A food safety hearing held at the College’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station drew national media attention as some critics lambasted new FDA voluntary guidelines for monitoring foodborne pathogens at processing plants.

Public nominations for the 2007 College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honorary Recognition Award are due April 17, 2007. The award honors those individuals who have demonstrated leadership and inspiration to others in agriculture, natural resources and the life sciences.

Current climate models mostly ignore the specific role that soil microbes play in the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Teri Balser hopes to change that. She recently received a career award from the National Science Foundation to help generate the data needed to correctly account for the role of soil microbes in climate change models.

Overall, 2006 was a tough year for Wisconsin farmers. The state’s total net farm income dropped by more than 40 percent, the lowest level since 2002. Still, 2006 also brought Wisconsin’s dairy industry one piece of very good news. After years of decline, the size of the state’s cow herd increased.

So, what is the skinny on trans fats? What are they? Why is this long-time food industry staple on the blacklist now? What will New York City eateries – and the rest of us – use in their place? Are the alternatives really healthier?

You wouldn’t think of working in the labs of a major pharmaceutical firm as the kind of job where you’d get your hands dirty. Not in the literal sense. But that’s how University of Wisconsin-Madison student Amanda Herzog refers to her experience last summer at Abbott Laboratories in Chicago.

More than 600 high school members of Future Farmers of America from 25 Wisconsin high schools gathered for a taste of life and sports at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Jan. 27.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is leading efforts to bring a new federal bioenergy research and development center to Wisconsin

Brenda Bohan’s best learning experiences have taken place outside the classroom. Take, for example, when she and her sons went to Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Reservation to help build a playground for a childcare center.

When someone mentions Babcock Hall, you think “ice cream.” But the campus dairy plant is starting to make a name with another signature product: award-winning cheese.