Douglas Weibel, an assistant professor of biochemistry and biomedical engineering, has received the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award. Weibel studies how […]

Many of our state’s signature foods and industries are defined by a fragrant microbial process: fermentation. Why shouldn’t UW-Madison become a world leader in fermentation science? It’s a question that David Ryder, VP of brewing and research at MillerCoors, dares to ask – and a dream he’ll help CALS pursue.

In the 15th century, when Europeans first began moving people and goods across the Atlantic, a microscopic stowaway somehow made its way to the caves […]

“Ag 101” course helps Wisconsin National Guard agribusiness team get set for 2012 deployment

Here’s the situation: Recently, three kids succumbed within a month to a new blood parasite at your hospital, and a fourth child has just been […]

Waves of undergrads in Uganda with CALS have taken the African proverb as a call to action. Their engagement has included founding a nonprofit and choosing careers in which they serve communities at home and abroad.

Pixie Dust was magic for a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison food science graduate students in New Orleans last weekend. That’s the name of the […]

Children are packing on pounds during a season once associated with outdoor activity and exercise. Addressing that problem means confronting a number of factors that are contributing to poor health in our children.

New ‘corn atlas’ shows which genes are active during each stage of plant development.

Pursuing environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is certainly not new, but being able to major in it is. For the first time, UW-Madison […]