After spending the morning spreading hay mulch and bark at Madison’s East High Youth Farm, a group of middle-schoolers lined up for a well-deserved lunch. […]

The Iraq War has taken a greater toll on the nation’s non-metropolitan areas because troops from rural areas experience higher rates of death in the […]

When you buy a cup of coffee that has been certified as Fair Trade, Organic or another “socially responsible” label, do you know what you […]

Researchers studying the quality of doctoral programs in communication studies ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s joint doctoral program in mass communication first among 102 such […]

Dietram Scheufele, professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the winner of the 2010 Krieghbaum Under-40 Award from the Association for […]

A review is under way for College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) Dean Molly Jahn. The university adopted a standard five-year review procedure for […]

Wisconsin’s cranberry growers have made significant gains in the adoption of sustainable management practices over the past two decades, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison survey indicates.

The goal of MicroExplorers, the product of a broad University of Wisconsin-Madison collaboration, is to open the world of the very small to the very young. This is possible, asserts UW-Madison biochemistry professor Doug Weibel, because advances in plastic optics and the availability of cheap charge-coupled devices (the microelectronic heart of all digital imaging) have brought inexpensive high-end microscopy within reach of children.

Biochemistry professor Hazel Holden and Edgewood middle-school science teacher are working closely to connect the gap between middle-school science and groundbreaking research and get adolescents excited about chemistry before they reach high school.

Although almost two-thirds of Wisconsinites support the use and production of biofuels, less than half think the government should subsidize their development, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.