As plants stretch toward the summer sun, they are marching toward one of the most important decisions of their lives — when to flower. Too […]

Your next bite of local bread or gulp of Madison beer might just have a little piece of Sheboygan in it. Sheboygan yeast, anyway. That […]

Twenty-six students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF fellowship program selects […]

Ahna Skop’s cake recipe calls for flour, sugar, strong black coffee and a dash of cell biology. For 14 years, Skop, a professor of genetics at the […]

Xuehua Zhong, an assistant professor of genetics, studies epigenetics, a growing area of research focused on how chemical tags on DNA can change the expression […]

Genetics professor Audrey Gasch BS’94 loves questions. It’s her job as a scientist to ask questions and then seek answers. She also has a passion […]

Typically, the images generated in the course of scientific research are seen only by a select few: the scientists who consume the studies published in […]

CALS undergrads are an impressive bunch, eager to get the most out of their time at college. As they tackle the challenging coursework required for […]

In the world of biofuels research, the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae gets a lot of love, with scientists commonly tweaking the yeast’s fermentative qualities to […]

Winter is no time to flower, which is why so many plants have evolved the ability to wait for the snow to melt before investing […]