Tom Jeffries is a scientist in the truest sense of the word. His passion for studying biofuel is evident as he describes is 40-year career […]

As students in Craig Kohn’s class at Waterford Union High School can tell you, you don’t need a grant or Ph.D. to do scientific research. […]

University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriology professor Timothy J. Donohue has been elected incoming president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Donohue will take up the […]

What do biofuels look like on the Wisconsin landscape? Some might think of corn or switchgrass. But what about that herd of cows? What you […]

If you spot a honeybee in the UW-Madison’s Allen Centennial Gardens and are wondering where it came from, look up. There’s a good chance it […]

If you spot a honeybee in the UW-Madison’s Allen Centennial Gardens and are wondering where it came from, look up. There’s a good chance it […]

When CALS biochemistry professor Harry Steenbock experimented with vitamin D in the early 1920s, his work proved groundbreaking in more ways than one. Steenbock’s discovery […]

Katrina Forest, professor of bacteriology, and John Hawks, associate chair of anthropology, have been selected by the Institute for Biology Education as Howard Hughes Medical […]

Using lab-grown human neurons, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an effective assay for detecting botulinum neurotoxin, the agent widely used to cosmetically […]