of the Midwest had experienced in decades. In Dane County, Wisconsin, it […]

It is widely known that the white-tailed deer is a nonstop eater. Unless it is sleeping or fleeing from a predator, the keystone North American […]

The subtle nuances of how seeds become plants are University of Wisconsin–Madison botany Professor Edgar Spalding’s day job. Just down Bascom Hill from Spalding’s lab, […]

Fourteen research and infrastructure projects – including four with CALS participants – have been selected by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor […]

If there is an animal emblematic of the northern winter, it is the snowshoe hare. A forest dweller, the snowshoe hare is named for its […]

Jonathan Pauli and Benjamin Zuckerberg, both assistant professors in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, appear in a recent video explaining the subnivium — […]