Commonly known as brewer’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae tends to get credit for bread, beer, wine, ethanol and just about any other product of fermentation.  In fact, for […]

Rob Hall, a returning adult student who considers the entirety of Wisconsin his home, will be graduating this spring with a bachelor’s degree. He is […]

Chenxin Luo, who grew up in Nanjing, China, will be graduating this spring with a bachelor’s degree. She is majoring in both agronomy and in […]

“What are you looking for in a graduate school?” That was the question posed to a panel of visiting undergraduates one April afternoon in UW’s […]

Summer courses are an abiding tradition at UW. They’ve long been the boon of undergrads looking to stay on track to graduation, lighten their fall/spring […]

Registration for UW 2022 Summer Term is now open. For more information about Summer Term and a full list of available courses, visit https://summer.wisc.edu/. CALS […]

Precision medicine, genetic testing, antibiotic resistance, GMOs, cloning. Open almost any newspaper or click on any online news site, and you’re likely to see headlines […]

The ingredients for life are adrift in the Venusian clouds. Life is primarily composed of six chemical elements: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur. […]

Amanda Mui, a native of Delafield, Wisconsin, will be graduating in December 2021 with a double-major in genetics and genomics and Spanish. In this Q&A, […]

In 2015, genetics professor Francisco Pelegrí launched a course called Developmental Genetics for Conservation and Regeneration that ties directly to his ongoing research program. The aim is […]