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.

Brenda Bohan’s best learning experiences have taken place outside the classroom. Take, for example, when she and her sons went to Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Reservation to help build a playground for a childcare center.

Cooperatives are a popular way of doing business in Wisconsin and Minnesota. But whether they’re in the business of agriculture, health care, finance or food – even those involved in co-ops don’t really know how important these unique business operations are to the U.S. economy. The new director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) aims to change that.

It is once again time for pumpkin racing on Lake Mendota, where spectators can watch University of Wisconsin-Madison horticulture students and faculty paddle giant gourds […]

In early May, a group of artists and scientists convened to discuss climate change and the role of art in educating the public about this complex topic. The group is now putting together an art exhibition designed to help explain the likely impact of climate change on Wisconsin”s Northwoods.

Exercise developed in College horticulture labs shows high-schoolers how to decipher genetic code

Two scientists from the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences were among the three UW-Madison professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences this month. The two CALS electees include biochemist Richard Amasino and geneticist Barry Ganetzky.

Biochemist Richard Amasino plans to use his appointment as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professorand the $1 million grant that comes with it to develop a new line of plant mutants to teach genetic principles to K–12 students – and, he hopes, help cultivate a generation that values science.

From 2002 to 2004, the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems facilitated a grower-led project that used ratios, such as net cash income per acre, as a way to share financial information confidentially. The results of this project are summarized in a new report – Grower to Grower: Creating a Livelihood on a Fresh Market Vegetable Farm.

Somewhere between the steamy, tropical lowlands and the lush, terraced hillsides of Guatemala, CALS students learned about more than just the tropical plant diseases they had come to study.