Ronald T. Raines has won the 2016 Ralph F. Hirschmann Award for Peptide Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. The biennial award recognizes and encourages […]

UW-Madison ranks fifth among higher education bachelor’s degree programs in conservation and natural resources, according to College Factual, an organization that uses outcomes-based data to help […]

Anita Thompson, an associate professor of biological systems engineering, has been selected to lead the Nelson Institute’s Water Resources Management (WRM) program. The graduate program, in […]

Bacteriology professor Jean-Michel Ane, an expert on plant-microbe symbioses and legume genetics, has been selected to receive a Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award. The award provides […]

Assistant professor of horticulture Amaya Atucha has been named the Gottschalk Chair for Cranberry Research. Atucha, an expert on fruit crop production, focuses her research program on […]

A 2014 paper written by life sciences communication professor Dietram Scheufele, titled “Science communication as political communication,” has been selected to receive the Communication of Science, Health […]

Associate professor of genetics Ahna Skop, an expert on cell polarity and cytokinesis in C. elegans embryos, has been named a Kavli Frontiers of Science fellow and […]

Agricultural and Applied Economics faculty Brian Gould and Mark Stephenson were recognized for the Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) this year.  AAE’s students […]

Genetics professor Molly Jahn was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College during the institution’s 2015 commencement ceremony. Constance Hungerford, Swathmore’s interim president, outlined Jahn’s contributions […]

Assistant professor of plant pathology Amanda Gevens is the recipient of the 2015 Early Career Award from the American Phytopathological’s Society North Central Division. Gevens, who […]