On May 14 Governor Jim Doyle gave a $1 million boost to a UW-Madison spin-off company during a visit to the campus lab of Gabriela Cezar, an assistant professor of animal sciences whose research on embryonic stem cells spawned the company.

Over the past 15 years, Jo Handelsman, a UW-Madison professor of plant pathology, has been involved in various initiatives to improve the campus climate for women. She was recently elected president of the newly-founded Rosalind Franklin Society, an organization named in honor of the woman who played a critical role in determining the structure of DNA. The goal of the society is to advance the role of women in science nationally and internationally.

On June 10th, a couple of dozen intrepid bicyclists will pump up their tires and roll out of the driveway of a farm northwest of Antigo to begin the 4th annual Ride to Farm. They have two objectives. One is to ride the 200-mile ride to Madison in time for a June 12 appearance at the state FFA convention. The other goal – the real purpose of the trip – is to raise endowment funds and awareness for the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers.

CALS faculty members Sean Carroll and Laura Kiessling were elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 1. Election to the NAS is considered […]

Whether you want to stock your pantry or dine out, the 2007 Southern Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas makes it easy to buy and eat locally grown food.

For the growing number of people with diminished immune systems – cancer patients, transplant recipients, those with HIV/AIDS – infection by a ubiquitous mold known as Aspergillus fumigatus can be a death sentence. Now, however, scientists may have found a master switch, an uber gene, that seems to control the mold’s ability to make poison.

Prions, the rogue proteins that cause chronic wasting disease and similar maladies, may be more mobile in soil that is more alkaline, suggests a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

In his weed ecology course, University of Wisconsin-Madison agronomist Ed Luschei assigns his students a project with only one requirement:

It was Sunday morning, prime sleeping-in time, but CALS undergraduate Amy Jacobs was up at 7:30 a.m. and on her way to the kitchen to […]

The UW-Madison’s 109-year-old dairy barn has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is the only barn among the nearly 2,500 sites which have received that designation from the National Park Service.