Three members of the CALS faculty were among five UW-Madison faculty and staff members who were selected as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In anticipation of the candy season – those sugar-packed months stretching from Halloween through Easter, marked by a succession of candy corn, chocolate turkeys, ribbon candy, candy hearts and chocolate eggs – UW-Madison food scientist Rich Hartel answers some questions about candy and the candy business.

Patty Loew, a veteran television journalist and an associate professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has long wondered what motivated men such as DeNomie, who also happens to be her grandfather, to fight for a country that considered them outsiders. Now, she has produced

The UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems has been named as lead agency in a six-state area for a new national program to encourage schools to serve more locally grown food.

Operators of large confinement dairy farms and those who employ management intensive grazing systems express equal satisfaction with the quality of their lives. And they are more satisfied than those who operate smaller confinement farms or less intensive grazing operations, according to a survey of 1,300 Wisconsin dairy farmers

A new UW-Madison finding that pregnant women who take some types of vitamin supplements or eat fortified foods may be passing excess vitamin A to their developing fetuses could guide efforts to develop future formulations of vitamins.

Bradley Biddick of Livingston, Robert Pofahl of Middleton, Mark Riechers of Darlington and Douglas Wilson of Shawano will receive Honorary Recognition awards Oct. 25 from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

When the University of Wisconsin football Badgers take the field this fall, they will have a secret weapon behind them: Wisconsin’s dairy cows. Sure, they might not run very well or catch a football, but cows supply one of the key ingredients in a sports recovery drink that the Badgers use to bounce back from strenuous workouts and practices.

Building creates an environment that encourages the cross-disciplinary work and discussion that can help solve problems and advance research

Despite an explosion in academic patenting in recent years, most life science professors still do research the