The University of Wisconsin­–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) recently awarded five, two-year graduate student assistantships to help increase dairy-related research capacity through […]

Last year, Blythe Callahan, a third-year history and economics undergrad at UW–Madison, needed to earn a science credit required for her degree. She also wanted […]

Outside of agricultural and scientific circles, few people would hear the word “mycotoxin” and fully understand the reference. But they probably should. This menace just […]

To get through a long winter without food, hibernating animals — like the 13-lined ground squirrel — can slow their metabolism by as much as […]

In the car, at the gym, while folding laundry — people are tuning in to podcasts more than ever before. Since this portable form of […]

Tim Donohue says he is looking forward to increasing the Wisconsin Energy Institute’s positive outcomes for campus and society. WISCONSIN ENERGY INSTITUTE Tim Donohue, professor of […]

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have discovered that genetically distinct populations within the same species of fungi can produce […]

It’s December 2018. Karthik Anantharaman awakens at 6 a.m., afloat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He’s barely slept, adrenaline is flowing. There’s little time, and […]

Tom Brock, a pioneering microbiologist who redefined the bounds of life, passed away at his home in Madison in April from complications following a fall. […]

In 1909, the German chemist Fritz Haber sparked an agricultural revolution. Using enormous pressures and high temperatures, he had learned how to efficiently transform nitrogen, so abundant in […]