Category: Health and Wellness
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Posted on July 8, 2024
Former CALS dean Leo Walsh, professor emeritus of soil science, dies at 93
Leo Walsh, an emeritus professor of soil science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who served as dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences […]
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Posted on June 20, 2024
UW–Madison Agricultural Research Station field days for 2024 season
Summer is field day season at the UW–Madison CALS Agricultural Research Stations. Over the course of the growing season, the stations host more than a […]
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Posted on June 19, 2024
Emissaries of science: CALS graduate students bring the wonders of insects, plants, and genetics to families
It’s a summer evening in early July, and the sun is sinking into Lake Mendota. Along University Bay, the windows of campus buildings bathe in […]
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Posted on April 12, 2024
Gather and Connect. Experience and Serve. Learn and Grow.
It’s a cool Sunday morning in early September, and over a dozen UW students are meeting at a farm plot in Eagle Heights Community Garden. […]
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Posted on April 11, 2024
Our Planet, Our Health course gives students an expansive picture of human health
As an introduction to global health, the UW Summer Term course Our Planet, Our Health certainly lives up to its name. It doesn’t just introduce […]
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Posted on April 8, 2024
Researchers reveal evolutionary path of important proteins
Vatsan Raman, associate professor of biochemistry and affiliate in both bacteriology and chemical and biological engineering, led research on the evolutionary path of proteins that […]
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Posted on March 22, 2024
Development in fertility research questions obesity as the leading cause of infertility
A project on high-sugar diet spearheaded by scientist Rodrigo Dutra Nunes in the lab of Daniela Drummond-Barbosa opens the door for breakthrough advancements in fertility research. In a recent study published […]
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Posted on February 28, 2024
New toolkit helps scientists study natural cell death
New research from the Weeks Lab in the Department of Biochemistry opens the door for scientists to explore cell death, a critical biochemical process, with […]
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Posted on February 21, 2024
Programming cells to organize their molecules may open the door to new treatments
Researchers can engineer cells to express new genes and produce specific proteins, giving the cells new parts to work with. But, it’s much harder to […]
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Posted on February 7, 2024
Ewe are what your grandparents ate?
“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard this old adage before. But during pregnancy, maternal nutrition can have a large impact on a baby, […]